MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Steve Gallon IV appeared in a Miami-Dade courtroom Tuesday, along with his attorneys who asked the judge for more time to conduct discovery after he was accused of firing a gun and grazing an undercover Miami-Dade police narcotics detective with a bullet in Miami’s Buena Vista neighborhood in March.
Authorities said the undercover narcotics officer was surveilling Gallon’s co-defendant Atiba Moore as part of a larger investigation involving drugs being smuggled into the Miami-Dade County Jail.
Gallon’s new trial date is now set for Aug. 15.
Moore, who also appeared in Miami-Dade court on Tuesday, had his trial date moved to Aug. 14.
Police said Gallon shot the officer on March 9 after receiving a call from Moore, who had realized that an undercover officer was trailing his vehicle.
They said they were able to determine that from phone and cell tower records. But Gallon’s attorney argued that those don’t prove anything.
“Cell site towers can only tell you a couple of things. Did his phone communicate with that phone? But it cannot tell you the contents of a conversation,” Rod Vereen, Gallon’s defense attorney, said in a phone interview with Local 10 News in March.