FL: Former Miami-Dade cop dead of apparent suicide days before child pornography sentencing

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Source: nbcmiami.com 11/18/25
[ACSOL comment: Another tragic and unnecessary loss]

Former Miami-Dade Police Sgt. James ____ died by apparent suicide in the Federal Detention Center-Miami Monday just days before he faced a minimum 15-year sentence for producing and possessing child sexual abuse videos, his attorney has confirmed to NBC6.

The attorney, Michael Catalano, said the Bureau of Prisons informed him on Monday that James was found alone in the top bunk in his cell, dead of an apparent suicide by strangulation.

It is the second apparent suicide of an inmate held at the downtown Miami facility reported in three days.

Catalano said James communicated with him electronically around 9 a.m. Monday — not revealing anything that would suggest suicide — and was found dead about three hours later.

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Wow. 😳 He escaped severe punishment on the serious 2014 charges, then he screws up and does this?? 😫 Sad really. 😔

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$9K/mo pension?! Geez…

And be kept off the FLA SO registry because he knew how bad it really was?! (Was the DA in cahoots with the MDCSO to keep the perps coming so they can prosecute and decided to cut such a sweet deal? Where is the ethics review of this situation?)

Who says the registry is not punishment when you have those who know about it all too well doing this! Next defense of the registry should ask those who believe in it so much then why are LE dying over it at their own hands after being convicted of a sex crime(s)? It is not going to be the conscience.

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