EDITOR'S notebook

Khaleel also went so far as to hire helicopters, at the cost of $1,000 per hour, to scour the Miami-Dade and Broward counties, including the Everglades and area canals, in search of his wife's missing SUV. One canal, with an oil slick on the surface, turned into a dead end after a search by police divers. Andre figured he easily spent $25,000 of his own money to find Olga.