Angelica Pacheco, who made the runoff for a Hialeah council seat last week, was arrested twice in the past. Once for assault in what she said was self defense against an abusive man and once for child abuse in what she said was a misunderstanding. But she used a belt.
Ladra didn’t even know about the assault charge when she called Pacheco Sunday to ask her about the arrest. Pacheco — who faces Bryan Calvo Nov. 16 — must have thought she meant her first arrest.
“My mother and I were the victims of domestic violence,” she said Sunday. “I had to leave home and I got married to an older man to do it.”
That man locked her mother in a bathroom, she said. She tried to get her out. One thing led to another and after the police were called, she ended up getting charged with aggravated assault and criminal mischief, she said.
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Ladra doesn’t have that police report (yet) and can’t verify that’s how it happened. The report that Ladra called Pacheco, 35, about happened in 2011 and it is a charge of child abuse with no great bodily harm.
Her name was Angelica Caballero back then.
“My son had told the teacher that I had spanked him. It didn’t even go to court,” she said, adding that the police officer arrested her after she complained about the officer’s rudeness.
But the police report has a little more detail about the Dec. 14, 2011 incident.
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“Victim is a 5-year-old male, his mother, the defendant, is 25 years of age. The victim disclosed the defendant hit him with a belt,” the arrest affidavit reads. “The victim further disclosed the defendant told him not to tell anyone.
“I made contact with the victim and observed a linear welt and bruise across the victim’s upper right thigh. The injuries were consistent with the victim’s disclosures,” the arresting officer wrote, adding that Pacheco was placed under arrest after she asked for an attorney.
Furthermore, the case did go to court. And a search of court records show that, before it was resolved there was even a stay-away order issued for the minor.
Pacheco has made her campaign about her “life experience” compared to Calvo, who is 23 and a law student at Florida International University.
“He’s been very fortunate to have a very supportive family. He’s never had to have a job. He’s never had to pay employees. He’s never had to decide between buying groceries or paying rent,” Pacheco said. “These are experiences you can’t get in school.
“I went to school, too. I am a registered nurse. But I have that real life experience.”
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Meh, the fact that she disciplined her kid the old fashioned way will be viewed favorably or indifferently by most people who aren’t white Anglo-Saxon or some sort of “whitewashed” minority. Lucky for her there aren’t many of those people in Hialeah.
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For a politician, this is as honest as it gets in Miami. A politician saying, “I’ve got life experience” could definitely mean ‘I got arrested for assault and later hitting my child’ more so than a politician saying, “How can I help” meaning “How can I help.”
” Jose, $558,714 in PPP loans for four Pacheco entities (Corps, LLC). Two at the same address.”
Thank you
Quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, where does this self-employed nurse, in Hialeah, can produce forty-five thousand dollars for a political campaign. If that’s the status quo in Miami-Dade County we must be living somewhere else. Some of us aren’t entitled to State Unemplyment compensation but we wouldn’t think of trying to obtain government money under false pretenses.
To spank your own 5 year child with a belt indicates a level of brutality that is worrisome in a woman. This is not early 20th century rural Cuba, when people had 12 children and the ignorant father would take off his belt and beat them up as a form of discipline. She says she was raised by her grand father. I bet that’s exactly what that bruto abuelo did to her.
Ms. DeValle’s “reporting,” if you can call it that, is half-baked and disingenuous in this case. When searching court records, Ms. Pacheco (then Caballero) was indeed correct and Ms. De Valle was incorrect. The case did NOT go to court; it was discharged on January 30, 2012. There was never a trial, there was no finding of guilt. Furthermore, Ms. Pacheco’s son, the five year old male, is now a healthy 15 year old teenager who has been helping his mother with her campaigning. Many parents spank their kids. I was spanked as a kid (and yes, I deserved it every time)! Guess what?! My parents loved me then and love me now. I am an Eagle Scout, a successful businessman, and I now have my own family (no, I do not spank my daughter, not that it’s anyone’s business– I run my house & leave others to run theirs).
Ms. De Valle, in the future, you should do a better job at gathering all angles of the story through doing a better job at due diligence. Be fair. Your journalistic integrity in on the line.
LAdra…you need to look at her driving record!! Look at the number of citations she has!! I can not believe this person would be elected for any office!
Jose, $558,714 in PPP loans for four Pacheco entities (Corps, LLC). Two at the same address.
One goes bust within 2 months, and eventually all are dissolved by the State. Now I don’t have enough information to call this fraud or embezzlement or theft, but the intent of the PPP loans was to keep the businesses afloat, to keep the employees on payroll. If they received over $558,000 and the 4 business bit the dust, this does not speak well towards her business and financial abilities. That is one of her own selling points, her business acumen. And of course, her life experience, which Ladra has helped illuminate above.
Normal for Hialeah, Where The Elected Mayor Had His Own Run in Elections Fraud Him Self ! El Potrero del FANGO (HIALEAH ) Y El Calvo Es El Hijo De El Oyro Politico !
Her opponent is a 23 year old dude? At least Angelica has life experience. Florida deserves better. How did Florida voters elect a Rubio? A Scott? And a Bobo? And a crazy Covid denier like De Santis?
” Hialeah council candidate has arrests in her past, for assault and child abuse”
I do not see this as a negative nor a positive for her campaign , doubt most voters in Hialeah could care less either way about this .
However if she had been arrested for fraud , embezzlement , any other type of theft I think it would be a BIG PLUS in Hialeah , not a negative but a big plus / positive .