Four fishermen say the Coast Guard trapped them at sea for a month. They are from Jamaica but were fishing near the Haitian coast when they say American forces destroyed their vessel and trapped them on an uncovered boat deck for a month.
When Miami cops screw up, civilians are typically the ones who wind up getting hurt. But in a previously unrevealed incident from January 4, an utterly boneheaded move wound up injuring one of Miami’s finest.
“It’s like a modern-day concentration camp.” ICE detainee Karamjit Singh says his time in Glade County Detention Center has brought him to the verge of suicide.
Scot Peterson, the Broward Sheriff’s Office school resource officer who failed to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the February 14, 2018 massacre, was fired today and arrested on 11 criminal charges related to his conduct the day of the shooting.
“Hold on a second — there’s someone I don’t recognize in my driveway.” Dan Markel, a Florida State University law professor and one of America’s most eminent legal scholars, was chatting idly on his cell phone as he drove up to his Tallahassee home. The morning was bright and a…
For eight years, Carnival Cruise Line’s ships systematically dumped waste into the ocean and lied about it to regulators. After being convicted of seven felony charges related to the conspiracy, the company in 2016 agreed to a record fine of $40 million and five years of probation.
Seconds after Katel took out his camera to start shooting — before he could even take a single picture — he says a Miami Police Department officer began yelling and coming toward him. After a short interaction, Katel says the officer put him in handcuffs and seized his phone and camera.
Although the Miami-Dade Police Department is the eighth-largest law enforcement agency in the country, a report issued earlier this month warns that the county’s cops are woefully underprepared to deal with transgender people.
Ahead of this year’s Memorial Day weekend, Miami Beach recruited local artists of color to put together a series of exhibits specifically for black visitors in an attempt to reframe the Memorial Day narrative.
For the past several years, Miami Beach Police have been using automatic license-plate readers to scan each and every car traveling to the city over Memorial Day weekend — an effort known to cause bumper-to-bumper traffic on the MacArthur and Julia Tuttle Causeways.
Around 7 p.m. last December 10, Miami resident Oscar Julien-Riou — a 63-year-old Army veteran, retired nurse, and minister — was sitting in Liberty City’s Alonzo Kelly Park alone with his phone in his hand. He lived across the street. He says he was minding his own business and filming as he recorded notes about his life on his cell phone when a Miami Police cruiser rolled up.
When workers at the federal courthouse in Miami received a letter in the mail on May 10 saying there were explosives in the building, the note warned them the threat was serious.
The Stonehenge rock was far from the first insane artifact that’s turned up in South Florida. In fact, the area’s unique combination of retirees, wayward travelers, and outright criminals have turned Miami into a haven for art thieves and black-market artifact deals
Today an off-duty Miami cop shot someone. Miami-Dade Police announced that a still-unnamed City of Miami officer got into an argument with a man in North Miami-Dade early this morning and wound up shooting the guy. According to NBC 6 South Florida (WTVJ), the cop shot his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.
It turns out the accidental shooter is a Miami Police officer. And he isn’t just any cop: A department spokeswoman confirmed to New Times this afternoon that the officer is Mario Gonzalez, a police firearms instructor.
William Thompson still has screenshots of the route, plus trip IDs, photos snapped at various pit stops along the way, a thank you message from the customer, and a payment from Uber. The price tag on just one of the receipts, for the stretch between Connecticut and Florida: $2,283.93.
Earlier this week, a salacious video started making the rounds on social media. In it, a woman books it down a Miami Beach street, tailed by a man with nary a thread of clothing on his body. “Stop her!” he yells. “She’s got my Rolex!”
In the fall of 1993, on the island of Palm Beach, future U.S. president Donald J. Trump became friends with Leslie Greyling, an illegal immigrant and accused con artist who is a fugitive from the law. Back then, the local sections of the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily…
Another black teen has come forward accusing a different BSO cop of slamming him to the ground. The mother of 17-year-old Jordan Bennett went public Monday with a video showing a deputy holding the teen to the floor of the cafeteria at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
Kodak Black’s Fort Lauderdale-based lawyer, Bradford Cohen, is crying foul — not only because his client was arrested once again, but because one of the cops involved took an unauthorized photo of Black in handcuffs and leaked it to WSVN Channel 7 News.
GEO, a Boca Raton-based company now considered the largest private, for-profit prison firm in America, held an annual shareholder meeting today in New York City — and a majority of shareholders passed a resolution demanding that GEO better report human-rights policies and violations to investors.
Civil rights activists have been begging Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle for weeks to arrest county police officer Alejandro Giraldo, who was filmed brutally arresting Dyma Loving, a woman who was simply trying to report that a man had threatened to murder her with a shotgun.
