The way we were...The Great Normandy Isle Pot and Porn Bust of 1964

Miami News, Oct. 2, 1964.
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Back on the evening of Oct. 1, 1964, 30-year-old John C. Bland IV was relaxing in his Normandy Isle bachelor pad with a "29-year-old blonde," when officers from Metro and Miami Beach police departments staged a raid.


A Miami News account of the raid doesn't say what led cops to barge in on Bland, unannounced. However the story does go