Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agents Arrest Former Corrections Officer on Sexual Misconduct Charge

Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Jul 27, 2007

Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents have charged a former state corrections officer with sexual misconduct after he allegedly had sex with an inmate in a South Florida prison.

Gustavo Coronado, 34, turned himself in on Monday on the single count of sexual misconduct.  He was arrested without incident and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Detention Center in Miami.

Agents said the investigation began in January 2006 after they received information from the Department of Corrections Office of Inspector General that Coronado allegedly had sex with a female inmate at the Homestead Correctional Institution in Homestead in December 2005.  Coronado was terminated from his position in August 2006.

According to agents and prison inspectors, Coronado and the woman allegedly had sex in her cell while the other inmates were having lunch.  The female inmate was under Coronado’s supervision.

During the investigation, a pair of the inmate’s underwear was submitted to the FDLE forensic laboratory in Orlando for serological testing.  The undergarment had been recovered at an earlier date by prison inspectors.  The lab determined that a DNA profile matching Coronado had been obtained from semen found in a pair of the female inmate’s underwear.

The investigation involved FDLE, the Department of Corrections Office of Inspector General and the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office.