MANNY MAROÑO (in jail), ROBERTO MURIEDA (in jail), ORLANDO LÓPEZ (waiting in line).

[VOTERS OF SWEETWATER]

MANNY MAROÑO (in jail), ROBERTO MURIEDA (in jail), ORLANDO LÓPEZ (waiting in line)

ROBERTO MURIEDA
"NEGOTIATION OF CHARGES"

HE NEGOTIATED WITH THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES IN THE MIAMI CASE OF ILEGAL TOWINGS.

ORLANDO DID YOU KNOW IF YOUR FRIEND AND POLITICAL SUPPORTED ROBERTO MURIEDA IS NEGOTIATING WITH THE SAME AUTHORITIES IN THE CITY OF SWEETWATER CASE OF ILEGAL TOWINGS?.

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MIAMI HERALD TODAY SEPTEMBER 4th 2015.
"The FBI agents began to centre the investigation last year on Roberto Muriedas, who had acquired a towing company called Southland The Towing Company in 2009 from Manuel "Manny" Maroño, mayor at that time of the City of Sweetwater, and he was his partner in other business.

In a not related case, the ex Mayor of Sweetwater Manuel "Manny" Maroño he declared himself guilty of receiving bribes in a Federal case of a governmental contract in 2013 and it he is fulfilling a judgment of almost three years and a half in a Federal Prison.

In his "negotiation of charges", Roberto Muriedas admitted to have paid thousands of dollars in bribes to two Public Service Aids from the City of Miami Police Department in return to their business referrals to his towing company, which they benefited to Southland the Towing Company."
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ORLANDO LOPEZ YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE NEXTONE IN LINE
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[VOTERS FROM SWEETWATER]

FBI PROBE FAR FROM OVER COMMISSIONERS GUERRA / ORLANDO LÓPEZ INVOLVED WITH SOUTH AND THE TOWING COMPANY.

If the gang of criminals now holding office in this city think they have pulled the wool over the FBI's eyes they better think again. The huge scandal over Southland Towing is not going away. Both Commissioners Guerra and Orlando Lopez had holdings in Southland Towing corporation; Catalino Rodriguez made the property room his own drug dispensary and bank account and Isolina Marono has rigged every city election in the past ten years. Don't be surprised if those listed will be sitting at a federal penitentiary prior to the election or did you think the sweet deal Mayor Marono got was just coincidence? Keep your toothbrush close by at night criminals.

Sweetwater mayor’s corruption conviction pops lid on a sewer of scandal
BY JAY WEAVER, BRENDA MEDINA AND MELISSA SANCHEZ

Until federal agents began swarming over the city the past several months, Sweetwater seemed as nondescript as its City Hall — a three-story concrete box surrounded by working-class homes and an auto repair shop, tamale stand and passport office down the street.
Now, the tiny West Miami-Dade city is quickly becoming famous for something other than its perennial flooding problems and the quirky fact that it was founded by Russian circus midgets.
The city’s disgraced mayor and a lobbyist crony — both convicted last month in federal court — admitted pocketing $60,000 in kickbacks after getting nailed in an FBI sting operation. But the bust only scratched the surface of a culture of corruption that has infested City Hall, which is shared by Sweetwater officials and the police department.
Federal agents are trying to unravel the tangled tentacles of ex-Mayor Manny Maroño’s association with a towing company, in which he has been a suspected silent partner. The city’s no-bid, verbal agreement with Southland The Towing Company, which state records show the mayor once owned, filled police coffers with wads of cash from fines — funds controlled by the recently resigned police chief, a Maroño ally. Some of that cash, deposited into a postal-type box inside the police department, was found to be missing.
The arrangement also gave Sweetwater and the towing company the opportunity to sell dozens of seized cars at auction. And it gave some police officers the chance to take joy rides in luxury vehicles, including an ultra-sleek Porsche Panamera.
El Nuevo Herald/The Miami Herald, along with CBS4, also found:
• Thousands of dollars in cash are missing from the official police evidence room. The resulting probe has uncovered a second evidence room, this one a secret, in an off-site warehouse filled with confiscated knock-off designer bags and clothes, along with machines for detecting fake currency.

