Posted on 09/14/2007 12:50:54 PM PDT by flattorney
(CBS4) DORAL Miami-Dade police have arrested four people in connection with the shootings of four Miami-Dade police officers, one of whom died.According to CBS4’s news partner The Miami Herald, three of those arrested are charged with aiding the suspected cop killer Shawn LaBeet.. Those suspects are Alba Bello, 47; her son, Alain Gonzalez, 24; and Bello’s boyfriend, Lazaro Guardiola, 35.
The Herald reports all three have been charged with accessory after the fact for harboring LaBeet and are being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Basically, investigators believe, they helped hide LaBeet as he hid from police in the wake of Thursday’s shooting. The Herald states that investigators think LaBeet ran from his car, which he abandoned near a canal, to Bello’s home at 12914 SW 202nd Street and hid there until someone else came to pick him up. Authorities say LaBeet was friends with Bello’s son, Alain Gonzalez. In addition, LaBeet’s girlfriend, Renee Dangelo, 26, has also been charged, according to The Herald. Police say she gave detectives a false name for LeBeet, which caused delays in the investigation.
Police still don’t have a motive behind the police shooting that left Officer Jose Somohano dead and three others injured. Police say the suspected gunman opened fire with a high-powered weapon during a traffic stop in Southwest Miami-Dade. Hours later, Labeet was found about 30 miles north of the original shooting scene. He was killed by police after an exchange of gunfire in Pembroke Pines.
Sept 15: Latest Details How the Deadly Day's Events Unfolded
Sept 15: Latest Details: Six Linked to Police Killer's Getaway
<> Police say friends and relatives helped gunman elude capture for hours. All have been arrested and charged.
- - Reports clears up a number of matters and how the six(6) accomplices arrested were involved. From reading this, it was only due to the Maimi-Dade PD's, and others, outstanding and huge effort that they caught Shawn LaBeet, who was a drugged up illegal alien (from St. Croix, Virgin Islands), gang member, and drug dealer when he shot 4 MDPD officers.
Sept 15: Step-by-Step Interactive Timeline Crime Scene Map
Snips From Various Local News Sources
Police disclosed that LaBeet did not fire his 9 mm semiautomatic weapon as officers closed in on him, but was killed when he refused orders to drop the gun. Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward County medical examiner, said late Friday that LaBeet was shot 11 times by Miami-Dade police. He said the autopsy, partially completed Friday, showed the two bullets that did the most damage entered through his right flank, went up into and through his liver, then into his lungs in his chest cavity. LaBeet was also shot once in the middle of the back. The remainder of the bullets hit upper and lower extremities, Perper said. He said it is too early to determine whether LaBeet was on any drug.
Shawn LaBeet's nephew, Jaleel Torres - 22, was arrested and charged with resisting an officer with violence as investigators tried to question him about his uncle's whereabouts, said Miami-Dade Police Commander Linda O'Brien. Torres face was severely bruised from the altercation though details of his arrest were not available Friday. (Good - hope the police beat him and the other 5 some more when they booked them through the MD County jail.)
New details emerged Friday about how LaBeet for years impersonated a Jacksonville man whose identity he apparently stole. LaBeet used the alias of Kevin Wehner to sign up to vote in Miami-Dade, register at least two cars and even file a case in small-claims court following an auto accident. Many of his recent friends only knew his as Kevin Wehner. More significantly, say police, LaBeet purchased six high-powered assault weapons and three handguns between December 2005 and March 2006 under Wehner's name.
