A million thoughts raced through Randy Lanier’s head as he cast a fishing line into the azure waters off Antigua, 1,300 miles from South Florida. He had a family back in Davie — a wife, an 8-year-old daughter, and a newborn son. Then he pondered auto racing. He’d been a…
Karen Halnon, a 52 year-old Pennsylvania resident, was arrested at Miami International Airport over the weekend after going on a two hour rant about how the United State had declared war on Venezuela. The incident went down on a commercial flight from Managua, Nicaragua back to Miami. During her rant Halnon…
It wasn’t uncommon for Miami Beach Police officers to work off-duty jobs as security at South Beach nightclubs. Or at least it wasn’t until Sgt. Mike Muley allegedly showed up to such a gig drunk. He was suspended and new Police Chief Daniel Oates temporarily prohibited his officers from working…
Two police cars from two separate departments were set ablaze last night in North Miami-Dade while parked out front of the officers’ homes just blocks from each other. Police believe that the acts were intentional and both were set by the same person or group of people…
In 1990, a group of homeless men and women was sleeping in Lummus Park near the Miami River when they were jarred awake by police officers. Before most knew what was happening, they were yanked from their tents, handcuffed, and forced to watch while officers burned everything they owned: clothes,…
No matter your opinion on marijuana or guns, we can all agree that the two shouldn’t be mixed. Just ask 20-year-old Josue Sanchez who got high in a car on Friday night and then ended up accidentally fatally shooting his friend…
Spring break arrived in South Beach this weekend with all the usual hallmarks: Packed beaches full of drunken 20-somethings, shoulder-to-shoulder pedestrians on Ocean Drive, lines around the block for Washington Avenue nightclubs. And, early this morning, the year’s first shootout near Ocean Drive. Two men were wounded in a gun…
Lazer Collazo, a former pitching coach at University of Miami and head coach at local high schools, has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of buying steroids without a prescription. Collazo had been charged as part of the federal case against Coral Gables steroid clinic Biogenesis, with federal…
Between the bizarre Ana Aliegro saga, the undisclosed casino consulting, and the myriad other mini-scandals, it can be difficult to keep track of every malfeasance that former Rep. David Rivera has been fighting. Among them, though, is a 2012 state ethics charge accusing Rivera of concealing his finances and double-billing…
In federal court last month, big-league steroid dealer Tony Bosch and his attorneys painted a sad picture of the price he had paid to help bring down his clients — including the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez and the Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun. The fake doctor had sacrificed everything, they said, ducking…
The family of Lavall Hall, the mentally ill man who was shot dead by Miami Gardens police after brandishing a broom handle, has filed suit against the city. The suit specifically names the city, Peter Ehrlich, and Eddo Trimino, the two police officers who were involved in the incident, and…
View image | gettyimages.com Sarkis Soghanalian once sold weapons to warring countries across the globe from his Hibiscus Island mansion, earning the nickname the “Merchant of Death” while becoming one of the biggest arms dealers on earth during the Cold War. Soghanalian’s larger-than-life exploits partly inspired Nicolas Cage’s character in…
“I don’t believe in ghosts,” Bullet says. “But that is one of the creepiest places you could find.” Bullet is an urban explorer: a twenty-something Miamian who sneaks into abandoned buildings and photographs their bones. This time around, however, he came a little too close to the real thing. He’s…
State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced the arrest of Miami Beach man Antonio Giansante on multiple felony charges involving child porn, video voyeurism, and cyber stalking. The charges come after Giansante went on a campaign to embarrass his ex-girlfriend. The 37-year-old began dating the woman when she was just 16…
TV cameras from around the nation are focused on a green-and-orange-painted appliance store in Allapattah this morning. More specific, they’re broadcasting pictures of the Miami-Dade bus lodged in the front of the business. Just after 6:30 this morning, the bus collided with an SUV and then slammed into the building,…
Last week, New Times reported that Miami Police Officer Vincent Miller was being suspended for misusing his Taser. A bystander testified he saw Miller shock a homeless man for no reason. It was later found that the officer never reported the incident. Documents obtained by New Times now provide the…
Thankfully it only involved paint, but two not-so-bright teens pulled off a school shooting yesterday at Miami Spring Senior High School. Joel Rodriguez and Juan Gil, both 18, were out “to get a student by the name of Mike,” according to the arrest report. So the pair drove by the…
Ever since Buju Banton, one of Jamaica’s most talented and controversial reggae singers, was convicted of cocaine trafficking and gun charges in 2011, there have been signs his trial was not on the up-and-up. You may recall he was sentenced to ten years and lingers in federal lockup. That sentence…
For years, Florida police agencies have secretly purchased mysterious devices called Stingrays. Manufactured in Delray Beach and sold for up to $134,000, the machine lets cops track cell phones. And even though Stingrays were bought mostly with anti-terrorism money and pitched as emergency-only options, local court records hint that police…
Miami Beach police responded to a tense scene last night at 7801 Abbott Ave. in Miami Beach. After responding to a domestic disturbance report, police noticed that the place was ablaze. A mattress had been set on fire in a hallway. During their investigation the suspect, 22-year-old Edwin Innis, was…
A video posted on YouTube this weekend shows what appears to be a Florida Highway Patrol officer tasering an elderly man with his hands up. The video, reportedly filmed on the way to Key West, shows two angry patrolmen pulling an unidentified old man from his minivan during a traffic…
Remember when you were a kid and your parents drilled it into you that you weren’t supposed to take candy from strangers? And for most of us strangers never actually offered us candy, nor did we hear about it happening to any of our friends. However, turns out that it…
