By the time Demarcus Semer’s headlights flashed through the living-room window of the Fort Pierce house, the rest of the guys were already inside. Most nights, the group of childhood friends got together to rap and play videogames at 20-year-old Rhashaad Owens’ North 19th Street home, a three-bedroom ranch with…
Riding dirt bikes and ATVs on the highway is not a great idea, especially if you’re popping wheelies on busy Florida roads where drivers weave in and out of traffic and are regularly involved in accidents.
After another year of fear-mongering news reports and an overwhelming police presence at Memorial Day festivities in South Beach, the worst gun-related incident of the weekend came after a false rumor of gunfire. A brief panic erupted around 8:15 last night near Ocean Drive, sparking a minor stampede that left one person injured.
Residents have already made a whole heck of a lot of noise about Miami Beach Police’s decision to reduce the Julia Tuttle and MacArthur Causeways to a single lane each so they can log and scan every visitor’s license plate to check for active warrants. Though MBPD has been using this tactic since at least 2012, civil liberties activists worry…
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, who in 25 years has never charged a police officer for killing someone while on duty, has quietly cleared another cop for killing an unarmed man.
In 2009, California artist Scott Gairdner made the “Sex Offender Shuffle,” a viral video parodying Miami-Dade’s treatment of sex offenders. With a catchy beat and ’80s-style cinematography, the four-minute spoof of the 1985 Chicago Bears’ “Super Bowl Shuffle” mocked the way sex offenders are shuffled from one location to another under the guise of public safety.
“They shot me for nothing, man!” a man yells moments after Miami-Dade Police opened fire on him in Opa-locka this past Wednesday. In a Facebook video filmed just after the 1:15 p.m. incident at the Glorieta Gardens Apartments, the man insists he did nothing to cause officers to shoot him.
Every day, dozens of elderly people and parents with small children are forced to arrive before the sun rises at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s office in Miramar, where they stand for hours in long lines without shelter from the sun or rain. And there isn’t enough parking for everyone forced to arrive for ICE check-ins…
On normal weekdays and especially around 8 or 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights, the Julia Tuttle and MacArthur Causeways clog up and force drivers to wait in long lines on the only major arteries onto the barrier island. Because Miami has gone a century without proper urban planning or an adequate public-transit system, the only way to cross these causeways is by car or bus.
Coral Gables has only about 50,000 residents, but because of its central location in Miami-Dade, more than 700,000 cars pass through the city daily. And its police now have the ability to monitor a huge number of those vehicles. Since inking a deal to acquire license-plate readers in 2016, the Gables uses more than 30 such devices around the city.
Last October, Cutler Bay resident Dustin Hughes stamped his profile picture with an image of a Confederate flag and the message “Heritage not hate.” But hate is exactly what has landed Hughes in jail on felony charges.
In late March, Tabitha Bass woke up to find a police officer handcuffing her boyfriend, Chetwyn Archer. The lean 38-year-old brunette had been sleeping next to Archer on a dead-end corner of NW Second Avenue, a tucked-away spot where a dozen homeless Miamians live. One cop asked Bass for identification,…
It was well after midnight inside the posh lounge of the Trump National Doral Miami when a man unfurled a large American flag, pulled out a gun, and started yelling about President Donald Trump. When he began firing, the resort staff called 911. When the cops arrived, the man started shooting at them…
When NFL wide receiver Robby Anderson was arrested for allegedly shoving a Miami cop at Rolling Loud in May 2017, the sports world freaked out and labeled Anderson as a player with “character problems.” But New Times warned the public not to rush to judgment too quickly, because the arresting officer…
A new lawsuit filed by the victim says the Broward Sheriff’s Office should have never hired McLeod: According to an incident report from St. Lucie County, the rookie deputy was already a suspect in a sexual battery case from 2015.
A prison guard at Everglades Correctional Institution is facing battery and official misconduct charges after prosecutors say he pepper-sprayed a handcuffed inmate on camera for no reason. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle says that the video evidence is clear and that the guard, Colonel Patrick Riggins, also pressured co-workers to file a false report justifying the incident.
Rudy Giuliani, a person who seems to spend 97 percent of his day in front of a Fox News camera screaming about how his enemies commit crimes all the time, apparently employs a very special crime-committer of his own. Florida prosecutors now allege a woman in Giuliani’s employ committed insurance fraud in Broward County in 2017.
Miami Beach is loud 365 days of the year, and 366 days when it’s a leap year. Pitbull sits atop an entire subgenre of pop-rap dedicated to singing about how, at its core, club-filled, liquor-fueled, sleep-deprived Miami Beach is an extremely loud place to be.
After WLRN caught him spreading misinformation about Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’s referral to the controversial Promise disciplinary program, Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie blamed scattered record-keeping in the district. But a former assistant principal at the school where the program is housed now says Runcie is also misleading the public about how student discipline data is kept.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, a prosecutor with a knack for upsetting criminal justice–reform advocates and civil rights lawyers, has lately taken a different tack on cops caught abusing suspects. Rundle has still never charged a cop for a fatal on-duty shooting in her 24 years in office…
Hours after Miami Police Officer Mario Figueroa was charged with misdemeanor assault today, the city’s police union released a doozy of a statement defending Figueroa and insisting he hadn’t broken the law or department policy.
Last Thursday, a clip went viral of Miami Police Officer Mario Figueroa taking a running start and kicking the head of a defenseless, handcuffed black man.