Shawn LaBeet was an Illegal Alien - According to Kevin Wehner's uncle, Wehner's wallet was stolen four years ago while he was vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Shawn LeBeet is from. Wehner reported the missing wallet to authorities there, and then identity theft to Florida police when he began getting notices in the mail about cars he never bought, said his uncle, John Wehner of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Posted for FlA by TAB
Bond set for three accused of aiding man suspected of killing Miami-Dade police officer
Sunday, September 16, 2007
MIAMI (AP) -- A judge set bond at $250,000 each for three of six people accused of aiding a man suspected of killing a Miami-Dade police officer and injuring three others. Bond was set Saturday for Alba Bello; her boyfriend, Lazaro Guardiola; and her son, Alain Gonzalez, who are charged with accessory after the fact, said Janelle Hall, a jail spokeswoman. A judge mandated that the three reveal where their bond money comes from if they make bail. They are accused of harboring Shawn Sherwin Labeet, 25, who authorities say fled after fatally shooting Officer Jose Somohano and injuring three other officers on Thursday. Labeet was found 30 miles away hours later. Police said they shot and killed him after he refused to drop his firearm. Attorneys for Bello, Guardiola and Gonzalez argued their clients did not know the suspect had shot four police officers when he turned up at their home armed, The Miami Herald reported in Sunday editions. Investigators said the three admitted driving LaBeet and dropping him off with his brother, Shane Labeet. Shane Labeet dropped his brother off at the home of relative Jaleel Torres, police said. Police said both men have been charged, but no details were immediately available. Police said Shawn LaBeet's girlfriend, Renee D'Angelo, misled officers in their search for the suspect. D'Angelo, who is charged with accessory after the fact, was being held on $50,000 bond, Hall said.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
-- Friends, family and Law enforcement officers are expected to attend an emotional service Tuesday, September 18th for Officer Jose Somohano, who was shot and killed in the line of duty Thursday. September 13th. The beloved husband and father of young children will be honored and remembered during a memorial service scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. The memorial service will take place at the Pharmed Arena located at the Florida International University in 11200 southwest 8th street. After the Memorial service Somohano’s body will be laid to rest at the Caballero Rivero Woodlawn Cemetetery located at 11655 southwest 117 avenue. 37-years-old Jose Somohano was with the Miami-Dade department since 2003, until he was fatally shot Thursday morning. The four officers originally were conducting burglary surveillance south of Cutler Bay in Southwest Miami-Dade when they stopped the man because he was driving a car erratically. Police say the suspect, identified as Shawn LaBeet, then opened fire.
Seriously Injured Officer Faces Months of Surgeries and Rehabilitation
Miami Herald by Casey Woods
Sept 15, 2007
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/238410.html
- - Officer Jody Wright will need a year or more of therapy on her knee after having survived the shooting that killed another officer and wounded two others.
Miami-Dade police Officer Jody Wright, who has a grapefruit-sized exit wound on her right leg from a high-velocity bullet, has a chance at walking again -- but only after enduring at least a year of painful reconstructive surgeries and therapy, her doctors said Friday. ''This is exactly the type of wound you would see in war,'' Ryder Trauma Center orthopedic surgeon Dr. Gregory Zych said at a news conference at Jackson Memorial Hospital. ``This is a very, very different injury from the common handgun Saturday night special wound we see in urban trauma centers.'' Because the bullet came from a high-powered assault rifle, it had a destructive force that was exponentially greater than that of a regular weapon.
Zych, who operated on Wright after she was airlifted to the hospital, said the bullet destroyed 80 percent of the bone in a six-inch span below her knee. Wright was in stable condition and currently not at risk of losing her lower leg, doctors said. She was being transferred out of the intensive care unit Friday. Zych said that rehabilitation of Wright's knee would take at least a year, and that it was too early to talk about whether the wound would end her career as a police officer. Wright, who is unmarried and has no children, has been on the police force since June 2005. She is a University of Miami graduate. A blood drive at South Miami City Hall for the surviving officers was packed Friday. South Miami and Community Blood Bank officials extended the drive to 9 p.m. because of the overwhelming response.
If any of the perps are illegals, “no matter what Rick thinks”, then the murder wouldn’t have happened if the bastards weren’t in the country. And for those of you trying to DENY there is an illegal immigration problem, and it “isn’t connected” to crime, get your heads OUT OF YOUR @$$es. We have some bad crime here in Colorado, and a very large percentage of the perpetrators ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM MEXICO, COLUMBIA and other countries not even IN the Americas.
