Crime
Cop Late for Off-Duty Job Pulled Over Driving 120 MPH
- Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:38pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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A Miami police officer has been accused of driving 120 mph on a turnpike because he was late for his off-duty job working security at a school.
The Florida Highway Patrol says officer Fausto Lopez was arrested at gunpoint after ignoring repeated warnings and leading police on a brief high-speed chase. CBS video showing the arrest:
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Comments (63)
garyM
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:56pmWe had a prosecuting attorney hit a car on a remote highway, leave the scene of the accident with hurt people in the other car. They found an almost empty bottle of whiskey in his wrecked car. The cops later found him at his house 15 miles away and he said the reason he left he had to get to a Dr. because he was having chest pains, They did not take him to the PD for a Breathalyzer or take him. to jail. he newspaper covered some of it but not what they withheld. Same guy wrote a 5,000 dollar hot check and got by with that. He is still in practice I think. I call that the “GOOD OLE BOY click!
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:40pmUpon getting somewhere, such as home, then drinking alcohol, there’s no evidence that the person was impaired at the time of the accident.
Report Post »PROUD AMERICAN741776
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:42pmAND i believe that ‘same’.. good ol boy has gone on to ”work” with state controlled soros funded media.. CNN’s Rick Sanchez alleged Hit-and-Run DUI, leaves victim …
Report Post »… drove drunk, hit a pedestrian, and then left the scene for … but then later left the scene. A blood test to determine Sanchez’s sobriety was not … in Miami in a HIT & RUN
http://www.mofopolitics.com/2009/07/22/cnns-rick-sanchez-hit...
chingachgook
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:42amessentially he was speeding have you ever had a cop cut you a break on speeding? She will never cut anyone a break(warning) COME ON, AT GUN POINT. JUST WRITE THE TICKET
Report Post »garyM
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:49pmHe must be on the hit list for something else, they usually let the off duty cops by with drinking and driving in their personal cars, it,happens in my state all time and has been that way for years! Prosecuting attorneys, County Judges, and elected officials usually get a pass!
Report Post »garyM
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:45pmGeez doesn’t Florida have the special decals on the rear window their personal cars like my state does, so the on duty cops know who they are and leave them alone!
Report Post »GregAnson
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:49pmProfessional courtesy only goes so far. Fortunately NOT this far.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 8:04amHe wasn’t driving a personally owned vehicle, he was in uniform, and in a cop car.
Gotta read past the headlines.
Report Post »GregAnson
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:37pmI think he should be fired and prosecuted. (I’m a former Deputy Sheriff)
Report Post »GregAnson
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:35pmHe should be fired and prosecuted. That‘s my shine and I ’m a former policeman. (Deputy Sheriff )actually.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:14pmIs that how your career ended?
Report Post »Danaglide11
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:33pmReally? Some of you posting really are mental midgets…….”cops running red lights when they’re not on any call.” Do you have a scanner? Did you ask the offending officer if he was on a call? Truth is, you have no idea and you assume there was no call just because the lights got turned off. Maybe, just maybe… the call was cancelled or other officers arrived on scene and the situation was no longer an emergency. Would you rather these police officers just keep running lights and siren for no reason? That is dangerous. And one more thing…….TO CONDUCT TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT, YOU MUST SPEED OR ELSE YOU’LL BE LOOKING AT THE SAME GROUP OF CARS ALL DAY! Police Officers get trained to move though traffic and find violators. Good grief!!!!!!
Report Post »Danaglide11
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:37pmAlmost forgot………of course this officer should not have been speeding and I’m glad the FHP did what they did. However, some of these posts come from people who apparently have a bad case of badge envy.
Report Post »GregAnson
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:39pmYour rantings are just that, RANTINGS. I’m a former deputy sheriff and I would want this guy prosecuted. The department will handle it from there.
Report Post »Danaglide11
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:45pmGREGANSON – Then you should know better that most.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:47pmDANAGLIDE11 – Go back to your mothers basement and listen to the police channels some more. You are delusional.
