Thursday, March 28, 2024

Wife of Miami Cop Gets Trapped in Patrol Car, Dies in Sweltering Heat [VIDEO]

*Here’s a suspicious story out of Miami involving a police officer and his wife. 

Clara Paulino, 56, the wife of a Miami police officer, was found dead in her husband’s patrol car after becoming locked in the back seat. She got trapped inside while allegedly “searching for something,” on a day when temperatures hit a high of 92 degrees, according to multiple reports.  She was found dead on Friday by her husband and son. 

“It was horrific. It’s horrible,” Matthew Reyes, vice president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police tells PEOPLE. “It’s unfortunate that you can’t help but imagine what kind of a death that would be.”

According to the report, officer Aristides Paulino returned home from his night shift and went to sleep around noon. When he awoke around 5 p.m., he found his wife’s cell phone on the back patio, but she was nowhere to be found. 

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“When he woke up he was looking for his wife. His son began to help as well, and him and his son — the son, initially — ended up finding her in the back seat of his police car for, at this time, reasons unknown,” Reyes says. “He went to sleep around noon, woke up at 5 p.m., so somewhere in between there, for whatever reason, she ended up in there.”

Father and son rendered first aid and CPR “to the best of their ability,” but Clara was pronounced dead after being transported to a local hospital.

Officer Michael Vega of the City of Miami Police Department said Paulino’s SUV has bars on the windows, can only be opened from the outside and has a cage that separates the back seat from the front seat. The patrol also has tinted black windows, according to reports. 

“It’s an SUV so you really can’t kick out the back window from that cage,” Reyes added.

Clara Paulino
Clara Paulino

Clara was basically trapped in the car without her cell phone, Reyes said. The family allegedly don’t live in an area that has a lot of passersby, so she had no way to let anyone know she was locked inside unless someone walked or drove by.  

Reyes told CNN that a patrol car is “our take-home cars in our driveway, every day,”  it is “not a weird thing” for a spouse to enter the vehicle. 

Paulino’s death is an “open, unclassified death investigation,” according to a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Investigators are treating her death as a “horrific accident,” the Miami Herald reported.

Meanwhile, many online users suspect Officer Paulino is abusive and that his wife died after he locked her up in the back of his patrol car. The son, many believe, is helping his father cover up the crime. 

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