If any of the perps are illegals, “no matter what Rick thinks”, then the murder wouldn’t have happened if the bastards weren’t in the country. And for those of you trying to DENY there is an illegal immigration problem, and it “isn’t connected” to crime, get your heads OUT OF YOUR @$$es. We have some bad crime here in Colorado, and a very large percentage of the perpetrators ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM MEXICO, COLUMBIA and other countries not even IN the Americas.
I asked for a rational justification, and I received one. Your post-menopausal, meaningless hysteria is better directed to someone who denies we have an illegal immigration problem.
Thanks for posting. Condolences to Officer Jose Somohano’s family and friends. America’s finest.
LOL!
The illegal immigration problem is precisely the issue in a lot of recent crimes, including murder. I don’t know why people like you have to be “insulting” in their replies... “post-menopausal, meaningless hysteria” — Nothing I said was “hysteria”, nor “post-menapausal”, and it certainly wasn’t meaningless. Instead, your own “quest for knowledge” is limited by your personal preconceived notions. If the individuals involved in this recent crime, and cop killing, and they TURN OUT to be illegal, then I would think that anyone who turns a blind eye to the situation is nothing but an ignorant fool.
Not surprising at all, when you cannot remember your initial reply to me on this thread.
-- Status of 6 that help Shawn LaBeet --
1. LaBeets girlfriend, Renee D'Angelo, 26, posted $50,000 bond Sunday and was released. D'Angelo, who has three children with Labeet, is charged with accessory to murder after the fact.
2. The nephew of LaBeet, Jaleel Torres, 22, posted $5,000 bond and was released. On the day of the shootings, Torres got into a confrontation with police, when they questioned him where his uncle Shawn LaBeet was, and Torres face was severely bruised in the altercation.
3. LaBeet's brother Shane R. Labeet, 32, is held on $250,000 bond in the Broward County jail awaiting extradition to Miami-Dade County. He is charged with accessory to murder after the fact.
4. As LaBeet's brother, the other three - Alba Caridad Bello Denis, 47, her son Alain Gonzalez, 24 and her boyfriend Lazaro Guardiola, 35 - are charged with accessory to murder after the fact and are being held in Miami-Dade County jail on $250,000 bond each. If they can raise bail, the judge stated they have to prove their bond money comes from legitimate sources before they are released.
Updated timeline details and reason for $250,000 bonds.
After the shooting - leaving his girlfriend's house with her car - Shawn LaBeet drove to the home of his friend, 24-year-old Alain Gonzalez. Gonzalez's mother, Alba Bello, and her boyfriend, Lazaro Guardiola, were home at the time. The trio allegedly helped Labeet change his appearance before driving him out of the area using back roads and avoiding the streets that were swarming with police. Investigators said Gonzalez, his mother and Guardiola dropped off Labeet at a wooded area near Krome Avenue and Okeechobee Road. Once there, Labeet's brother, Shane Labeet, picked him up in his Pontiac Vibe, investigators said.
Police stopped the Pontiac Vibe in Coral Ridge and found Shane Labeet, his wife and two children, but there was no sign of Shawn Labeet. That was because they had already dropped him off to his nephew's house, Jaleel Torres, in Miami Gardens. LaBeet forced Torres to give him his car and drove to a friends at the Heron Pond apartments in Pembroke Pines late Thursday night. The friend was not home.
Thursday night, Miami-Dade police received an anonymous tip that LaBeet was at Heron Pond apartments. A MDPD swat team swarmed the apartments where they found LaBeet hiding by the pool area. When LaBeet refused to drop his 9mm pistol and surrender he was shot and killed.
It was confirmed that Shawn Sherwin LaBeet was a St Croix, US Virgin Islands native who was living in South Florida illegally. LaBeet stole Kevin Wehner's billfold and identification four years ago while Wehner was on vacation in St. Croix. LaBeet had been using Wehner name as alias ever since that date.