Report Post »mostly ignored
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 6:44amhere in n.c. it’s illegal for a cop to exceed the posted speed limit unless they have lights AND siren on. and i see that law get broken every day here on the interstate. i’m also constantly seeing cops, who are stuck in a bunch of cars going slow, turn on their lights and siren just so everybody will move out of their way and then they turn them back off again once they’re free of slow traffic. they had nowhere to go they just wanna drive fast. last year we had a cop pass a stopped school bus for no reason. (common folk get their license revoked) there was a handicapped child getting off and i guess it was taking too long. there were car loads of witnesses and even a camera on the bus that saw the whole thing. the d.a. refused to press charges (because he likes to drink and drive and the cops give him a safe excort to the house.) just one hand washing the other. business as usuall here in the free world.
Report Post »BlessedONE333
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:29pmFIRST OFF: 120? Really? did he need to drive that fast? no –
SECONDLY – Cops think they are beyond the laws they enforce – so do most people holding office like obama, pelosi, bush, etc – they think the rules don’t apply to them too
THIRDLY – He is trained to drive that fast – the cops going after him were driving that fast too right? … yet when cops kill or injure others on the duty the public just turns away? lol
The best part of this was he knew he was going to get caught – did he think the lights and cars would just stop coming after him? ha! no – I think there is much more to this story and the line he gave the cops – late for work – doesn’t cut it with me
I’m thinking he had more to hide then just to come in tardy
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:18pmhe better hope he’s in the UNION !
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:10pmThis is just one out of many I encounter every day in the Broward county Florida area. I see Police run red lights (while not on any kind of call). I was tooling down I-95 one night and one was riding my bumper (did not know it was a Sherriff) and finally he cut to the extreme right lane (accross four lanes of travel) to exit to the airport and while exiting shined his spotlight backwards into my eyes. This is just one of many traffic crimes the Police commit around here on a daily bases. The problem is they think they are the law and not merely law enforcement. They (by law) are governed by the same laws as any other citizen and the type of job they have has no bearing on guilt of breaking the law and most of all, their job does NOT give them the right to risk public safety.
Report Post »Pestie67
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:15pmSorry, but the phone travels faster, call and be late, reduce your off-duty pay by the amount of time you missed on the job. He still endangered the public he swore to uphold. NO EXCUSE. He is held at a higher standard he knows about when he signed on and was sworn into office.
Report Post »diogenesthecynic
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:39pmFirst thing I get from this article is he was on his way to a second job. Here is a man / cop not on the take. Going the extra mile to support his family. Was he speeding? Yes! Was he trained to operate a motor vehicle at a high rate of speed? Yes. Give him the ticket, pay the consequences and let the man get on with his life. No Story Here.
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:18pmPolice are not to be held to a higher standard than Joe Public? If not, THEN WHY HAVE POLICE AT ALL? For me, I’d rather put my trust in a law-abiding ARMED citizen than a cop any day of the week.
Report Post »zippo
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:05pmGood comment! They are trained to drive at high speeds, the only problem is, no lights. Just guessing, but there probably were no other cars around him on a straight run. If that was the case, the only person he was endangering was himself.
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the hawk
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:22pm100 + mph is Felony indangering in most states and you are arrested ! Give him a ticket and let him go his way ?…………………Got a cop in the family ?
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:57pmYou too are an idiot. His tires aren’t rated at 120 mph and neither is he. NASCAR track is safe at 120 not the city streets.
Report Post »Sheepdog69
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:24amWow! Obviously there are a lot of you out there that have NEVER sped in your lives! Ok, he was speeding. He deserves the ticket. He failed to yield to the police cars…a misdemeanor in my state. By all means, it was idiotic and he should be punished and prosecuted, most likely even fired. Just quit acting like you have never driven fast too.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:12pmFirst we import the Third World into the country. Then we give them jobs and a gun sometimes. But what never gets left behind is the Third World culture they or they’re families arrived with. When I read this, prior to learning where it occurred, I guessed Miami. How hard was that? America is eating itself alive. We are FINISHED if this course is not soon reversed.
Report Post »firemanfrank
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:57pmI am a firefighter and friends with tons of police officers, they are union members only because you are automatically in one when you join. Most cops and firemen are conservative and contribute to a union becuase they dont have a choice, it is the heads of these unions that reap the benefits and as this political circus continues many of my co-workers are trying to find a way to withdraw ourselves from union representation.Trumpka and the like are not OUR friends and not a friend to Americas Bravest and Finest .Believe me we vote who we want to not who the union tells us to.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:55pmAs long as he is ticketed and reprimanded like any of us..then get back on the job.. he is human!
