Raimundo Atesiano had a statistic to tout at a city council meeting for the tiny village of 3,000 in the middle of Florida's Miami-Dade County.
The Biscayne Park Police Department, of which Atesiano was police chief at the time, had a clearance rate of 100 percent for burglaries, he said at the July 2013 meeting, according to federal court documents.
But the statistics were a fictitious stunt to gain favor with elected officials, according to an indictment filed by Benjamin Greenberg, the United States Attorney for South Florida, which his office announced on Monday.