Posted for FlA by TAB
Thanks for the updated information. BTTT!
FR Threads: Bang List | Officer Down | Cop Killer |Assault Weapons Aug. 6, 2007: Broward Sheriff's Office Detective Maury Hernandez was shot in the head during a traffic stop. He survived but only with months of hospitalization and has been unable to work since the shooting.09.13.07: 4 Miami-Dade Police Officers Shot without Warning - All Related FR threads - - 1 killed, 1 seriously injured, 2 minor injuries from an assault rifle. In a massive day long manhunt the shooter - Shawn LaBeet – was found and killed, just before midnight, by MDPD SWAT. Six people (4 initially – see FR thread) that aided LaBeet were arrested and charges. In that an assault rifle was used in the shootings it renewed demands, among law enforcement departments and associations across the U.S., for a new Federal assault weapons ban. FR threads and posts on this subject are included in the “All Related FR threads” link above. 1030 NW 111 Avenue ~ Miami, FL 33172 Office: 305.594.6662 ~ FAX: 305.594.0997 ~ Email: poatoffice@msn.com  09.18.07: In the last six weeks, 8 South Florida Police Officers have been shot at in the line of duty with 2 killed, 2 critically injured, 2 not seriously injured, and 2 officers were the bullets missed them. On the day of MDPD officer Jose Somohano's funeral, which 6,000 attended, an ex-police officer shot at two Miami-Dade police officers during a traffic stop - See FR thread. As a result, Miami-Dade, Broward County, and Palm Beach County Police Departments have stepped up actions against the increase in street violence including a “zero tolerance” for any person(s) that points a gun at a police officer, which includes the use of deadly force. The Miami-Dade police chief also approved adding assault weapons to the force, which Broward and Palm Beach PD’s already have. 08.15.07 – Further, on this date, a third Florida police officer was shot and killed. Hillsborough (Tampa) sheriff Sgt. Ron Harrison, a 29 year police veteran and father of four children, was shot and killed as he drove his cruiser. The shooter, Michael Allen Phillips, was later killed by Police SWAT. Sgt Harrison had just finished a DWI checkpoint, and was sitting in his patrol car in the town of Brandon, when a suspect approached his vehicle and fired into the car through the open passenger side window him multiple times. Harrison activated his lights and siren and tried to drive off but lost control of his patrol car, struck another vehicle and then crashed into a tree. The sergeant was taken to Brandon Community Hospital, where he died from his wounds. A short time later, a woman called 911 saying her boyfriend may have been involved in the shooting of a deputy and was at a home. A SWAT team converged on that home and negotiations began with the suspect who was barricaded inside. The suspect fired multiple shots at the SWAT team, who returned fire, killing him. 08.10.07 - FBI Notice Seeking Help on Solving Sergeant Chris Reyka Killing America's Most Wanted: Killers of Sgt Chris Reyka On Aug 10, 2007, around 1:30 a.m., Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale) Sgt. Reyka, an 18-year veteran and father of four children, pulled into a Walgreens parking lot to check the license plate of a suspicious car. Without warning, he was ambushed by two men and fatally shot five times from 10 fired shots. Thanks to big money business and sports donors the current award for information leading to the arrest of the killers of Sgt. Reyka is $267,000. As of Dec 1, 2007 this murder remains unsolved. 11.21.07: His public death, their private grief: Life without Sgt. Chris Reyka It was the second shooting of a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy in a week. Around noon on Monday, August 6, 2007 BSO Deputy Maury Hernandez, 28, was shot in the head after pulling over a man on a motorcycle in Hollywood, just south of Fort Lauderdale. He received catastrophic damage to the right side of his skull and is still hospitalized, as of 9/18/07, but is slowly improving. The shooter, David Maldonado, 23, was apprehended and is awaiting trial on attempted first-degree murder. The person that improperly sold Maldonado the gun was also arrested and charged. NOTE: Both officers Reyka and Hernandez were shot with 9mm handguns not assault rifles. |
