{"id":194219,"date":"2026-03-17T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194219\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:15:13","slug":"miami-dade-sheriff-makes-essential-changes-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194219\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade sheriff makes \u2018essential\u2019 changes in leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 16, 2026 at 6:37 PM<\/p>\n<p>M-DSO: Changes are part of shift from county department to Sheriff\u2019s Officelead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/B3DYJDEYTURQHC7SPZN4PUBLTY.png\"  width=\"854\" height=\"480\"\/>File photo of Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz. (WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DORAL, Fla.  \u2014 Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz is making leadership changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement on Monday afternoon, Detective Joseph R. Peguero Rivera described the changes as \u201cnot only routine but also essential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Without defining the changes, Peguero Rivera, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, wrote that \u201cthese transitions play a crucial role in the comprehensive transformation from a county department to a fully independent Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peguero Rivera did not identify the leaders affected. Instead, he wrote, that they \u201chave served this agency and our community, and we thank them for their dedication and years of service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Reporter Janine Stanwood, Assignment Manager Kelly Davis, and Assignment Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Terrell Forney\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7b28e33c-d75f-4d1a-87.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Terrell Forney<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 16, 2026 at 6:37 PM M-DSO: Changes are part of shift from county department to Sheriff\u2019s Officelead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandFile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-194219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}