Crime & Police

Whether Martin’s drowning was accidental is the defining question.

The two believe their arrests are a case of “shopping while black.”

Saile Herrera says she watched in horror as the dog lunged at her son.

Dr. Jeanne Germeil was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison.

After his arrest for murder, Randy Herman Jr. had a bizarre defense.

According to the FBI, Salman Rashid tried to contact ISIS to recruit someone to use explosives to kill deans at Broward College and Miami Dade College.

Miami-Dade police arrived at Maria Cazañes’ South Beach apartment on an August evening as she was making herself a cafecito. By the end of the night, Cazañes and her family were homeless.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office today confirmed to New Times that an active criminal probe exists in relation to Miami-Dade County Commissioner Joe Martinez.

Ronald Saint-Vil arrived at the SLS Hotel in South Beach in November 2017 to help raise money for victims of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. But he says he wound up a victim of police brutality instead. In a new lawsuit, Saint-Vil says Miami Beach cops shouted the N-word at him and stunned him with a Taser until he threw up — all because he was recording them on his cell phone.

For years, Bruce M. Bagley has taught in the University of Miami’s International Studies program. He’s one of the nation’s foremost experts on money laundering in Latin America. That might be because, at least according to the FBI, he’s been helping to launder money out of Latin America.

Mere days after receiving more than three years in prison after lying on a gun background-check form, South Florida rapper (and accused rapist) Kodak Black is facing two additional felony gun charges after Miami-Dade prosecutors unsealed a new case against him. The Miami Herald first reported this afternoon that Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has hit Black with two felony counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.

Offering fancy clothes and luxury cars as bait to recruit vulnerable girls into years of prostitution, William Foster used South Florida as a home base for an expansive sex trafficking operation for at least 15 years, federal agents alleged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in the Southern District of Florida.

There’s no question Chief Jorge Colina inherited a police force riddled with problems. When he took over for Rudy Llanes in January 2018, the Miami Police Department was already under a federal consent decree owing to a pattern of excessive force and shootings. Complaints from black citizens had been skyrocketing…

When Yoinis Cruz Peña crashed his motorcycle into an I-95 retaining wall, flew off an overpass, and died May 27, 2018, the friends who biked alongside him said he had been chased off the highway by Miami police officers.

Kodak Black — the Broward County native who is both one of Florida’s most popular rap stars and an accused rapist — was sentenced today in Miami federal court to three years and ten months in prison after he pleaded guilty to federal weapons violations earlier this year.

Johnny Emmanuel has given many family members keys to his house. But none of them, he says, is able to open a side door at his Fort Lauderdale home — a door even he doesn’t use. So when he got a text from his home-security system August 19 alerting him that someone had opened the auxiliary door, he assumed someone was breaking into his house.

When she was broadsided by a woman in a stolen car, Amanda Robinson had no idea what had happened. In the early morning of August 9, 2017, she was driving south on Biscayne Boulevard when another motorist plowed into the side of her Kia Sorento. First responders used the jaws of life to free her from the crushed SUV.

Before he threatened to commit mass murder, Hanson Larkin had a pattern of cyberstalking and anti-Semitism, court records show. The Volusia County resident, who yesterday pleaded guilty to sending messages threatening to shoot up a synagogue, was first reported to police by a Hialeah resident who said he was being harassed by Larkin.

Since 2001, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) has operated one of the largest facial recognition databases in America. Numerous police departments statewide have opted into accessing the information. However, it doesn’t seem to work that well: In 2016, studies warned that the database could produce false positives, was “ripe for misuse and abuse,” and operated with little to no oversight.

When one Florida Memorial University student began attending the historically black college in Miami Gardens this fall, she immediately noticed security in her dorm seemed lax. She had moved from Apopka to attend the school this year, but when she settled into the Willie C. Robinson Residence Hall, she says, she noticed a potential problem.

On a Monday night in August 2018, Andre Lewis was walking through the Brickell Metrorail station when a Miami police officer ordered him to leave. The 51-year-old Lewis says he was on his way out when the cop, later identified as Officer Leonel Sanchez, handcuffed him and told him he was under arrest.

Now-retired football player Kellen Winslow Jr. did not declare for the NFL draft until January 2, 2004. Today in court, he admitted to having raped an unconscious 17-year-old girl in 2003 — while he was a star tight end for the University of Miami Hurricanes.