And now the commission may reward the driver with a new job
Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was involved in a car accident last week in a city vehicle driven by a Miami police officer and now there’s apparently an internal affairs investigation.
Someone also sent a complaint to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office because there is an alleged cover-up as to the circumstances of the crash.
Diaz de la Portilla had reportedly recently left the funeral for Caridad “Cary” Hernandez, the mother of his good friend and confidante former Commissioner Humberto Hernandez. It was at Caballero Rivero Funeral home, 3344 SW 8th St., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, and ended at 10 p.m.
About an hour later, and just blocks away, the vehicle he was in t-boned another car at the corner of Beacom Boulevard and Southwest 7th Street.
Two police sources and two other sources told Ladra that the police officer driving the car — identified by a high-ranking source as Det. Stanley Paul-Noel — suffered a head injury and the commissioner hurt his knee. Paul-Noel is not a sergeant at arms, but multiple sources say he is the go-to when all the others were already assigned, probably to the mayor.
The sources also say there was a woman in the car with the commissioner.
Some say it was a married woman who is influential in the community. But who knows? It could have been ghost employee Jenny Nillo. Or his latest chief of staff, Karly Fortuna. Everyone wants to know who the mystery woman is. Former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez, who has a YouTube show called Sin Mordaza now, said on Tuesday that he didn’t want to speculate.
But this lady, whoever she is, is why the accident may have turned into a cover-up.
ADLP allegedly did not want the woman’s name in the report. He may not even have wanted his own name in the report. Sources say he didn’t want photographs taken. As many might imagine, he can get bossy with the help.
It got to the point where City Attorney Victoria Mendez was called, sources said. Some sources say Commissioner Joe Carollo was called, too, but why would ADLP call him. More likely someone in the police department tipped Crazy Joe off and he went to get more shit on his former BFF-turned-nemesis.
Neither commissioner would return calls and texts from Ladra. But Mendez confirmed that she was contacted about the car crash.
“I was called and explained to MPD how to properly document an accident,” Mendez texted Ladra late Wednesday after trying to get information about the crash for days. She didn’t answer any other questions.
But how does a police officer — a lieutenant, actually, was reportedly called to the scene — not know how to write a typical accident report? Especially after so many officers got in trouble for covering up that last vehicular accident in a city car driven by a police officer. She and her husband were fired for the cover-up, though they may have recently been rehired (more on that later).
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Does explaining how to properly document an accident mean telling an experienced officer that yes, absolutely, you have to include every passenger’s name? Or does it mean Tricky Vicky found a way around that?
She wouldn’t identify whether or not the woman in the vehicle was a city employee. But she did say that it could have been.
“My understanding is that Sgt at arms vehicles allow non city of miami employees in cars as passengers with elected officials,” Mendez said. “Regular City take home vehicles do not allow non employee passengers.”
She also said she doesn’t have a call history on her cellphone for Jan. 5 or the early morning hours of Jan. 6. “You only have those the day of the calls,” she wrote in an email. “I don’t have the service that prints out incoming and outgoing calls for the month.”
Later she said her recent calls only go back to Monday.
Well, what kind of ancient phone do you have, Vicky? Most phones these ays have a long list of recent calls, often categorized by incoming, outgoing and missed. Those are usually in red. Ladra’s list goes back to Jan. 2 and that’s with several dozen calls on most days. It’s hard to believe Mendez doesn’t have one — unless she erases it intentionally.
Did Mendez tell them to make sure to test the driver for alcohol or drug use? Was the police captain that crashed her car ever tested?
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Ladra has asked for all the incident, accident and supplemental reports from last week’s accident and made a public records request for the body cam footage of the officers who responded. Nothing yet. But if you were in the vehicle that was t-boned, can you please get in touch?
Because the sources who have been right about most everything else so far also say that the lieutenant who wrote the report hasn’t signed it or submitted it because he’s nervous. It could be a crime to leave off the name of a passenger. It is certainly wrong. But could he be fired if he does the right thing?
Decisions, decisions.
Interestingly enough, there is an item on the city of Miami Commission agenda Thursday, sponsored by Diaz de la Portilla, to amend the annual police department budget and create and fund an additional sergeant at arms position to protect the mayor and commissioners.
Ladra wonders when it was added to the agenda.
Las malas lenguas say it is a reward to Det. Paul-Noel for keeping secrets.
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Miami is a three-ring circus. If it ever wants to grow up, it’s going to need to elect some serious, responsible people to these so-called “positions”. Because the clowns currently running the show are running the city into the ground. And can someone explain to me why these bozos need police escorts everywhere they go? And why taxpayers should fund that? Do they think they’re celebrities? Or that they’re leaders of their own little country? It’s a complete JOKE to anyone who looks at this
The lady is Vanessa Garcia Azzam she has been living with ADLP for 8 month, she has a salary in ADLP payroll and has been traveling with him most of the time they have been 4 weeks in Europe , 3 weeks in Aspen and some other places. She has a position on ADLP staff but she doesn’t go to the office on a regular basis
Alex DLP was, or is, living at EAST at Brickell Citicenter on the 8th Floor. In another district. Who wants to confirm Alex is breaking the law? Miami Herald?
