There's been plenty of rumors leading up to the deadline given to embattled City of South Miami Police Chief Orlando Martinez de Castro to accept a plea in his ethics case that's before the Miami Dade county ethics commission. We've heard all sorts of stories ranging from the ethics commission dropping the charges or even having the chief admit no guilt and pay a fine. To say those rumors were disheartening would be an understatement, if indeed any of those rumors were true, it would just feed into the overall belief that the Ethics Commission is nothing but a paper tiger that was solely in existence to give free passes to those who are politically connected in our town.
With that said, I reached out to my source at the ethics commission to see what was going on since the deadline that we were told for the plea offer, May 22, had come and gone and to see if this rumor about the chief dispensing of the case with a simple fine and no admission of guilt was true. The response I got regarding the rumors was short and sweet, THEY ARE FALSE and it appears that the ethics case is going to trail!
It looks like it's going to be an interesting next few months as the ethics commission moves forward with it's case against the chief. Till then, next week we'll pick up where we left off with our first amendment rights being trampled on by the state attorneys office and we'll deal with a public information request from the City of South Miami regarding the federal NCIC database.
Poor Mikey...You didn't get your wish :( Another Christmas Day with nothing under your Tree..Boo Hoo Hoo. Now your going to torment us with your Journalism Expertise (sic)for the next few weeks until, during, and after the Trial...Bwahaha
ReplyDeleteAnybody want roasted Vermin for their Christmas dinner? We have a short, well-marbled one here with something brown in its mouth (let's pretend it's a potato). No? Even the K9 says he would prefer a veggie burger or a soggy tennis ball with bacon grease. Oh well.
DeleteCuban American officials found guilty should be incarcerated iat Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp.
ReplyDeleteAgree as long as Italians American,Irish American,Japanese American,Black American officials and so on are send back to there original countries prison camps.
DeleteMike, there are legions of us out here who are silently cheering you on, and not just in South Miami. These LEOs who think they can run roughshod over our rights are out of control and I bow down to your spirit of justice and marvel at the balls on 'ya for taking on these clowns.
ReplyDeleteNot just in SM.....
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Why do you only target negatives on the city of south Miami? Maybe if you would target other cities and actually know about real problems, you might have a good blog. Therefore your news suck. I can get better news on telemundo or channel 7.
ReplyDeleteIF NOT GOOD FOR YOU, WHY YOU READ?
DeleteBecause there is so much negativity in the city, you think?
DeleteQuestion for the original author, why do you keep you head in the sky and out of touch with reality? Way up in lala land?
Anon 8:05PM is the reason South Florida is number one from the bottom on almost every list and ranking. Ignorant, complacent with no sense of history and a very short attention span, an MSM zombie, who probably votes only on ethnic lines, perfect voter in a Banana Republic.
ReplyDeleteRace to the bottom Go SM!
ReplyDeleteNegativety in SM is only in the 10% of the Registerd voters the rest of the 90% of SM voters do not vote
so Well you know.