“It was a like a criminal enterprise,” Centeno said. “But now Sweetwater is getting a very aggressive treatment to get rid of that cancer of corruption. And that’s very positive for my city.”
In the near future, the U.S. attorney’s office is expected to charge the three police officers. But the towing investigation, which focuses on possible kickbacks to city officials and police officers in an alleged extortion racket, could lead to other arrests down the road.
The former mayor and his defense lawyers, Armando Rosquete and Kendall Coffey, declined to comment about the feds’ probe of Maroño’s interest in a handful of companies, including Southland The Towing Company and Southeast Towing, Inc. His recent guilty plea to the kickback charge in an agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office does not protect him from potential criminal liability in the towing probe.
Maroño claims he got out of the towing business in 2009, but legal records and sources familiar with the former mayor’s companies say he is a silent investor with “front men” representing his interests.
In the towing probe, Maroño chose not to cooperate with the FBI and prosecutors. The possible reason: He did not want to implicate family members and friends who have been involved in his business and political dealings while he served as mayor from 2003 until his removal from office in August.
Among those close to Maroño: Southland’s current owner, Robert Muriedas; Southland’s former owner, Peter Hernandez; former Southland employee Jose Guerra, a Sweetwater commissioner; and the city’s attorney, Ralph Ventura, who has also represented Southland. And then, of course, there are the ex-mayor’s relatives: his mother, Isolina Maroño, also a city commissioner; his uncle, Antero Espinosa, who recently resigned as the city’s director of maintenance; and Maroño’s wife, Jenny Munoz-Maroño, who works as the city’s coordinator of special projects. The couple, who had been divorced, remarried after his arrest in August.
The scope of the towing probe is significant if a recently filed class-action case against the city is any indication. The suit, filed in Miami federal court, claims that Sweetwater police and officials violated the constitutional rights of more than 100 people whose vehicles were seized, towed and auctioned after the motorists were unlawfully detained on trumped-up charges, such as shoplifting, and required to pay a $500 fine to the city.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, Rick Diaz, said the Sweetwater cops mostly targeted drivers whose cars were fully paid off so there would be no hassle clearing titles before Southland and the city sold off the confiscated vehicles.
The city is seeking to dismiss the case. Since the mayor’s kickback scandal rocked City Hall, Sweetwater has lowered the towing fine to $250.

Troubled police department
City Hall wasn’t Sweetwater’s only problem. The police department, with 39 full-time officers, was reeling from mismanagement, bad hires and shenanigans.
Just weeks after the August takedown of the mayor and his colleague, the FBI arrested a Sweetwater police detective on charges of credit-card fraud and identity theft. Officer William Garcia, suspended without pay, was accused of using phony credit cards at Miami Beach, Key Largo and other South Florida establishments, and stealing other people’s card numbers.
Then, out of the blue, the Sweetwater Police Department relieved two other officers of duty: Detective Octavio Oliu and acting Sgt. Reny Garcia, both now under federal investigation.
Oliu, who had been forced to resign from his previous job as a Miami-Dade County officer in 2007, was hired by the Sweetwater Police Department in 2010. Garcia joined the force in 2006.
Also relieved of duty: Richard Brenner, a civilian employee who worked as a red-light camera monitor and was a member of the department’s police auxiliary since 2011. According to sources, Brenner was suspended because he was working as a Sweetwater police officer, including making arrests, without being a sworn member of the department.
FBI anti-corruption agents have been building a broader case around the three officers, including gathering computer and other records from the police department and questioning local officials, according to sources.
The crackdown has people saying that “Dirtywater” might be a more apt name for the city, though longtime Sweetwater officials take umbrage with that characterization.
“What I’m concerned about is the residents of Sweetwater,” said former Sweetwater mayor and current Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz, who declined to talk about his problematic protégé, the convicted ex-mayor, or the city’s embattled police department.

