HOW STUPID CAN ONE BE TO RISK YOUR CAREER?

The Orlando Sentinel reports this morning that the Special Agent In Charge of Central Florida operations for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement was busted late Tuesday in Orlando for exposing himself to a teenage girl.

Frank Figueroa, 49, was suspended once ICE officials learned that he had been arrested by Orlando police. Security cameras in the upscale Millenia Mall reportedly caught Figueroa exposing himself once the 16 year old girl sitting across from him caught his eye. The arrest report noted that the federal law enforcement official then exposed himself and masturbated for about 10 minutes before the teen left, found her mother, and informed a security officer.

Figueroa had just arrived in Central Florida six weeks ago after serving posts in Washington, Miami, and San Juan. He was considered to be a rising star in ICE. Just last week his agents busted a prostitution ring exploiting illegal immigrants from Latin America, arresting seven suspects including one from Polk County.

Figueroa also had a taste for high fashion, as the Sentinel story notes:

Colleagues described what Figueroa considers casual attire as a $1,000 suit, a collarless shirt and a gold chain. In a recent posting in Washington, it took co-workers several months to convince him could dress down while working on anti-terrorism financing task force.

Assigned to Miami in the early 1980s, the former New Yorker from the South Bronx arrived in South Florida dressed like an extra for Miami Vice, a popular police show.

"We had to convince him that it was only a TV show," a retired Customs agent told the newspaper. "He didn't have to look like Crockett and Tubbs all the time."

If he'd only kept his pants zipped...