[3] When he was five, his mother died and he moved to Liberty City neighborhood of Miami where he was raised by his aunt and grandmother.
[1] His appointment followed on riots that occurred in 1971 after a white police officer shot a black man.
[4] Upon becoming mayor, he inherited a tense situation as riots had occurred during Well's term which Tresvant blamed on Dade county for repeatedly rejecting Opa-locka's requests for additional funds to provide better housing and drug programs.
[15] In July 1977, he was found guilty of conspiracy, soliciting bribes and accepting unlawful compensation in connection with a city building contract along with then mayor Candido Giardino[16] (the Rev.
Willie R. Young was elected mayor in April 1978); the sentence was overturned and a new trial ordered by Circuit Court Judge Wilkie Ferguson after one juror failed to disclose a past criminal conviction and another juror complained that Tresvant had followed her into the parking lot during the trial.