Seven-year-old Amir was visiting his cousins yesterday in southwest Dade County, hanging out inside their modest ranch home in the Jackson Heights neighborhood. That’s when a white Dodge Ram slowed to a crawl along Jackson Street, rolled down a window and peppered the house with bullets from a high-powered rifle…
It’s almost noon when Christian Valdes blinks open his eyes. The muscular 32-year-old with short black hair and a goatee quickly realizes he’s hung over. His head is pounding, and his mouth is parched. If he doesn’t get water soon, he may puke. The last thing he recalls is stumbling…
Arrests for driving under the influence in Miami Beach have been noticeably down over the past few years. A reorginization of police patrol zones in 2011 meant that police ended up prioritizing their efforts targeting other crimes over catching those who were driving drunk. This despite the fact that Miami…
In the wake of the 9-11 attacks, donations and federal funds poured into New York City, including millions sent to the medical examiner’s office to help identify the remains of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. At least $10 million of that cash, though, never made it to help…
On a wooded plot of land in Southwest Miami-Dade, animals were allegedly stabbed, hooked and dragged around regularly. Some would even be boiled alive. It’s been dubbed an “animal house of horrors.” Now, after a seven and half month investigation into the illegal slaughterhouse, officials have now arrested two people…
Public sentiment against the death penalty has reached its highest peak since 1972. Even in states where the death penalty remains legal, death penalty sentences and actual executions are becoming rarer and rarer. Well, Florida is bucking the trend and remained quite death penalty-happy in 2015. In fact, a year-end report…
On Monday night, identical threats promising bloody attacks were sent to public school systems in New York and Los Angeles. L.A. went ballistic, shutting down all schools on Tuesday at a cost of millions to taxpayers; New York, meanwhile, deemed the threats a “hoax” and went on with their business. …
Amazon’s Prime Now one-hour delivery service has been operating in Miami since earlier this year. Maybe you’ve seen their white vans driving around. Sometimes with “Amazon” printed prominently on the side. There haven’t been any major hitches, but this is Miami and someone figured out you could probably just easily rob…
Venezuela’s Chavista President Nicolas Maduro took a crushing loss at the polls earlier this month to opposition parties who say his government is horribly corrupt. This morning, U.S. prosecutors are dealing dealt him another vicious body blow. One of Maduro’s top military leaders — Néstor Reverol, head of the country’s National…
If you have a teen in your life then a hoverboard might be high on their Christmas list. All their favorite rappers and Vine stars have one. Well, they’re also at the top of thieves’ wish list. In the past week alone two separate stores selling the trendy toy have…
Three-and-a-half years after a drive-by shooting in Miami Gardens sent a bullet through the trunk of a car and into Megan Hobson’s pelvis, the 20-year-old from Miami Lakes continues to heal. She has had four surgeries to reconstruct her intestines, uterus and hip, and still has trouble walking on her…
Lissette Batista was two months pregnant when three women beat her up inside Club Therapy on NE 11th Street in downtown Miami this past January 4. Her boyfriend, Aldo Pedroza tried to intervene, and the women clobbered him too. Bouncers then jumped into the situation, leaving the attackers alone, kicking…
Five days after bystanders filmed Miami Beach Police shooting and killing a man in the middle of Alton Road during Art Basel weekend, details about the fatal encounter are becoming more clear. The suspect, 51-year-old David Winsette, had escaped a halfway house, just tried to rob a bank and held…
Dramatic video captured by a bystander and uploaded to Instagram this morning captures a man being shot by Miami Beach Police officers in the middle of Alton Road. Details on the shooting are still scarce. An MBPD spokesperson tells New Times the department will release a statement on the shooting…
Amidst the endless stalls of modern art choked with thousands of patrons inside Art Basel Miami this afternoon, a scream burst through the cacophony inside the Miami Beach Convention Center just after 5 p.m. today. Was it performance art? A prankster? As fairgoers converged, they quickly realized something more serious…
There’s not a more legally hazardous job in Miami than taking the reigns of CONCACAF, the soccer federation in charge of North America, the Caribbean and Central America. The past past two jefes of the Miami Beach-based organization are already at the center of the biggest corruption scandal ever to envelope…
Miami Police Officer Vincent Miller has misused his Taser twice in the past two years while working off-duty at the Publix at 17th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. In 2013, he needlessly Tasered a homeless man and then tried to cover it up. Then last year — in a case New…
Just two years after the Justice Department found one local major local police department, Miami PD, liable of engaging “in a pattern or practice of excessive use of force through officer-involved shootings,” police through out the county still regularly have fatal encounters with suspects. According to a database maintained by The Guardian,…
In almost every other county in Florida, voters directly elect a sheriff to head up the county’s law enforcement office. Not in Miami-Dade. Back in 1966, voters here decided to abolish the position after years of suspe cted corruption in the department. Since then a Police Director, now appointed by…
Lamont Collins had no idea why a Miami cop handcuffed him and dragged him into a dark, unmarked room in the back of the Publix at NE 17th Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard. His terror only grew when the officer threw him to the floor and repeatedly held a charged Taser…
There’s two types of mothers on the day after thanksgiving: those who rush out to get Black Friday deals and those who need to get “the tree” and immediately get into Christmas mode. Well, if your mom was the later type and hoped to pick up a Christmas tree at…
Two years ago Derek Medina wrote in a caption a chilling photo of his wife’s slumping, lifeless body that, “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife.” This afternoon a jury decided he was right. A jury found Medina guilty of the second degree murder of his…
