Posted on 03/02/2005 8:09:43 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MIAMI (AP) - A jury found a Miami city commissioner guilty Friday of threatening a police detective following a highway chase last August.
The six-member Circuit Court jury convicted City Commissioner Arthur E. Teele Jr. of making threats to a public servant but acquitted him of aggravated assault. According to documents filed when he was arrested, Teele was under surveillance because of a corruption investigation at the time of the Aug. 24 incident.
Police said Teele drove his car at Miami-Dade County Police Detective Mark Bullard and tried to ram him off the road. Once stopped, police said, Teele threatened to shoot officers if they ever followed his wife again as part of the corruption probe.
Teele remains free on $100,000 bail. He faces a sentence ranging from probation to five years in prison at sentencing, scheduled for May 4.
David Garvin, Teele's attorney, said he will appeal the conviction.
Teele is charged in another case with accepting $135,000 in kickbacks from two construction companies from 1999 to 2003, when he headed the city's Community Redevelopment Agency. Garvin has said those charges are "unequivocally untrue."
In lawyer speak this means that the charges are 100% true.
Who does he think he is? John Gotti?
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