" You can’t just sit in a marked truck — you have to hide somewhere. "
-- Deputy Willy Guerra
Willy Guerra keeps a dry uniform ready at home because his clothes are often wet from jumping into Florida Keys waters to catch criminals.
Guerra, the chief Monroe County Sheriff’s Office marine deputy who is based in Marathon, is no stranger to hiding out and waiting to catch those who would deplete the Keys’ natural resources — fish and lobster in particular. Poachers who take them illegally are basically stealing from legitimate commercial fishermen.
Since he became a marine deputy in 2005, Guerra’s hidden in a garbage can, on top of a sewer treatment plant and in mangroves, staking out criminal activity at all hours of the day and night.
Read more at the Miami Herald.