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Records Supervisor Guilaine McCray has been tasked with implementing a new reporting requirement mandated by the Director of the FBI. The new reporting system, National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS), has been implemented to improve the overall quality of crime data collected by law enforcement agencies. This data captures details on each single crime incident which includes information on victims, known offenders, relationships between victims and offenders, arrestees, and property involved in crimes.
She has been working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Aventura Police Department’s in-house records management vendor (Central Square/OSSI) to test and configure the software for the efficient and accurate data transfer to the FBI. McCray has been assisting Central Square on the configuration process to become the first agency to go live with NIBRS on the Central Square platform. McCray has also been working on a training program to train the agency in this new procedure and will be spearheading the training once she has completed testing and evaluating the data transfer between Central Square and FDLE, and ultimately the FBI.
McCray has been recognized as the APD Civilian of the Month for her steadfast dedication to completing this tedious configuration and testing process. She is always providing appropriate recommendations and feedback to ensure that their records department is in compliance with agency, state and national reporting requirements.
In mid-2018, Aventura Police Dept. Detective Sandra Marquez initiated a check fraud investigation resulting in a loss of $192,000 to the victim. Det. Marquez subsequently identified her main subject and through solid investigative skills, developed probable cause for a residential search warrant. A search warrant was executed and additional fraud- related evidence was located resulting in a federal indictment of the subject. This subject and his attorney upon realizing the strength of the case Det. Marquez had built against him, decided to cooperate with law enforcement.
The cooperating defendant detailed to Det. Marquez a criminal group involved in an ongoing mortgage fraud scheme targeting houses throughout Miami-Dade County. The subjects would locate houses which were owned by foreign nationals, who were not able to return to the United States. The subjects would then assume the identity of the true owners of the property and would refinance the property. As part of the scheme, they would recruit individuals who would establish bank accounts in the victims’ names using counterfeit passports and licenses. These subjects would then attend the closing to finalize the refinance and have the illicit funds deposited into an account that they controlled.
This investigation took over 32 months to complete and involved the partnership of the US Secret Service, and US Postal Inspectors. Upon completion, a federal grand jury returned a 22-count indictment against 12 suspects who stole over $10 million dollars from multiple banking institutions.
