People can’t believe it. They don’t want to believe it. Ladra has had several people cast doubt on Maria Cruz, who said the police chief called her and urged her not to vote for commission candidate Ariel Fernandez in Group 5. Some suggested that because she supports Fernandez, she would lie for him. Ladra has […]
The deal’s been cut and it looks like Coral Gables City Manager Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark will be forced to name Interim Chief Ed Hudak the city’s permanent top cop after all. There’s been too much backlash on her plan to restructure the police department and name two chiefs who would report to her new assistant city […]
Coral Gables City Attorney Craig Leen told Commissioners late Tuesday that the city has to have one police chief, not two, as proposed by the city manager in her planned realignment of the police department. Leen issued the opinion after Mayor Jim Cason asked if the city charter required the appointment of one chief. Indeed, […]
Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak and City Commissioner Vince Lago were the subjects of a secret internal investigation conducted by the former chief last year. An audit of the Coral Gables Police Department’s internal affairs cases in the last several years shows that there was at least one unauthorized, rogue investigation into then-Major Hudak and his […]
The Coral Gables Commission will meet for a special meeting this afternoon to name an interim city manager after the abrupt resignation last week of Pat “My Way or the Highway” Salerno when he was apparently caught in a lie that he basically didn’t want to have to explain. But Assistant City Manager Carmen Olazabal, […]