Florida’s Stand Your Ground law has been a catastrophe, a Wild West throwback that’s let killers justify everything from shooting an unarmed teenager for playing loud music to murdering a pizza store customer for complaining about a slice taking too long. So really, if there’s one man we should consult…
Narcy Novack will spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty of hiring men to kill her husband, Ben Novack Jr., and her mother-in-law Bernice Novack. The victims were the son and widow on Ben Novack, the man who built Miami Beach’s famed Fontainebleau resort…
It takes a lot of balls to straight up pack your luggage full of nothing but cocaine. For an unknown drug trafficker that gamble didn’t pay off.Federal customs agents at Miami International Airport uncovered 230 pounds of cocaine packed inside three suitcases yesterday…
You would think that after all the publicity that the arrest of Oneal Ron Morris, the transgendered woman who was caught injecting substance including Fix-a-Flat into people’s butts (and, seemingly, her own), received, people would know not to go shady people to get their butts enhanced.Yet, Samela Hernandez, 53, of…
Troubled anti-virus software guru and murder suspect John McAfee landed in Miami last night after getting deported from Guatemala, where he’d fled from an investigation into his neighbor’s shooting death. McAfee was allowed to go free after landing at MIA, and spent the night at Ocean Drive’s Beacon Hotel.WSVN caught…
It seems that all bizarre news stories somehow wind up finding their way to Florida.The saga of John McAfee, the anti-virus software tycoon who may or may not have murdered his neighbor in Belize, is following that natural trajectory now that he’s been released by Guatemalan police and soon will…
Early this morning, two people, including a dancer, were injured during a shooting at The Office Gentlemen’s Club in Miami Gardens. The shooter is believe to be a man who got in an argument with one of the club’s bouncers…
Congratulations, cocaine smugglers. You’ve successfully moved the War on Drugs from island-hopping airplanes to Caribbean submarines to the most daring transportation method yet: Huge breast implants.A Panamanian woman flying out of Bogota, Colombia has been arrested in Spain after cops became suspicious of her fresh boob job. They eventually found…
Need a perfect illustration of just absurd the fight against synthetic drugs has become? Take a look at the latest legal missive from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has just banned 22 new synthetic versions of weed and cocaine on sale in the Sunshine State. The document reads more…
The Transportation Security Administration workers who keep Miami International Airport safe from terrorists, criminals, and Solange Knowles’s Afro (no, really, they thoroughly searched her hair last month) earned a dubious distinction in October. According to an analysis by ABC News, the TSA had fired more agents for theft at MIA…
Jason Levesque, a Virginia-based artist, was strolling through Scope Art Fair this weekend, thinking about how much he’d love to be exhibiting there, when suddenly he turned a corner to find two of his images on sale. The only problem was, they didn’t have his name on them. A Miami-based…
Eighteen years ago, New Times published an investigation into a Miami doctor accused of preying on his HIV patients. More than a dozen men with the disease accused Dr. Homer L. Kirkpatrick of manipulating them, sexually assaulting them, even offering them medication in exchange for sex. Despite our articles, however,…
The ongoing sex scandal engulfing Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, has finally found its way back to Miami.A fourth accuser has come forward, and claims he met Clash in Miami Beach when he was just 16 or 17. The man, now 33 and only identified as “John Doe,” claims…
As art-bloated partiers wound down the last dregs of Basel Week on Sunday with a final stroll through Wynwood’s murals and galleries, a horrific shooting went down just a few blocks south.At 7:45 p.m. last night, a man and a pregnant woman were shot multiple times in front of a…
Alberto Diaz Gonzalez wasn’t just happy to see customs officials. Those actually were 16 birds in his pants.Gonzalez, who is 76 years old, was caught at Miami International Airport trying to smuggle in Cuban bullfinches in his pants after a trip to Havana…
A nursing student, so far only identified by police by her first name, Lupe, tried to ambush her supervisor this morning in Miami Gardens. According to CBS Miami, Lupe waited outside an office building until the supervisor arrived and then began shooting at the intended target…
Lincoln Road’s traditional seashell menorah was vandalized over the weekend when someone spray painted the words “You Killed Jesus” near the Holiday symbol. The giant menorah, which is displayed alongside a similar dreidel, was created by artist Roger Abramson and has become a Hanukkah tradition on Miami Beach…
For a man hated intensely by at least half the country, singer Chris Brown continues to catch some lucky breaks.Back in February, Brown was accused of stealing an iPhone from a fan who was trying to take pictures of him and then driving off in a chauffeured Bentley. Now, nine…
A 6-year-old boy woke up in his Miami apartment this morning to realize he was all alone. So he grabbed a wooden duck, smashed a window, started walking the streets and flagged down a man for help. It turned out that his mom had snuck out after midnight and had…
Ever wanted to own the autograph of a man who gunned down an unarmed teenager guilty of nothing more than being black in his own neighborhood? If you agree with that sentiment, probably not. But the legion who think George Zimmerman is a Second Amendment hero who bravely killed a…
Michael Dunn, the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis at a Jacksonville gas station over loud music, now tells police that he acted in self defense and shot the teen because he felt threatened. Some legal experts theorize that Dunn and his attorney will likely try and present…
The Dolphins may have pulled out a win last night, but defensive back Jonathon Amaya’s celebratory night in South Beach got out of hand. He was arrested early this morning for allegedly choking a taxi driver…
