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\n\u2018LIKE A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE\u2019 — Longtime resident Deborah Centeno, who lost two bids for the City Commission in recent years, said the FBI has put a long-needed spotlight on a nepotism-riddled political system that has benefited the former mayor, his family and his friends \u2014 not the taxpayers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a like a criminal enterprise,\u201d Centeno said. \u201cBut now Sweetwater is getting a very aggressive treatment to get rid of that cancer of corruption. And that\u2019s very positive for my city.\u201d
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SWEETWATER<\/p>\n

BY JAY WEAVER, BRENDA MEDINA AND MELISSA SANCHEZ
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Until federal agents began swarming over the city the past several months, Sweetwater seemed as nondescript as its City Hall \u2014 a three-story concrete box surrounded by working-class homes and an auto repair shop, tamale stand and passport office down the street.<\/p>\n

Now, the tiny West Miami-Dade city is quickly becoming famous for something other than its perennial flooding problems and the quirky fact that it was founded by Russian circus midgets.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s disgraced mayor and a lobbyist crony \u2014 both convicted last month in federal court \u2014 admitted pocketing ,000 in kickbacks after getting nailed in an FBI sting operation. But the bust only scratched the surface of a culture of corruption that has infested City Hall, which is shared by Sweetwater officials and the police department.<\/p>\n

Federal agents are trying to unravel the tangled tentacles of ex-Mayor Manny Maro\u00f1o\u2019s association with a towing company, in which he has been a suspected silent partner. The city\u2019s no-bid, verbal agreement with Southland The Towing Company, which state records show the mayor once owned, filled police coffers with wads of cash from fines \u2014 funds controlled by the recently resigned police chief, a Maro\u00f1o ally. Some of that cash, deposited into a postal-type box inside the police department, was found to be missing.<\/p>\n

The arrangement also gave Sweetwater and the towing company the opportunity to sell dozens of seized cars at auction. And it gave some police officers the chance to take joy rides in luxury vehicles, including an ultra-sleek Porsche Panamera.<\/p>\n

El Nuevo Herald\/The Miami Herald, along with CBS4, also found:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Thousands of dollars in cash are missing from the official police evidence room. The resulting probe has uncovered a second evidence room, this one a secret, in an off-site warehouse filled with confiscated knock-off designer bags and clothes, along with machines for detecting fake currency.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Police hiring is under question, with the city having employed at least a dozen officers who left other law enforcement agencies under some sort of cloud. The department\u2019s highest-ranking civilian, a former Miami-Dade County cop, was a convicted drug smuggler who spent eight years in prison. He was recently jettisoned in a restructuring.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Three Sweetwater officers are under criminal investigation, suspected of beating up suspects, stealing their property and falsifying records. One of those officers has already been indicted on separate charges of committing credit-card fraud.<\/p>\n

And then there is Maverick, a handsome black Percheron horse purchased with ,000 in city funds for a mounted patrol at the Dolphin Mall. The horse instead wound up at the Homestead ranch of a former Sweetwater police lieutenant.<\/p>\n

\u2018LIKE A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE\u2019<\/p>\n

Longtime resident Deborah Centeno, who lost two bids for the City Commission in recent years, said the FBI has put a long-needed spotlight on a nepotism-riddled political system that has benefited the former mayor, his family and his friends \u2014 not the taxpayers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a like a criminal enterprise,\u201d Centeno said. \u201cBut now Sweetwater is getting a very aggressive treatment to get rid of that cancer of corruption. And that\u2019s very positive for my city.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the near future, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office is expected to charge the three police officers. But the towing investigation, which focuses on possible kickbacks to city officials and police officers in an alleged extortion racket, could lead to other arrests down the road.
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The former mayor and his defense lawyers, Armando Rosquete and Kendall Coffey, declined to comment about the feds\u2019 probe of Maro\u00f1o\u2019s interest in a handful of companies, including Southland The Towing Company and Southeast Towing, Inc. His recent guilty plea to the kickback charge in an agreement with the U.S. attorney\u2019s office does not protect him from potential criminal liability in the towing probe.<\/p>\n

