Florida’s Dirtiest Cop Convicted Of Falsely Imprisoning Man For Attempting To File Complaint Against Him
German Bosque was found guilty of tampering with a witness and false imprisonment for an August 2011 incident.
German Bosque, the Opa-locka police sergeant with a long history of beating allegations of misconduct, did not escape the rap this time.
Jurors Thursday convicted Bosque, 50, of falsely imprisoning a youth counselor who tried to file a complaint against him at the Opa-locka police station in August 2011.
After two hours of deliberations, the Miami-Dade jury also convicted Bosque of tampering with a witness.
Both charges are felonies. He faces anywhere from probation to 10 years in prison on those counts.
He was acquitted of a misdemeanor battery charge.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Miguel de la O did not send Bosque to jail after the verdict, placing him under house arrest instead, with a $50,000 bond, pending his sentencing hearing.
The verdict was a stinging rebuke to Bosque, who insisted that he was a good cop unfairly maligned by the news media. He earned infamy for remaining employed as a police officer despite an internal affairs history of more than 40 complaints, including allegations that he beat up youths, hid drugs in his cop car and called in sick to take a vacation in Mexico.
Prosecutor Sandra Miller-Batiste called it a “bittersweet” victory because cops are expected to protect the public.
“It’s never a good thing when you have to take down a police officer,” Miller-Batiste said.