Crime & Police

The family of the slain UPS driver attributes Frank Ordonez’s death to “the negligence and stupidity of the police.”

Serious questions remain following the bloody shootout in Miramar.

Apparently, McVay has been caught drinking on the job before.

When it comes to robbing banks, it pays to be nice.

Just in time for Art Basel 2019, Miami gallerist Inigo Philbrick has been fingered as the villain in multiple lawsuits playing out in New York City, London, and South Florida.

When an officer returned fire, a bullet struck a female bystander.

Whether Martin’s drowning was accidental is the defining question.

The two believe their arrests are a case of “shopping while black.”

Saile Herrera says she watched in horror as the dog lunged at her son.

Dr. Jeanne Germeil was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison.

After his arrest for murder, Randy Herman Jr. had a bizarre defense.

According to the FBI, Salman Rashid tried to contact ISIS to recruit someone to use explosives to kill deans at Broward College and Miami Dade College.

Miami-Dade police arrived at Maria Cazañes’ South Beach apartment on an August evening as she was making herself a cafecito. By the end of the night, Cazañes and her family were homeless.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office today confirmed to New Times that an active criminal probe exists in relation to Miami-Dade County Commissioner Joe Martinez.

Ronald Saint-Vil arrived at the SLS Hotel in South Beach in November 2017 to help raise money for victims of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. But he says he wound up a victim of police brutality instead. In a new lawsuit, Saint-Vil says Miami Beach cops shouted the N-word at him and stunned him with a Taser until he threw up — all because he was recording them on his cell phone.

For years, Bruce M. Bagley has taught in the University of Miami’s International Studies program. He’s one of the nation’s foremost experts on money laundering in Latin America. That might be because, at least according to the FBI, he’s been helping to launder money out of Latin America.

Mere days after receiving more than three years in prison after lying on a gun background-check form, South Florida rapper (and accused rapist) Kodak Black is facing two additional felony gun charges after Miami-Dade prosecutors unsealed a new case against him. The Miami Herald first reported this afternoon that Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has hit Black with two felony counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.

Offering fancy clothes and luxury cars as bait to recruit vulnerable girls into years of prostitution, William Foster used South Florida as a home base for an expansive sex trafficking operation for at least 15 years, federal agents alleged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in the Southern District of Florida.

There’s no question Chief Jorge Colina inherited a police force riddled with problems. When he took over for Rudy Llanes in January 2018, the Miami Police Department was already under a federal consent decree owing to a pattern of excessive force and shootings. Complaints from black citizens had been skyrocketing…

When Yoinis Cruz Peña crashed his motorcycle into an I-95 retaining wall, flew off an overpass, and died May 27, 2018, the friends who biked alongside him said he had been chased off the highway by Miami police officers.

Kodak Black — the Broward County native who is both one of Florida’s most popular rap stars and an accused rapist — was sentenced today in Miami federal court to three years and ten months in prison after he pleaded guilty to federal weapons violations earlier this year.

Johnny Emmanuel has given many family members keys to his house. But none of them, he says, is able to open a side door at his Fort Lauderdale home — a door even he doesn’t use. So when he got a text from his home-security system August 19 alerting him that someone had opened the auxiliary door, he assumed someone was breaking into his house.