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    Did you read all this new stuff about Iggy's nephew?

    Multiple rape/sexual assault victims, some as young as 14? One victim told her family Menocal was trying kill her then she turns up dead with blunt trauma to the head. FBI investigating. Front page story in the Miami Herald today .

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    Friday morning Miami Herald opinion

    What gets a cop fired from the Hialeah police force? Apparently, not sexual assault | Opinion
    BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO
    NOVEMBER 15, 2019 06:00 AM

    In 2015 Jesús ‘Jesse’ Menocal was accused separately by four women of sexually abusing them on the job. The case was sent to the state prosecutors and the Police Department, but he was never punished. The Justice Department is now investigating.
    In 2015 Jesús ‘Jesse’ Menocal was accused separately by four women of sexually abusing them on the job. The case was sent to the state prosecutors and the Police Department, but he was never punished. The Justice Department is now investigating.

    What gets a cop fired from the Hialeah police force?

    Apparently, not sexual assault, abuse and harassment.

    Or Sgt. Jesús “Jesse” Menocal Jr. wouldn’t still be on the police department’s roster and payroll instead of where he most likely belongs, listed on the sex offender and predator websites.

    But just about everyone — from the police chief to the prosecutor assigned to review accusations against him at the State Attorney’s Office — handled with kid gloves the serious complaints from four women and girls that Menocal sexually assaulted them in his truck, abused them in unmonitored police station rooms, and pressured them to have sex with him.

    One girl was 14, not yet in high school; another was 17. Unlawful sexual activity with minors is a second-degree felony.

    There could be more women involved, but we don’t yet know.

    Investigators unearthed video of Menocal bringing eight other women and girls into a police station. He didn’t file reports on any of it, so the women are hard to identify.

    Adding yet more questions, the sex worker whose tale of abuse by Menocal came to light in 2015, 30-year-old Suzy Betancourt, is dead. She’s alleged to have rolled out of a moving car, an “accident” friends and family find suspicious.

    At every step of the way since the first accusation surfaced in 2015, Menocal’s boss and prosecutors were willing to give the former SWAT team member and decorated patrol officer the benefit of the doubt.

    Why, the chief even game him a 4.5% pay raise in the midst of investigations!

    He was, after all, the son of a local police chief, and his accusers were suspected of being sex workers, some willingly, some unwillingly. Menocal Jr. is the son of Jesus Menocal Sr., the former police chief of Sweetwater, another department tainted by scandal.

    Menocal Jr. also thought quite highly of himself, and said so in the caption of a photo he posted of himself on social media.

    “Character: It’s what you do when people aren’t watching. It’s how you act when you are hidden from public view.”

    There are only two points of light in this story.

    One is that the FBI has stepped in.

    The other is that the department’s internal affairs investigators didn’t take the accusations lightly and dug deep. The allegations against Menocal are recorded in hundreds of pages of law enforcement public records obtained by the Miami Herald.

    Enough evidence against Menocal was given by the internal affairs investigators to Chief Sergio Velazquez and Assistant State Attorney Johnette Hardiman clearly showing that something was very wrong.

    But neither acted to punish Menocal, a Miami Herald investigation found, and he remains on the force.

    The chief denies acting inappropriately, but his inaction is reprehensible.

    A sexual predator seldom acts alone.

    There are many enablers — and Velazquez, who didn’t fire him, and Hardiman, who didn’t give victims their day in court, became Menocal’s whether willingly or not.

    The prosecutor that concluded that “none [of the women] claimed outright force or threat, just authoritative pressure” from Menocal.

    She dismissed the 14-year-old as bipolar and a runaway.

    Just how much force or threat does an armed police officer have to exercise when he’s alone with a woman to meet prosecutorial criteria? Sexual assault is not about the act but about the sick need to overpower another human being. Men who serve on elite teams like SWAT aren’t exempt.

    Sexual assault, abuse and harassment are crimes that cross cultures, economic status and rank. All the powerful men in legal trouble in America should’ve settled that issue by now.

    The prostitute vs. the cop shouldn’t alter the weight of credibility.

    The only hope for any justice lies with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, which are investigating whether by illegally detaining the women and minor girls and pressuring them for sex, Menocal engaged in criminal violation of their civil rights, sources told the Herald.

    A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas for Hialeah police records and witnesses, including Hialeah police officers familiar with Menocal’s alleged misconduct, the sources said.

    Hopefully, more of the women out there who dealt with Menocal will hear of the FBI investigation and come forward.

    The FBI investigation could shed needed light, bring some of the justice denied.

    It also should dig deep into the Hialeah police culture that allowed Menocal to go unpunished.

    It’s about time.

