Devan Patel, Naples Daily News
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11:21 am UTC Feb. 6, 2021
Devan Patel, Naples Daily News
Published
11:21 am UTC Feb. 6, 2021
This story was updated on Feb. 5, 2021, to reflect that while former FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey’s name was on a letter stating why a Florida agency declined to punish an officer who was forced out at the Sunny Isles Police Department in 2006, the letter was sent by the then-chairman of the Probable Cause Panel of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission.
Joseph Floyd turned Florida’s Crestview Police Department into a criminal enterprise, the judge said at his 2013 sentencing, but his willingness to break the rules didn’t start there.
Boyfriend of ‘Ali’ movie extra found stuffed in suitcase arrested over her murder 19 years later
Updated: 17 Dec 2020, 12:27
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THE boyfriend of an ‘Ali’ movie extra found stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in a canal has been charged with her murder two decades later.
The remains of Rebeca Pena, 26, were discovered by boaters inside the floating suitcase, tied with two 25-pound weight lifting plates to keep her body submerged in a north Miami-Dade canal.
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Ms Pena had been stalked by Curtis, say MPD detectivesCredit: miami.cbslocal.com/
Also inside the suitcase was a magazine addressed to the Pena family with a Silver Springs, Maryland address.
Arrest made in Miami-Dade cold case murder from nearly 20 years ago
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade police and the State Attorney’s office announced that a cold case murder has been solved.
45-year-old Berkley Calvin Curtis is facing a second-degree murder charge, arrested for the 2001 killing of his ex-girlfriend, 26-year-old Rebecca Peña.
State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle confirmed the arrest Tuesday.
“It’s a very circumstantial case,” Rundle told Loal 10′s Liane Morejon. “The present-day technology helped give us pieces today that weren’t in existence 20 years ago.”
Peña went missing April 11th, 2001 after failing to come home from her job as an extra on the set of the movie “Ali”.
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