Who is investigating corrupt Alex DLP for NOT living in his District?
Someone ask for the body camera video video of incident PRR.
” Was Art Acevedo really misguided when he called Miami city officials. Cuban Mafia?”
Fair enough because regardless of where you come from in the USA , would think every Cuban over late 20’s knows how it was once used .
This is why I use Cosa Nostra because it seems better and MAFIA enrages some they take it as an attack on them not an attack on the politicians . .
Perfect example of the Commissioners —
Cosa Nostra
” Consisting of different “families”, this nationwide alliance of criminals is dedicated to pursuing crime and protecting its members ”
Acevedo unfortunately gave these Commissioners who would be in jail if we had a real DA the ammunition they were looking for because he was stepping on their toes .
. There is a Cuban PC here from those who scream about the evils of PC but that can be said about EVERY ethnicity / race .
Acevedo was taken back by plenty of things since not from Miami .
I was not raised here and Cubans in Miami and Cubans raised outside of Miami are not the same which is something you know .
For example I don’t have any tattoos nor will I ever get any .
Lol if you have been to Hialeah you would get that joke .
As there were injuries, fire-rescue should have responded and the name of the “mystery woman” may be listed as a “no complaint” in their report.
Since I’m Cuban American I guess I can say this without being accused of being esta it’s. So here goes….
Was Art Acevedo really misguided when he called Miami city officials. Cuban Mafia?
And the arrogance to shrug it off as “just a car accident for Christ’s sake”?
Hey pal, how about a little transparency and honesty for Christ’s sake???
Are you serious? How can an educated politician HONESTLY believe that an occupant in a motor vehicle could POSSIBLY believe that an OCCUPANT in a motor vehicle INJURED in-according to Carrollo-a SERIOUS car crash-need not be included on an accident report? Look at the form ITSELF! It has provisions for “Driver 1, Driver 2,,,,and guess what? It ALSO has fields for “Passenger 1, Passenger 2…”
What was Díaz de la Portilla so afraid of he wanted to be “off” the report….?
Wasn’t he injured??
How about the FACT that at the very least, he was a WITNESS to the freaking accident? Oh. By the way, there are also fields on the accident report forms for….yes, you guessed correctly…..WITNESSES?
His answer according to the quote in the Herald…”it was a car crash for Christ’s sake”….
He’s either galactically stupid, corrupt or BOTH.
Does he think the rest of us are just ignorant? Apparently so….
Alex DLP was or is living in District 2, NOT his district. Check out the East Condos. Sargents-at-Arms are chauffeurs. They make $121,000 to $125,000 per year plus benefits. Taxpayers must work hard to pay these goons…
Can someone explain to me why these losers need police escorts, or escorts by “sergeants of arms”? Is that a joke? In every other city besides Miami, these are the types of city administrators who drive themselves to work in a Ford Taurus and then sit at a desk and do actual work until they drive themselves home at the end of the day. Chauffeuring these blundering idiots around just feeds their delusions of grandiosity, and their insatiable desire to be seen as “big shots,” while they do whatever overly exaggerated machismo shit it is they do on a daily basis (including the things described in this article). This is a complete waste of tax payer money.
Buying a condo in the district with your brother Renier is TOTALLY the same thing as actually living here. The DLPs all seem to “live” in the same Terrazas unit according to election records.
Perhaps the condo is for the mystery women?
S O S Miami & Miami Dade Need a CORUPTION Investigation ! To MARRIED WOMAN He Never LIVED AT tHIS dISTRICT Must of Applicants to This District rented for The Election at The River Terrace Apts . 18 Floor ?
Hmmmmm! Thank you so much for reporting. If it weren’t for you, we would not know about this from the media!
The city attorney’s work phone doesn’t have a complete call log??? I’ll bet our SA spit out her coffee when she read that. Another gem from the steel trap mind of our illustrious City attorney proving once again she can lie just a little bit better than a fifth grader.
Thanks Ladra for providing another chapter in the unending melodrama of the amoral, dishonorable and corrupt Miami public officials on their merry way into the already pretty outrageous City of Miami history books as the low IQ gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
¡¡ Shappyquidi en la Calle Ocho!!!
”Disgraced and indicted ex-commish Art Teele lived outside his district for many years. He eventually shot himself in the head as he faced charges that would have sent him to prison.”
He faced several charges and rightfully so but he would have not if he had been Cuban .
Standards in Miami are third world but if you are a Cuban politico / police you can get away with more then a non Cuban and this is why as a Cuban my motto is ” I do not want Cuban politicos nor police Chiefs because I am only screwing myself over ”.
I looked up Teele some time ago and interestingly enough he had once been an Officer in the Army XVIII Airborne Corps ( Flying Dragons ) where he had a spotless resume , to bad he tasted the poison of Miami-dade politics .
Miami corrupt Commissioners , corrupt police = Law abiding tax payers lose .
And we hear Alex DLP does NOT live in his district. It is illegal for an elected official to live in another district. Disgraced and indicted ex-commish Art Teele lived outside his district for many years. He eventually shot himself in the head as he faced charges that would have sent him to prison.