As King Tides rose in Miami Beach this week, brackish water spilled over sidewalks and drowned docks. There were at least two low-lying spots that stayed remarkably dry, though — the shopping plaza at Sunset Harbor, and the area near 10th and Alton. Both were saved by Miami Beach’s multi-million…
On October 9, Angelica Valle strutted into the Johnny Rockets on Ocean Drive topless and laughing. A man then created a barrier from management using chairs and tables. That’s when things really got crazy. As witnesses filmed, Valle then united her bikini bottom and “placed the steel chair leg into…
We’d say Pedro Dayan Millan is an unlikely YouTube star, but then really it doesn’t take much more than luck to become a viral sensation. Under the nickname Peter La Anguila (“Peter the Eel” to us gringos), Millan became a sensation in 2012 thanks to a music video produced with the group…
Wow! It’s hasn’t been this good of a time for fans of the ’90s since the actual ’90s themselves! Netflix is rebooting Full House, Gwen Stefani’s best breakup single since “Don’t Speak” is tearing up the iTunes charts, and Nickelodeon is playing all your favorite OG Nicktoons again! Now another…
Storage Wars: Miami has only aired two episodes so far, and already the show has produced off-screen tragedy. Hashim Saeed Pew, the 23-year-old son of cast member Kevin Pew, is behind bars for murdering a 19-year-old woman at this father’s home during a viewing party last week. The murder was originally…
Neikole Hunt, an assertive mother of three who lives in Little Haiti, on NW 50th Street, had just gotten home from her youngest son’s PeeWee football practice when someone knocked urgently on her front door. Just a few blocks away, the visitor said, something had happened to Hunt’s older son,…
Hundreds of zombies ran screaming through downtown Fort Myers late on Saturday night, fleeing in terror as gunshots rang out in the night. When police forced their way through the panicked costumed crowd, they found six attendees at that night’s packed “ZombiCon” bleeding in the street. One may, wearing a…
Jordan Redavid, a New York native, was a top student at the University of Miami School of Law, graduating in 2013. He became a Miami-Dade public defender, and then moved into private practice, co-founding a criminal law firm based in Brickell. He’s won numerous accolades, and his firm bio lists…
The call came to Miami-Dade Police just before 2 a.m. last night: A robber with a bandana pulled over his face and a silver handgun had just hit a Walgreens in South Dade and sped off in a white SUV. Minutes later, after a high-speed chase down Dixie Highway, police…
Florida has one of the most unusual set of laws concerning what it takes to sentence someone to death in the entire nation. Florida also sends more inmates to death row than most other states in the nation. Since the Death Penalty was reinstated in 1976, only Texas, Oklahoma and…
On a mild evening in early August, John Pate and Sally Elizabeth Evans’ Volkswagen Passat climbs the hills outside the lush Valle Arriba golf club in Caracas. The 70-year-old Pate, a tall, fair-skinned lawyer with red hair, glasses, and a soft face, had just finished his usual Sunday dinner at…
Guns rights groups in Florida are desperately trying to give students the right to have a gun on the state’s college campuses despite polling indicate that just about everyone else thinks thats just a horrible idea. One strange example of why that might not be such a hot idea played…
A red BWM convertible with the top down rolled alongside a yellow taxi cab on Pine Tree Drive early this morning, past the million-dollar Miami Beach mansions and the gnarled old trees that give the road its name. Suddenly, gunfire raked the side of the taxi as the convertible squealed…
It’s no secret many Florida police are uneasy about a bill that advanced in Tallahassee yesterday to allow residents to openly carry firearms. In fact, the only reason the Sunshine State is still one of six states to prohibit open gun-toting is because the state Sheriff’s Association has vigorously opposed…
When you’re a Major League Baseball star its hard to keep track of everything going on in your life. Which is why one might hire a personal assistant to help keep track of their schedules, their errands, and even their boats. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Bronson Arroyo, a former Golden Glove…
Between Stand Your Ground and the weekly insane crime news, Florida is about as close to the Wild West as it gets in today’s America. So it’s genuinely a surprise that the Sunshine State is somehow one of six states that still prohibit the public from carrying around weapons in…
Last October, Miami New Times broke the news that at least two Miami Police Department cops had been clients at the notorious Coral Gables steroid den Biogenesis. Hours after that story was published, MPD brass announced they’d soon begin testing their cops for anabolic steroid abuse because of “rage-like” problems…
For the last month, Jonathan Harrington has been living every practical jokers’ worst nightmare. The University of Miami student faced a felony drug charge and expulsion from school — all because, he insisted, he’d put out lines of powdered sugar as a joke before a dorm inspection. When a police…
Detective Joe Mendez was going through a rough spot in his marriage. A bearded and burly 20-year veteran of the South Miami Police Department, and a second generation officer as the son of a cop, Mendez decided to get his mind off his home life by giving back to the…
It hasn’t been the easiest year for the Miami Beach Police Department and its new chief, Dan Oates. Within a few weeks early this year, Oates had to confront video of an MBPD cop punching a handcuffed woman in the face and then a national scandal that erupted when several…
On a rainy Thursday morning in August, Tangela Sears parks her Mitsubishi SUV in front of a small yellow house on a quiet street in Liberty City. Her grandfather bought the home about six decades ago. Sears was raised there. She raised her own son David there, too, and had…
It’s fair to say the vast majority of Miami was not in the finest of moods today. It’s Monday morning, the Dolphins just finished shaming all of South Florida and to top it off, big pieces of the city are expected to flood today thanks to a combination of the…