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    Did Iggy's nephew 31 one of his victims??

    Women and girls said a Hialeah cop sexually assaulted them. The chief gave him a raise

    In 2015, a teenage girl told investigators that Hialeah Police Department Sgt. Jesús “Jesse” Menocal Jr., a decorated patrol officer and SWAT team member, stopped her while she was walking home, told her to get into his police truck and ordered her to perform oral sex.

    She was 14 years old.

    The girl said Menocal threatened her with arrest if she refused and said she would “disappear” if she ever told anyone what happened, according to interviews she gave to Hialeah police and the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. “I did what he wanted,” the sobbing girl said. Shaking as she recounted the assault, the girl was asked why she seemed afraid. “Because he is still out there,” she responded.

    The 14-year-old was among four women and girls who accused Menocal, 31, of sexual abuse, including one woman who said he handcuffed her and sexually assaulted her while masturbating in his police truck, according to hundreds of pages of law enforcement public records obtained by the Miami Herald.

    The veteran cop was found to have brought another eight women and girls into a Hialeah police station without filing any reports, a violation of department procedure.

    Internal affairs investigators gathered evidence that he had committed “unlawful sexual activity” with minors, a second-degree felony, and had broken more than 20 departmental rules and policies. The evidence was handed to Hialeah Police Chief Sergio Velázquez and the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office — but neither the police chief nor prosecutors acted to punish him.

    While Menocal was not charged by the state attorney’s office or disciplined by Hialeah’s police chief, he is now under investigation by federal authorities who are building a criminal civil rights case against him.

    “I was arresting everybody,” Menocal said in a sworn statement to internal affairs in 2016. “I was arresting them, stopping them from making income. I was arresting them from getting high, getting drugs, from committing any crimes to make any money off of.”

    On June 14, 2015, hours after a 17-year-old minor told Hialeah police that Menocal had detained her and made her strip in a camera-less room at a police station, he was “relieved of police powers,” removed from the SWAT team and placed on paid administrative assignment at home, according to his personnel file. The 17-year-old, Maley Dacosta, told investigators that Menocal pulled her car over and took her to the police station. Then he asked her if she was a virgin or had any sexually transmitted diseases, made her remove most of her clothing under threat of arrest and demanded sex, she said. She refused and he released her, telling her “I’m a cool cop,” according to her sworn statement.

    Hialeah police records show Menocal was reassigned as a SWAT coordinator while remaining on administrative assignment. His return to SWAT restored a 5 percent pay bump. He was also recommended for a merit raise.

    Velázquez signed off on the 4.5 percent raise weeks after.

    A spokesman for Hialeah police told the Miami Herald that the chief did not sustain the internal affairs findings that Menocal committed unlawful sexual activity with minors — only that he violated departmental rules and policies. The spokesman would not specify which ones nor confirm on what date exactly Menocal returned to active duty.

    FBI agents and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami are gathering evidence that Menocal illegally detained women and underage girls, pressured them for sex and then released them without charges, which would be a violation of their civil rights, sources familiar with the investigation told the Herald.

    A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas for both Hialeah police records and witnesses, including at least two Hialeah police officers familiar with Menocal’s alleged misconduct, the sources said. The federal case was opened in recent years to determine whether Menocal violated the civil rights of his alleged victims by using the authority of his badge “under color of law” to coerce them into sex.


    Months before Dacosta came forward, two male suspects in a case told a Hialeah human trafficking detective named Rosalyn Byrd that Menocal was abusing a sex worker in his district, Suzy Betancourt, 30, according to a sworn statement Byrd gave to internal affairs.

    “[Betancourt] was building ... trying to get the courage to build up a case against him, because he would make her show her breasts and her vagina to him,” Byrd told an internal affairs investigator looking into Menocal.

    Byrd told her sergeant, Manny Colon, in January 2015 but the sergeant said the male suspects had to file a complaint themselves, according to her sworn statement. The men do not appear to have done that — and neither Colon nor anyone else from the department’s command staff seems to have pursued the issue.

    After Dacosta came forward in June 2015, internal affairs detectives Frank Peñate and Hilda Reyes interviewed Betancourt. Byrd was able to locate two other alleged victims, records show, and they were interviewed by internal affairs. Reached by reporters, Byrd and Peñate declined to comment. Reyes could not be reached.

    Betancourt died in November 2015 — five months after being interviewed. She fell out of a moving car, a death that Miami-Dade police ruled an accident but that her family and friends found suspicious. In her sworn statement to investigators before her death, she told them explicitly that Menocal threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone what happened.

    A fourth alleged victim, a young adult woman, told police Menocal pulled her over and pressured her for sex.

