A former reporter for Fox News in Miami is being held without bail after he was indicted Tuesday in Virginia on charges of forcible sodomy and rape. Orlando Salinas, who left Fox in 2012 for a job at Roanoke’s CBS affiliate, was booked into the Montgomery County jail last night. Few…
The officers involved in the shooting of Charles Kinsey — an unarmed black behavioral technician shot in the leg last week while trying to aid a 23-year-old autistic man — currently sit on administrative leave, as state officials investigate the shooting. One high-ranking officer, Commaner Emile Hollant, was suspended without…
Four days after Charles Kinsey was shot in North Miami, police officials have identified the cop who shot him. Jonathan Aledda, a SWAT team member with four years on the job, fired the shot that hit Kinsey, an unarmed black behavioral technician who was unarmed and trying to assist an autistic…
The basic facts seemed crystal clear in the shooting of Michael Gavins. The former college football star was unarmed when an officer in South Miami shot him in the back last November. Both Gavins and an attorney who happened to witness the traffic stop say his hands were in the…
Hundreds of thousands have now watched a video of Charles Kinsey on his back with his arms in the air and asked, “How could police have shot this man?” A recent 14-page report from state inspectors might offer one hint. The report, prepared on May 23 by the Florida Commission on…
National condemnation has been swift today after video showed Charles Kinsey, an unarmed black man trying to help an autistic patient, holding his arms in the air before a North Miami Police officer shot him. But Miami’s two most prominent police union chiefs have now leaped to the officer’s defense. …
America has been roiled this month by questionable police shootings caught on camera in Minnesota and Louisiana. Now, Miami has its own baffling case caught on video. A cop in North Miami shot a man named Charles Kinsey on Monday night. Last night, cell phone video was released of the…
Some criminals spend their dirty money on drugs. Others blow it on luxury cars, high-end escorts, or trips to obscure rich people enclaves like Gstaad, Switzerland. Or, if you’re Dr. Fernando Mendez-Villamil, a man accused of running one of the largest fake-prescription schemes in history, you invest heavily in paintings of…
The South Beach dinner crowd was still buzzing with the news that O.J. Simpson had been acquitted of murder charges when Richard Clements got the call about a man flashing a gun near 16th Street and Washington Avenue. It was Oct. 3, 1995, and within minutes, Clements would find himself…
Javier Ortiz, Miami’s outspoken police union chief, habitually lets his opinions fly whenever law enforcement issues make national headlines. Famously, he called for a boycott of Beyonce’s latest concert in Miami after the artist’s Black Panther-referencing Super Bowl performance this year. He also called Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot…
Earlier this morning, an accused murderer executed a Houdini-like escape from the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, forcing the Broward Sheriff’s Office to evacuate the courthouse and mobilize an all-hands-on-deck manhunt. Dayonte Resiles, 21, had been charged with murdering Jill Su, a Davie woman who’d been found dead in…
In the heat of their quest to nail baseball stars buying banned drugs from Coral Gables steroid den Biogenesis, Major League Baseball’s investigators admittedly went overboard. Some witnesses were offered stacks of cash to cooperate. Others were threatened with lawsuits. MLB’s lead investigator even slept with one potential witness. And…
Three weeks ago, Miami Beach police rolled out a new crime fighting initiative aimed at stemming a tide of robberies in South Beach, and they’ve had some recent success. Some of the arrests may be due to beefed up manpower and squads of detectives working longer hours (with overtime benefits, of course.)…
Earlier this year, Miami Police sent out a bid request for 687 “active shooter kits,” which contain multiple types of military-grade body armor, as well as two holsters, apiece, for AR-15 rifle ammunition. On March 7, a police-supply company gave the city a quote, claiming the purchase would cost the…
Miami Police Chief Rodolfo Llanes and Latin crooner extraordinaire Marc Anthony are apparently pretty tight pals. Anthony recently gave $25,000 to the Police Athletic League and came to speak at a dinner for the group, where he met the top dog at MPD. The two hit it off, so Llanes said…
Dear non-Miami residents: This city is trying to move on from its days as the nation’s drug-crime capital. We’ve built an entirely new, “hip” neighborhood miles from the beach, where the world’s best visual artists visit every December. We’re trying to invest in start-ups. We even might ban liquor sales…
In an already wild political season, first-time Democratic candidate Andrew Korge has been an agent of chaos. Korge started off in a heated race against sitting GOP Sen. Anita Flores, then hastily switched last month to District 40, where sitting Democratic Sen. Dwight Bullard was already running. Bullard says Korge — …
Across the nation, Black Lives Matter protesters have taken to the streets over the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Miami’s marchers gathered on Saturday, shutting down traffic downtown and on the MacArthur Causeway. More than 200 people started the protest outside the Wynwood…
A small but obvious tip for police: Don’t accuse a man with a debilitating eye condition of “turning a blind eye” to drug dealers in his area. And then don’t also hit him right in the eyes. Yet that’s exactly what a 74-year-old landlord accuses a group of City of…
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is on lockdown while Miami-Dade police investigate reports of an active shooter and a bomb threat, according to the department’s Twitter feed. The threat was reported around 3 p.m. “Precautionary measures” are being taken to ensure the safety of patients, doctors, and visitors. A hospital representative tells…
Tensions between police-reform activists and law enforcement could not be higher today. Cops shot two nonviolent black men dead this week on film. A Dallas sniper gunned down 11 officers during a police brutality protest last night, killing five. So when Dashana Honore, a 26-year-old resident of Ives Estates in…
In 2013, New Times called Jimmy Sabatino Florida’s “most notorious con man.” For a con man, the word “notorious” basically means “has been caught a bunch of times,” so we’ll refrain from calling the 39-year-old “talented” — but damn if he isn’t persistent. Case in point: Federal authorities said yesterday that…
