Going to the pen

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By Alexandra Seltzer

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

A former Hialeah police officer facing federal gun charges has been indicted on additional charges of filing false income tax returns and transporting property that came out of the police department, according to federal documents.

Rafael Oscar Valdes and his wife Tammy Lynn Valdes, who was previously employed with West Miami Police and Golden Beach Police, were indicted in December 2012 on charges of dealing in firearms without a federal firearms license and making false and fictitious written statements to a firearms dealer.

The Valdeses didn’t have a federal firearms license yet sold more than 100 firearms from around 2005 to 2012 advertised on GunBroker.com to buyers in 44 states.

They also attended more than 60 gun shows in Palm Beach, Broward, St. Lucie and Miami-Dade counties from 2009 to 2012 where they sold more than 500 firearms and bought more than 400 firearms, the indictment says.

Between Oct. 2011 and April 2012, the duo allegedly sold nine firearms to undercover federal agents.

Federal agents, in a superseding indictment filed in court July 31, said Rafael Valdes, between September 2008 and March 2009, transported firearm parts belonging to the Hialeah Police Department.

The indictment says Valdes did “transport, transmit, and transfer in interstate commerce, goods, wares, and merchandise that is, firearm parts belonging to the City of Hialeah Police Department, of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen, converted, and taken by fraud…”

Also, the Valdes’ did not report their actual incomes for years 2008-11, while knowing that their actual income exceeded what they reported. They reported $175, 728 for the year 2008, $154, 704 for 2009, $116, 264 for 2010 and $98, 938 for 2011.
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AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING :devil: :devil: :devil: