MIAMI — A 15-year Miami Fire Rescue veteran is facing multiple charges following an arrest, his employer confirmed Tuesday.
MFR officials confirmed that Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies took Capt. Maximo Vasquez, 42, into custody early Monday morning.
Jail records show that he’s facing charges of assault on a police officer, firefighter or intake officer, misuse of 911, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.
According to an arrest report, deputies had gone to Vasquez’s southwest Miami-Dade home regarding his wife, who was missing.
The report states that Vasquez was “visibly irate and shouting” as a deputy explained that he or she would file a report, giving him an MDSO case card.
Vasquez “then became increasingly irate when provided the case card and threw the provided case card at the deputy,” the report states, leading to his arrest.
The report states he had called 911 twice before the card-throwing incident, “only to demean deputies that arrived on scene and demand that deputies find his wife.”
“At this time, we have not been in contact with the individual,” a department official said in an email. “Once contact is established, the department will initiate a thorough internal investigation in accordance with our policies and procedures.”.
Records show he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set.”
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct Vasquez’s rank.
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