Kissimmee's No. 2 cop under investigation, chief says

Kissimmee’s deputy police chief is under investigation for his actions in an excessive force case that became a department scandal last year.

A grand jury in October revealed the agency’s highest-ranking officials had downplayed and covered up by 2023 beating of a man who was not resisting arrest. That grand jury report forced the police chief to resign and led to the firing or demotion of several other officers.

But Deputy Chief Wilson Muñoz remained on the job as the department’s second-ranking leader, seemingly safe from discipline until Thursday, when the department announced he was on paid administrative leave. He’d been under investigation since June 20.

The internal probe into Muñoz’s actions is “the last step in that investigation” of the excessive force case, said Chief Ch