     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON AUGUST 5,1996 OPA-LOCKA POLICE OFFICERS WERE DISPATCHED TO 12900 BLOCK OF NW. 37TH AVENUE, REFERENCE A SCREAMING WOMAN.  THEY MADE CONTACT WITH THE DECEASED WHO WAS ACTING IN A BIZARRE MANNER, AND RESTRAINED HER BY HANDCUFFING.  AT THAT TIME THE DECEASED BECAME VIOLENT AND STRUGGLED WITH TWO OFFICERS.  FOLLOWING THE STRUGGLE SHE WAS SECURED AND THEN BECAME UNRESPONSIVE, AND LATER EXPIRED.   A SMALL PLASTIC BAGGIE CONTAINING SUSPECTED COCAINE WAS FOUND HER POSSESION.


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