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Congratulations to Detective Andrew Cachinero, recipient of the City of Coral Gables “Detective of the Quarter Award,” for the first quarter in 2019.
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During this first quarter of 2019 Detective Cachinero investigated the following assigned cases:
19-000995 - (Date of Incident- 02/08/2019, Armed Robbery): On a Friday evening, the victim in this case was arriving to visit her mother at 1121 Asturia Avenue. As the victim was exiting her vehicle (white Mercedes SUV), she was accosted by two subjects. One of the subjects displayed a chrome handgun and then placed an index finger to his lips indicating for the victim to remain quiet. The subject demanded the key to her vehicle, which the victim in fear of her life surrendered her vehicle’s key to the subject. The subject was last seen fleeing eastbound from the victim’s mother residence.
Detective Cachinero (with the assistance of Detective McKee) responded to the scene and embarked on the Armed Robbery Investigation, the members of the Uniform Patrol Division were able to identify several residential CCTV in the area. Detective Cachinero reviewed the security footages but was unable to collect any clear identifiable facial view of the subjects.
Knowing that the victim’s carjacked vehicle is equipped with a Sunpass transponder device, he reviewed the historical data of her Sunpass activity, and discovered the victim’s vehicle Sunpass transponder activated multiple times through numerous different toll plazas in the south Miami-Dade/Homestead area. He contacted the Sunpass authority and requested an image of the vehicle, including the occupant(s) of the carjacked vehicle. After receiving and reviewing the information from Sunpass, the image indicates that of a black male subject was operating the victim’s stolen vehicle.
Detective Cachinero created and disseminated the BOLO. He contacted his law enforcement resources to assist with identifying the subject. A profile of the juvenile subject was devel...
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