police chief is accused of framing four crimes on a teen so he could claim a 100% burglary clearance

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A police chief is accused of framing four crimes on a teen so he could claim a 100% burglary clearance rate

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/us/police-chief-frames-teen-for-burglaries-trnd/

The police chief of Biscayne Park had a problem.

The tiny Miami village of just over 3,000 people had a near-perfect burglary clearance rate, a fine achievement for any police force.

But, he had four unsolved burglaries on his hands.

So, say prosecutors, Chief Raimundo Atesiano and two officers hatched a plan: They allegedly framed the burglaries on a 16-year-old.

On Monday, the Justice Department announced that it had indicted Atesiano and patrol officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez for conspiring to violate a juvenile's civil rights by intentionally making a false arrest.

In the indictment, the teen is referred only as "T.D."

Prosecutors say Atesiano directed the officers to arrest T.D. in June 2013 and charge him with unsolved burglaries at four homes "knowing that there was no evidence and no lawful basis to support such charges."
The next month, Atesiano went to a Biscayne Park city council meeting and announced that his department had a 100 percent clearance rate for burglaries, the indictment said.