Pubdate: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 Source: Naples Daily News (FL) Copyright: 2001 Naples Daily News. Contact: http://www.naplesnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/284 Note: Publisher prints several newspapers - please indicate which newspaper in LTEs. FORMER MIAMI-DADE OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO COCAINE CHARGES MIAMI - A former Miami-Dade police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to armed cocaine trafficking, conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and attempted trafficking in cocaine. The conviction of Reynaldo Garcia followed a three-year investigation by the Miami-Dade Police Department and the State Attorney's Office that a police officer was ripping off drug dealers, State Attorney Kathy Fernandez Rundle said Thursday. In 1998, police received information that Garcia and another police officer were stealing cocaine from drug dealers. The department arranged a sting operation. Garcia, who had been retired two weeks, and another officer confronted the undercover officer and stole the cocaine. "Garcia besmirched the good work that our police men and women accomplish everyday," Fernandez Rundle said. - --- MAP posted-by: