Billy Corben Instagram – City of Progress: Ex-Hialeah cop Jesús Menocal Jr., who confessed to kidnapping and sexually assaulting 4 women and girls as young as 17, released early from federal prison for “good behavior.” Additional accusers include 14 year old. He will not have to register as a sex offender and plans to work at his family firearms training school. #BecauseMiami #BecauseHialeah
Menocal wants a judge to modify his probation to possess guns so he can work at the firearms facility owned by his dad — a corrupt Miami cop caught on tape in the 1980s plotting a cocaine heist with his cop twin brother, and later became Sweetwater Police chief.
In 2016, despite Hialeah Police Internal Affairs having evidence that Menocal committed “unlawful sexual activity” with minors and finding he broke over 20 department rules, Chief Sergio Velázquez gave him a raise and lied to the press about it.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle — who never charged a law enforcement officer with an on-duty killing during her entire 31 years in office — cleared Menocal, lied about interviewing his victims and then her office said they “lost much of the investigative file.”
In the close-out memo, assistant state attorney Johnette Hardiman blamed the victims, describing them as “gang” members, called one “a bi-polar chronic runaway” and wrote “none claimed outright force or threat, just authoritative pressure” from a uniformed, armed police officer.
The co-author was her then supervisor now former executive director of the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission who was just rehired by Rundle to help clean up a misconduct scandal involving veteran prosecutors disqualified from a death penalty case for alleged witness tampering, obstruction of justice and plotting to murder a witness.
In 2019, after Hialeah PD and Rundle covered up the crimes of this alleged serial rapist cop, the FBI arrested Menocal. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to abusing victims, ages 25, 17, 19 and a woman of an unspecified age who was having a mental health crisis. | Posted on 23/May/2024 18:38:54
