As the Miami Police Department (MPD) investigates claims that four police officers received Rolex watches from former Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, records reveal that two of the officers were quietly demoted last month.
A week before Miami resident Thomas Kennedy filed a complaint alleging that Suarez gifted the high-end luxury watches to his former sergeants-at-arms, Pierre Cazassus, Yamil Martinez Sanchez, Stanley J. Paul-Noel, and Andrea Preston before leaving office, two of the officers — Cazassus and Paul-Noel — were demoted, resulting in a pay cut. Department records show they are now assigned to the intelligence and terrorism unit within the criminal investigations division.
In the City of Miami, sergeants-at-arms provide security to the commissioners and mayor…