Last Saturday night, the former mayor and police director of Miami-Dade, Carlos Alvarez, got into an altercation with his girlfriend of 14 years when she attempted to return his cat to him. An argument between them turned physical, leading the woman to file charges against Alvarez, who turned himself into police on Wednesday morning.
According to The Miami Herald, the 63 year-old ex-mayor “fought with his girlfriend Saturday over the cat. He grabbed the woman and pinned her to the wall. Then he swore and spat on her.”
The police report reads: “The verbal argument escalated. The defendant grabbed the victim by both hands and pinned her against the wall in the building’s parking garage. The defendant began spitting at the victim while he was yelling profanities at her.”
The report says the woman’s teenage daughter told police that Alvarez had been violent with her mother since 2013.
Alvarez, who was recalled from office five years ago, has been making much of himself and his $180,000 dollar a year pension since being thrown out as mayor by spending most of his time at the gym.
“The former mayor made headlines again in 2013, for an entirely different reason. Gone were the browns he wore as police director and the tailored suits he sported as mayor. Instead, he wore a Speedo and flashed bulging glutes and abs that looked like they were made of steel.
The former mayor had secured first place in the National Physique Committee’s South Florida Over 60 Masters bodybuilding competition at the James L. Knight Center. He left his former life so far in the past that a judge at the event said he had no clue Alvarez was the county’s former mayor and police director.”
Click below for footage of Alvarez talking to the media after leaving jail:
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