Miami-Dade Police Officer Faces Drug Charges

[Anathema2121]

Miami-Dade Police Officer Faces Drug Charges
Police: Benjamin Allegedly Sold 13 Pounds Of Cocaine

POSTED: 9:51 pm EDT September 29, 2006
UPDATED: 9:59 pm EDT September 29, 2006

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MIAMI, Fla. -- A Miami-Dade County police officer faces drug charges after an undercover investigation revealed that he sold about 13 pounds of cocaine while wearing his uniform, the U.S. attorney's office said Friday.

Errol Washington Benjamin was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine. If convicted on the charges, he faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and a top fine of $4 million, the U.S. attorney's office said in a statement.

Benjamin was suspended without pay, Miami-Dade police spokesman Roy Rutland said.


"We aggressively investigate any type of activities involving any corruption," Rutland said.

The circumstances surrounding the investigation were not released by authorities, and several telephone messages left at the offices and cell phones of representatives for the U.S. attorney's office were not returned.

An official at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County said Benjamin had not yet been booked into the jail.

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Anathema2121 Reviewed by Anathema2121 on 10-01-2006. Miami-Dade Police Officer Faces Drug Charges Miami-Dade Police Officer Faces Drug Charges Police: Benjamin Allegedly Sold 13 Pounds Of Cocaine POSTED: 9:51 pm EDT September 29, 2006 UPDATED: 9:59 pm EDT September 29, 2006 E-mail this story | Print this story Sign Up for Breaking News Alerts Rating: 5

[Th3 sand m4n]

wow corupt cops got to love them... they arrest you.. take your weed.. and then sell it ....

[T®auma]

wow corupt cops got to love them... they arrest you.. take your weed.. and then sell it ....

Yea thats not cool. Because what if you re bought your weed from a cop... Do you know how mad that would make me? Wait... i would never buy from a cop so... never mind.

[Myth1184]

Miami-Dade county....no surprise, they dont know how to vote properly, guess they all got cocaine in their system.

[KOZMO]

I live here man
I saw that shit last night

[PieEyedPiper]

I wonder who he forgot to pay off.

[HypnotizedMind]

imagine that a crooked cop.