Miami Police Corruption Trial That's Centering On An Iraq War Vet Is Better Than TV

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http://www.businessinsider.com/raul-iglesias-suberto-hernandez-luis-valdes-miami-police-corruption-trial-2013-1

A pair of veteran Miami narcotics detectives testified in federal court Friday against their former supervisor, accusing Sgt. Raul Iglesias of scheming to plant cocaine on a suspect and once carrying what appeared to be a bag of crack in his personal bag.

Detectives Suberto Hernandez and Luis Valdes told jurors that Iglesias asked the pair if they had any "throw-down dope" to plant on a drug suspect after a search of the man during a Jan. 27, 2010, surveillance operation turned up no drugs.

"He looked at myself and Hernandez and he asked for throw-down dope," said Valdes, an officer for nearly nine years. "I said, 'We don't do that here. Nobody on this team does it.' "

Iglesias, 40, is on trial facing nine counts of conspiracy to possess cocaine, violating suspects' civil rights, obstruction of justice and making false statements. The charges stem from what federal prosecutors have described as four separate incidents of misconduct over a four-month period in 2010, when Iglesias led a team in the police department's Crime Suppression Unit, which targets street-level drug sales.


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