That may take a while.
Longtime Chief Roberto Fulgueira, who was pals with Maroño, retired in late October amid the controversy engulfing his department, including his giving the no-bid towing contract to one of the ex-mayor’s former business partners. Money was also missing from the police evidence room.
In early October, Fulgueira asked a deputy chief to open a probe.
By the end of the month, city officials announced that thousands of dollars in cash were indeed missing from the police evidence room.
They also said money was missing from a separate collection of cash fines — at $500 a pop — paid by people who wanted to recover their towed vehicles after police arrests.
“As far as I know, it amounts to thousands of dollars,” Diaz, the mayor, said at a news conference in late October.
Diaz said the missing money from the evidence room had been seized during arrests.
The man in charge of supervising the evidence room at the time was Catalino Rodriguez, a longtime Sweetwater officer who resigned on Oct. 7, the same night he was named a city commissioner in the shake-up after the mayor’s removal from office.
He denied taking any money. “I don’t know anything about that,” Rodriguez said. “My conscience is clean.”
For years, the former police chief, Fulgueira, was responsible for reviewing the receipts and counting the money from the towing fees. Individual cash payments were wrapped in a copy of each invoice and deposited in the faux postal box located inside the police department.
Two people had keys to the box: Fulgueira and Rodriguez. According to Rodriguez, Fulgueira was the main person who would process the three to four payments of fines made on a weekly basis. After counting the money, he said, Fulgueira would hand the cash and invoices to the deputy chief, Roberto Ochoa, who would then deposit the money with the city’s finance department.
Fulgueira, who served on the Sweetwater police force for 32 years before resigning last month, did not returns calls for comment.
Publicly, the former chief said he wanted to leave for personal reasons, citing his ailing mother. But his exit could not have come at a more troubling time for Sweetwater.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...#story

[WE THE PEOPLE]

Towing was unjustified but lucrative business for some Sweetwater POLICE OFFICERS.
Miami-Dade County DECEMBER 28, 2013
Towing was unjustified but lucrative in Sweetwater

BY MELISSA SANCHEZ AND BRENDA MEDINA

It was not an explicit directive nor was it written in any official documents.

However, Sweetwater police officers knew what was expected of them when they patrolled the streets of this small city in west Miami-Dade.

They were to arrest the highest number possible of suspects in order to tow their vehicles, even if the towing had no connection to the alleged crime.

Towing represented a lucrative business for the city.

Sweetwater depended on the $500 administrative fine it collected from people recovering their vehicles. In fact, the city had set a yearly goal of $168,000 of these fines under the category of “miscellaneous revenue” in its police budget.

And the company, Southland The Towing Company, was partly owned by former Mayor Manuel “Manny” Maroño for quite awhile — although many officers apparently had no knowledge of that.

Arresting, then towing became the norm in Sweetwater, according to several officers who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Figures show 37 percent of all arrests in Sweetwater last year resulted in towing.

The Trends

An analysis by El Nuevo Herald of the more than 460 arrests involving towing in 2012 found several trends. Among them:

• Two-thirds of the arrests were for traffic violations, including driving with a suspended license or without a license. In cases of criminal charges, 77 percent ended up dismissed by the state attorney’s office or a judge. Some 11 percent led to criminal convictions.
• One in four arrests with towing took place at the Dolphin Mall, a shopping center annexed into Sweetwater in 2010. That same year, Southland obtained the monopoly to operate in the city. Although the majority of the Dolphin Mall arrests occurred in the parking lot, the arresting officers did not allow subjects to leave their vehicles there. Even in the cases of shoplifting inside the stores, officers apparently went outside to the parking lot to search for the subjects’ vehicles to tow.
• The suspects usually had limited incomes and could not afford the $500 fine the city charged, in addition to the storage fee they had to pay Southland to get their vehicle back. Nearly one-third of the arrests were unemployed people, while 35 percent said they were workers or students. Many drove popular cars, like Nissan Altimas and Honda Civics, which were a majority of the cars towed by Southland.

