4 people, including 14 and 17-year-old girls, accuse Hialeah cop Jesús Menocal Jr. of sexual abuse, kidnapping and rape; Chief Sergio Velazquez gave him a raise and prosecutor @KathyFndzRundle filed no charges, blamed victims #BecauseHialeah miamiherald.com/news/local/com… @casalsmunoz 
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah Menocal threatened to arrest the 14-year-old, "told her to get into his police truck and ordered her to perform oral sex." He said she'd “disappear” if she told anyone. “I did what he wanted,” the shaking, sobbing girl told @KathyFndzRundle's office, who did nothing about it.
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah Menocal kidnapped 17-year-old girl, forced her to strip in camera-less room at @cityofhialeah police station, asked if she was a virgin and demanded sex. Police department lied to the press, said he was suspended after this, but he remained on the job. miaminewtimes.com/news/hialeah-p…
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah "A woman in her mid-20s...in a car with...friends when Menocal stopped the vehicle. He told her to get into his police vehicle...drove her to a nearby...alley...started kissing her...then pulled out his penis and forced her to touch it...then he demanded she perform oral sex."
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah A 4th woman said Menocal "handcuffed her and sexually assaulted her while masturbating in his police truck," told her “if you ever say anything, I will find you and I will kill you.” She died "from blunt force injuries to the head & torso" after "falling out of a moving vehicle."
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah "Menocal did not report stopping any of the 4 victims. Investigators also discovered video showing that he brought 8 other women and girls into @CityofHialeah police station. They were unable to identify and contact them. Menocal did not file reports on those incidents either."
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah "Internal affairs gathered evidence that Menocal committed 'unlawful sexual activity' with minors, a 2nd-degree felony, broke over 20 department rules & policies. It was given to Police Chief Sergio Velázquez and prosecutor @KathyFndzRundle's office — but neither punished him."
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah "State prosecutors didn’t think the women and girls — some of them believed by police to be victims of human trafficking — would appear credible in court and declined to charge Menocal on counts of sexual battery, false imprisonment and unlawful compensation."
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Johnette Hardiman described the alleged victims as “gang” members, called one “a bi-polar chronic runaway" and wrote that "None claimed outright force or threat, just authoritative pressure” from Menocal, an armed police officer.
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah Hardiman is one of the prosecutors who co-wrote the notorious close-out memo that said Miami-Dade prison guards "accidentally" boiled schizophrenic inmate Darren Rainey to death by locking him in a 160°F shower for half an hour until his flesh melted off miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah Hardiman's co-author of the Menocal close-out memo is Jose Arrojo, ex-chief asst state attorney and now exec director of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust — whose mission is to hold government accountable in one of America's most corrupt towns #BecauseMiami
@KathyFndzRundle @CasalsMunoz @MayorHialeah @PaulBHernandez @cityofhialeah Menocal's dad Jesús "Jesse" Menocal Sr. was a corrupt @MiamiPD cop caught on tape in the 1980s plotting a cocaine heist; irregardless (as we say in Miami), he became chief of @SweetwaterPD, a Miami-Dade city founded by Russian circus dwarves #BecauseMiami miaminewtimes.com/news/sweetwate…
