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Subscribe to RSSA Miami Police officer was arrested Wednesday on charges of armed sexual battery by a law enforcement officer and armed kidnapping, authorities said.
Luis Hernandez, 27, a seven-year member of the police department, was arrested by internal affairs detectives after DNA evidence backed up a woman's claims he kidnapped and sexually battered her in November 2011, police said.
"The findings were enough to have a Miami-Dade County judge sign an arrest warrant and charge Officer Luis Hernandez with sexual battery by a law enforcement officer and armed kidnapping," Miami Police spokeswoman Officer Kenia Reyes said.
The charges stem from an early morning alleged attack by Hernandez on Nov. 26, 2011. That day, he was called in to relieve an officer going off-duty by transporting a 44-year-old woman to to the Miami-Dade County Jail. She had just been arrested after an earlier bar fight, police said.
'I'm going to help you'
Hernandez picked up the victim from a colleague at police headquarters just after one o'clock that morning. Soon after, she said, he drove her to a parking lot off the 2500 block of Northwest 2nd Avenue. She recalled that Hernandez told her, "I'm going to help you," police said.
The victim told police internal affairs investigators that Hernandez gave her some gauze and told her to clean up her face. With her shirt torn from the fight hours earlier, she recalled Hernandez poured a liquid onto a scratch on her breast. Then, she said, Hernandez lifted her shirt, and began fondling her.
Police documents note the victim told investigators that Hernandez, dressed in police uniform, removed his duty belt and exposed himself. According to the victim, the officer then told her to "get down," a demand, she believed, for oral sex.
The victim refused, and she claimed Hernandez began fondling her private parts. According to police, she said he then ordered her to turn around, and she begged him to stop.
After the encounter, the victim said she was handed off to a detention officer, but because of her wounds, that officer asked Hernandez to come with him and the victim to jail. While being processed, the victim, who is a Spanish-speaking undocumented immigrant, felt comfortable sharing the story that would launch the investigation, police said.
Within months, DNA evidence linked Hernandez to the crime, they said.
Mayor Tomas Regalado told NBC 6 the investigation and arrest proves the city demands the best of its officers.
"To me, this is not a scandal, this is a clean up of the department," he said.
Hernandez is being held without bond, online Miami-Dade Corrections records said. It was not known if he has an attorney.
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You have to wonder how many other women this guy did this sort of thing to. Women who were afraid to complain.
This type of abuse of police authority is quite common in Mexico. Floridians should get used to it.
Talk about a stupid remark. I guess you believe the officer was also an 'undocumented immigrant?'
WallSt: Why not? Floridians have already gotten used to their patrol officers selling the drugs that were confiscated (and later taken out of the evidence room) from out of their cruiser windows....
Some of the craziest news comes out of Florida. Yet, people still want to retire there. Key Largo is nice. Miami is a traffic-choked disaster. Republicans like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter have homes in southern Florida and the Aryan brothers seem to favor it. It makes you think. I didn't think much of the trendy part of Miami. I had to pay four dollars to get two bottled waters, after looking fruitlessly for public drinking fountains. Sure, their were people with a hundred-dollar sunglasses everywhere, but that meant little to me when I was near dead from thirst.
Retire in Florida? Hells, I'd rather be dragged back to Barbados in irons than even entertain a thought of retiring in Florida! I don't know WHY people would want to live in Florida, especially if their neighbours are any of the kind that Roosterboy mentioned!
Give him a fair trial and hang em.
SCUBA ....... I think the point of O'synn made is that when you import massive numbers of ignorant unscreened 3rd world excess populations without time or requirement for assimilation all you end up with is a recreation of the 3rd world quality of life for everyone. The officer himself could not be an illegal alien but odds are he was either an anchor baby or one of the Cuban prisoners(or son of) the Cuban government sent to Florida. The female is a self declared illegal alien from either S. America or Cuba as well. Either way the nation loses and yes this kind of crime is business as usual in both regions.
biggest badest gang going
WallStFatCat
You're anthing but, you ignorant POS. Most Hispanics in Fl are NOT from Mexico
We have an expanding police state...get used to more abuses of power.
