Drunk Cop Found Passed Out In His Police Car

[willie pete]

Controversy After Miami-Dade Police Officer Fernando Villa Found Drunk in Patrol Car In Intersection in Kendall

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 12:20

Miami, Fla. -
Internal Affairs investigators are trying to find out why Miami-Dade police officer Fernando Villa was NOT arrested after he was found drunk and passed out in his patrol car in the middle of an intersection in Kendall. Miami-Dade Police Director, Jim Loftus, gave specific orders to arrest him and treat him like any other person found in the same situation, but instead police at the scene had him sign a promise to appear in court and let him go home; the order apparently never reached the officers on the scene.
That order failing to reach the patrol officers is what is being investigated by the department's IA. Why the supervisor on the scene failed to treat Villa as Department policy dictates, and arrest him, is also under investigation.
The incident happened at Southwest 137th Avenue and 137th Street, where Villa was found in a t-shirt and shorts behind the wheel of his patrol car passed out. After Villa was discovered, supervisors were summoned to the scene and Director Loftus was called. The department's policy is to arrest all officers for crime greater than minor misdemeanors who may be given citations to appear in court.
It is believed that after Villa's former Special Response Team was disbanded after an incident where officers of the SRT shot and killed four people in a Redlands Home Invasion he became increasingly depressed and stressed and began drinking a lot. The SRT typically handled hostage negotiations and other volatile situations.


......Isn't this considered DUI? ...even though you aren't technically driving? ::) ....just glad he didn't hit and kill or injure anyone

[osoab]

Possession of the keys is only necessary in the Peoples Republic of Illinois.

[Ponce]

One time on my way to Vegas I stopped at this restaurant about 2 am to grab something to eat......only about three cars in the parking lot and one of them was of the Highway Patrol, I came back to my car and was counting my money whe the drivers door of the cops car open and the guy placed a beer can outside, I too his license place number and the patrol car number...after he left I picked up the can with a piece of paper and went over to Sheriff Department and gave the night clerk the whole thing.....they wanted my name and all crap but I took off before he was able to come around the counter......he was alone in the building.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

I've noticed the cops always want my name when I call the non-emergency line to complain about something the cops were doing. Like recently they were passing out tickets from private property, I called the non-emergency line, told the dispatcher to please get the cops off private property, that they should be handing out tickets from public property (they were monitoring a road), the dispatcher got really bitchy with me and transfered me to a seargent who was great. But the seargent wanted my name too. I told him my first name and flat out let him know that I had no interest in identifying myself, I was merely trying to help his brothers in blue follow the law.

[Ponce]

I hope that you dind't make the call from any of your private numbers......the same as when you call a 800 number? it always shows on their list when they get the bill, when I had my own business I used to write down the name, date and exact time that someone called me and at the end of the month I had their number.....this was 12 years ago, I don't know if it is still the same.