• In 40 percent of the cases — most of which were for driving without a license or for possession of marijuana — officers released the suspects with a "promise to appear in court." Typically, charges were dropped before a public defender was assigned to the case.
“This is how things lead to so many unjustified arrests for misdemeanors that avoid an examination by a lawyer,” said Carlos Martínez, Miami-Dade’s public defender. “These people had no defense.”

The Towing Business

Over the past few months, federal authorities have intensified an investigation of the relationship between Maroño, Southland and Sweetwater Police, as well as the abusive behavior of some officers against residents.

Maroño had been one of the owners of the company until the middle of 2009, according to state records, though sources familiar with the case have said that he remained as a silent partner in the business.

Despite its link to Maroño, Southland began to operate in Sweetwater on a rotation, months before its name ceased to appear in state registers. The agreement between the city and Southland was never formalized into an official contract.

No one has been charged in the case so far. The feds arrested Maroño in August in an unrelated case of public corruption. And Police Chief Roberto Fulgueira retired two months later.

The city’s new leadership has severed the links with Southland and is in the process of creating a public bidding system for the towing contract business.

Fulgueira did not respond messages from El Nuevo Herald this week. Armando Rosquete, Maroño’s attorney, said that he could not comment about his client’s role in the towing business.

Sweetwater’s new police chief, Jesús Menocal took over on Oct. 24. He has already instructed officers on when towing is justified in an arrest. Since he assumed his post, there have been only seven arrests in which towing was justified.

This number represents less than 10 percent of what was previously considered normal in the city.

“I cannot justify what happened in the previous administration, but I want to make clear that we are not in the towing business,” Menocal said. “And we don’t want to steal vehicles from people, confiscate their titles or receive money from that company.”

The Documents

Over the past several months, El Nuevo Herald and CBS-4 have obtained hundreds of documents from Sweetwater during the past decade on arrest reports, towing activity and receipts for the $500 administrative fine.

El Nuevo Herald created a database with the 2012 documents and combined that with information from court cases to make its analysis of how things were run in the city.

The records are incomplete. Sweetwater’s police department could not find nearly a quarter of the arrest reports linked to towing. A few cases, such as the confiscation of a Porsche Panamera that ended up becoming the property of Southland, have disappeared from city records.

However, cases with complete records show a clear and disturbing pattern. In many cases, police called the towing company even when the vehicles were legally parked or when passengers had valid licenses.

The Cases

“I could not understand why this happened,” said Christopher Lam, whose 2000 Mercury Cougar was towed after his arrest in the parking lot of an apartment complex in his neighborhood for having a marijuana cigarette in the car — though he says that it didn’t belong to him.

“They told me I had to take my belongings out of the trunk and that, instead of going to jail, I could sign a paper and walk home, but that they would take the car.”

Instead of allowing him to park the car, or have his passenger drive it away, police insisted on calling Southland.

Lam, 23, had to walk home and ended up paying more than $2,000 to Southland to recover his car a few weeks later. He had to borrow the money.

In another case, the police arrested a woman who had just parked in front of her parents’ home in a trailer park. She was accused of driving with a suspended license.

“It seems that they could have taken me and leave the car there,” said Mirtha, who did not want her last name used. “My car was legally parked in front of the house.”

That was also the case of Moisés Robaina, arrested while having coffee in his Nissan Rogue in the parking lot of the cafeteria where his former girlfriend worked. Officers accused him of threatening and harassing the woman.

“I begged them several times to let my father drive the car and he lived only two blocks from there,” he said. “But the officer yelled at me, saying no, that the car could not be touched.”

The case against Robaina was dismissed, but he had to pay nearly $1,700 to Southland and the city to recover his vehicle.

Procedures in Miami

Sweetwater’s unwritten towing rules would not be considered justified in other cities where there are clear directives about towing during an arrest.