BOB ..... because the largest illegal alien problem group at this time is from Mexico its pretty common to just use "Mexican" in a generic sense to mean any illegal alien from a hispanic culture. Kind of like using "arab" for any islamic individual from the mideast. Or "european" used to mean any anglo appearing citizen. In a general sense the minor differences of place of origin are irrelevent.
This story confirms my thoughts that "Some people just shouldn't have a badge"!!!
Paid by illegal gang members ---crooked cop infiltrated the police department.Why make it easier for these gangs to take over town by town with thier planted crooked police.who are at training bases in Cuba and Mexico
WALL ....... Gee and here I always thought a government position in a police force required citizenship. As for the gang thing..... the fact that the largest problem group at this time are hispanic differs from past problem groups from Italy or Ireland or Russia for example how?
Ho Hum..........just another day with South Florida's finest, This type of crap goes on every day down in the S. Florida area. Just google it and you will find HUNDREDS of times the local cops have done stupid sh*t like this. If you live in the Miami area, you better learn to live with it, cause it is deeply engrained in the local PD's and isn't going to change anytine soon. This area is also the FRAUD capital of virtually every kind of crime in the United States, medicare, mortgage, tax returns, pill mills etc. Hey, at least we can claim we are #1 at SOMETHING!
All I know when it comes to the Police is.That when I was a kid my father said they are he to help you....In my 50 years have found out he was wrong.....
We need new paradigms about Life and God, I keep saying. As long as we continue to believe that Gods live outside of us, and if we stumble into places of worship sometimes, and show fellow men that We Believe as they do, then we will continue to dishonor the common God that everyone must share; if there's such a thing as a God.
To understand that we're all already eternal, therefore what we do to another we're creating to receive at some point in our eternal journey, would bring about Peace On Earth rapidly, or at least greatly reduce the evils so many so easily do to each other each day. The Criminal Justice System should be called the Criminal Injustice System, because it is full of sadistic psychopaths, and sociopaths from top to bottom, in the middle and all around.
Take away our guns and this will be a daily occurance....bad enough already....
"the victim, who is a Spanish-speaking undocumented immigrant"
So...what you're saying, msnbc, is that she is an illegal alien; a felon? Does that about cover it?
Well guess what, if she hadn't committed a felony by crossing our border illegally, she wouldn't have been in the back of that police car in the first place, and one of her "own" wouldn't have been able to take advantage of the situation, huh?
So sad too bad. Don't go away mad, just go away . . . all the way back to Mexico.
Death Penalty, please.
I have said it before and I'll say it again.
I wish the Schizophrenic Liberals would makeup my mind.
"Guns are dangerous and only the Government (police) should have guns."
"The Police are dangerous and need to be guarded against getting too much power."
Well, just exactly how are we going to guard against a Dangerous Police force if we are disarmed, and they eventually outgrow civilian authority to control them?
Liberalism has to be the result of brain damage. Talk about the disability to foresee probable outcomes for certain actions.
Ok, so this drunk woman should have had a gun? Who has brain damage?
Again, Death Penalty. The Police Officer should pay the ultimate price.
Death penalty? Really? You guys are just as sick as the cop.
These make the perfect targets because they are the MOST likely to not file complaints.
Awesome that this victim did though!
Agreed: kudos that she had the bottle to come forward with what happened to her. I wonder how many unknown prior incidences this officer created that have gone undetected because the women were afraid to say something about it...
Perhaps he thought she was drunk and wouldn't remember? Either way, he'll be seeing the opposite side of the bars that he shouldn't be going to.
Too bad she didn't have a gun eh comrade? Oh, that's right only trained law officers and state officials should have them.
Way to go stoner: did you read that she was already in detention by another knight in shining armour before being handed over and transported by her attacker? Ergo, even IF she HAD a firearm, no cop is going to put you in the back of a patrol car without confiscating it (unless he's stupid, not that it hasn't happened and usually with deadly consequences to the cop). So unless she steals the cops' firearm, just WHERE would she have gotten one from, smartguy?
Obviously you need a few more hits from that stonepipe because as it stands you aren't making any sense.
"Awesome that this victim did though!"
