Miamis finest!! A Miami-Dade County narcotics detective passed along sensitive police intelligence to a violent gang of marijuana smugglers, allowing them to avoid arrest and even to target their rivals, federal authorities said Thursday. The detective, Roderick Silva, was arrested after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges that he worked for the lucrative grow-house operation. Silva’s arrest was not a surprise — he had been on paid administrative leave since the summer of 2009, when the investigation began. But allegations of the extent of his work for drug dealers turned into another embarrassing blow to the county’s largest police department. In April, a Miami-Dade Police Department internal affairs lieutenant, Ralph Mata, was arrested by the feds, accused of acting as a henchman for cocaine smugglers in an unrelated case. He is awaiting trial in New Jersey. Read more here: miamiherald/2014/07/31/4265271/miami-dade-cop-arrested-accused.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:38:06 +0000
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