Miami tries to tamp down cop v. cop 'feud'

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper's car covered in feces in his Miami driveway may have been the last straw.

Miami's police chief called for an end to any possible feud his department may have with the Florida Highway Patrol Thursday.

"Whatever issues may be out there have to stop, and stop now," Chief Manuel Orosa told reporters, according to the Miami Herald.

Orosa spoke with the media after he held a meeting with more than 40 officers early Thursday at a police department auditorium.

Tensions began last month, after the chase and arrest of a Miami Police officer at gunpoint by a FHP trooper on the Florida Turnpike in Broward County.

FHP Trooper D.J. Watts took Officer Fausto Lopez into custody on the morning of Oct. 11 after he was stopped for driving over 120 mph, according to the FHP.

Lopez was hit with a reckless driving charge, and the vice president of Miami's police union blasted Watts' actions.

On Tuesday, Miami Police seemingly returned the favor, pulling over an FHP trooper on the turnpike extension outside Miami city limits.

Orosa acknowledged the latest incident, but said there was no "tit-for-tat going on out there." He said the officer wanted to advise the trooper that he was speeding.

The feces incident happened Saturday, when FHP Trooper Joe Sanchez's patrol car was found covered in human excrement in his driveway.

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Sanchez said he'd left his home at 6:45 a.m. Saturday and didn't notice anything wrong with the 2007 Ford Crown Victoria, but when he got home at around 10 a.m., the car "was splattered with human excrement," the report said.

A hazmat company was brought in to clean up the car. FHP spokesman Sgt. Mark Wysocky said Wednesday there are no witnesses or suspects.

Sanchez is a former Miami commissioner who lost a 2009 bid to become mayor to Tomas Regalado. He couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday.

However Wysocky said he didn't know if the feces incident had anything to do with the Turnpike arrest.

"We don't know, we don't have any witnesses, we don't have anything," Wysocky said. "We're not attributing it to anything right now."