Yes iit is. Now in a rational world the officer goes to jail and the female gets deported.
Alex do you know how many people in cuffs after being arreseted and searched have been claimed they commited suicide with a gun with the cuffs on
WONDER ..... and that increases the odds of the illegal alien female having a firearm in this scenerio how?
Yes I did Alex, I just don't like the avatar or his self righteous attitude. Oh, I almost forgot. Blow me.
Cops are worse than most of the criminals in this country.
.....right behind the politicians, eh?
Alex that is a toss up! Who is worst Cops or Politicians.
Since there are a few good cops but NO GOOD politicians it is hard to say...
AKRandy: Politicians are definitley worse - just consider:
Cops can be corrupt criminals and break the very laws that they are there to enforce: normally they do get caught and when they are they are normally prosecuted.
Politicians CREATE the laws that the cops enforce (or break) and some of those laws do nothing but lawfully enable large corporations (banks, big oil, etc) to screw the average citizen through a variety of loopholes or "incomplete" laws that have negative consequences that "weren't intended". On top of that, normally politicians AREN'T caught because the house and the senate in the US rarely police their own. Unless they are outed by a third party and the media gets wind of it, you never hear about their abuses.
SO, according to my father's logic the bad politician will always top a bad cop any day of week. If this doesn't make sense then have a few pints and then read it again...
ALEX ..... "I have said I do not dread industrial corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them; but there is a corporation we may all dread. That corporation is the federal government. From the aggressions of this corporation, there can be no safety, if it is allowed to go beyond the well defined limits of its powers. I dread nothing so much as the exercise of ungranted and doubtful powers by the government. It is, in my opinion, the danger of dangers to the future of this country. Let us be sure to keep it always within its limits. If this great, ambitious, ever growing corporation becomes oppressive, who shall check it? If it becomes too wayward who shall control it? If it becomes unjust, who shall trust it? As sentinels of the country’s watchtower, Senators, I beseech you to watch and guard with sleepless dread, that corporation which can make all property and rights, all states and people, all liberty and hope its plaything in an hour, and its victims forever." Benjamin Hill
Unfortunately todays "progressive" agenda and the welfare state (despite its historic failure) and the social engineering of the last 2 generations has destroyed any hope for the future in this Republic.
Let's not forget politicians and lawyers. I had a male friend in Miami that had a unbelievable experience by cops while being transferred from one hospital to another. You wouldn't believe me if I told you the story. It was worse than you would expect from a third-world country.
Meh, these cops are in the minority. You just hear about the bad things more than the good. To think that most cops are like this and there are only a few good ones is ignorant. You won't often hear about the one who saves someone from a burning building in the national news, but the one that does something bad will surely get coverage.
At least this dispels the notion that cops get away with stuff, more times than not it seems cops are getting prosecuted when they break the law.
Maybe in your part of town, but not in Miami, land of the corrupt, power-hungry cops. The good cops are the ones in the minority here.
This guy sounds like a real winner... NOT. He is not only a rapist, but also an idiot. How did he think he wouldnt be caught??
They need to make an example of this one.
Perhaps it was the whole 'communication' thing. Maybe if he told her he was going to 'help himself' instead of help her, she wouldn't of gotten so offended.... gee, I don't know...
They had BETTER make an example of him, after BEATING him with the book...
think he is the only one doing it
Probably because he knew she was illegal and if she came forward, she would risk deportation, that is probably why he thought she'd keep his crimes quiet.
Caught !! OOoopss !!!
Just another fine example of people that are hired into governmental positions of power. People wonder why we the people don't and won't give up our second amendment rights!
And just how would the 2nd amendment have changed the outcome of an illegal alien arrested in a bar fight being raped by an anchor baby in uniform?
Dennis, the point was as a whole. We're suppose to give up our guns because cops can protect us. This story shows that sometimes we need protection from the police themselves. A gun wouldnt have helped her in this situation, but it shows that we cant depend on police for our security.
