No charges for Miami-Dade officers in bloody sting that killed four suspects, including informant
Source: Miami Herald
Posted on Thursday, 03.13.14
No charges for Miami-Dade officers in bloody sting that killed four suspects, including informant
Prosecutors criticized a Miami-Dade police squad in the 2011 Redland sting that left four dead — but they said there was not enough evidence to support charges.
By David Ovalle
dovalle@MiamiHerald.com
A group of Miami-Dade police officers will not face criminal charges in a botched, bloody 2011 sting in the Redland that killed four armed robbers in a hail of bullets — including a law enforcement informant who had surrendered and was lying on the ground.
But in a stinging 40-page final report released Thursday night, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office also stopped short of ruling that most of the members of the department’s Special Response Team were “justified” in gunning down the band of armed robbers at the South Miami-Dade rural property.
Prosecutors branded many decisions of the officers that chaotic June night “unusual, counter-intuitive, suspicious … disturbing,” and pointed out severe flaws in the police operations.
Miami-Dade police detectives, working with an informant within the gang, had tricked the men into believing there was a sizable marijuana stash inside a home on the 18900 block of Southwest 216th St. The investigation into the gang was set up by the Miami-Dade robbery bureau’s Street Terror Offender Program, known as STOP, a group that targets violent career criminals.
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