Prosecutor Went to Trial on Homicides While Coordinating Anti-Gang Roundup
Alejandra LopezMiami-Dade State Attorney's Office Alejandra Lopez has been a Miami-Dade prosecutor for 10 years, expanding the breadth…
December 11, 2017 at 06:00 AM
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Alejandra Lopez
Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office
Alejandra Lopez has been a Miami-Dade prosecutor for 10 years, expanding the breadth of her cases over time.
In the last year, she secured trial convictions in five homicides while serving as the lead prosecutor in two wide-ranging investigations of gun violence and drug sales in the Perrine and Goulds communities, which resulted in more than 70 arrests.
A number of her trials were gang-related, retaliatory crimes involving witness intimidation. One case involved Quirri Gantt, who was charged with crimes committed with firearms in seven cases from 2011 to 2015.
Gantt, 28, was a member of violent street gang who first tried to kill the father of a rival gang leader by shooting at the family home twice and killed the rival gang member's mother in a driveway execution.
The father was threatened throughout the murder prosecution and came forward to testify about his wife's murder. Gantt was sentenced in February to a 25-year minimum mandatory sentence after pleading guilty during jury deliberations.
Alejandra Lopez
Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office
Alejandra Lopez has been a Miami-Dade prosecutor for 10 years, expanding the breadth of her cases over time.
In the last year, she secured trial convictions in five homicides while serving as the lead prosecutor in two wide-ranging investigations of gun violence and drug sales in the Perrine and Goulds communities, which resulted in more than 70 arrests.
A number of her trials were gang-related, retaliatory crimes involving witness intimidation. One case involved Quirri Gantt, who was charged with crimes committed with firearms in seven cases from 2011 to 2015.
Gantt, 28, was a member of violent street gang who first tried to kill the father of a rival gang leader by shooting at the family home twice and killed the rival gang member's mother in a driveway execution.
The father was threatened throughout the murder prosecution and came forward to testify about his wife's murder. Gantt was sentenced in February to a 25-year minimum mandatory sentence after pleading guilty during jury deliberations.
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