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Posted on Wed, Jan. 02, 2008
Beach cop investigated over bawdy video
BY DAVID OVALLE
Internal affairs detectives are investigating a music video posted on Youtube.com that shows a scantily clad dancing woman at a bar briefly performing simulated oral sex on a uniformed Miami Beach police officer.

The video was posted by a user named ''Caselord'' in late November.

The internal affairs bureau has been aware of the video for about a week, Detective Juan Sanchez, a spokesman, said on Wednesday.

Officer Elpidio Garcia, 35, remains on patrol on Miami Beach.

The two-minute, 12-second video shows a party scene at an unknown outdoor Miami Beach bar, set to a thumping electronic beat.

Early in the video, the burly, bald officer is shown surrounded by three dancing women. Throughout the video, a woman in a plaid skirt can be seen dancing and lifting up her shirt.

Toward the end of the video, she is seen dancing -- and then simulating oral sex -- on Garcia, who is standing next to a sidewalk drinking from a large water bottle. It was unclear whether the officer was providing off-duty security for the bar.

This is the second Youtube video to surface in recent months that show a uniformed Miami Beach police officer in a party scene.

In October, a video was posted that allegedly showed disgraced Officer Eduardo Macias at a bar surrounded by cheering revelers.

Macias is facing trial on official misconduct charges after he allegedly tried dating a woman he had fondled while transporting to the police station. He has pleaded not guilty.


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