In Miami, towing could only be called when the vehicle can be considered evidence, as in a case of vehicle manslaughter, said Juancarlo Erigoyen, the officer in charge of towing cases. In the rest of the cases, police allowed suspects to leave the car with a passenger — if that person has a valid driver’s license — or park it in a safe place.

“If we have to arrest someone and there is a place where the car can be parked, then we ask the suspect to sign a document agreeing to leave the car there,” Erigoyen said.

Not everyone whose car was towed after an arrest in Sweetwater paid the fine to recover it.

In dozens of cases — particularly when a woman came to recover her car or the car of one of her children or her husband — the fine was annulled. Deputy chief Roberto Ochoa, who approved some of those cancellations, said that he made that decision when he happened to hear someone complaining and he had the opportunity to review the case.

An Absurd Arrest

In at least one case, then Chief Fulgueira himself refunded the $500 when a person threatened to file a lawsuit.

Christopher Aymerich was arrested for not having the telephone number on his pickup truck of the company that cleaned home sewers. He spent a night in jail. On the following day, he paid the $500 fine to the city and another $420 to Southland. Aymerich said he thought the arrest was absurd, but did not want to complain to police.

However, his wife was furious and wrote a long letter of complaint to Fulgueira.

“She wrote him that the arrest didn’t make any sense, that they were stealing money from working people,”Aymerich said. “And three days later, the police chief himself called me saying he was sorry, that there had been a mistake and that the $500 would be returned.”

Making good on his promise, Fulgueira personally returned the money, in cash , Aymerich said.

The chief apologized and asked Aymerich to“forget everything,” Aymerich said. “It seemed that he was afraid.

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NEW FEDERAL CHARGES for RACKETEERING & VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS" are coming for criminal convicts.
MANUEL "MANNY" MAROÑO,
WILLIE GARCIA,
OCTAVIO OLIU &
ROBERTO MURIEDA.

GOOD ADVISE:
If you have any previous illegal business connection with any of these four convict criminals, be prepared and look for a good attorney, they are going to cooperate with the feds for sure.

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Future arrests in the City of Sweetwater.
Based on the investigations beginning in 2013, there are rumors among city employees that authorities of the federal and state government will begin to arrest some of the ex-policemen of the City like ex-commander Mario Miranda, the ex-policeman and ex-commissioner Catalino Rodríguez, and the active lieutenant Roberto Ochoa,
as well the ex-chief of Police Roberto Fulgueiras.

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Florida Supreme Court ratified that Gimenez negotiating with malicious intentions
The Supreme Court of Florida ratified that Mayor Gimenez negotiating in a bad faith with malicious intentions exceeding the powers of the Mayor.

MIAMI-DADE SEPTEMBER 9 2015.
MIAMI NEWS- DADE COUNTY.

The Supreme Court of the State of Florida ratified last Tuesday the decision of the Court of Appeals of the First District in favour of the Miami Dade County Police Benevolent Association (PBA) lawsuit against Mayor Carlos Giménez for overstepping the mark in his functions and exceeding the powers of the Mayor of Miami Dade County.

The demand or lawsuit took place when Giménez refused to return to the employees of the County 5 % of their benefits of health insurance and he veto the decision or agreement of the Commission of the County in order that the funds were returned.

After the voting of eight commissioners in favor to return and three against, the mayor Giménez could not impose his idea of not returning to the employees of the Miami Dade County a few concessions that, according to the unions, were done on condition of that they were reverted when the economic conditions were improving.

At that moment, Mayor Giménez threatened with dismissals or fired employees and of reduction of the police force because, according to the councillor, the voting of the commissioners was deepening the fiscal deficit. For this reason, Giménez veto the decision of the commissioners who, in turn, raised the above mentioned veto in an intense session in February, 2014.

The PBA (Police Benevolent Association of Miami-Dade) has been one of the organizations that has been faced in a radical way the Mayor Giménez. In the moment in which he veto the decision of the Miami Dade County Commission, the union decided to complain before the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC) for his unjust practices against the employees.

