{"id":261148,"date":"2026-05-06T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261148\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:09:09","slug":"miami-dade-homicide-detective-in-pata-case-faces-internal-affairs-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261148\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade homicide detective in Pata case faces internal affairs investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office investigates Detective Juan Segovia<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed on Wednesday that Internal Affairs detectives have been investigating Homicide Detective Juan Segovia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">About 15 years after the murder of Bryan Pata, a 22-year-old defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes, Segovia moved to arrest Rashaun Jones, a former Miami Hurricanes cornerback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones\u2019s defense claimed that an outside firm found evidence that Segovia had an Instagram account linked to his phone number, email, and IP address, that he had used in violation of a court order. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Monday, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda granted the defense\u2019s emergency motion to prevent the deletion of the Instagram account and its comments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones has been awaiting a retrial after his trial for Pata\u2019s murder in February ended with a hung jury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Segovia, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/about\/leadership\/trustees-juan-segovia.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/about\/leadership\/trustees-juan-segovia.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">also a <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/about\/leadership\/trustees-juan-segovia.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/about\/leadership\/trustees-juan-segovia.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">member<\/a> of the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees, did not respond to Local 10 News requests for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related reports<\/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=\"Liane Morejon\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d280f347-3e15-408e-99.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Liane Morejon<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Liane Morejon is an Emmy-winning reporter who joined the Local 10 News family in January 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office investigates Detective Juan Segovia MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-261148","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\/261148","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=261148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}