Category: Miami-Dade Cities
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Miami-Dade prosecutors, state agents investigate police chief, internal affairs officers
By Francisco Alvarado
BrowardBulldog.org
Miami-Dade prosecutors and state law enforcement agents are investigating Homestead Police Chief Al Rolle’s alleged participation in an elaborate scheme to hide and destroy public records requested by an officer he terminated, BrowardBulldog.org has learned. -
A Miami police informant, a prophetic racist and fresh questions about JFK’s death
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
At 94, former Miami Beach mayor and still active Miami-Dade Senior Judge Seymour Gelber is among the few who remember Miami police informant No. 88, Willie Augustus Somersett. Somersett has been dead 43 years. But in the half-century of assassination lore that’s grown up around the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Somersett has attained a kind of immortality as the man who heard about it first. -
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A pattern of brutality: Jury awards $175K to handcuffed suspect beaten by Miami cop
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
A federal jury has awarded $175,000 to a state prisoner it found was brutalized while in Miami police custody in 2006. Gerald Lelieve suffered severe internal injuries that nearly killed him when he was repeatedly kicked and stomped as he lay on the ground in handcuffs after his arrest on a drug charge -
Miami cop jailed in trio of rapes had “dozens” of victims; city’s lawyers tell of hiring screw-ups
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
There was little public discussion last fall when Miami commissioners voted unanimously to pay $550,000 to a working mom who had been kidnapped and raped by a city police officer in his patrol car. But for 53 minutes before the vote, commissioners privately heard a disturbing earful from city lawyers
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