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Ex-officer sentenced in corruption

By Staff | Jan 9, 2009

MIAMI (AP) – A former Miami police officer accused of providing protection for purported shipments of cocaine will spend nine years in prison.

According to a news release, Judge Patricia A. Seitz also sentenced Jorge Hernandez on Thursday to three years of supervised release after the competition of his prison term.

Geovani Nunez, who was also arrested after an eight-month undercover FBI operation, has already been sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison. Both Hernandez and Nunez had previously pleaded guilty to the charge.

Prosecutors said the veteran officers were paid a combined $39,500 by a man they thought was involved in numerous illegal businesses. That man, however, was secretly an FBI informant and all of their conversations were taped.