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Former Biscayne Park, Florida Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano who framed black people for crimes they didn’t commit has been sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge.

On Tuesday U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Atesiano to 36 months in prison for conspiracy of depriving multiple people of their civil rights. Atesiano encouraged his officers to pin unsolved crimes on Black people with “somewhat of a record” in order to keep his record perfect.

Atesiano told Moore on Tuesday, “When I took the job, I was not prepared…I made some very, very bad decisions” the Miami Herald reported.

Three officers who worked under Atesiano also pleaded guilty to falsifying arrest affidavits.

According to the Miami Herald:

“In August, Officers Charlie Dayoub, 38, and Raul Fernandez, 62, pleaded guilty that they falsified the arrest affidavits for a 16-year-old black suspect for four unsolved break-ins in June 2013. That was just a month before then-police chief Atesiano touted the town’s 100 percent burglary clearance record at a village commission meeting. In October, Judge Moore sent each to prison for a maximum one-year term.” “A third Biscayne Park police officer admitted falsifying arrest warrants for two men at the direction of Atesiano during 2013 and 2014.”

Atesiano resigned from the Biscayne Park force in 2014 and previously worked as an officer for Sunny Isles Beach, Hialeah and Miami-Dade County Corrections.

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