Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo served with summons during commission meeting

MIAMI - Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo was served with a summons during a commission meeting on Thursday morning.

It happened during the public comment period for all items, as a process server approached the mic and said, "Joe Carollo, I have a summons of complaint for you to have you removed from office."

The man said he would leave it at the podium and he did, before being told to step away.

Last Friday afternoon, officials from the United States Marshals Service came to Carollo's Coconut Grove home to put up a notice of levy on his front door, stating that they were coming for it to pay off his $63.5 million debt to two Little Havana businessmen.

Later that evening, Carollo told reporters that he was not leaving.

Mauricio Maldonado

Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since 1997. Mauricio started at the Miami Herald in 1990 and transitioned over to their online team in 1997. In 2001, he moved north to lend his talents to SunSentinel.com, where he spent 17 years. Mauricio has been with CBS Miami since 2018.