eight (episode 8.02, "Hostile Takeover"), he was promoted to lieutenant in charge of SOC (SWAT team). In episode 8.21 ("Meltdown"), Stetler returns and attacks Wolfe and Walter Simmons for evidence tampering before being confronted by Horatio. In episode 8.23 ("Time Bomb"), it was revealed that Stetler himself was the one who had stolen the diamonds, and had attempted to frame Ryan for it. After being exposed, Ryan finally got the opportunity to arrest Stetler, which he did with great pleasure and also proceeded to walk through the Crime Lab with Stetler as all the personnel looked on, a repeat of the same event that Ryan had experienced upon Stetler arresting him at the beginning of the episode. It is also revealed that Stetler had been stealing cars from the impound lot for a two-year period under the alias of Carmichael and also threatening the officer in charge of the police department car impound to destroy his job if he doesn't help him by not telling the others his felonies, as well as other items he felt nobody would miss from the evidence locker. Stetler was also responsible planting the car bomb that killed D.A. Rebecca Nevins, though his intended victim was Eric Delko. He stated the reason behind the thefts and trying to cover it up with the car bomb was for money, feeling he wasn't sufficiently compensated from a financial standpoint for his sacrifice in the police department. After being arrested, Stetler is currently awaiting trial on these charges, including capital murder. Joseph Ratner (William Allen Young; seasons 3–5): A disgraced former Florida trial judge and enemy of Horatio Caine. In "After the Fall", he is discovered to have murdered a prostitute, but (thanks to legal maneuvering) he is able to get away with the crime. He appears later in season 4, releasing Caine's old enemy, Walter Resden, from prison ("Under Suspicion") despite Horatio telling the judge that he would have blood on his hands. In the fifth season, he was charged with orchestrating the murder of his own daughter, but he did not believe her at the time because, in his mind, there was no way a teenage runaway could be related to him. Luckily, a DNA match later revealed the truth, and Ratner was eventually arrested in his own former chambers ("Death Eminent"). Joseph "Joey" Salucci (seasons 4, 7) is a mob boss and murderer. Salucci was