Report Post »pahalik
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:42pmYOU won’t get a ticket for doing 120. Guess what you will get…
Report Post »obxned
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:48pmWell, at least he wasn’t drunk and semi-naked.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:02pmI don’t know…. What did he look like? ;)
Report Post »firemanfrank
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:48pmMost cops are good people and joined the force with all good intentions “they are human ” Dont let the media convince you that they are all bad and law breakers. I am not a big fan of things they do but the media wants you to be against them so when the shtf you will have lost all respect for them and will continue to cause riots etc without caring what the police tell you what to do.
Report Post »pahalik
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:44pmYour partially right. I don‘t care what they tell me but it’s not because of media influence.
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:30pmthey all do it,…. its been going on for years, how can you go after him since all cops do it for years.. blah blah blah blah
Report Post »revel222
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:36pmWho cares!! You speed!! No one is putting you out there on the news…are they? Don’t join in the cop bashing….where would you be without them? A communist military whooping on you?
Report Post »Dan from NC
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:36pm“All?” Good grief.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:15pmWow, was he trying to top the naked female driver?
I always wonder when cops use their lights traveling down the road and then get to a certain point, turn them off, if they really had an emergency or they just wanted to get through traffic.
This was not an emergency and he should be fined and placed on administrative leave without pay.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:15pmThe police union that he belongs to will probably keep his job warm for him while his case is being adjudicated in the courts.
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:19pmPromote him because you are racist to stop him in the first place.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:13pmHey FLYOVERBOB: Question for ya. You think you can tell the race of a driver flying by you at a “buck,20″? The sun’s not even up at 6:30 in the morning. We need to fill the police academies with more like you.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:15pmThe arresting officer MUST have been racist against Hispanics. ~rolls eyes~
Report Post »evilhatemonger
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:09pmHe must be on someone’s list. I thought most LE agencies kept this stuff between each other & under the radar.
Report Post »castnet55
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:21pmFloridas trooper are a bit different than most other states. 120 is a bit dangerous on any road.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:29pmFHP’s been burnt too many times. This isn’t their fault. They’ve cut me a break on more than one occasion. Be polite, don’t get pulled over for being a complete imbecile and have a clean driving record when they run your DL. This trooper had to do a FELONY APPREHENSION on another cop! You think his entire command wasn’t aware of an incident like this? EVERYBODY including a couple pizza delivery guys must have showed up on this scene. INCLUDING the MDPD officer’s chain of command. The trooper couldn’t cover up something like this.
Report Post »meskew
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:08pmFire him. Period. If we gotta live by the rules so does he.
Report Post »jnfomo
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:21pmExactly!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:27pmI agree .. he was sworn to uphold the law and protect the citizens .. he was doing neither when he not only broke the law but put citizens in danger.
Report Post »Onlybev
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:05pmOh shut up Mr Perfect. He made a mistake liker a lot of people I know. I believe he should be reprimanded like anyone else, pay a fine and continue in his job. Thanks
Report Post »Sheepdog69
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:31amWould you lose your job for driving too fast? He should have the same consequences as you.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:05pmpublic roadways, those speeds….DUMBA$$
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:00pmDo I dare ask why he was driving a taxpayer owned patrol car to an off-duty job?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:10pmBecause his name was Lopez. Many agencies have supervisors that even out the quotas.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:38pmIt’s called the “Indianapolis Plan”. Officers get assigned a patrol car as take-home equipment. Just like their radios, uniforms and most of their other equipment. He was going to an off-duty job in his role as a cop. “Command presence” Do you check your speed and maybe slow down when you see a patrol car on the road? Off duty job doesn’t mean in a different career field. It’s just what they call overtime.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:58pmFamous Freddy “FASTO” Fausuto flies furiously from fifty-four flatfoots.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:22pmThank you!
Report Post »libertytreecaretaker
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:51pmIs this story worth writing?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:59pmComparing to that stupid Omar Sharif story this is way better .
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:16pmYeah, it’s worth it. We need to know just how much these lawmen think they are so much better than us regular folk. At least the Trooper was a legitimate lawman protecting and serving the community.
Report Post »Fire the offending officer, take away his taxpayer paid for car.
I bet Lopez is an affimative action hire, and I bet he never took “hey I’m late for work” as an excuse to speed.
YepImaConservative
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:47pmWOW! Fausto was going Mucho Fasto!
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