Also Deputy City Manager Overseeing Communications. Both Ousted. Read What They Were Told…
BY: ANDREW COLTON | Editor and Publisher | BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The firings were unexpected and carried out with military precision — that’s how City of Boca Raton insiders tell us that new City Manager Mark Sohaney executed the terminations of Boca Raton Police Chief Michele Miuccio and Deputy City Manager Chrissy Gibson. Both were ousted on March 12th by Sohaney — a former Naval officer who once oversaw operations at Pearl Harbor.
BocaNewsNow.com has obtained the letters of termination issued to both Miuccio and Gibson. Neither, we are told, had any reason to believe there were about to be ousted. Sources tell us they were each called into Sohaney’s office — individually — on March 12th and told to leave the premises. The tone and language in the termination letters supports the claims by our sources. We obtained the letters through a public records request.
Miuccio spent more than two decades working for the City of Boca Raton and some say she deserved better than being kicked out without notice. But others say Miuccio was an unliked, ineffective leader who played favorites and didn’t support many of her officers. In fact, BocaNewsNow.com published results from a City of Boca Raton internal survey that showed Miuccio was largely untrusted by the police department’s rank-and-file, and that few had respect for her or her leadership. At the time that we published the article, Chrissy Gibson — the Deputy City Manager overseeing communications — asked BocaNewsNow.com to hold our reporting until she could issue clarifying statements. Gibson was also ousted on March 12th.
The City of Boca Raton has had horrible public relations issues attributed to Miuccio. Taking a hard turn from former chief Dan Alexander who was always available for comment and shared police information with the community whenever possible, Miuccio took a different approach. She refused to release information in real time, ranging from a murder in an ocean-side motel to crime in Boca Raton Town Center Mall. The City of Boca Raton police department is — bar none — the most difficult police department in South Florida from which to obtain public information.
The City of Boca Raton is now conducting a nationwide search for a new police chief.
