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House arrest ordered for two Fort Lauderdale cops accused of stealing money, making bogus arrests

November 4, 2011|By Paula McMahon and Tonya Alanez, Sun Sentinel
Tipped off by videotaped evidence that two Fort Lauderdale police officers lied about one case, investigators dug deeper and found a pattern of serious misconduct, prosecutors said.
The months-long probe led to charges that detectives Brian Dodge and Billy Koepke stole an estimated $10,622, fabricated cases, kidnapped a man and drove him around Broward County for hours, and illegally detained several other people.


Dodge, 30, and Koepke, 32, are on house arrest and must wear GPS monitors, pending the outcome of their trials. They were released on bond Friday afternoon after 15 hours in the county jail.
They are charged with racketeering, kidnap, extortion, false imprisonment, grand theft, official misconduct and falsifying records. Dodge is also charged with perjury and forging the signature of his sergeant, Michael Florenco, on a police report.
Both men face life in prison if convicted of kidnapping. They could face more than 100 years in prison if convicted of the rest of the charges. Dodge is charged with a total of 19 counts, Koepke with 17.
The officers are accused of making traffic stops – that may or may not have been legal – in order to search 10 motorists and passengers for money and pills, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office.
If they found a large amount of money, the detectives would fabricate criminal charges to steal a portion of the money and turn the rest in as evidence, the charges allege.
The two Street Crimes Unit detectives have been suspended with pay since April.
Prosecutors said the officers’ alleged misconduct wasn’t confined to Fort Lauderdale – they left their legal jurisdiction, and detained people and stole from them in Oakland Park and Wilton Manors too. Some of the victims did nothing wrong, officials said.
Mike Dutko, Dodge’s lawyer, said that Dodge and Koepke will plead not guilty.
“They’re going to fight this,” Dutko said. “If there’s a common thread here, the common thread is [witnesses who are] drug dealers and drug addicts with an incentive to try to manipulate the process for personal gain.”
Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley said it was not a good day for his department but urged people to remember that the majority of his staff are honorable people.
To any officers who don’t follow the rules, Adderley said the arrests send a signal that bad behavior won’t be tolerated.
“If there are people in the department that are not good, they’ll see that maybe this isn’t the job for them,” the chief said.

Tim Donnelly, head of special prosecutions for the Broward State Attorney’s Office, said he hoped the charges will restore public confidence in the system.
Dodge and Koepke are charged in four separate incidents that occurred between April 22, 2010, and Aug. 24, 2010. In each case, the alleged victims said the officers stole between $1,550 and $5,483 from them, according to arrest affidavits.
In one case, the victims said the officers stole their money, confiscated their car, and charged them with possession of drugs. Investigators wrote that Dodge told the victims “their money and car was gone, and they needed to post bond and get the hell out of Florida and never come back. Dodge then told them [police] would not be coming to look for them and neither would the bondsman.”
Some of the alleged victims reported their concerns to the Fort Lauderdale legal department and the police department’s legal advisor, according to court records.
The case against the detectives started after two men were arrested Aug. 24, 2010, at a Red Roof Inn in Oakland Park. The detectives gave one account of it in their reports and a sworn statement from Dodge but a security video from the hotel contradicted much of their version, prosecutors said.
According to the charges, the detectives pulled Mark Mayer from a car he was a passenger in about 2:45 p.m. on Aug. 24, 2010, after he visited his doctor’s office in Fort Lauderdale. Though he had no drugs or prescriptions on him, he said the detectives told him: “It makes no difference, you’re done.”
They didn’t formally arrest him but threatened him with life in prison and told him he better “set up” someone else if he wanted to go free. They kept him captive for hours, against his will, handcuffed, and drove him around the county, according to court records.
Eventually Mayer tracked down a man, Junior Jerome, to sell them crack cocaine at the hotel. Jerome admitted he brought crack to the hotel but said he swallowed the drug after he saw someone who looked like a detective.
Meanwhile, Mayer told investigators he was being detained – still handcuffed – in a vehicle driven by a third detective, Matthew Moceri, who has been suspended and is under investigation by internal affairs. He will not be charged criminally because there is insufficient evidence, prosecutors said.

To the new applicant;

What not to do.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3HrKY3abz8

2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO7I8AghmS4

The perpetrator in clip one (1) is the spokes person in clip two (2)

Message to "new applicant".......just ignore the ignorant comment writers. They only try to dissuade good applicants from applying and making our police department a better more positive agency to work for. You are on the right track. Unfortunately, I have no way to contact you....

