The law office of Raúl Recoba is located on Calle Ocho across from a liquor store and above a discount beauty-supply store. Here, the sidewalks are stained dark with discarded gum and cortaditos. Recoba works inside a small, clean room down a long, white hallway. His window provides a sweeping…
If there was one American city where accidentally getting cocaine into your system without your knowledge would be a somewhat common occurrence, it is Miami. After all, back in 2009 French Tennis player Richard Gasquet was suspended after a bit of coke turned up in his system. He claimed that…
On Saturday morning, a 22-year-old student named Rachel and her family left their home near 41st Street in Miami Beach to head to synagogue when they noticed a crowd gathered around their car. They quickly realized why: Someone had egged the vehicle and tagged “Hamas” on the window in cream…
You should never drink and drive, but tomorrow if you find yourself saying things like, “No, I had only two — I think I’m OK to drive,” it might be an especially good time just to take a cab or catch a ride with a friend instead. A large-scale DUI…
Emails and Facebook notices began pinging around Florida’s legal community Saturday with the unbelievable news: Florida State University’s nationally respected professor and legal scholar Dan Markel was dead. Shock soon turned to outrage when police confirmed that Markel, who was only 41 years old, had been shot inside his Tallahassee…
So an NFL player and an NBA player walk into a bar… and they both end up getting arrested for fighting each other. St. Louis Rams linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar and NBA free agent Donté Greene both got cuffed after getting into an altercation early Sunday morning outside Dream nightclub in…
Around 4 a.m. last Sunday, neighbors of suburban Grand Junction, Colorado, were awakened by a man desperately running from house to house and knocking on doors, pleading for help as he tried to flee another man. The two eventually ended up in a front yard, where the man who had…
Philippe Bourciquot wasn’t keeping his Ponzi scheme quiet. He was broadcasting it all across the South Florida airwaves. Bourciquot specifically targeted Haitian-Americans who were new to the country and unfamiliar with the financial infrastructure. Though a local radio show and through his church he promised to invest money in the…
Almost seven years after Shawn LaBeet’s one-man war on police came to a sudden end, a Broward County grand jury has deemed his death justified. The report, released earlier this week, ruled that Miami-Dade officers Humberto Perez and Michael Madruga acted “within the course and scope of their law enforcement…
Around 4:30 a.m. Monday police were called about an extremely drunk man outside Mango’s Tropical Cafe, the famous jungle-themed Ocean Drive club. The drunk turned out to be Sergeant Mike Muley, a uniformed Miami Beach police officer who was working off-duty security. The embarrassing arrest sparked the first real reform…
Miami Beach Police Sgt. Mike Muley has been relieved of duty after getting drunk during an off-duty security gig. This isn’t Muley’s first brush with controversy. He was demoted for his involvement in Officer Derick Kuilan’s infamous 2011 drunken ATV joyride…
Pizza delivery people are some of our most important and underappreciated workers. They bring us pizza, after all. But two hoodlums in Southwest Miami-Dade viciously set up one deliveryman and ended up shooting him and stealing his wallet. The incident happened around 1 a.m. Sunday morning near SW 200th Street…
The traffic stop looks ordinary enough. Miami Police Officer Marcel Jackson pulls over a silver Chevy for speeding and walks up to the driver’s window. And when the driver leaps from his car, Jackson reacts like any other cop: He throws the driver to the ground and tries to cuff…
Sandy Cenin’s body was found on July 5 stuffed inside a green trash can in Little Haiti. It stood near the corner of NW 54th Street and North Miami Avenue with a yellow tarp covering the top. Thirty-two-year-old Cenin’s body had a single gunshot to the head. Now police have…
Sandy De La Fe was indicted last year for bilking medicare out of $2.8 million. Shortly after he went missing. Authorities believe he may be hiding out in Cuba, but aren’t sure. This week he was added to the Health and Human Service Department Inspector General’s most wanted fugitive list…
University of Miami football players Alexander Figueroa, 20, and JaWand Blue, 20, were arrested this morning on charges that they sexually assaulted a juvenile victim on campus on Saturday. According to police, both have admitted to the incident. They now both face charges of sexual battery on a physically helpless…
Venezuelans are used to going to great lengths to obtain everyday items. Under the country’s late president Hugo Chávez and his socialist party, basic foodstuffs have become scarce. Some Venezuelans wait hours for groceries, while others resort to smuggling items like chicken, flour, and toilet paper across the border from…
Nigel Bethel II, a former standout at Miami’s Booker T. Washington High who went on to be recruited by Texas Tech, found himself behind bars and off the team after punching the school’s star women’s basketball player. The incident went down Saturday in the Lubbock, Texas school’s rec center. Bethel…
Some particularly annoying men love to derail online feminist discussion with the war chant of “Not All Men,” to the point that it’s been memefied and ridiculed. What’s scary though is the amount of men who try to justify their sexual violence against women by claiming that, well, “yes all…
Alexander Thadeus Jackson was admitted to Aventura Hospital around 10 a.m. Thursday. Five hours later, his roommate was dead. Hospital staff found the victim, Raul Alexander Rios, lifeless on the floor of the room the two were sharing. Jackson was found in the bathroom, taking a shower. According to a…
There are some big advantages to hiding your meth lab inside a vehicle. Just ask Walter White. His Breaking Bad crew spent five seasons evading the DEA and local cops in part by cooking crank in a dilapidated mobile home in the New Mexican wilderness. John Day wasn’t quite that…
Students at the University of Miami were taking their final exams for the Summer A term today when a shooting disrupted the campus. Not much is known, but apparently a disgruntled girlfriend shot her boyfriend in a School of Communications building…