On the West coast the individuals involved would have a common story: The officer would be the anchor baby for his parents, an affirmative action educated and hire to fill the government quota despite mediocre grades and marginal qualifications, marginal performance on the job but kept as the token cop given "make work" around the station like transporting prisoners. The female as an illegal alien needs no explanation. What it boils down to is neither the officer or the female would be in the country if a real "immigration" policy was in effect: The parents of the officer would have been deported and he would not be here and the female would either have been stopped at the border or transported to federal agency for immediate deportation when arrested. Now the officer will end up in jail, the female won the lottery in that bar fight(?)and because of the crime gets all her documents in order.
On the East coast its a bit more complicated with the cuban policy and the policy of the government there to empty its jails by sending prisoners to Florida.
Blah ! Blah! Blah!
There is corruption in every single part of this Country.
East Coast ! West Coast !! What a complete fool you are.
This also has nothing to do with immigration. This is about a bad cop using his authority to commit a crime. It happens in every state in the U.S. The only time it is found out is when someone has the guts to come forward. They started putting cameras in Police cars just because of cases like this.
There is good cops and bad cops. Good politicians and bad politicians. Good corporations and bad corporations. Good and Evil has been around forever and it will always be around.
That has nothing to do with religon . It is a fact of life.
Hes paid off by the Illegal drug cartells and a human smugler---
JOHN .... aw you just got to love the simple mind. Not to sure where religion came into the picture BUT ....
1) Good politicians are never allowed in influential positions by the Party, they dont place the Party Agenda before the good of the Republic so are not trusted by the Party.
2) The scenerios just illustrate how the chain of events were made possible through lack of rational border security and lack of immigration law enforcement. Rational enforcement and neither party would be in the U.S. to begin with.
3) West/East coast has different problem groups and, though the outcome is not effected, have different origin cause, nothing more than that.
4) Corruption is not the issue, corruption is just the symptom, degraded society is the ROOT problem. This situation is just the result of a chain of circumstances traced back that root.
I'm just glad the officer understands the meaning of "get down", it should eliminate any awkward moments in prison.
These pigs are out of control.
she's illegal...send her back...he's from somewhere and a bad cop....send him back after the other inmates have there way with him...another reason to avoid florida
To be an officer of the law you have to assume it is by right of the 14th amendment or naturalization therefore a legal citizen and deportation is not an option. Yes he is a bad cop ... probably an affirmative action hire based on meeting a quota despite mediocre qualification and ability, that is not known for sure just an assumption based on what is usually the case. Yes the illegal alien female should be deported, if the cop is indeed an anchor baby then his parents are the ones who could/should be deported by law.
Mike we should send back the sorry lot called your ancestors, to whatever POS country they came from. BTW, the cop is probably related to Marco Rubio, God knows there are some seedy relative in than clan.
They rally round your family.... with a pocket full of shells...
Every day, we read about these rogue cops. Who does the pre employment screening for these criminals? The frequency of incidents tells me that either the NRA is doing it, or there's too much nepotism or under the table payola. The sad part is that in many cases, including unjustified killings of civilians, they walk away like nothing happened, nothing was lost...
These cops are some of the reasons that the NRA is against gun control. Is it possible to be as ignorant and hypocritical as you appear to be. Given the picture you use, Im going to go with yes.
Any mass shootings today? Hell, it's too early for the lazy white trash to be out there. They boozed it up last night while listening to country music. They got their food stamps yesterday and the welfare check tomorrow.
Like porch monkey's don't carry guns, rob, rape and kill people, collect welfare and food stamps and section eight. Talk about a dredge on society.
Are you really dumb as you sound? Why are you not up in arms over gang violence from the drug trade? Gangsta crap glorifying violence and worshiping the material things and degrading women as whores? Yes, most of the mass shootings are done by whites but most of the gun deaths are done by gangstas. Clean your own house first. Wow, talk about racism.
Look at the picture she uses. The woman who defines hypocrisy and racist banter.
Florida has become a fascist state. I was there for twenty years and I witnessed it happen. The last thing that happened to me was a photo camera enforcement ticket in maitland, which according to the majority of the legal community is illegal. They sent me a ticket from an office in new york. I thought, and still think, it is a scam, perpetuated by the state. They suspended my license and didn't even give me a court date to appear to defend myself. A SC&MB&G judge signed the order. I had to pay hundreds to get my license reinstated. I moved from Florida because of that incident, last year. F*CK Florida.
