The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office announced the arrests of almost two dozen car-tag agency employees who, investigators say, obtained personal information from a state database to fraudulently fill out vehicle-transaction paperwork.
The arrests came after a six-month investigation, which is ongoing and includes the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and the county’s Tax Collector’s Office after the latter agency detected red flags in some of the auto-tag agency paperwork that it audited, officials said during a press conference Friday.
The government entities dubbed the investigation “Operation Ghost Writer.”…