Maro\u00f1o claims he got out of the towing business in 2009, but legal records and sources familiar with the former mayor\u2019s companies say he is a silent investor with \u201cfront men\u201d representing his interests.<\/p>\n

In the towing probe, Maro\u00f1o chose not to cooperate with the FBI and prosecutors. The possible reason: He did not want to implicate family members and friends who have been involved in his business and political dealings while he served as mayor from 2003 until his removal from office in August.<\/p>\n

Among those close to Maro\u00f1o: Southland\u2019s current owner, Robert Muriedas; Southland\u2019s former owner, Peter Hernandez; former Southland employee Jose Guerra, a Sweetwater commissioner; and the city\u2019s attorney, Ralph Ventura, who has also represented Southland. And then, of course, there are the ex-mayor\u2019s relatives: his mother, Isolina Maro\u00f1o, also a city commissioner; his uncle, Antero Espinosa, who recently resigned as the city\u2019s director of maintenance; and Maro\u00f1o\u2019s wife, Jenny Munoz-Maro\u00f1o, who works as the city\u2019s coordinator of special projects. The couple, who had been divorced, remarried after his arrest in August.<\/p>\n

The scope of the towing probe is significant if a recently filed class-action case against the city is any indication. The suit, filed in Miami federal court, claims that Sweetwater police and officials violated the constitutional rights of more than 100 people whose vehicles were seized, towed and auctioned after the motorists were unlawfully detained on trumped-up charges, such as shoplifting, and required to pay a 0 fine to the city.<\/p>\n

The plaintiff\u2019s lawyer, Rick Diaz, said the Sweetwater cops mostly targeted drivers whose cars were fully paid off so there would be no hassle clearing titles before Southland and the city sold off the confiscated vehicles.<\/p>\n

The city is seeking to dismiss the case. Since the mayor\u2019s kickback scandal rocked City Hall, Sweetwater has lowered the towing fine to 0.<\/p>\n

FAST-GROWING CITY<\/p>\n

Before all these setbacks, Sweetwater was gaining a reputation as one of Florida\u2019s fastest-growing cities, with about 21,000 people, most of Cuban, Nicaraguan and other Latin origins. The blue-collar city\u2019s biggest coup was the annexation of the area around the Dolphin Mall, a tax-generating shopping mecca known for its name-brand discount stores.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s neighbors \u2014 Florida International University to the south and Doral to the north \u2014 were rapidly expanding, too.<\/p>\n

But Sweetwater\u2019s image would change for the worse on the morning of Aug. 6. FBI agents swooped in on the city in the final stages of a sting operation targeting Mayor Maro\u00f1o and his close friend, lobbyist Jorge Forte.<\/p>\n

When agents first approached Forte, who had once served as the mayor\u2019s chief of staff, he admitted that he and Maro\u00f1o were splitting thousands of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for official favors.
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Forte quickly agreed to cooperate in the FBI\u2019s undercover operation and arranged to meet the mayor in the lobbyist\u2019s car outside City Hall. Forte, wearing a recording device, handed Maro\u00f1o ,000 in cash \u2014 a bribe from a fictitious Chicago company that was a means to lure both men into a bogus federal-grant scheme.<\/p>\n

Forte\u2019s flipping on his friend was revealed for the first time in mid-November, when the former political allies and business partners pleaded guilty to a corruption conspiracy charge in Fort Lauderdale federal court. The honest-services fraud charge accused them of illegally splitting ,000 in cash and checks for official favors, and concealing those payments from the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did this for personal benefit,\u201d Maro\u00f1o told U.S. District Judge William Zloch. Outside the courthouse, the former mayor apologized to his city and thanked his supporters. \u201cI made a mistake and I\u2019m here to accept responsibility and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city is not defined by one person,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Maro\u00f1o, 42, faces at least three years in prison at a Jan. 23 sentencing hearing. Forte, 41, is likely to receive a much lower sentence because he was not a public official and, more significantly, he helped the feds seal their case against the now-suspended Sweetwater mayor. Maro\u00f1o was replaced by the vice mayor, and the next municipal election is in 2015.<\/p>\n