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FR Threads: Bang List | Officer Down | Cop Killer |Assault Weapons Aug. 6, 2007: Broward Sheriff's Office Detective Maury Hernandez was shot in the head during a traffic stop. He survived but only with months of hospitalization and has been unable to work since the shooting.09.13.07: 4 Miami-Dade Police Officers Shot without Warning - All Related FR threads - - 1 killed, 1 seriously injured, 2 minor injuries from an assault rifle. In a massive day long manhunt the shooter - Shawn LaBeet – was found and killed, just before midnight, by MDPD SWAT. Six people (4 initially – see FR thread) that aided LaBeet were arrested and charges. In that an assault rifle was used in the shootings it renewed demands, among law enforcement departments and associations across the U.S., for a new Federal assault weapons ban. FR threads and posts on this subject are included in the “All Related FR threads” link above. 1030 NW 111 Avenue ~ Miami, FL 33172 Office: 305.594.6662 ~ FAX: 305.594.0997 ~ Email: poatoffice@msn.com 09.18.07: In the last six weeks, 8 South Florida Police Officers have been shot at in the line of duty with 2 killed, 2 critically injured, 2 not seriously injured, and 2 officers were the bullets missed them. On the day of MDPD officer Jose Somohano's funeral, which 6,000 attended, an ex-police officer shot at two Miami-Dade police officers during a traffic stop - See FR thread. As a result, Miami-Dade, Broward County, and Palm Beach County Police Departments have stepped up actions against the increase in street violence including a “zero tolerance” for any person(s) that points a gun at a police officer, which includes the use of deadly force. The Miami-Dade police chief also approved adding assault weapons to the force, which Broward and Palm Beach PD’s already have. 08.15.07 – Further, on this date, a third Florida police officer was shot and killed. Hillsborough (Tampa) sheriff Sgt. Ron Harrison, a 29 year police veteran and father of four children, was shot and killed as he drove his cruiser. The shooter, Michael Allen Phillips, was later killed by Police SWAT. Sgt Harrison had just finished a DWI checkpoint, and was sitting in his patrol car in the town of Brandon, when a suspect approached his vehicle and fired into the car through the open passenger side window him multiple times. Harrison activated his lights and siren and tried to drive off but lost control of his patrol car, struck another vehicle and then crashed into a tree. The sergeant was taken to Brandon Community Hospital, where he died from his wounds. A short time later, a woman called 911 saying her boyfriend may have been involved in the shooting of a deputy and was at a home. A SWAT team converged on that home and negotiations began with the suspect who was barricaded inside. The suspect fired multiple shots at the SWAT team, who returned fire, killing him. 08.10.07 - FBI Notice Seeking Help on Solving Sergeant Chris Reyka Killing America's Most Wanted: Killers of Sgt Chris Reyka On Aug 10, 2007, around 1:30 a.m., Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale) Sgt. Reyka, an 18-year veteran and father of four children, pulled into a Walgreens parking lot to check the license plate of a suspicious car. Without warning, he was ambushed by two men and fatally shot five times from 10 fired shots. Thanks to big money business and sports donors the current award for information leading to the arrest of the killers of Sgt. Reyka is $267,000. As of Dec 1, 2007 this murder remains unsolved. 11.21.07: His public death, their private grief: Life without Sgt. Chris Reyka It was the second shooting of a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy in a week. Around noon on Monday, August 6, 2007 BSO Deputy Maury Hernandez, 28, was shot in the head after pulling over a man on a motorcycle in Hollywood, just south of Fort Lauderdale. He received catastrophic damage to the right side of his skull and is still hospitalized, as of 9/18/07, but is slowly improving. The shooter, David Maldonado, 23, was apprehended and is awaiting trial on attempted first-degree murder. The person that improperly sold Maldonado the gun was also arrested and charged. NOTE: Both officers Reyka and Hernandez were shot with 9mm handguns not assault rifles.
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Update: Posted for FlAttorney by MAR
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