Joey Wyatt was a drug dealer and trafficker, once arranging to bring in 100 kilos of cocaine before the load was dumped into the ocean before the police could confiscate it. Wyatt had been under surveillance for several months by Metro-Dade Vice, finally being arrested for possession and distribution and held without bond. However one of Wyatt's co-horts, Rudy Ramos, arranged for the building that the evidence implicating Wyatt was being held in to be blown up, by getting the address from Dr. Theresa Lyons, who was Detective James "Sonny" Crockett's girlfriend, in exchange for drugs. Wyatt then paid another goon, Arzola, to drive a van loaded with explosives to the building and detonate it remotely, killing three cops and destroying all evidence of Wyatt's crimes as well as eight other cas