Miami-Dade Corrections Officer Juan Llanes dies from COVID-19
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department announced Friday that Correctional Officer Juan Llanes died Monday after being diagnosed with COVID-19. He was 57 years old.
According to a news release from the department, Llanes was hired in February of 1988. He worked at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center until 1992 and was later transferred to the Metro-West Detention Center, where he worked until 2010.
Llanes last worked at the Hospital Services Unit.
“I met Officer Llanes in September 2011 when I transferred to Ward-D. When we first met I said to him, ‘You really speak your mind,’ and he said, ‘Yes I do.’ I said to Juan, ‘Me too’ and we hit it off ever since,” Correctional Officer Lynette Smith said in a statement. “Anyone that knew him, knows he was a hard worker. His family came first, then his friends. We really became good f
Officer Juan Llanes, 57, passed away Monday, the department announced
Published February 5, 2021 •
Updated on February 5, 2021 at 12:52 pm
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A Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation officer who spent more than 30 years with the department died this week after battling COVID-19.
Officer Juan Llanes, 57, passed away Monday, the department announced.
Llanes had joined the department in 1988 and worked at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center until 1992 and later transferred to Metro-West Detention Center until 2010. His last assignment was at the Hospital Services Unit.
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WATCH: 3 women chased, robbed by gun-wielding man in Miami Beach, police say
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Three women from Ohio were robbed Friday morning a block away from busy Washington Avenue in Miami Beach.
The armed robbery was caught on camera as the women walked on 15th Street around 7:06 a.m.
The women told Miami Beach police that a white car playing loud music pulled up and that’s when a man, later identified as Tajani Shepard of Fresno, Calif., got out of the car and pointed a gun at them.
(Watch the video below.)
As the women tried to run away, one of them fell, according to an arrest report. That’s when Shepard took that woman’s purse and cell phone and then continued to chase after the other two.
MIAMI – A fugitive who corrections officers erroneously released on Monday from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County was taken back into custody Friday morning, authorities confirmed.
Eduardo Orama Cabana was mistakenly freed on his 52nd birthday, but he logged on to Zoom for a virtual court hearing on Thursday.
During the hearing, Assistant Miami-Dade Public Defender Fadya Salem said he had been reunited with his Chihuahua and he needed more time to make arrangements to turn himself in. He had logged on with his dog, but by the time his case came up, he had logged off.