Crime & Police

Investors say Frost engaged in more schemes than the SEC said he did.

The record shows that BSO Lt. Kevin Shults’ high-ranking colleagues failed to conduct a complete investigation and essentially covered up the case, which has never before been made public

It has really happened, Idiot!

Hey, uh, a neo-Nazi was stopped within minutes of burning down a Miami Beach apartment complex and causing an international mass-death incident. It would be pretty hard to argue that a crime in Miami this year was more insane than that one. Or maybe not. Crime in this town is so utterly bizarre and inexplicable that the public tends to forget bonkers events mere days after they happen.

Frost is the namesake of Miami’s Frost Museum of Science.

On one hand, some Miami-area law-enforcement agencies are transparently corrupt, averse to public accountability, and face virtually zero consequences when they do racist stuff. On the other hand: Some Aventura cops just went viral for dancing at the mall! All is clearly well, good, and supernormal in Miami cop-land…

Smartphones in 2018 are necessary, ubiquitous devices that function as GPS location trackers, cameras that follow us into the bathroom, private-communication-logging devices, business computers, and, let’s be honest, porn-streaming screens. Yet there are still bizarrely few laws banning cops from swiping highly personal phone data without your consent or just cause.

Cops across the state have been repeatedly accused of misusing Florida’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID), which logs motorists’ addresses, driver’s license photos, plate numbers, and other personal info. Sometimes they stalk ex-lovers. Other times, they just bother people they don’t like.

According to Jacques, Mill and Ross were friends who occasionally paid him for security services and consulting.

Despite budget cuts and taunts of “fake news,” local journalists continued to churn out great work in 2018.

Here’s an age-old question: Is Miami actually more corrupt than other cities, or do Florida’s fantastic public-records laws just let people find out more about their elected officials? We’re still not sure about that one. But 2018 wound up being yet another year in which Magic City politics drove us…

Jordan E. Goodman markets himself as “America’s Money Answers Man.” He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and even ABC’s the View. He spent 18 years as a Wall Street columnist for Money magazine. For three years, he was also allegedly telling people to invest in a Ponzi scheme…

The Church of Scientology was founded by a science-fiction writer. The group allegedly collects intel on its members and critics to use as blackmail, forces workers into indentured servitude, and maybe-probably has kidnapped people. In addition to attracting Hollywood celebrities, the Clearwater-based church also has a habit of buying tons of expensive real estate, including a new Miami headquarters, which opened in 2017 and received praise from former Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado.

When immigrant detainees enter the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center outside Los Angeles, they are trapped, virtually unable to consult with a lawyer, rights groups say. All calls, including those with counsel, are recorded. Detainees cannot leave voicemails and calls are cut off if humans…

With every day that passes, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s 2017 order to hold federal immigration detainees in his county’s jails seems like an even worse move. The Trump administration has offered Miami-Dade virtually nothing in financial incentives after the mayor loudly declared his county was not a “sanctuary” community. Instead,…

The Florida Supreme Court affirmed that cops can kill civilians under the Stand Your Ground law.

A plan to have a private investor build and possibly operate a new Miami-Dade jail is moving forward. County Commissioner Esteban Bovo first proposed the idea at an October meeting of the Chairman’s Policy Council. The plan involves replacing the county’s crumbling jails with new ones financed through “P3.”

As chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, Bob Gualtieri was supposed to bring accountability to the families that lost loved ones in that school’s massacre on Valentine’s Day. But Tuesday, Gualtieri slapped those families across the face…

Miami Police officers said they had to shut down an Air Jordan shoe-release event at the Miami nightclub E11even this past Saturday after cops said patrons got too “rowdy” while waiting for sneakers. Video shows crowds surging against metal barriers in an unsafe manner.