" PERC decided that the mayor was negotiating in a bad faith with malicious intentions . Later, the case went to the Court of Appeals of the First District and this one passed that the mayor did not have the legal authority of veto the decisions of the commissioners in a hearing mediation. It was illegal and was exceeding the powers of the mayor ", affirmed Blanca Torrents Greenwood, executive director(principal) of the PBA.

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Mayor Lopez you make a big mistake when you copy and paste Mayor Gimenez policy.
Mayor Lopez you make a big mistake when you copy and paste Mayor Gimenez.

Like Mayor Orlando López, Mayor Giménez threatened with dismissals or fired employees and of reduction of the police force, because according to the Mayor, the voting of the commissioners was deepening the fiscal deficit. For that reason, Mayor Giménez like Mayor Lopez veto the decision of the commissioners who, in turn, raised the above mentioned veto in an intense session in February, 2014.

The PBA (Police Benevolent Association of Miami-Dade) has been one of the organizations that has been faced in a radical way the Mayor Giménez. In the moment in which he veto the decision of the Miami Dade County Commission, the union decided to complain before the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC) for his unjust practices against the employees.

" PERC decided that the mayor was negotiating in a bad faith with malicious intentions . Later, the case went to the Court of Appeals of the First District and this one passed that the mayor did not have the legal authority of veto the decisions of the commissioners in a hearing mediation. It was illegal and was exceeding the powers of the mayor ", affirmed Blanca Torrents Greenwood, executive director(principal) of the PBA

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(RICO) Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
(RICO) Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.

Racketeering is when organized groups run illegal businesses, known as “rackets,” or when an organized crime ring uses legitimate organizations to embezzle funds. Such activities can have devastating consequences for both public and private institutions.

Consequently, the federal government and numerous state governments have created systems of laws designed to prosecute these criminals.

Typical Rackets and Their Consequences

Using RICO to Prosecute Racketeers

Before Congress enacted laws that specifically combat organized crime, prosecutors found it very difficult to end these rackets. Prosecutors could often convict the lower ranked members of the organizations, because they were the ones who actually performed the illegal activities. However, the masterminds behind the organized crime rings were often much harder to prosecute because they couldn’t be directly connected to any of the crimes.

In 1978, Congress enacted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, providing prosecutors with the tool they needed to fight organized crime. Many states have enacted similar laws. In order to convict someone under RICO or a state equivalent, it’s no longer necessary to prove the suspect personally committed an illegal activity. Instead, prosecutors must prove:
The defendant owns and/or manages an organization

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CITY BUDGET OVERDRAWN DUE TO UNBUGETED CAMPAING PROMISED POSITIONS. BY MAYOR LOPEZ.

1-PLACIDO DIAZ- CHIEF POLICE DEPT.

2-THELMA LOPETEGUI-POLICE DEPT.

3-RICARDO ROQUE- POLICE DEPT.

4-RODOLFO HERBELLO- POLICE DEPT.

5-AQUILES CARMONA-POLICE DEPT.

6-RALPH VENTURA CHIEF OF STAFF, ADMINISTRATION.

7-CLAUDIA MIRO-PUBLIC INF. OFFICER.

8- INDIRA PARDILLO-EXC.ASST. TO MAYOR.

9-YAIMA VEGA- PERS. ASST TO MAYOR LOPEZ.

Unbugeted campaing promised positions, including the chief of police and his gang.
Force the city commissioners to ratify all unbugeted campaing promised positions, inc
It is not necessary to be very intelligent or political expert to realize that this is a political situation created with malicious intentions by Mayor Orlando López with the intention TO FORCE AND INTIMIDATEDTHE CITY COMMISSIONERS TO RATIFY ALL UNBUGETED CAMPAING PROMISED POSITIONS, INCLUDING THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND HIS GANG ND THE NEW MAYOR'S PRESS INFORMATION ASST.

