Dan Christensen
The Miami Herald
Officer Down: Paul Rein
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Broward County commissioners agreed Tuesday to rename the Sheriff’s North Jail in Pompano Beach in honor of slain jail deputy Paul Rein.
Rein, 76, was gunned down Nov. 7 while transporting inmate Michael Mazza in a van from the north jail to court in Fort Lauderdale. Mazza is awaiting trial set for later this year on a charge of first-degree murder.
Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti had asked the commission to make the change.
“Deputy Rein gave the ultimate sacrifice as a public servant,” Lamberti told Broward County Mayor Lois Wexler in a letter requesting the change.
“I can think of no other way to forever honor and remember his service,” he said in the letter.
The public now has 30 days to comment before the complex at 2421 NW 16th St. is officially renamed the Paul Rein Detention Facility.
A change would mark the second time a Broward jail has been dedicated to the memory of a detention deputy who was killed in the line of duty.
The Joseph V. Conte Facility in Pompano Beach opened in 1999. Conte was ambushed and murdered in 1979 while taking inmates to a dentist’s office.
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