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Scottie Wheeler

Scottie Wheeler (born 1947) was a Drug Enforcement Administration lieutenant who was associated with the Colombian Calderone Cartel during the 1980s.

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Scottie Wheeler was born in Miami, Florida in 1947, and he became an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1969, working together with the Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau in the late 1960s until the early 1980s. Wheeler worked alongside detective Sonny Crockett, and he became close friends with Crockett, saving his life two times. However, Wheeler became a corrupt agent who had dealings with the Calderone Cartel, and it turned out that the corrupt agent Wheeler was being spied on by another policeman, Rico Tubbs, who posed as a New York City Jamaican drug dealer named "the Apprentice" who had unlimited supplies of drugs. Tubbs was approached by Wheeler at a strip club, where Tubbs was dancing with a stripper to "Somebody's Watching Me" in September 1984. Wheeler secretly wanted money to pay for his wheelchair-bound son's mounting medical bills, and he was arrested at his home after he was discovered to have leaked vital information to Esteban Calderone several times, leading to many deaths.

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