If we go to the past records of The Miami Dade County will see that Mayor Gimenez try to apply the same type of intimidation and expression to the Miami Dade County Commissioners including threatened with dismissals or fired employees and of reduction of the police force, because according to the Mayor, the voting of the commissioners was deepening the fiscal deficit.

For that reason, Mayor Giménez like Mayor Lopez use the veto as a weapon to block or delay any decision of the commissioners creating a financial crisis.

Last week The Supreme Court of Florida ratified that Mayor Gimenez negotiating in a bad faith with malicious intentions exceeding the powers of the Mayor

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The Sweetwater Police Department Is An Unsafe Place Of Employment for POLICE OFFICERS, Due to a HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT SITUATION created by the Mayor and the interin Chief of Police.

This Police Department is commanded by Placido Diaz an ex-reservist from the Miami Police Department who was separated from that department for threatened to commit suicide using his service GLOCK Police PISTOL in the presence of customers an employees of a popular restaurant in the City of Miami.

The SWEETWATER POLICE DEPARTMENT is the only one Dpartment of Law Enforcement where NON EXPIRIENCED PART-TIME SERGEANTS are in charge (SUPERVISORS) of a group of EXPIRIENCED FULL-TIME POLICE OFFICERS with many years of HONORABLE SERVICE AND DEDICATION to THE CITY OF SWEETWATER, no only that 3 or 4 INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATORS are PARTIMERS.

Officer DELMONTE is the Sweetwater Chieff of POLICE'S right hand and chauffeur, He is also a PARTIMER and member of chief Placido ex wife's family, He has no RESPECT for others because he knows that he is protected by his cousin interim chief Placido, He always made comments like this one:
( MY NAME IS DELMONTE, da CHIEF'S COUSIN. FIRE ME IF YOU CAN!!! ).
Officer DELMONTE was an a CORRECTION OFFICER who was fired for possession of NARCOTICS ( MARIGUANA)

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See REPORT from THE HERALD TRIBUNE:

The Herald-Tribune examines how Florida certifies police:s, prison guards and probation officers

LUIS DELMONTE:
Sex: Male Race: NA / Other
Age: 34
Employment History
Department Of Corrections, Region IV

Class: Correctional
Type: Full-Time
Start Date: 4/18/2008
Separation: (Separated on 3/31/2011).
Resigned/Retired While Being Investigated for Viol. Moral Character Standards
Department Of Corrections, Region III

Class: CorrectionalType:
Full-Time
Start Date: 7/13/2007
Separation: (Separated on 4/18/2008)
Transfer Within Agency
(No break in service)
Complaints
Marijuana-Possess

Source: Internal Investigation Category:
Dis Status: Recommended Order Pending Opened Date: 8/11/2011
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SWEETWATER POLICE DEPARTMENT is the only place of employment in the Law Enforcement history were the chief, assistant chiefs or supervisors are delivering pink slips ( LAY OFF NOTIFICATION) in person to an employee's residences with the intention to makes the employee looking bad in front of his family members, friends and neighbors, notifies them that they are going to be fired.

More than 20 Auxiliaries, Reservists, Partimers and Full-time Police Officers have been dismissed, Layoff or FIRED by the new administration, with the excuse that the CITY is in a critical financial situation, but the real situation is different, The Mayor Orlando López fired them because he need their wages to be able to pay the salaries of 5 undigested POSITIONS HIRED by the Mayor, AND THOSE POSITIONS ARE:

°PLACIDO DIAZ- CHIEF POLICE DEPT.

°THELMA LOPETEGUI-CHIEF EXECUTIVE ASSISSTANNT.

°RICARDO ROQUE- DEPUTY CHIEF OF POLICE.

°RODOLFO HERBELLO- ASST. CHIEF OF POLICE.

°AQUILES CARMONA-POLICE MAJOR.

ALL THIS IRREGULARITIES AND OTHERS THAT WE ARE NOT REPORTING AT THIS TIME MADE THIS DEPARTMENT A HOSTILE AND NOT SAFE PLACE TO EMPLOYMENT.