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Squad C: The untold story of the criminal investigation into Miami-Dade narcotics detectives

BY DAVID OVALLE
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In what seemed a routine and unremarkable case, a squad of Miami-Dade narcotics detectives busted a drug dealer holed up in a shabby Homestead motel, seizing more than $16,000 in cash and two pounds of marijuana stuffed in a red gym bag.

What the squad didn’t know: that dealer was no criminal.

He was actually an undercover officer posing as a doper in an elaborate sting designed to catch a suspected rogue narcotics detective named Edwin Diaz. But the carefully crafted operation last month took a surprise turn for investigators when $1,300 of the cash was taken — by a different officer.

Instead of Diaz, authorities say, a fellow Miami-Dade narcotics detective, Armando Socarras, pocketed the cash. Socarras, 30, is now charged with grand theft while both he and Diaz have been relieved of duty as Miami-Dade’s internal-affairs investigators keep digging into the activities of Narcotics Squad C.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article69461992.html#storylink=cpy