Author name: Robert Hutchinson

Robert C. Hutchinson retired in 2016 as the deputy special agent in charge for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations field office in Miami, Florida. He proudly served over 28 years as a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations and the legacy United States Customs Service. He can be contacted at oldschoolfloridasmuggling@gmail.com or via LinkedIn at Robert C Hutchinson (where his over 40 other publications can be found).

The Finnish Fugitive – A New Short Story

The U.S. Customs Service received a request for assistance in 1996 from the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service and Finnish National Bureau of Investigation to locate a Finnish suspect and fugitive named Veli Tapani Virtanen. Virtanen, who had been previously convicted of murdering his entire family in Finland in 1988, was out of prison and reportedly […]

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The One That Got Away – A New Short Story

In 1996, the U.S. Customs Service conducted a smuggling investigation involving stolen vehicle exportation from South Florida. The investigation identified a smart and successful Haitian outbound and inbound smuggling organization.  The smugglers utilized scores of stolen sport utility vehicles that were exported to Haiti and traded for cocaine; the small and poor nation was a

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