{"id":2433,"date":"2025-10-14T13:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:37:33","slug":"newly-released-body-cam-video-shows-arrest-of-former-hialeah-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2433\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-released body cam video shows arrest of former Hialeah police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM<\/p>\n<p>Expand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5WXBXJXKGBHQNI2EWJG4NAJ76E.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Video shows arrest of former Hialeah police chief on troubling charges WPLG <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 Newly released body camera video shows the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office Priority Response Team conducting a traffic stop with their guns drawn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/07\/21\/nuevo-video-de-camara-corporal-muestra-el-arresto-del-exjefe-de-policia-de-hialeah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/07\/21\/nuevo-video-de-camara-corporal-muestra-el-arresto-del-exjefe-de-policia-de-hialeah\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They were pulling over former Hialeah Police Department Chief Sergio Velazquez. <\/p>\n<p>New video shows arrest of former Hialeah police chief <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 61-year-old was placed in handcuffs and confronted by a deputy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is accused of lavish spending on the city of Hialeah\u2019s dime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to prosecutors, the money was spent on brand-name items from Rolex, Cartier, Louis Vuitton and Versace. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In total, according to the Miami-Dade State Attorney\u2019s Office, Velazquez spent $635,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After he left the department, officials found more than $2.6 million unaccounted for. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Documents reveal an alleged scheme that started with cash, money meant for Hialeah\u2019s undercover drug busts and money the city received in drug forfeitures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say it wound up in the chief\u2019s office safe before hitting his bank accounts for personal spending. Now he is facing serious felony charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Velazquez is facing multiple charges, including organized fraud and theft. He is due back in court in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Bridgette Matter\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/2dda0f91-39c8-479e-9e.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Bridgette Matter<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Bridgette Matter joined the Local 10 News team as a reporter in July 2021. Before moving to South Florida, she began her career in South Bend, Indiana and spent six years in Jacksonville as a reporter and weekend anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM Updated:\u00a0July 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM ExpandVideo shows arrest of former Hialeah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-2433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","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=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}