It's official, Orlando Martinez de Castro is no longer the Chief of Police of the City of South Miami.

I heard the news last night just as I was getting out of the the shower after work...

While mainstream media was all over the place in their reporting of the circumstances which brought about the demise of embattled City of South Miami police chief Orlando Martinez de Castro, I thought it best to get something official from the city regarding de Castro's termination.  I reached out to my sources in the police department and got this memorandum that was distributed throughout the city by City Manager Steven Alexander...

  City of South Miami City Manager Steven Alexander Relieves Orlando Martinez de Castro From Duty

WTF!?  This bit is priceless...

These facts made it clear, that in my capacity as City Manager, I had no alternative but to find that I had no Chief of Police in place.

What about that guy down the hall sitting in the chief's office?

With that said, City Manager Alexander appoints Major Rene Landa the interim police chief.  As I'm told, yesterday the chief's photo was taken down from the walls of City Hall and one of our commenters stated that there were a couple of other members of his command staff that were packing their belongings.  I haven't confirmed any of that yet, we'll report back when we do.

That's enough for today.  I know we haven't heard the end of Orlando Martinez de Castro, I'm sure he's gonna be giving us tons of new material to write about over the next several months.  Now we'll turn our energies towards finally blowing what's left of the Airways Auto Tag agency case out of the water.  Till then...