Throw the perp inthe worst jail in the state, with the biggest, horniest perverts. Then he might learn all about "get down".
Why do we not have a big response from Obammy about things like this? Why do we not have civilian review of police instead of review by their buddies? We need laws that establish severe personal liability for polie officer misconduct - no more putting the fine over to the deprtment (which means that citizens end up paying). Where are our laws, Congress and prez? As Obammy likes to say "If it saves one victim, it is worth it!"
Two years and two months to investigate a rape where you have DNA? And the mayor thinks thios is not a scandle? If that is not a scandle I don't know what a scandle is. They obviously tried to cover this up. Florida, what do I expect?
Your math sucks, but I share your indignation (Nov/2011 - No/2012 is twelve months, or ONE year).
DNA results in a couple of months and they are just making the arrest? Now that IS a scandal.
The only problem I have with this story is that it took them 14 months to arrest this man. I wonder when the victim,illegal alien talked? And yes, she is illegal so before we mince words let's just put it out there. The woman is a victim and has rights. If the officer is guilty then he goes to jail. I just have a hard time with the time it took to get to the arrest.
I would imagine that it took a long time to get the DNA analysis back from the forensics lab. In an area the size of Miami I'm am willing to bet the lab is inundated with evidence to analyze. It takes months to a year easily.
Plus who is working on it, more Latino cops? Good luck with that.
XSVENOM Marco Rubio's family is looking into it
No room in law enforcement for scumbags. These men and women are put into trusted positions and there they must be honest and trustworthy at all times in order for the current justice system to work...
The cop should do 20 years in jail and while I have sympathy for the victim being assaulted she committed a criminal act in the bar and was only in America because she violated our laws. She's not undocumented. She's an illegal alien who shouldn't be here at all. Stiff penalty to pay for not going through the legal process, but my concern about criminals assaulting each other is at best negligible.
Then what happened..
This kind of behavior happens all the time, the only reason why you hear very little of it is because these thugs with badges cover for each other and the politicians worry so much about their careers they have a blind spot for this corruption.
Documented or not, he was there to protect and serve, period. When he decided to cross that line and break the law he vowed to uphold, then he became no better than the criminals he arrest. He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for the crime he committed. Once she is finished with her own court problems, as well as this one, she should be deported back to where she came from. Then if she so desires, try and re-enter the legal way.
Just my opinion.
Deport both of them, the pig and the slut, problem solved.
Uhh...did you miss the part that said she was raped, meaning this was not a voluntary act on her part? Where do you get off calling the victim of a crime a slut?
I think his name says it all. He hates cops AND women.
Is this story true?
We will never know as MSNBC has ZERO credibility MSNBC is falsifying the news.
They have been caught again LYING not REPORTING.
http://politics.kfyi.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=104707&article=10743545
This is the 3rd incident that has been caught how many more are out there?
Folks if we don't get these cops off our streets and away from our kids and loved ones, we will lose society. They are the biggest threat and danger to the law abiding citizens, yet the Gov. is after guns, I think they're looking down the wrong barrel. We need an anti-cop movement in this country, it's time to take our country back. Through legal means of course, I don't condone violence of any kind. I'm not a cop.
1stfreedom- Are you kidding?! They would only be replaced by the same if not WORSE!!!! Do you people NOT realize or dont want to accept that the MALE menatality IS wired like that!!!! Those males that are not wired like is most likely the "softer" males. ACCEPT IT!!!! AND...STAY TUNED for the next story involving a cop like this or any male in any field for that matter, its the @!$%#ed up wiring in our heads!!!! PERIOD!!!!
Love to read posts from simpletons who see the world as dictated by the media. There were 794,300 cops in the US last year. This story, just like the others you read about on this site, proves that all are scumbags and need to be sacked.
Florida is the 4th most populous state in the country, but becasue Limbaugh and some bikers live there, no one should even consider it. Some would prefer to be "dragged back to Barbados in chains.
Hilarious.
(But I can understand folks saying that Miami is the pits - if you haven't traveled all that much in this country.)