271: Anthony Velazquez – Miami Police and Customs Inspector Corruption

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Retired agent Anthony "Tony" Velazquez reviews a police corruption case involving three anti-drug police officers and a US Customs inspector who used their law enforcement positions to steal drugs and cash from drug traffickers operating along Miami area smuggling routes. During Tony's 1996 undercover operation, officers from the Hallandale Police Department in Florida accepted bribes to protect undercover agents who posed as drug traffickers and a Customs inspector accepted bribes to facilitate clearances through customs. Tony Velazquez served in the FBI for 24 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 271 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.9	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:19.6	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:25.0	Today we get to speak to retired agent Anthony Valesquez who served in the FBI for 24 years.
0:33.0	In this episode, Tony reviews a police corruption case involving three anti-drug police officers
0:40.5	and a US customs inspector who used their law enforcement positions to steal drugs and
0:46.5	cash from drug traffickers operating along Miami area smuggling routes.
0:52.6	Following Tony's 1996 undercover operation, officers from the Hallendell Police Department
0:58.7	in Florida accepted bribes to protect undercover agents posing as drug traffickers and a customs
1:06.0	inspector accepted bribes to facilitate clearances through customs.
1:11.8	All four defendants pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and extortion charges.
1:17.9	Following his career, Tony was initially assigned to the Miami division where he specialized
1:23.0	in cargo theft and supply chain security, organized and violent crimes, counterterrorism, fraud,
1:30.2	undercover operations and kidnapping investigations.
1:33.9	He was also a hostage and crisis negotiator, certified undercover agent and certified ad
1:40.7	junk police instructor.
1:42.7	From 2007 through 2011, Tony served as the FBI assistant legal attaché, ALAT, in Cape Town,
1:52.6	South Africa, covering 16 countries in sub-Sahara Africa.
1:57.6	He also gained extensive experience in Central and South America, supporting complex investigations
2:04.2	and responding to crisis events and kidnapping.
2:07.8	Tony is currently the president of Velasquez Global Consulting Group where he provides consulting,
2:16.1	crisis management response and security and investigative services.
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