Joe Mendez

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If this is in fact true, what I just read in the Miami Herald, you sir are a disgrace to the badge.. you should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law , decertified, and placed under the jail house.. WOW . I commend your IA , wish I had done the investigation.. I would have loved to lock your ass up.. you make all the LEOS who work hard daily look bad especially in this day and age.. you sick *******!

A North End and State LEO

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When the FEDS and FDLE comes knocking... it's true. This POS with a badge will soon be sitting in prison next to the Miami Firefighter scumbag who was also arrested a couple of years ago for downloading kiddie porn while at work. How does these predators pass the hiring process to get hired? Family and friends hiring standards, I bet!

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Mendez is denying the allegations. He has since been released from Broward County Jail on $42,000 bond.

“On June 19, 2014, allegations of possible wrongdoing by an officer of the South Miami Police Department Det. Joseph Mendez, were received by the Department and immediately acted upon by investigators of the SMPD,” the department said in a news release. “During the investigation by South Miami Police investigators, statements were secured from several minor female members of the Police Explorer Program. Evidence relating to this investigation was secured from different scenes indicating possible inappropriate and criminal behavior by the Detective.”

The FDLE and South Miami Police talked with witnesses past and present, said Landa, who became permanent chief in February 2014. “We made sure every ‘T’ was crossed and every ‘I’ was dotted and we did everything we had to do with it,” he said. “We obtained enough information, went to the state attorney’s office. The state attorneys office took a while to review all of the evidence. They turned around and filed criminal charges against him. FDLE moved in and picked him up and it was processed.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/south-miami/article41055513.html#storylink=cpy

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I wonder how junior and daddy are doing in retirement. The lawsuits and criminal indictments get expensive.

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Mendez is denying the allegations. He has since been released from Broward County Jail on $42,000 bond.

“On June 19, 2014, allegations of possible wrongdoing by an officer of the South Miami Police Department Det. Joseph Mendez, were received by the Department and immediately acted upon by investigators of the SMPD,” the department said in a news release. “During the investigation by South Miami Police investigators, statements were secured from several minor female members of the Police Explorer Program. Evidence relating to this investigation was secured from different scenes indicating possible inappropriate and criminal behavior by the Detective.”

The FDLE and South Miami Police talked with witnesses past and present, said Landa, who became permanent chief in February 2014. “We made sure every ‘T’ was crossed and every ‘I’ was dotted and we did everything we had to do with it,” he said. “We obtained enough information, went to the state attorney’s office. The state attorneys office took a while to review all of the evidence. They turned around and filed criminal charges against him. FDLE moved in and picked him up and it was processed.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/south-miami/article41055513.html#storylink=cpy


There is more coming out. Run the name on the Dade County clerk civil site for the lawsuit.Public record, and it's interesting. This story is long from being over, and junior and senior will both be in the news again.

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What ever happened with this?

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Going to court soon.

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This was reported three times over the last six years. This was covered up. Thank Renée Landa

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This was reported three times over six years. Thanks for the cover up Landa

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Ritchie is jealous that someone else did him instead.