Longtime Kissimmee cop Wilson Munoz was named in Baseggio investigation
Wilson Munoz, who’d spent over 25 years with the Kissimmee Police Department and was named as a deputy chief by former Police Chief Betty Holland, is no longer with the department, having been fired back in October by current KPD Chief Charles Broadway.
It stems from his actions in the aftermath of an April 2023 incident, when then-Officer Andrew Baseggio was found to have wrongly entered a Brack Street home and used aggressive tactics to subdue a resident. While it was later found to be excessive force, Munoz, Holland and another former deputy chief, Camille Alicea, “Unanimously agreed Officer Baseggio’s actions were not criminal,” instead calling it a “violation of rules.” That’s according to an investigation report done by the Orange County Sheriff ’s Office, and a KPD investigative report resulting from it obtained by the News-Gazette late last week.
A grand jury later determined Baseggio entered the home without a warrant and “used force that was not consistent with Kissimmee Police Department’s use of force policy to take a man into custody, resulting in serious bodily injury.” He pled guilty to felony charges of battery and tampering with a witness and was sentenced to nine months in jail on Oct. 13.
But, four months after the incident, Baseggio received an eight-hour suspension as discipline. According to the investigative report, “Deputy Chief Munoz explained he did not believe there was intent to commit a criminal act, and ‘Maybe it wasn’t the right decision,’ but it was the decision he came to as a two-week deputy chief.” (Holland elevated Munoz and Alicea to the deputy chief spots just weeks prior to the incident.) “Deputy Chief Munoz re-stated he thought Officer Baseggio’s actions were wrong, but not criminal due to the fact (the subject) was actively resisting arrest.”
The report says that, after the eight-hour suspension recommendation came back from the chain of command, “Deputy Chief Munoz acknowledged it was his belief, at the time, he could disagree with the Internal Affairs findings, but only the Chief of Police could change them … Deputy Munoz did not state whether he discussed amending the findings with Chief Holland.”
The report notes that, during a September interview into the matter, Holland said the eight-hour suspension “Was decided on and imposed by Deputy Chief Munoz without input from her.” One month later, after the grand jury released a finding that discovered nobody in KPD reported the excessive force findings to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as dictated by state law, Holland resigned her position.
The report stated Munoz sat for a recorded internal affairs interview on June 24, 2025, during which he said he accepted KPD’s original findings because, “That’s just the way things were done … Munoz stated he could not recall an incident ever being classified as excessive force that he was aware of.”
Munoz went back to his limited experience as a Deputy Chief to the investigator, saying he considered a memorandum from a lieutenant that referenced the explanation, which “In my mind it made sense,” he said. “(Munoz) acknowledged with his additional time and experience now as a Deputy Chief, he would not have made the same decision. Deputy Chief Munoz agreed that based on the totality of the events during the use of force, the decision to give an eight (8) hours suspension was inappropriate.”
The Orange County investigation included a section titled “Concerns About Deputy Chief Munoz” where investigators wrote, “... We recognized concerns about Deputy Chief Munoz that demonstrated a lapse in judgement or leadership but did not meet the threshold of misconduct or violations of the Kissimmee Police Department’s written directives.”
And, among its conclusions, KPD’s investigation, part of an enhanced new internal affairs department Broadway put in place to enhance transparency, found that while Munoz had the authority to amend Baseggio’s punishment, he failed to do so. While Munoz had only been a Deputy Chief for a short time when the discipline decision was made, he had been a Captain for over four years and, “Should have known the inappropriateness of the discipline he was administering.”
“Deputy Chief Munoz adversely affected the discipline, good order, and reputation of the Department, when he accepted the proposed discipline from the chain of command that he knew, or should have known, was at an unacceptable level based on the circumstances present … (Munoz) failed to perform his duties as directed by Departmental policy, and take proper action when he accepted the charge of a ‘policy violation’ when there was a clear ‘excessive force’ issue present. Deputy Chief Munoz did not seek guidance from or recommend an amendment to the Chief, but rather accepted the wrongful policy charge.”
