Matson's Case No. 5 (Matson Case Files, #5)

In another trip down memory lane, New York Chief of Police Robert Matson remembers the 1980's case of Oscar Ortiz, a Cuban-born national who arrived with the first wave of the Mariel boatlift people by order of Castro. Some of the boat people arriving with refugees were known criminals and the mentally ill who settled down in Miami, New York, and other American cities.

Ortiz's case hit the headlines when he protested being denied his religious freedom. The New York Times story portrayed him...