Hahaha, they're not phasing me one bit. I've probably been through and done more than they ever have done in the last 8yrs than they have in a lifetime. I've fought in three rough combat deployments. They can't phase me one bit. That's exactly why I'm not posting my email on here. I'll probably get all type of emails. ANYWAY, here is a temp email you can contact me at. applicantnew1@gmail.com contact ASAP, please.

To more ethics: thanks for the input on what not to do and the police officer on who NOT TO BE. I have TOO much to lose and I wouldn't get loud nor violent with a subject that's not being loud, rude, physical/aggressive, or or violent with me. The last place I want my name is in the IA's office. Even if I saw another officer getting out of line, I would calm him down instantly cause I wouldn't want to see anyone else go down or get in trouble when I could've done something about it. Thanks to everyone on the tips and GOOD feedback.

Your a kid,, grow up before you start to teach the job here. Does your mom know your on the internet ? Maybe a girlfriend would help

To more ethics: thanks for the input on what not to do and the police officer on who NOT TO BE. I have TOO much to lose and I wouldn't get loud nor violent with a subject that's not being loud, rude, physical/aggressive, or or violent with me. The last place I want my name is in the IA's office. Even if I saw another officer getting out of line, I would calm him down instantly cause I wouldn't want to see anyone else go down or get in trouble when I could've done something about it. Thanks to everyone on the tips and GOOD feedback.

[quote="Guest"]Your a kid,, grow up before you start to teach the job here. Does your mom know your on the internet ? Maybe a girlfriend would help

hahaha. I'm a kid.... :roll:

To the new applicant

Here is another example criminals with a badge. Total lack of leadership in this police department, the stolen money has not been returned, why not?

Top Ranking Fort Lauderdale Police Supervisors Guarded Rothstein Home, Biz
November 14, 2009|Posted by Brittany Wallman on November 14, 2009 09:44 AM
Twenty-eight city police officials, including captains, majors, undercover officers and the department spokesman, helped guard the home and businesses of attorney Scott Rothstein while, federal agents say, he ran a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.
Rothstein has not been charged or arrested, but federal agents seized his assets this week.
Records released Friday show the off-duty work by Fort Lauderdale police at Rothstein's home in Harbor Beach, his Bova Prime restaurant on Las Olas, and the nearby Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm was so heavy, it required two police officials to coordinate. Rothstein's cadre of uniformed officers included many high-ranking supervisors in the department. Two coordinators, Sgt. Steve Greenlaw and Officer DeAnna Garcia, were paid a 5.5 percent cut of the security-guarding total each week.


As Broward County absorbs the shocking allegations in the case, new attention has turned to Rothstein's coziness with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and to one official at Broward Sheriff's Office. Rothstein's friendship with officers and deputies dates back 20 years, with his work as a labor attorney representing police officers and unions. At least one investor said he bragged about his closeness to law enforcement.
Fort Lauderdale police officials said Friday that their officers were not witnesses to criminal activity during their 24-hour work for Rothstein, and no officer raised any concerns that an investigation into economic crimes might be warranted.
"There is no police department employee that had any idea what was going on, to my knowledge," said Sousa, the spokesman, who worked at Rothstein's home several times and filled in occasionally at Bova. "? There is no wrongdoing on the part of our officers."
Rothstein was the only person in the department's history to have permanent round-the-clock off-duty police protection at his home. Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley said he stands by his decision to allow the one-of-a-kind guard duty. Rothstein met the city policy that the employer not be a felon, and be of good moral character, he said.
Rothstein paid $40 to $50 an hour to the officers over 31 weeks beginning in April. At a weekly tab of at least $7,545 just for guarding his home, and $2,000 a week at the law firm, the total would have hit $296,000 by the time it ended. He also spent at least $31,620 for the Bova detail.
The department halted all work for Rothstein on Nov. 2, after investors raised concerns that the attorney may have misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars.
Adderley said he was friendly with Rothstein, ate at Bova every Thursday and attended a political fund-raising party at his home but didn't socialize with him.
He said he knew Rothstein gave money to the poor and had no evidence he was "anything less than a good citizen." He didn't see this coming and was shocked when allegations came to light.
"Who is not shocked by this?" Adderley said.
Friday, Rothstein remained a free man, as federal agents said they were working to build a case in what is now thought to be one of South Florida largest investment frauds.
Broward Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Leljedal said the agency did no off-duty detail work for Rothstein. But Rothstein's ties to at least one Sheriff's Office employee are under scrutiny this week.

Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti on Thursday moved one of Rothstein's longtime friends, Lt. David Benjamin, out of his position as commander over Internal Affairs, because of his relationship with Rothstein. Benjamin provided a personal escort to Rothstein to get aboard a jet and leave the country to Morocco two weeks ago.
Lamberti said the Sheriff's Office also opened an investigation Friday into a corporation Benjamin has, DWB Consulting Group LLC, "to determine whether his outside business met all the BSO rules and regulations regarding outside employment."
Political consultant and former Rothstein associate Roger Stone said he met Benjamin and Col. Tom Wheeler of the Sheriff's Office at Rothstein's home last year. They were planning Lamberti's election campaign.
Stone said he originally thought Rothstein's desire to be surrounded by officers was part of the trappings of wealth and power. Now he thinks Rothstein might have been threatened by investors. He called Rothstein's police connections "genius."
"If you're surrounded by cops, no one will suspect you're a crook," said Stone.
Rothstein said this summer that the March 2008 murder of his friend and colleague, Melissa Britt Lewis, scared him into hiring full-time police guards, though he'd had bodyguards in the past.
"I am a businessman," he said. "I don't want to be followed home and shot."
Staff writers Paula McMahon, Robert Nolin and Lisa Huriash, and researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report.

Ethics: That story sounds familiar. I think I read it before but it was a much shorter version. I guess this is where I bring my leadership from the military to the dept and help keep officers in line. I'm not going to be CPT. Save Everyone but if it's in my eye sight or if I'm on scene and hear about it, I'll give me logical two sense and let them be. It's not my job being put on the line...one question for you though, are you trying to persuade me from attending my interview or working for this department?

I got it, not all officers are good officers. That's every where, every department but has nothing with me or my chances of getting hired.

To the new applicant;

More information for you to digest. Amazing how internal affairs investigates this matter the results are unfounded, is it because members of internal affairs were assigned to the detail thus received stolen money?

JULY 15, 2010

Fort Lauderdale investigation of off-duty cop security details
> Posted by Staff Writer at 7:29 PM

Fort Lauderdale police internal affairs investigators have completed their investigation of two officers who were accused of misconduct in connection with their work for Scott Rothstein.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/browar ... 2951.story

Here is the list of all 49 officers who worked off-duty details for Scott Rothstein at his home, law firm or Bova Prime restaurant:

Sgt. Larry Abrams, Officer Collis Atkinson, Officer Robert Bolden, Officer Rafael Bouyett, Sgt. Jeffrey Brull, Officer Christopher Clemons, Officer Lauren Collins, Maj. Raul Diaz, Capt. Karen Dietrich, Lt. Robert Dietrich, Officer Avery Figueras, Sgt. Michael Florenco, Officer John Franco, Officer Michael Freely, Lt. Glenn Galt, Officer Deanna Garcia-Lemieux, Capt. Reginald Gillis, Officer John Graul, Sgt. Steven Greenlaw, Sgt. Mary Gushwa, Lee Han****, Maj. Russell Hanstein, Sgt. Patrick Hart, Officer Ryan Ijames, Officer Dwight Isaac, Officer Jeffery Jenkins, Officer Marc Johnson, Officer Paul Johnson, Capt. Janice Jordan, Officer Jeffrey Knapp, Officer Jose Lopez, Officer Robert Macku, Detective Joel Maney (now retired), Sgt. Timothy McCarthy, Officer Matthew Moceri, Officer Grant Moule, Officer John Rendo, Officer William Rippy, Officer Rolando Rivera, Officer Henri Saint-Jean, Officer Reynaldo Santo Jr., Sgt. Kevin Shults, Sgt. Michael Siekierski, Officer Jay Smith, Sgt. Frank Sousa, Sgt. William Stewart, Sgt. Dana Swisher, Sgt. Jerry Williams, Officer Christopher Wilson.

They were paid $45 an hour, according to city records. Detail coordinators Greenlaw and Garcia-Lemieux received an additional $5 per hour, the investigators found.

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Ethics: That story sounds familiar. I think I read it before but it was a much shorter version. I guess this is where I bring my leadership from the military to the dept and help keep officers in line. I'm not going to be CPT. Save Everyone but if it's in my eye sight or if I'm on scene and hear about it, I'll give me logical two sense and let them be. It's not my job being put on the line...one question for you though, are you trying to persuade me from attending my interview or working for this department?

I got it, not all officers are good officers. That's every where, every department but has nothing with me or my chances of getting hired.

Go there be safe, work hard, remember your "Oath", never lie, always lead never follow. There are many good officers, chose wisely, retire healthy.