TROUBLED POLICE DEPARTMENT<\/p>\n

City Hall wasn\u2019t Sweetwater\u2019s only problem. The police department, with 39 full-time officers, was reeling from mismanagement, bad hires and shenanigans.<\/p>\n

Just weeks after the August takedown of the mayor and his colleague, the FBI arrested a Sweetwater police detective on charges of credit-card fraud and identity theft. Officer William Garcia, suspended without pay, was accused of using phony credit cards at Miami Beach, Key Largo and other South Florida establishments, and stealing other people\u2019s card numbers.<\/p>\n

Then, out of the blue, the Sweetwater Police Department relieved two other officers of duty: Detective Octavio Oliu and acting Sgt. Reny Garcia, both now under federal investigation.<\/p>\n

Oliu, who had been forced to resign from his previous job as a Miami-Dade County officer in 2007, was hired by the Sweetwater Police Department in 2010. Garcia joined the force in 2006.<\/p>\n

Also relieved of duty: Richard Brenner, a civilian employee who worked as a red-light camera monitor and was a member of the department\u2019s police auxiliary since 2011. According to sources, Brenner was suspended because he was working as a Sweetwater police officer, including making arrests, without being a sworn member of the department.<\/p>\n

FBI anti-corruption agents have been building a broader case around the three officers, including gathering computer and other records from the police department and questioning local officials, according to sources.<\/p>\n

The crackdown has people saying that \u201cDirtywater\u201d might be a more apt name for the city, though longtime Sweetwater officials take umbrage with that characterization.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m concerned about is the residents of Sweetwater,\u201d said former Sweetwater mayor and current Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jose \u201cPepe\u201d Diaz, who declined to talk about his problematic prot\u00e9g\u00e9, the convicted ex-mayor, or the city\u2019s embattled police department.
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\u201cIt\u2019s a small town. I want it to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

BETTER FUTURE?<\/p>\n

The current mayor, Jose M. Diaz, the former vice mayor who is no relation to the county commissioner, shared the same sentiment: \u201cI encourage the people of Sweetwater to be hopeful and faithful in the new administration, because we are going to fix things.\u201d<\/p>\n

That may take a while.<\/p>\n

Longtime Chief Roberto Fulgueira, who was pals with Maro\u00f1o, retired in late October amid the controversy engulfing his department, including his giving the no-bid towing contract to one of the ex-mayor\u2019s former business partners. Money was also missing from the police evidence room.<\/p>\n

In early October, Fulgueira asked a deputy chief to open a probe.<\/p>\n

By the end of the month, city officials announced that thousands of dollars in cash were indeed missing from the police evidence room.<\/p>\n

They also said money was missing from a separate collection of cash fines \u2014 at 0 a pop \u2014 paid by people who wanted to recover their towed vehicles after police arrests.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I know, it amounts to thousands of dollars,\u201d Diaz, the mayor, said at a news conference in late October.<\/p>\n

Diaz said the missing money from the evidence room had been seized during arrests.<\/p>\n

The man in charge of supervising the evidence room at the time was Catalino Rodriguez, a longtime Sweetwater officer who resigned on Oct. 7, the same night he was named a city commissioner in the shake-up after the mayor\u2019s removal from office.<\/p>\n

He denied taking any money. \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about that,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cMy conscience is clean.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years, the former police chief, Fulgueira, was responsible for reviewing the receipts and counting the money from the towing fees. Individual cash payments were wrapped in a copy of each invoice and deposited in the faux postal box located inside the police department.<\/p>\n

Two people had keys to the box: Fulgueira and Rodriguez. According to Rodriguez, Fulgueira was the main person who would process the three to four payments of fines made on a weekly basis. After counting the money, he said, Fulgueira would hand the cash and invoices to the deputy chief, Roberto Ochoa, who would then deposit the money with the city\u2019s finance department.<\/p>\n

Fulgueira, who served on the Sweetwater police force for 32 years before resigning last month, did not returns calls for comment.<\/p>\n

Publicly, the former chief said he wanted to leave for personal reasons, citing his ailing mother. But his exit could not have come at a more troubling time for Sweetwater.
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