    Menocal did not report stopping any of the four female victims.

    Investigators also discovered video footage showing that Menocal brought eight other women and girls into the police station. They were unable to identify and contact those women and girls. Menocal did not file reports on any of the incidents.

    Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández declined to say much about the case playing out in his city.

    Maria Haberfeld, a professor of policing at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City said that given the nature of the allegations against Menocal, she was “frankly flabbergasted” he was not disciplined.

    “I have studied policing for two decades and I have never heard of anything like this,” Haberfeld said.

    Velázquez’s failure to discipline Menocal, despite sustaining charges against him, sent a message to the rest of the department that “anything goes,” she said

    The Menocal family has deep roots in local law enforcement, including at the highest level. Menocal’s father, Jesús Menocal Sr., became the chief of Sweetwater’s police department twice — first in the 1990s and again in 2013 during an FBI investigation into allegations of police abuse of power and fraud. The Hialeah cop’s uncle, Ignacio, was a Miami police officer who was once investigated, but not charged, in the mid-1980s for suspected ties to drug traffickers. During an internal affairs probe, investigators found that Jesús Menocal Sr., while not yet a police officer, may have also been involved with his twin brother and the traffickers. That discovery put the kibosh on Jesús Menocal Sr.’s application for the Miami force. Ignacio would later join his brother as a cop in Sweetwater.

    One, a woman in her mid-20s, told investigators that she was in a car with a group of friends when Menocal stopped the vehicle. He told her to get into his police vehicle, and then he drove her to a nearby back alley. The two got out of his car and he immediately started kissing her, she told detectives. He then pulled out his penis and forced her to touch it. She pulled her hand away. Then he demanded she perform oral sex, which she declined. The two got back in his vehicle and he dropped her off at a nearby park.

    Another, Suzy Betancourt, told police that Menocal took her aside during a raid of a house party. He asked her if she was a prostitute and began flirting with her before offering to give her a ride home, according to Betancourt’s sworn statement. She was intoxicated and agreed.

    The two were in Menocal’s police truck together, about three to four blocks from her house, when Menocal stopped the car and handcuffed Betancourt, she said. He then tried to removedher pants and pulled down her shirt to expose her breasts. Betancourt said she felt “scared and intimidated.” Menocal then touched her genitals inappropriately while exposing his penis and touching himself, Betancourt said. The encounter ended when Menocal got a call over his radio.

    Betancourt said two other similar incidents took place where Menocal stopped her and abused her.

    On one occasion, she told police, he told her that “if you ever say anything, I will find you and I will kill you.”

    Five months after speaking to Hialeah detectives, the mother of two died after falling out of a moving vehicle on Nov. 21, 2015. The medical examiner determined that she died from blunt force injuries to the head and torso.

    Her brother, Gerardo Betancourt, believes the investigation didn’t go deep enough. Gerardo said a mortician at the funeral home told him Suzy’s body didn’t show signs of the “road rash” typically suffered when someone falls out of a car.

    In the months before her death, Suzy was battling substance abuse issues. Gerardo ran into her late one night at a McDonald’s in Hialeah. She was intoxicated, Gerardo said, and he asked her to leave and come home with him.

    She said she couldn’t leave but told him she was working on “taking down somebody big” who was hurting children.

    “She told me that what she was getting involved with,” Gerardo said, “was going to leave her dead

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    Did Iggy contribute to the sexual abuse of those girls in Hialeah?

    Maybe. The inability to control urges and feelings of invincibility are classic side effects of anabolic steroid abuse. Not only did Iggy and his brother Jesus engaged in massive steroid abuse, they taught their children how to abuse steroids as well. Look at the pictures of young Johnny and Jesus, Iggys nephews. The over the top abuse is so obvious.
    I'm sure you all know that steroid abuse is both addictive and illegal, a class II controlled substance.

    Here's my point. In Hialeah they totally ignored Jesus Menocal Jr's actions even with the knowledge that there were at least 12 victims, as young as 14, and maybe even a 31 to silence one of these victims. Nothing happened until the FBI came in. In Sweetwater we have an ex(maybe) drug trafficker who massively abuses illegal substances and then became an enabler to children, his son and nephews. Yes, he hooked up his children with dangerous illegal drugs. Is SPD going to continue to look the other way like they did in Hialeah?

    Iggy's nephew Johnny Menocal puped up on steroids, not even 20 years old:
    http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/1a...09785dfa82.jpg

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    Te enteraste?

    Papo, gotta bring this up to the top!!

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    Not only is Iggy a P0S but so is Diaz and Lopez for promoting him despite all the disgrace he has brought to SPD.
    Could Ignacio be supplying the Mayor with his nose candy?

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