Menocal Crime Family Bringing Down City Government

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If you don't have daily access to the Miami Herald you all really need to check out the Hialeah LEO Affairs site to see how the Menocal crime family has brought the entire city under fire with daily attacks by the press. The mayor had a total melt down during the council meeting over the Menocal scandal and the paper is not relenting.
Newspaper articles posted, fascinating reading!

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A fifth woman is accusing an ex-Hialeah cop of sexual assault. The FBI is investigating

BY JAY WEAVER AND NICHOLAS NEHAMAS
JANUARY 17, 2020 06:18 PM

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.

BY MARTA OLIVER CRAVIOTTO | NATALIE REY
A new alleged victim is accusing recently fired Hialeah Police Department Sgt. Jesús Menocal Jr. of sexual assault, becoming at least the fifth woman to make such a complaint, the Miami Herald has learned.

The woman approached Hialeah police after Menocal was arrested by the FBI on Dec. 13, two sources familiar with the case told the Miami Herald. She said Menocal assaulted her several years ago when she was roughly 18 and is said to have an audio recording of the encounter, according to the sources. Hialeah police passed her information on to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and the FBI. Four women have previously accused Menocal of sexual assault, including two minors.

“The FBI has asked to take the lead on the new complaint,” said Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the state attorney’s office. “Since they already have an indictment pending that is similar in nature to the new complaint, we agreed to their request. We have offered the FBI our assistance if they request it.”


Jesús ‘Jessie’ Menocal Jr. posted this photo of himself on a social media site with the caption: ‘Character: It’s what you do when people aren’t watching. It’s how you act when you are hidden from public view.’

When the Herald asked the city of Hialeah for records relating to any new victims, the city clerk’s office responded that “the case is an open/active investigation. ... We cannot release any document until the case is closed.”

A spokesman for Hialeah police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Michael Grieco, Menocal’s defense attorney, could not be reached for comment. The FBI declined to comment.

Menocal was indicted in federal court last month on charges that he violated the civil rights of two women by detaining them and subjecting them to “non-consensual sexual encounters ... while he was acting in his official capacity as a police officer” in 2015. He has pleaded not guilty. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, which is handling the case, said in a court filing that it has gathered 29,000 pages of documents and records, as well as cellphone and hard drive data.

Although Hialeah Police Chief Sergio Velázquez fired Menocal after his arrest, the allegations against the patrol sergeant first surfaced in 2015, when four women and girls accused him of sexual assault. State prosecutors declined to charge him, saying there wasn’t enough evidence and that the alleged victims lacked credibility. One of the women died months after giving evidence against Menocal when she tumbled out of a moving automobile. The two women cited in the federal indictment were among the four alleged victims who accused him of misconduct in 2015.

Additionally, Menocal sometimes brought young women to the police station, where they would accompany him to a private room without cameras, according to surveillance video and other records. The meetings were not documented, a violation of police protocols, a Hialeah police internal affairs investigation found.

A Herald investigation published the month before Menocal’s arrest raised questions about how Velázquez handled the internal investigation into the accusations. The Herald found that the chief brought Menocal back to active duty even before state prosecutors made their decision to decline to charge him. Velázquez also returned him to the SWAT team and approved him for a merit raise, even as he later sustained an internal affairs complaint, Hialeah police records showed.

1The resulting scandal has led to criticism of Velázquez and his boss, Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández.

After the Herald published its initial story, Velázquez defended his department, saying no “cover-up” took place.

And at a Tuesday city council meeting, Hernández responded by calling the Herald “racist” and “anti-Cuban.”

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They have been exposed for what they are. Their reign of terror is over.

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The Miami Herald has 2 Pulitzer Prize winning journalists, both almost won a second Pulitzer prize, assigned to this story. And since Hernandez was stupid enough to viciously attack the paper I'm sure they have fresh motivation to dig deeper.
Rock, you are such an idiot.

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Hernandez is an enabler...just as guilty as The Pedo with a gun.
Velazquez is corrupt...the Herald is on them like stink on sh!t.