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Two Biscayne Park cops plead guilty to framing
innocent black teen for burglaries
BY JAY WEAVER
[email protected]
August 03, 2018 12:08 PM
Updated August 03, 2018 04:05 PM
Two former Biscayne Park police officers pleaded guilty Friday to framing an innocent teenager
with a string of home burglaries at the direction of the chief so his department could boast a
perfect property crime-solving record.
The officers, Charlie Dayoub, 38, and Raul Fernandez, 62, admitted they falsified arrest affidavits
for the 16-year-old black suspect for four unsolved break-ins in June 2013, a month before then-
police chief Raimundo Atesiano touted the town’s 100 percent burglary clearance record at a
village commission meeting.
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Atesiano told the two officers that he wanted them to unlawfully arrest T.D., the teen, for the
residential burglaries “knowing that there was no evidence that T.D. had committed the
burglaries,” according to an indictment charging all three former officers. The charges against the
teen were eventually dropped after the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office noticed the four arrest
affidavits, written by Fernandez and signed by Dayoub, all used similar vague language — that the
“investigation revealed” T.D. employed the same “M.O.” and the homes had a “rear door pried
open.”
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Former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano
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Dayoub and Fernandez face up to one year in prison for violating T.D.’s civil rights, but they could
receive less time at their sentencing hearing on Oct. 10 before U.S. District Judge K. Michael
Moore if they provide “substantial assistance” in their cooperation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
As part of their plea agreements, a civil rights conspiracy charge that carries up to 10 years in
prison will be dismissed.
After Friday’s plea hearing, defense attorneys Ana Davide and David Sobel, representing Dayoub
and Fernandez, respectively, said their clients made a “terrible mistake” amid a “culture of fear”
fostered by their former boss, Atesiano.
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Atesiano, who resigned as the small suburban town’s poli.
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SOUTH FLORIDA
Two Biscayne Park cops plead guilty to framing
innocent black teen for burglaries
BY JAY WEAVER
[email protected]
August 03, 2018 12:08 PM
Updated August 03, 2018 04:05 PM
Two former Biscayne Park police officers pleaded guilty Friday
to framing an innocent teenager
with a string of home burglaries at the direction of the chief so
his department could boast a
perfect property crime-solving record.
The officers, Charlie Dayoub, 38, and Raul Fernandez, 62, admi
tted they falsified arrest affidavits
for the 16-year-old black suspect for four unsolved break-
ins in June 2013, a month before then-
police chief Raimundo Atesiano touted the town’s 100 percent b
urglary clearance record at a
village commission meeting.
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Atesiano told the two officers that he wanted them to unlawfull
y arrest T.D., the teen, for the
residential burglaries “knowing that there was no evidence that
T.D. had committed the
burglaries,” according to an indictment charging all three forme
r officers. The charges against the
teen were eventually dropped after the Miami-
Dade State Attorney’s Office noticed the four arrest
affidavits, written by Fernandez and signed by Dayoub, all used
similar vague language — that the
“investigation revealed” T.D. employed the same “M.O.” and th
e homes had a “rear door pried
open.”
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3. Former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano
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Dayoub and Fernandez face up to one year in prison for violatin
g T.D.’s civil rights, but they could
receive less time at their sentencing hearing on Oct. 10 before U
.S. District Judge K. Michael
Moore if they provide “substantial assistance” in their cooperati
on with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
As part of their plea agreements, a civil rights conspiracy charg
e that carries up to 10 years in
prison will be dismissed.
After Friday’s plea hearing, defense attorneys Ana Davide and
David Sobel, representing Dayoub
and Fernandez, respectively, said their clients made a “terrible
mistake” amid a “culture of fear”
fostered by their former boss, Atesiano.
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Atesiano, who resigned as the small suburban town’s police chie
f in 2014, remains the only officer
implicated in the false-
arrest case to face trial on civil rights conspiracy and related ch
arges. Last
week, a third officer admitted falsifying arrest warrants for two
4. men at the direction of the chief.
Those men, both in their 30s at the time, were also black.
Guillermo Ravelo, who was fired from the force earlier this year
, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy
charge that he violated the rights of the falsely accused men —
one charged with a pair of home
break-
ins in 2013, the other with five vehicle burglaries the following
year. Ravelo, 37, also
pleaded guilty to using excessive force during a Biscayne Park t
raffic stop in 2013 when he struck
a handcuffed suspect in the face with his fist.
The admissions of the three Biscayne Park officers to the false p
olice arrests intensify the spotlight
on Atesiano. The 52-year-
old former chief was indicted in June along with Dayoub and
Fernandez, on a conspiracy and related charge of pinning four u
nsolved home burglaries on the
teen so the chief could claim a perfect clearance rate on propert
y crimes in 2013, federal
prosecutors said.
The town reported clearing 29 of 30 burglary cases during Atesi
ano’s tenure as chief in 2013 and
2014. But now that seemingly outstanding record has been refut
ed by the fact that at least 11 of
those cases were based on false arrest reports, according to fede
ral authorities.
Dayoub, Fernandez and Ravelo are all cooperating with the FBI
and U.S. Attorney’s Office in the
case against Atesiano.
Atesiano has strongly denied the allegations and pleaded not gui
5. lty as he awaits trial. His defense
attorney, Richard Docobo, questioned the integrity of the cops
who have flipped for the feds to
reduce their potential prison time.
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Biscayne Park’s new police chief and village manager insist the
y have overhauled the small
department in the years since Atesiano resigned amid an investi
gation of allegations of racial
profiling and other issues.
In the aftermath of Atesiano’s indictment in June, the Miami He
rald obtained internal public
records suggesting that during his tenure as chief, the command
staff pressured some Biscayne
Park officers into targeting random black people to clear cases.
“If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved y
et, if you see anybody black
walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record
, arrest them so we can pin them
for all the burglaries,” one cop said in an internal probe ordered
in 2014. “They were basically
doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city.”
6. In a report from that probe, four officers —
a third of the small force — told an outside
investigator they were under marching orders to file the bogus c
harges to improve the
department’s crime stats. While only one officer specifically me
ntioned targeting blacks, former
Biscayne Park village manager Heidi Shafran, who ordered the i
nvestigation after receiving a
string of letters from disgruntled officers, said the message see
med clear for cops on the street.
In the continuing fallout from the scandal, Miami-
Dade prosecutors said they will review old
criminal arrests in Biscayne Park during Atesiano’s tenure in 20
13-2014. The state’s review of the
other cases will be done to determine if anyone was wrongfully
convicted.
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