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Rod Flowers

2020-10-30 15:22:51.181499+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

‘Bad Boys 4 Life.’ Cops lived Miami lifestyle, secretly protected cocaine load, feds say

Flowers and Edwards are scheduled to appear in federal court on Friday, one day after authorities arrested the two on allegations they agreed to act as muscle for a cocaine-trafficking operation set up by undercover agents. Also charged: a Miami money laundering suspect named Manuel Carlos Hernandez — who boasted Flowers was on his payroll, according to court documents.

And, of course:

Flowers and Edwards had both been members of Miami-Dade’s “Priority Response Team,” a unit created after the 2018 Parkland school massacre to respond to major incidents.

Via Ben Wieder @benbwieder who points out

Among the many amazing details from this story about two Miami cops who moonlighted as drug trafficking muscle is that someone with the name Rod Flowers felt he needed a nickname

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