WTF is going on in South Miami!?

Honestly, what the fcuk!?  We were first introduced to the wonderful City of South Miami earlier this year when the city's police chief's wife railroaded three employees of her tag agency accusing them of stealing tens of thousands of dollars.  Later on we find that the city's police chief, Orlando Martinez de Castro, was illegally sending his wife's tag agency city tag work which is clearly against the city's own ethics code.  In the mean time, we've heard all sorts of stories and rumors about the inner workings of the city and it's police force, ultimately ending with city commissioner Valerie Newman calling me a "scumbag".  No worries though.

Warren Papove

Over the last few weeks, there's been something fishy going on down at the City of South Miami, what outwardly seems like a quiet little burb seems to actually be quite the opposite.  There's been some noise about a fella named Warren Papove getting arrested apparently for doing work without a permit on someone's home, after Mr. Papove was taken into custody, he was somehow transferred into the custody of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and now seems to be headed towards being deported.  This whole incident stems from an alleged code enforcement violation, the narrative of case 12-02489 starts, 

"An anonymous passerby, observed Papove working in a yard at the intersection of SW 74 St and SW 63 Av and became concerned that he was there working without a permit. Code enforcement officer Struder D. Responded to the scene in order to conduct an investigation........"

No kidding?  This concerned passerby calls code enforcement on some poor schlep, officer Struder shows up then next thing Mr. Papove knows, he's being deported?  This would be all well and good if the property owner where the alleged "work without a permit" was being done didn't do a little digging only to discover that...

There is NO record in code enforcement about ANY complaint of working without a permit for my address or any address in the vicinity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF?!  The details at this point are a bit sketchy, but from what I'm told this is some sort of political payback by the powers that be in South Miami.  I'll see what I can find out over the weekend, apparently we're already familiar with some of the players in this story.