Miami-Dade Corrections Section
OPA-LOCKA — For each various resources, CBS News Miami has acquired Opa-Locka officer Johane Hendrick Taylor Jr. has been arrested for the second time in one particular year on many fees on Wednesday afternoon.
He’s at present in the custody of the Broward Sheriff’s Workplace, and resources explain to CBS News Miami he is on the way or has by now been booked in Broward County Jail. Resources say the alleged offenses took area in Opa-Locka, and he will ultimately be transferred to TGK in Miami-Dade County.
Resources convey to CBS News Miami that Taylor is at the moment suspended with fork out pending the end result of an inside affairs investigation. He’s the brother of the present-day Opa-locka Mayor, John Taylor, Jr. Their mother, Myra Taylor, also served as mayor on and off for 10 many years.
His former arrest was on February 28th, 2023, on domestic abuse charges. The allegations have been that he assaulted his wife and children. Court docket information present the circumstance was disposed of. The paperwork only indicated the prosecution no for a longer time wished to continue with the situation on July 26th, 2023.
The past allegations towards Taylor go back as considerably as 2014. A Miramar Law enforcement report mentioned that his wife alleged in just one incident in their child’s bed room that Taylor “threw his overall body on her to convey her down… strike her on her sides, back again, and legs.”
In 2017, shortly soon after they have been married, the target alleged an additional physical altercation.
In accordance to that police report, in 2020 at New Beginnings Church, the sufferer claims Taylor “dragged” her out of their auto with their three little ones inside of it, and “threw her on to the flooring and started hitting her on her deal with and sides.”
In that report, the target alleged in 2022, she tried using to connect with off their relationship. She claimed Taylor attacked her and broke at minimum just one of her ribs.
The report also stated that on January 28th, 2023, the target alleged Taylor threatened her with his private handgun and put a gun to her head.
The sufferer also alleged he physically harmed their 3 youngsters, according to the Miramar Law enforcement report, with the maternal grandmother telling detectives she saw the defendant strike their eldest boy or girl with a vacuum cleaner.
