Crime & Police

Although Javier Ortiz was fired in September, the former Miami police captain was still eligible to run in the police union election.

Lopez spearheaded a no-holds-barred approach to confronting Miami police on camera.

Michael Boatwright’s trial is currently set for January 9.

Officer Alexander Garcia-Contreras’ last day with the Miami Police Department was November 10.

A federal judge sentenced soothsayer Samantha Stevens, 51, to two and a half years in prison in connection with a multimillion-dollar spiritual fraud.

Despite his firing from the Miami Police Department, Javier Ortiz wants to reclaim his spot atop one of Miami’s police unions.

Rafael Antonio Gomez tests the boundaries of the First Amendment on the daily in Miami-Dade by verbally berating police.

Prosecutors are gearing up for the planned December trial of Miami-born Enrique Tarrio on seditious conspiracy charges.

A Broward man known as #Tweedledumb is headed to prison for assaulting a police officer during the Capitol Hill riot.

Three teenagers were arrested for allegedly defacing a quiet Weston community with bigoted slurs.

Austin Harrouff will be sent to a mental hospital after a judge determined he was in a psychotic state when he bludgeoned and stabbed two strangers to death.

Eight years after the death of her son in a murder-for-hire plot, Ruth Markel offers advice on how to get through the grieving process.

It’s “shocking how simple” a multimillion-dollar email impersonation scam can be, cybersecurity expert Alex Hamerstone says.

The Department of Justice says it indicted two Cambodian officials for smuggling hundreds of wild-caught long-tailed macaques.

The Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled Broward County prosecutors can seek the death penalty in their case against Jamell Demons aka YNW Melly.

A Broward woman says her boss at a local police union assaulted her and took pictures of her while she was naked and incapacitated on a Las Vegas work trip.

The majority of police officers who violated body-worn camera policy did so in Miami’s district with the highest percentage of Black residents, a citizens panel found.

Anti-Semitic incidents have left Weston’s Jewish residents and community leaders in a state of disgust and confusion.

Miami-Dade County has struggled to update the court’s criminal records system in the digital age.

Broward’s lead public defender says the mistreatment of mentally ill inmates in county jails is out of hand.

A bungled drug trafficking investigation at Miami International Airport culminated in an innocent Sarasota woman being strip searched and put in an orange jump suit.

A naked assailant donning a cowboy hat slashed a woman with a machete near Miami Springs.