Small Town PD Caught Laundering Millions For Drug Cartels

raidBy Joshua Krause

Whenever a police officer is caught doing something illegal, the most common excuse we hear for their behavior, is that there are always a few bad apples. However, that isn’t always the case. Sometimes the whole basket is rotten.

That’s what the Florida village of Bal Harbour recently discovered. The local police department, in conjunction with the Glades County Sheriff’s Department, ran a money laundering sting operation for two years. However, this “sting” quickly turned into a real illegal operation. The tiny Bal Harbour Police Department had officers conducting deals all over the US, and sending money across the world. Over $2.4 million was added to their coffers, and no arrests were ever made.


Officially, the money was used to buy new equipment, in addition to first class flights, computers, luxury hotel rooms, and firearms. Unofficially, hundreds of thousands of dollars were withdrawn from the operation, with no record of where they were spent. About $20 million was funneled through businesses in the Miami area to launder the money for drug groups, and the police never notified federal authorities about their operation.

Their criminal activities were likely spurred by budget cuts. According to the chief of law enforcement in Glades County “We had to find a revenue stream. It allowed us to have resources we wouldn’t normally have.” Their operation finally fell apart after the police were investigated by federal authorities, and the Miami Herald newspaper. Currently, several federal probes against the Bal Harbour Police Department are still ongoing.

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Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshua’s reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshua’s website is Strange Danger.


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38 Comments on "Small Town PD Caught Laundering Millions For Drug Cartels"

  1. One wonders if Jeb Bush and his Israeli-led realty company were affiliated, related with the Iran-Contra treason? http://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-media-disinformation-and-us-proxy-wars-fallouts-of-iran-contras-lost-chapter/5326764

  2. Their criminal activities were likely spurred by budget cuts. According to the chief of law enforcement in Glades County “We had to find a revenue stream. It allowed us to have resources we wouldn’t normally have.”

    And no one believed Public Enemy & NWA when they said that it was the CIA was running the crack-cociane trade in the black ghetto. Well guess who controls the heroine & meth trade in the white suburbs(ghettoes) across the USA?

    • And how much opium is still housed in fort Knox?

      • Dunno eggs-actly?
        Perhaps you should ask the CIA, or the US soldiers guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan?

        Please follow the links below:
        CIA, Wall Street establish drug empire in Afghanistan: Stephen Lendman
        How Opium Greed Is Keeping US Troops in Afghanistan | Brainwash Update
        Afghan Heroin Brings CIA $50 Billion A Year, Covers US War Expense

        Give thanks!

    • Exactly….criminals setting up to catch criminals. Imagine how this explanation goes over when given by a regular citizen who needs to pay his bills “judge…I had to find a revenue stream”…we need a reformation.

  3. Didnt I see a movie that was simular to this. Their reasons are irrelevant. Dont become what you are catching

  4. Blaming such corruption on budget cuts just compounds the evil. Try lovers of money rather than lovers of God. Sort of like the public school system that always needs more money to make headway.

  5. Thank you for sharing this info…..

  6. execute the police that laundered the money

  7. Google Catherine Austin Fitts and read her story while working under Jack Kemp in HUD. This is not only OLD news, but pretty much business as usual in the entire ‘Merikan Empire, Inc.

  8. I was just awakened to all of this about three months ago. I’m honestly at a loss as what I’m supposed to do with this knowledge. Yes my anger is with our officials, but my primary anger is with myself and the American people. We are just as much to blame. We have relinquished rights and elected these evil men. Were focused on reality tv, sports, music and hollywood.; Maybe it’s for the best that they destroy us and themselves. Maybe that’s the only way this thing can restart and be fixed. It seems the corruption is too great for anything else to fix it. I hate to be negative and all is lost, but it really seems that it is.

  9. …and they Love Obozo in Bal Harbor for all your information!!,….Lots of Fine Democrats in that town!,….I bet they all going to vote for the other Crook!!,…..

  10. They should catch a case per citizen of their town, so if they have 3500 citizens 3500 cases per charge per defendant…maximum penalties no concurrent sentences so it ends up being life without parole.

  11. Government agencies should be limited in their budgets to the money which appropriated for them. I don’t see any other way to eliminate this sort of practice.

  12. This is just one of the many reasons why all drugs should be decriminalized

  13. Not much difference when you compare Apples to Oranges. Obama steals from the US Treasure and gives to ISIS. Small town steals from there Treasure spends on there Dept and there selves. What it boils down to is when you got thieves at the top, you got thieves at the bottom.

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