{"id":199773,"date":"2026-03-20T23:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:08:24","slug":"leadership-changes-are-going-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199773\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Leadership changes are going to happen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DORAL, Fla. \u2014 On Friday, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz publicly addressed her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/16\/mdso-shakes-up-command-staff-removing-3-assistant-sheriffs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/16\/mdso-shakes-up-command-staff-removing-3-assistant-sheriffs\/\">command staff shakeup<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cordero-Stutz removed Assistant Sheriffs Eric Garcia, Brian Rafky and Shawn Browne from their posts. All three have spent decades in law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She brought the three on when she took office in January 2025, following the re-establishment of a sheriff\u2019s office in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you are in this position, this complete change to an independent office of the sheriff, leadership changes are going to happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cordero-Stutz declined to divulge specifics about why she decided to take the trio off duty after about a year on the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe reason for my decision is for the growth of the office of the sheriff, and that was the decision I made on how I was going to change and continue to move forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News was told that Brown and Garcia were forced to retire, while Rafke took a demotion to captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are proud of the service that the assistant sheriffs gave to this county and they have moved on in each in their own way,\u201d Cordero-Stutz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 is reaching out to the three former assistant sheriffs. At least one, so far, has declined to comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Moving forward, Cordero-Stutz said she\u2019s reassessing the positions.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DORAL, Fla. \u2014 On Friday, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz publicly addressed her command staff shakeup for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-199773","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\/199773","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=199773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}