Officer gets arrested

Unregistered · 10-30-2020, 07:54 PM

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On social media, Miami Dade cops Roderick Flowers and Keith Edwards cleaned their badges, put on thick gold jewelry and smoked cigars.
They also liked Bad Boys, the Miami police action film franchise. Flowers even used the name "Mike Lowrey," the character of actor Will Smith, on Instagram. Around last Halloween, Edwards posted a photo of the two of them dressed like the fictional detectives with the caption, “We're going together. We die together. Bad Boys 4 Life. "
Federal authorities say they could go to jail together now.
Flowers and Edwards are due to appear in federal court Friday, the day after authorities arrested the two on charges that they agreed to act as a muscle for an undercover agent-set up cocaine trafficking operation. Also charged: A Miami money laundering suspect named Manuel Carlos Hernandez, who boasted of flowers, was on his payroll, according to court records.
According to a criminal complaint, the case was brought with the help of a confidential source impersonating a Mexican cartel member, arranging the international money laundering agreement with Hernandez, and calling in the two police officers to help transport a shipment of “white girls” - code word - for cocaine packages Homestead to Aventura.
"Welcome to the Sinaloa Cartel," the source told officials, who laughed and drove away after the September 16 transportation operation in Miami. The complaint was lifted late Thursday evening.
Flowers and Edwards are charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess cocaine. The cocaine was indeed a fake, and the entire operation was carefully coordinated by agents, according to court records.
The charges were the culmination of a six month investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Hernandez is charged with conspiracy and money laundering. He is charged with another man, Trevanti McLeod, and Durojaiye Obafemi Monsuru Lawal, who, according to court documents, described himself as "involved in money laundering and politically affiliated in Nigeria".
Miami-Dade police officers Keith Edwards (left) and Roderick Flowers, disguised as fictional detectives in the film series "Bad Boys". The photo was posted to Edwards' social media accounts after Halloween 2019.
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Flowers and Edwards were both members of the Miami-Dade Priority Response Team, a unit set up to respond to major incidents after the Parkland School massacre in 2018.
Flowers, 30, came from a law enforcement family. His sister is a police officer in Georgia. His father is Raleigh Flowers, the Bal Harbor police chief and a former high-ranking Hialeah officer.
Edwards is a former soldier and father of three children.
DEA agents and the confidential source first focused on Hernandez, who ran Hernandez Investments in Davie. As the months progressed, Hernandez bragged about the numerous clients he'd laundered money for, his fat bank account, and plans to open a barber shop and car wash to launder dirty money.
During the summer, the source arranged in secret audio and video recordings a series of laundering deals with Hernandez, Lawal and McLeod that involved drug money.
In July, Hernandez told the source that a Russian strip club owner was trying to launder dirty money, the complaint said. He later told the source that "he made some calls to law enforcement agencies" to investigate the Russians and learned that they were informants, the complaint said.
The following month the source asked if Hernandez's secret cop source could keep a license plate for someone who allegedly owed him money. DEA agents later learned that the police officer who ran the day through a law enforcement database was Flowers.
Miami-Dade Police Officer Rod Flowers was arrested by federal agents on October 29, 2020.
Hernandez later told the source that Flowers and an unnamed cop cousin were "on his payroll" acting as "collateral for money laundering activities," the complaint said.
The source met Flowers in Hernandez's office on September 9. The source asked if he was actually a police officer. "Yeah, I don't look like that, do I?" Flowers supposedly answered.
The source eventually offered to rent flowers to protect a shipment of cocaine that was to be transported from a motel in Homestead to a location in Aventura. Flowers eagerly explained his safety skills and even stated that he and Edwards both had SWAT training.
"Flowers showed with his hands that he was trained to shoot in the stomach and chest area," said the complaint. "He stated that if it was a headshot, it would be from the ears near the forehead."
The source paid Flowers $ 5,000 upfront, according to the DEA. Edwards later met the source in person and also boasted of his military-grade security training. He also referred to himself as a "cop's cop", according to the complaint.
The operation contract took place smoothly on September 16. Flowers and Edwards accompanied the transport in separate cars from a hotel in Homestead to one in Aventura, according to DEA.

Unregistered · 10-30-2020, 08:30 PM

Good, two less clowns we (and the public) have to deal with. I hope th SAO makes an example of them. I feel sorry for pops, he is probably a good cop who worked hard his whole life. The chief doesn't deserve this humiliation.

Unregistered · 10-30-2020, 09:35 PM

I have it on good authority that other officers in PRT knew.... but being black + the family and friends departmental immunity... nobody wanted to say anything... we all know if you are a black civilian, you are untouchable by cops, if you are a black cop, then you are untouchable by everyone... local police has become such a joke, leadership more worried about Getting good reviews on google than doing the job that nobody wants to do, fight crime, protect and serve, etc... thank God for the feds ...

Unregistered · 10-30-2020, 10:37 PM

Since when prt ate detectives ? Bunch of sorry asses that think 3 day training is swat training ?

Unregistered · 10-30-2020, 11:47 PM

I find it disheartening as a lateral from another department that background investigators at mdpd half ass with my file with zero IA on file but hire people like this. Really boggles my mind

Unregistered · 10-31-2020, 02:33 AM

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I find it disheartening as a lateral from another department that background investigators at mdpd half ass with my file with zero IA on file but hire people like this. Really boggles my mind

Earned not given brother stay positive

Unregistered · 10-31-2020, 04:32 AM

FOOLS? Not really, these two are no different than the urban hooligans that violently protect and battle for street traps' control. Thank you, DEA for helping MDPD cleanse its ranks.

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/10/3...keith-edwards/