The nation’s eyes this morning have turned to South Carolina, where a white police officer has been charged with murder for fatally shooting an unarmed black man. The charges only came after a video emerged to contradict the officer’s story that the suspect had been threatening him with the cop’s…
The word shot out on the police wire: Be on the lookout for a Ford Focus, black female at the wheel. The driver is waving a handgun at other cars. That muggy afternoon on July 10, 2012, a Fort Lauderdale community service officer coursing through a grid of industrial streets off Sunrise Boulevard tracked the driver down to a rental agency on NW Eighth Avenue.
South Florida is the Ponzi scheme capital of America, so perhaps its not that much of a surprise that a former Miami Dolphins player has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme of his own. Will Allen played four years with the Dolphins…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and we’re hear every Friday to share the weirdness with you. We warn you however that this week’s batch of stories is mostly depraved. We have a blow job entrepreneur who tried to get out of arrest by offering to…
Miami is a town full of bad credit and bad cops, but rarely do they convene is such a direct way. Rafael Duran, 43, of the Miami-Dade Police Department, was indicted today on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and other wire fraud offenses. The officer had partnered with a credit…
In just the latest example of abuse in Florida’s prison system, two current and one former Department of Corrections employees were arrested today on charges of conspiracy to commit capitol murder. Besides wearing the badge of the DOC, the three men also wore the white hoods of white terrorist organization…
On Tuesday night Steve Berke, the Miami Beach filmmaker and mayoral candidate, received a horrifying phone call. His girlfriend was on the line, and in a frantic voice said she had just encountered an intruder in their Miami Beach home, holding Berke’s laptop in the couple’s bedroom. Berke’s girlfriend relayed…
Seven and a half years after the murder of NFL star and former Miami Hurricane Sean Taylor, justice is almost complete. Charles Wardlow, now just 25, plead guilty to his part in the shocking death today and was immediately sentenced to 30 years in jail. He is the fourth member of…
Yesterday, a 15-year-old football player at Miami Killian Senior High wound up in the hospital after being stabbed in the school’s cafeteria. The suspect: a 17-year-old female classmate. The victim is recovering from surgery to repair a pierced lung and artery Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and is in stable condition, while…
Three years ago Ralph Mata was a highly respected lieutenant in the Miami-Dade Polcie Department. His resume included helping to dismantle two gangs in Miami Gardens, using drug sniffing dogs to find contraband at Miami International Airport and investigating police corruption as part of the Internal Affairs department. But while…
Early on Sunday morning, a blue BMW sped through a well-lit street corner near King of Diamonds, smashing into a young Canadian tourist in town for Ultra Music Fest and then speeding away as he fell critically injured to the pavement. Police now say that the driver behind the wheel…
Ultra Music Festival promised to up security and safety this year after a number of troubling incidents increased calls to boot the EDM-fest from Downtown last year. They brought in former Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez as head of security, and changed policy to no longer admit minors to…
By all accounts, Ultra Music Festival was a calmer, more peaceful affair in downtown Miami this year. Arrests were down sharply from 2014 with Miami police handling festival security, while new procedures and bans on everything from glowsticks to masks helped control the crowds. But police this morning are untangling…
Last spring, New Times published the results of a five-month investigation into Miami-Dade’s guardianship system — the program set up by the courts to protect the assets of vulnerable people. Except in South Florida, it had become a politically-connected, un-regulated cesspool of abuse. One year later, as Tallahassee works to…
The first call came to police just after rush hour, around 7 p.m. — two 16-year-olds had been gunned down on a busy Allapattah corner, killing one and wounding the other. Just two hours later, as crime scene technicians were still working in the taped-off murder site, another frantic call…
Cesar Vasquez is a 28-year-old, soft-spoken AT&T customer service rep with a flowing imam-style beard and dark features. On a recent still, scorching day around 3 p.m., he leads me to a shady spot near the corner of a large apartment building in Naranja, five miles north of Homestead. Soon…
Ana Quincoces’ time on The Real Housewives of Miami was brief, but her vacation time down in the keys was cut even shorter. First by cockroaches and then by the law. Quincoces has a suspended license, but continued to drive freely. Apparently she’s been spending a lot of time down…
Among the eight men charged by the feds over the Biogenesis steroid scandal, only former University of Miami pitching coach Lazer Collazo has managed to beat the rap. Despite allegations from the clinic’s owner, Tony Bosch, that Collazo had helped recruit young athletes to the Coral Gables clinic, the government…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection made interesting discovery back on February 27th right here on the Miami River. They found 797 pounds of cocaine hidden inside a boat on the Miami River, leading to one of the largest recent cocaine seizure in Miami in recent memory. The Miami Border Enforcement Security…
It was less than two years ago that Lucie Tondreau was elected as North Miami’s first female Hatiian-American mayor. This morning she was sentenced to 65 months behind bars for her role in a real estate fraud scheme. No one said that corruption wasn’t an equal opportunity in Miami-Dade. Tondreau…
Last month, faux doctor Tony Bosch at last faced the music for running a freewheeling steroid clinic from a storefront on bustling South Dixie Highway in Coral Gables. He’ll spend four years in federal prison for posing as a doctor and selling roids and HGH to scores of athletes, bodybuilders,…
Settle down, this has nothing to do with towing on the Beach, but the FBI did make six arrests for local towing corruption involving city of Miami police officers and public safety aids. When you get into a car accident and an officer arrives on the seen in Miami you…
