A police officer is held a very high standard, and I'm here to enforce that standard.

But about five years after that interview, prosecutors now claim the former top cop was a fraud and thief.

Prosecutors revealed over $3 million are missing or unaccounted for within the department,

all while Velasquez was chief.

Over 900 cash deposits totaling over $2 million were

discreetly made into his accounts. The thousands spent on Louis Vuitton, Versace, and Cartier

were questionable. A lot of the money allegedly stolen from a safe in his own office was seized

during drug bust, like in a 2021 cocaine operation where

Hialea police seized nearly $300,000. Of that total, more than $90,000 are now missing.

Structuring transactions to evade reporting or registration requirements. That's a first-degree

felony, organized fraud, a first-degree felony, and grand theft, a first-degree felony, organized fraud, a first-degree

felony, and grand theft a first-degree felony. We'll enter plea of not guilty to all three counts.

Hi, Leah, the city of progress.

If Miami is like a world within a world or a country within a country,

Hyalia is like a country within a country, it's like some inception shit.

It is the second largest city in Miami-Dade County by population. What is it? Like the fourth

largest or sixth largest in the state of Florida. And it is a really unique place where you have

about now predominantly working class Hispanic community. I think about 90% of families use

Spanish at home. It is a place where people have fled communism and tyranny and dictatorships

and socialism from around the world. Mostly Cuba, I think over

85, between 85 and 90 percent of the population is Cuban American. Yet it is also the number one

city in America for Obamacare signups and recipients. And it is a really intriguing place where

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