Why is it that parrots can’t avoid running with the wrong crowd? First there was their storied relationship with blood-thirsty pirates. Now, apparently, they’re getting involved in the Colombian drug trade. Colombian prosecutors are accusing Lorenzo the Parrot of being trained to scream a warning in Spanish– “Run, run, the…
It’s already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami — or at least for the feds’ perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then…
When the Miami Heat’s Udonis Haslem was charged by the Florida Highway Patrol with a third degree felony of possessing more than 20 grams of marijuana things seemed shady. We went as far as to call it a “miscarriage of justice.” Now, the State Attorney’s Office has dropped all charges…
Yesterday, news broke of a bizarre lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade court that alleged amongst other wrongdoings Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal hatched a plan to plant child porn on a former employee’s computer and use his law enforcement connections to have the man arrested. Today Shaq’s representatives have released a statement about…
Robert Barker, a 41-year-old from Leesburg, was apparently none to pleased when his teenage stepson had to bow out of a youth football game over the weekend due to the blistering heat. His solution? Set up cones in the front yard and make the kid run some sprints — while…
A Florida Road Ranger, one of those helpful services that give free assistance to highway motorists with car troubles, stopped to offer help last night to a driver who had pulled over near the median of the Palmetto Expressway. He found the driver asleep at the wheel, and oh yeah,…
Last Friday, we had few details about the bizarre murder that left an 84-year-old woman dead at the hands of an 87-year-old who had also shot himself. Now, Juan Adolfo Gonzalez has been identified as the gunman. He told police he had been plotting the murder of Celina Hernandez, his ex-girlfriend,…
Dexter Morgan, the fictional anti-hero of local author Jeff Lindsay’s book series and Showtime’s hit drama, trades in on Miami’s violent image as a crime scene analyst by day and a serial killer of other serial killers by night. Though, the violence, as Miami’s tourism boards might want to let…
A bizarre murder-suicide attempt today has left one octogenarian dead, and another injured. Police are investigation and incident in which an 87-year-old man pulled a gun on an 84-year-old woman and then apparently turned it toward himself…
Ladies, when it comes to about 75 percent of Jennifer Lopez films, namely the vapid chicks flick, if you find your man watching one alone it either means he’s gay or just checking out Jennifer Lopez. Shannon Wriska, of Santa Rose County, Florida, found her hubby watching one, and figured…
To be honest, we’re more shocked that someone found a basement in Miami than an illegal grow house. Yes, last week, Miami-Dade Police found a home with a makeshift basement that served as a grow house…
Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel, 23, a Palestinian national who had attended Hialeah Senior High, and Yanny Aguila Urbay, 24, who arrived from Cuba seven years ago, have been arrested on terrorism-related charges. The two were caught in a scheme to purchase more than 300 stolen weapons, including AK-47s, M-16s, and grenades…
Quotas to police chiefs are like mistresses to politicians: Nobody wants to get caught with one. No cop brass wants to admit that they’ve boiled the delicate art of policing– where discretion and fairness is key– to a crude numbers chase…
Clownish convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein made a habit of making large donations to several local charities to pump up his credibility and be able to rub shoulders with big wigs. Now he’s serving a 50 year& sentence for his scheme that ripped investors off to the tune of $1.2…
On the police report, it will say something like “observed vehicle swerving erratically. Issued verbal traffic warning. Officer detected aroma of marijuana.” But in reality, says Ofc. Frank Adams– the renegade 15-year Miami-Dade veteran who this week claimed to New Times that he watched his fellow officers severely beat an…
An armed bank robber is on the lose in Coral Gables near the University of Miami campus. The college is on alert, while two public schools with young children in the area, Sunset Elementary School and Henry S. West Laboratory School, are in precautionary lock down…
Efraim Diveroli, the irrepressible 24-year-old arms trafficker and Miami Beach felon, was arrested Friday for attempting to sell large quantities of ammunition to undercover federal agents in central Florida. He’s been detained without bond in Orange County and charged with “possession of firearms as a convicted felon” and “possession of…
In today’s roundup of the sins of South Florida: A congressional candidate has her purse snatched after a man points a gun at her head outside a church; some students will spend their first month of class in a fancy hotel; a traffic accident claims one life; and another storm…
Two teens in St. Petersburg, Florida evidently decided to while away their fading halcyon days of youth with a time-honored American tradition: Sneaking into the fanciest hotel pool in town and pooping all over that bastard. What, like you’ve never done it? (Looking at you Kim Kardashian.)It was the perfect…
In today’s roundup of the sins of South Florida: A former county employee faces 20 charges of child pornography, a man is killed after a fight at a South Beach club, a veteran security guard is mysteriously found dead behind a dollar store in Southwest Dade, two men are arrested…
The Magic City’s violent summer just keeps boiling on, as Miami police shot and killed another suspect early this morning– the fourth police shooting in just over a month.Details on the latest clash, which ended just a few hours ago, are still sketchy. Sometime after midnight last night, cops were…
Miami-Dade County’s once-burgeoning horse meat black market has become a foolhardy trade due to prowling undercover cops and a new Florida law sending equine-flesh-peddlers to prison for a year. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of criminals still determined–or dumb–enough to sell horse meat. “A lot of people are…
