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It's been a bad week for Johnny Law in the 305. The day after the FBI accused a Miami Dade Police officer of getting his rocks off by pulling over women and asking about their underwear and their breasts, a Miami Beach officer is under arrest this morning on eight felony counts including fraud and racketeering.
Officer George Navarro Jr. let his meth-dealing roommate drive his police cruiser and personally helped a white collar crime ring lease cars and buy vehicles with fake titles, police say.
Navarro, a 26-year-old with six years experience on the force, helped the white collar ring net nearly half a million dollars through various schemes, prosecutors say.
The cop's attorney complains to the Miami Herald this morning that prosecutors are aggressively attacking Navarro because he's a police officer.
"He wasn't at the center of core of this ring," Michael Band tells the Herald. "But because he's a police officer they threw everything they could against the guy."
Whether he's a major player or not, the charges against Navarro are eye-opening. Amazingly, the break in the case against him came from the same arrest that led to charges against David Britto -- the former Boynton Beach cop who fled to Brazil last year after being charged with drug crimes.
In that arrest, in March 2011, the DEA caught two men in a Mercedes Benz with a semi-automatic handgun, 500 grams of meth and more than $10,000 in cash.
One of the men, Marlon Mayoli, lived with Navarro and told police that he routinely used the cop's police car to get around.
More at: http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/09/miami_beach_cop_let_his_meth-d.php
Officer George Navarro Jr. let his meth-dealing roommate drive his police cruiser and personally helped a white collar crime ring lease cars and buy vehicles with fake titles, police say.
Navarro, a 26-year-old with six years experience on the force, helped the white collar ring net nearly half a million dollars through various schemes, prosecutors say.
The cop's attorney complains to the Miami Herald this morning that prosecutors are aggressively attacking Navarro because he's a police officer.
"He wasn't at the center of core of this ring," Michael Band tells the Herald. "But because he's a police officer they threw everything they could against the guy."
Whether he's a major player or not, the charges against Navarro are eye-opening. Amazingly, the break in the case against him came from the same arrest that led to charges against David Britto -- the former Boynton Beach cop who fled to Brazil last year after being charged with drug crimes.
In that arrest, in March 2011, the DEA caught two men in a Mercedes Benz with a semi-automatic handgun, 500 grams of meth and more than $10,000 in cash.
One of the men, Marlon Mayoli, lived with Navarro and told police that he routinely used the cop's police car to get around.
More at: http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/09/miami_beach_cop_let_his_meth-d.php
