{"id":8389,"date":"2024-01-10T14:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2024-01-10T14:31:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:31:53","slug":"the-hispanic-police-officers-associations-26th-annual-benefit-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/the-hispanic-police-officers-associations-26th-annual-benefit-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hispanic Police Officers\u2019 Association&#8217;s 26th Annual Benefit Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8390\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8390 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manny V\u00e9lez, Andr\u00e9s Gonz\u00e1lez, and Erik Mel\u00e9ndez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CLEVELAND, January 6, 2024: The Hispanic Police Officers\u2019 Association (HPOA) hosted its 26th Annual Benefit Gala, in celebration of 3 Kings and Latino scholarship. A variety of awards were presented. Chief Andr\u00e9s Gonz\u00e1lez of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Police Dept. was the keynote speaker. According to Sgt. Emmanuel V\u00e9lez, President of HPOA, the gala was sold<br \/>\nout with over 200 in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><em>La Prensa photos by Mychal Lilly.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8389 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/the-hispanic-police-officers-associations-26th-annual-benefit-gala\/a-pic-3-kings-support-award-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-pic-3-kings-support-award-2-300x258.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-pic-3-kings-support-award-2-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-pic-3-kings-support-award-2.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" title=\"Left: Sergeant Emmanuel (Manny) Vel\u00e9z - President, Hispanic Police Officers&#039; Association (HPOA)\nLeft Center: Margarita Claudio - Slone &amp; Co. Funeral Directors\nRight Center: Adrianna Johnson (Ambassador - Latina Image Leadership Program)\nRight: Officer Erik Melendez - Vice President, HPOA\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8391'>\n\t\t\t\tLeft: Sergeant Emmanuel (Manny) Vel\u00e9z &#8211; President, Hispanic Police Officers&#8217; Association (HPOA)\nLeft Center: Margarita Claudio &#8211; Slone &#038; Co. Funeral Directors\nRight Center: Adrianna Johnson (Ambassador &#8211; Latina Image Leadership Program)\nRight: Officer Erik Melendez &#8211; Vice President, HPOA\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/the-hispanic-police-officers-associations-26th-annual-benefit-gala\/c-pic-3-kings-group\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/C-pic-3-kings-group-300x242.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/C-pic-3-kings-group-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/C-pic-3-kings-group.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" title=\"Pastor Grady Stevenson (former Director of City of Cleveland Community Relations Board), Elizabeth Roman (employee at Cleveland City Council &amp; HPOA Member), Ruben Roman (E. Roman&#039;s spouse and also an HPOA Member - former treasurer 2023)\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8392'>\n\t\t\t\tPastor Grady Stevenson (former Director of City of Cleveland Community Relations Board), Elizabeth Roman (employee at Cleveland City Council &#038; HPOA Member), Ruben Roman (E. Roman&#8217;s spouse and also an HPOA Member &#8211; former treasurer 2023)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/the-hispanic-police-officers-associations-26th-annual-benefit-gala\/b-pic-3-kings-award-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/B-pic-3-kings-award-2-300x241.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/B-pic-3-kings-award-2-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/B-pic-3-kings-award-2.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" title=\"Manny Vel\u00e9z,  Cleveland City Councilman Michael D. Polensek and Bryana A. Rivera (Ambassador - Latina Image Leadership Program)\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8393'>\n\t\t\t\tManny Vel\u00e9z,  Cleveland City Councilman Michael D. Polensek and Bryana A. Rivera (Ambassador &#8211; Latina Image Leadership Program)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/the-hispanic-police-officers-associations-26th-annual-benefit-gala\/e-pic-3-kings-masters-award-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/E-pic-3-kings-masters-award-3-300x223.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/E-pic-3-kings-masters-award-3-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/E-pic-3-kings-masters-award-3.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" title=\"Manny Vel\u00e9z, William N. Masters (Founder &amp; Partner at Masters Law &amp; HPOA Attorney), Officer Erik Melendez, and Bryana A. Rivera (Ambassador - Latina Image Leadership Program)\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8394'>\n\t\t\t\tManny Vel\u00e9z, William N. Masters (Founder &#038; Partner at Masters Law &#038; HPOA Attorney), Officer Erik Melendez, and Bryana A. Rivera (Ambassador &#8211; Latina Image Leadership Program)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/the-hispanic-police-officers-associations-26th-annual-benefit-gala\/f-pic-judge-torres-lugo-manny-velez-and\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/F-pic-judge-torres-lugo-manny-velez-and-300x258.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/F-pic-judge-torres-lugo-manny-velez-and-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/F-pic-judge-torres-lugo-manny-velez-and.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" title=\"Judge Torres-Lugo\nand Manny V\u00e9lez\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8395'>\n\t\t\t\tJudge Torres-Lugo\nand Manny V\u00e9lez\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND, January 6, 2024: The Hispanic Police Officers\u2019 Association (HPOA) hosted its 26th Annual Benefit Gala, in celebration of 3 Kings and Latino scholarship. A variety of awards were presented. Chief Andr\u00e9s Gonz\u00e1lez of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Police Dept. was the keynote speaker. According to Sgt. Emmanuel V\u00e9lez, President of HPOA, the gala<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[184],"class_list":["post-8389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez.jpg",648,499,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez.jpg",648,499,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez.jpg",648,499,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez-300x231.jpg",300,231,true],"large":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez.jpg",640,493,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez.jpg",648,499,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez.jpg",648,499,false],"rtcl-gallery":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez-648x462.jpg",648,462,true],"rtcl-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez-320x240.jpg",320,240,true],"rtcl-gallery-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez-150x105.jpg",150,105,true],"psacp-medium":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez.jpg",500,385,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/p.-1-Manny-Velez-Andres-Gonzalez-Erik-Melendez-45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"LaPrensa Newspaper","author_link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/author\/laprensa\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/category\/articles\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Articles<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"CLEVELAND, January 6, 2024: The Hispanic Police Officers\u2019 Association (HPOA) hosted its 26th Annual Benefit Gala, in celebration of 3 Kings and Latino scholarship. A variety of awards were presented. Chief Andr\u00e9s Gonz\u00e1lez of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Police Dept. was the keynote speaker. According to Sgt. Emmanuel V\u00e9lez, President of HPOA, the gala","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8396,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions\/8396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}