The detective’s name was Commander Louis Sanchez, assigned to the Orlando Florida Police Departments Investigative Division. Louis Sanchez was responsible for the Investigative Division. He was Cuban, in his late 50s, and was once originally from the Havana Cuba Police Department and had worked there as a detective. He had fled to Miami in the 60s when Castro took over control of Cuba and soon after that, he came to work for the Orlando Florida Police Departments Investigative Division. He was almost as proficient in English as he was with the Cuban Spanish language, though he would sometimes laps into mumbling Cuban when he was frustrated, or angered.
Black hair, brown eyes, Louie had that Cuban tanned complexion. He was a short and an overweight man with an elongated pudgy face; his chin stuck out further than his nose and he wore a mustache, always combed...always clean.
Suspenders, white shirt, with a black bowtie, a dark suit, with spit shined black shoes, and wearing a black felt hat was the dress code Louie always followed. Using his two forefingers and a thumb from both hands, the hat always went on last. He generally discarded the hat and jacket while inside, baring his red suspenders stretched over his white shirt and black tie. He never loosened that black tie. Louie never expected the men working under him to dress the same as he did though.
Louie had a rough and commanding look about him with nary a smile, but Louie was usually as gentile as a kitten to those that were honest and decent. Once one of his neighbors, a lady in her 60s had said, “What more could one ask in a man, but to be gentle, kind, and jolly? That’s my Louie.”
Louie was not always gentle when it came to politics though. Louie had came from Cuba with Guillermo Sanchez who was a skinny and tiny mouse of a man. They would sometimes laps into mumbling Cuban when they were fighting the Cuban politics; with their fist flying, they would have to be pulled off from each other. Bloody noses and black eyes were the norm with them. They had to be separated at opposite ends of the building. We would often find one, or the other outside the others office door singing the opposing political song to entice each other. They were not related to each other. Earlier, Guillermo Sanchez developed a heart problem and had too move back to Miami and retire.
Louies neighbor lady added, “Louie’s living with that young Kim girl, she’s probably into kickboxing and mistreats him. I told him to never ever get mixed up with a woman who is into kickboxing. All the young ones are that way now days.”
Of course this was not the way it was for Louie at all, Kim was also as gentle as Louie was. She was kind and she was not into kickboxing.
