In July 2018, a Miami-area woman and her family members told a Miami Police Department officer that her estranged ex-husband had followed her car, cut off the vehicle, started pounding on the outside of it, and even ripped off one of the windshield wipers, all because he wanted to see the separated couple’s 10-month-old daughter.
Yoel Alonso Leal is a Cuban man who has lived in New Orleans and is seeking asylum in the United States. Beginning last October, he sat in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention despite the fact he suffered from severe gout and a host of other ailments. This past May, he went to the doctor for a lung scan…
Inmates and guards inside the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami (FCI Miami) have complained for years that the facility is full of enough mold and mildew to sicken those inside, In 2018, New Times obtained documents showing the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has repeatedly found leaking ceilings and mold growing on walls in multiple rooms.
Miami Beach is a tourist mecca to where wealthy folks knowingly move and then complain about all the things that come with living in a tourist mecca. Over the past few years, residents have wigged out over the idea that people like to visit South Beach to (and this is by no means an exhaustive list) drink, do drugs,…
Reports on the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children outside Miami tend to fall into two categories. The federal government likes to claim the place is a clean, happy, jovial temporary dorm for immigrant kids waiting to enter the United States. The kids themselves, however, consistently keep telling lawyers and advocates that the place sucks, makes them depressed, and is leaving some of them with lasting trauma.
New Times this week reported that, even though Hialeah Police Officer Jessie Menocal Jr. was accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl while on duty in 2015, he was only removed from street patrols this year.
Kelvin Harris, James Archibald, and Schonton Harris sure know how much a Miami Police Department uniform costs. In monetary terms: $1,500, which is the price an undercover FBI agent posing as a drug dealer paid to buy one from the group during a federal sting.
Thousands of children in Florida have been kept in conditions that a United Nations special report on torture calls “cruel, inhuman, or degrading.”
Throughout much of the past year, police-reform advocates in Miami have been upset with Jane Castor, the former Tampa Police chief whom the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had appointed to oversee the Miami Police Department in the wake of a scathing 2013 DOJ review that found MPD was wantonly using force against black and brown citizens.
In a blow to appointed Broward Sheriff Greg Tony’s fledgling administration, Tony’s hand-chosen undersheriff, Sean Zukowsky, abruptly left the agency today after just seven months on the job.
In July 2014, an anonymous tipster called police early one morning to report that a uniformed Miami Beach cop appeared to be drunk outside Mango’s Tropical Cafe on Ocean Drive. When officers showed up, they arrived to find their own Sgt. Mike Muley so plastered he apparently needed to be transported to Mount Sinai Medical Center.
In 2015, the Hialeah Police Department claimed it had suspended Sgt. Jesus “Jessie” Menocal Jr. and removed him from street patrols after he was accused of kidnapping a 17-year-old girl, driving her to a police building, and forcing her to strip while he pleasured himself in front of her.
In a move some defense lawyers have blasted as cruel, Miami-Dade County yesterday evening said in a media release that it is trying to force some inmates currently out on pretrial release back behind bars before Hurricane Dorian hits Florida.
In news that perhaps might not sound surprising for Sunshine State government, a former employee of the Florida Office of the Attorney General was charged today with securities fraud.
By 2014, the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) and Broward State Attorney’s Office had learned of misconduct allegations against former BSO crime lab analyst Kelli McDonald. That year, New Times broke the news that multiple cases handled by McDonald had either tainted or missing drug evidence.
Pedro Rene Gonzalez had been sitting in Miami’s Federal Detention Center (FDC Miami) awaiting trial on weapons charges since December 18, 2018. Despite languishing in jail for eight months, Gonzalez never made it to trial: The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) today confirmed to New Times…
The University of Miami — allegedly an upstanding institution that’s supposed to teach students right from wrong — is refusing to voluntarily hand Miami’s police-oversight board some payroll documents tied to the single most controversial cop in town: perennial troublemaker and Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz.
Friday afternoon, a simulated jail cell was placed on the University of Miami’s campus to raise awareness about the lack of air conditioning and ventilation in Florida’s state prisons.
Washington state resident Eric Lin was not shy about his love for Adolf Hitler. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Lin enjoyed referencing the Third Reich in writing: He apparently sent a litany of Hitler-referencing death threats to a Hispanic woman in Miami and got himself arrested last week…
There won’t be any movies made about the multimillion-dollar scam sold by Boca Raton resident Scott Strochak. No Leonardo DiCaprio depictions, no adaptions by Martin Scorsese, and no big-money Netflix deal. In truth, Strochak’s alleged scheme amounts to small potatoes when it comes to ill-gotten riches in South Florida, and even smaller in the larger world of financial chicanery. Still, $3.8 million is nothing to balk at.
Payday lenders are already some of the worst people on Planet Earth. They lend money to the poor and desperate at loan-shark-level interest rates and essentially trap people in debt for ungodly long periods of time. The industry also donates heavily to Donald Trump’s campaigns.
Last night, state Rep. Shevrin Jones had wrapped up a legislative update for his constituents in Miami Gardens when he heard an alarming pop-pop-pop. Jones and a couple of his staffers had been talking to residents outside the meeting room at Miami Carol City Park. He barely registered the flashing light of gunfire before a youth football team that had been practicing made a mad dash off the field. Everyone ran into the building to take cover.
