Miami Officer Caught Speeding Was Cited Before

When it comes to getting to work on time, Miami Police Officer Fausto Lopez is special.

While the rest of us have to obey traffic laws, he gets to hop on his white-and-blue-striped patrol car and speed — really speed, like 120 miles per hour – on the Turnpike, all the while zigzagging through traffic repeatedly to bypass slowpokes in their Hondas and Toyotas and those clunky rigs and tankers in his way.

So unencumbered by the rules and speed limits was Lopez at 6:28 a.m. on Oct. 11 that he even whizzed by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, who chased him for seven minutes — blue lights flashing, siren wailing — until he finally stopped 12 miles later

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/01/2482825/speeding-cop-has-gall-but-no-character.html#ixzz1cbwISbaC