Hundreds of zombies ran screaming through downtown Fort Myers late on Saturday night, fleeing in terror as gunshots rang out in the night. When police forced their way through the panicked costumed crowd, they found six attendees at that night’s packed “ZombiCon” bleeding in the street. One may, wearing a…
Jordan Redavid, a New York native, was a top student at the University of Miami School of Law, graduating in 2013. He became a Miami-Dade public defender, and then moved into private practice, co-founding a criminal law firm based in Brickell. He’s won numerous accolades, and his firm bio lists…
The call came to Miami-Dade Police just before 2 a.m. last night: A robber with a bandana pulled over his face and a silver handgun had just hit a Walgreens in South Dade and sped off in a white SUV. Minutes later, after a high-speed chase down Dixie Highway, police…
Florida has one of the most unusual set of laws concerning what it takes to sentence someone to death in the entire nation. Florida also sends more inmates to death row than most other states in the nation. Since the Death Penalty was reinstated in 1976, only Texas, Oklahoma and…
On a mild evening in early August, John Pate and Sally Elizabeth Evans’ Volkswagen Passat climbs the hills outside the lush Valle Arriba golf club in Caracas. The 70-year-old Pate, a tall, fair-skinned lawyer with red hair, glasses, and a soft face, had just finished his usual Sunday dinner at…
Guns rights groups in Florida are desperately trying to give students the right to have a gun on the state’s college campuses despite polling indicate that just about everyone else thinks thats just a horrible idea. One strange example of why that might not be such a hot idea played…
A red BWM convertible with the top down rolled alongside a yellow taxi cab on Pine Tree Drive early this morning, past the million-dollar Miami Beach mansions and the gnarled old trees that give the road its name. Suddenly, gunfire raked the side of the taxi as the convertible squealed…
It’s no secret many Florida police are uneasy about a bill that advanced in Tallahassee yesterday to allow residents to openly carry firearms. In fact, the only reason the Sunshine State is still one of six states to prohibit open gun-toting is because the state Sheriff’s Association has vigorously opposed…
When you’re a Major League Baseball star its hard to keep track of everything going on in your life. Which is why one might hire a personal assistant to help keep track of their schedules, their errands, and even their boats. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Bronson Arroyo, a former Golden Glove…
Between Stand Your Ground and the weekly insane crime news, Florida is about as close to the Wild West as it gets in today’s America. So it’s genuinely a surprise that the Sunshine State is somehow one of six states that still prohibit the public from carrying around weapons in…
Last October, Miami New Times broke the news that at least two Miami Police Department cops had been clients at the notorious Coral Gables steroid den Biogenesis. Hours after that story was published, MPD brass announced they’d soon begin testing their cops for anabolic steroid abuse because of “rage-like” problems…
For the last month, Jonathan Harrington has been living every practical jokers’ worst nightmare. The University of Miami student faced a felony drug charge and expulsion from school — all because, he insisted, he’d put out lines of powdered sugar as a joke before a dorm inspection. When a police…
Detective Joe Mendez was going through a rough spot in his marriage. A bearded and burly 20-year veteran of the South Miami Police Department, and a second generation officer as the son of a cop, Mendez decided to get his mind off his home life by giving back to the…
It hasn’t been the easiest year for the Miami Beach Police Department and its new chief, Dan Oates. Within a few weeks early this year, Oates had to confront video of an MBPD cop punching a handcuffed woman in the face and then a national scandal that erupted when several…
On a rainy Thursday morning in August, Tangela Sears parks her Mitsubishi SUV in front of a small yellow house on a quiet street in Liberty City. Her grandfather bought the home about six decades ago. Sears was raised there. She raised her own son David there, too, and had…
It’s fair to say the vast majority of Miami was not in the finest of moods today. It’s Monday morning, the Dolphins just finished shaming all of South Florida and to top it off, big pieces of the city are expected to flood today thanks to a combination of the…
Around 5:30 in the morning on August 18, a young woman sleeping inside her home on Byron Avenue, in North Beach, was woken up by an intruder who had entered her bedroom. The woman didn’t know the man, but he seemed to know her, calling her by her first name…
Saintamens Edwards is an 8-year veteran of what’s supposed to be Miami-Dade’s best and brightest, the Miami-Dade Police Department. Her ex-husband has a job at a shoe store. Edwards, 35, however has now found her feet on the wrong side of the law after allegedly abusing the power of her…
Two years ago last month, 18-year-old Israel “Reefa” Hernandez died after a Miami Beach Police officer who was chasing him away from a building he’d been tagging hit him in the chest with a Taser. Hernandez’s death sparked national outcry about the use of the devices, particularly after Miami-Dade’s Medical…
In Miami-Dade, not even the lowest rung of politics is safe from corruption. Today, a joint task force of the State Attorney’s Office Public Corruption Task Force and the County Office of the Inspector General announced the arrest of David Alberto Carache. Carache’s crimes? Trying to illegally amass a slate of…
Two hours before her redeye Greyhound was scheduled to snort out of the lot, Valerie Bozeman walked into the bus station in Oakland, California. She was traveling light: $93 in her pocket, a tote bag full of underwear and toothpaste courtesy of the Bureau of Prisons, and the blessings of…
The black Harley blazed past two officers parked on the south tip of Key West just after 7 p.m. on Saturday, lighting up a radar gun at 74 mph as its engine gunned noisily through the 30 mph speed zone. When the officers pulled the bike up over, the rider…
