Changes: Carlos Mendez

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Carlos Mendez

Affiliation	Calderone cartel Handler for Ludovici Armstrong
Born	1951
Status	Incarcerated, conspiracy to commit murder
Episode(s)	"Calderone's Return (Part I)" "Calderone's Return (Part II)"
Played By	Tito Goya

Carlos Mendez (born 1951) was a middleman working for drug lord Esteban Calderone who served as handler for hitman Ludovici Armstrong.

Originally misidentified as the hitman himself, Mendez was arrested by OCB and was eventually forced to give up Calderone's location, leading to the dealer's downfall.

Biography

A man of no small fortune, Mendez maintained residences in New York, Puerto Rico and Miami. When Calderone hired Ludovici Armstrong to eliminate several targets in Miami ahead of his planned return to the city, he had Mendez act as the hitman's handler. However, Mendez left behind a receipt in a motel that identified him to the Metro-Dade Police Department, leading them to initially believe he was the hitman himself. He was arrested during a sting operation organized with the assistance of Linus Oliver (one of Armstrong's targets) and subjected to intense questioning regarding Armstrong and Calderone. Eventually, under intense pressure, Mendez cracked, revealing that Calderone was on St. Andrews Island in The Bahamas, and that only he knew the hitman's true identity, giving Crockett and Tubbs the opening to pursue Calderone.

Notes

Although Mendez' fate is never explicitly stated, it is assumed he was sent to jail charged with seven counts of conspiracy to commit murder.

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+'''Carlos Mendez''' (born 1951) was a middleman working for drug lord [[Esteban Calderone]] who served as handler for hitman [[Ludovici Armstrong]].
-'''Carlos Mendez''' (born 1951) is a middleman for drug lord [[Esteban Calderone|Calderone]], maintaining residences in New York, Puerto Rico, and Miami.  Calderone sent him to be the handler of professional assassin [[Ludovici Armstrong]] to ensure the eight drug dealers/cops on his "hit list" were all killed.  Mendez left a clue behind in a hotel where the two of them were staying, briefly making the police think he's the hitman, but found out that was not true when [[Linus Oliver]] was killed while Mendez was in custody.  After intense interrogation by Crockett, Tubbs, and Metro-Dade, they found out Calderone was on St. Andrews Island in the Bahamas, and that only he knew the hitman's true identity, giving Crockett & Tubbs the opening to pursue Calderone.
+Originally misidentified as the hitman himself, Mendez was arrested by [[Organized Crime Bureau|OCB]] and was eventually forced to give up Calderone's location, leading to the dealer's downfall.
-==Trivia==
-*Although his actual fate is never explicitly stated, it is assumed Mendez was sent to jail charged with seven counts of consipracy to commit murder.
+==Biography==
-[[Category:Miami Vice Season 1 Characters]]
+A man of no small fortune, Mendez maintained residences in New York, Puerto Rico and Miami. When Calderone hired [[Ludovici Armstrong]] to eliminate several targets in Miami ahead of his planned return to the city, he had Mendez act as the hitman's handler. However, Mendez left behind a receipt in a motel that identified him to the [[Metro-Dade Police Department]], leading them to initially believe he was the hitman himself. He was arrested during a sting operation organized with the assistance of [[Linus Oliver]] (one of Armstrong's targets) and subjected to intense questioning regarding Armstrong and Calderone. Eventually, under intense pressure, Mendez cracked, revealing that Calderone was on St. Andrews Island in The Bahamas, and that only he knew the hitman's true identity, giving {{C&T}} the opening to pursue Calderone.
-[[Category:Incarcerated Miami Vice Characters]]
+==Notes==
+*Although Mendez' fate is never explicitly stated, it is assumed he was sent to jail charged with seven counts of conspiracy to commit murder.
+[[Category:Season 1 characters]]
+[[Category:Criminals]]
+[[Category:Recurring characters]]
+[[Category:Incarcerated characters]]