In the seven years since Coral Gables began installing automatic license-plate readers, resident Raul Mas Canosa estimates the city has captured images of his car “thousands of times.” It’s a reasonable guess: By the end of the year, the City Beautiful is on track to scan more than 30 million license plates despite having a population of only 50,000.
Lew has received not only a promotion from deputy chief medical examiner to director of Miami-Dade’s Medical Examiner Department, but also an award and even a pay bump. In March 2017, the year Rundle decided not to press charges, Lew was given Miami-Dade’s In the Company of Women Award for being an “Outstanding Woman in Government.”
For years, Miami-based attorney Eric Waraftig helped bankroll a QVC marketing director’s lavish lifestyle by embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars and using inside information to make deals with competitors — all so he could pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks.
There is virtually no reason for a group of large adult male cops to pin a 14-year-old girl to the ground and continully punch her in the ribs and kidneys. Yet after Coral Springs Police officers were filmed doing exactly that to a teen outside the Coral Square Mall yesterday, the police department is now trying to defend itself and callously throwing the teen under the bus for somehow provoking the beating.
If you were planning on, say, enjoying a leisurely day at South Pointe Pier this Saturday, don’t be alarmed when you see a crowd of people openly carrying Glocks.
A Broward County judge has confirmed the Hollywood Police Department ruined the lives of ten gay men for no reason at all. This past July 26, Hollywood PD raided a gay-cruising hangout and arrested eight men allegedly caught masturbating in a private backroom and two others accused of performing oral sex on each other. The police department then sent the men’s photos and names to the media, and many outlets happily blasted out the men’s identities. One man said he was outed and fired from his job as a result.
Devona Stevenson had been an officer at the Sunrise Police Department for nearly 20 years when she was accused of leaving work without permission last September. Even after it was made clear that she hadn’t actually left, she wasn’t off the hook — instead, she says, her male supervisors reprimanded…
Miami-Dade County cops burst into the home of 18-year-old Bryan Crespo last March to arrest him for allegedly stealing airbags from local cars. But according to surveillance video New Times has obtained, an MDPD officer identified as Sgt. Manuel Regueiro decided to wallop Crespo in the face after he…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an agency dedicated to kicking poor immigrants out of the country. ICE functions with even less oversight than local cops and a mandate to just wantonly kick brown people out of America. Studies show deportations have no impact on the U.S. crime rate! And that…
Fraud investigators from Miami-Dade’s property appraiser are looking into claims that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart committed homestead-exemption fraud, an office spokesperson confirms to New Times. Eileen Hernandez, an agency spokesperson, says the appraiser’s Homestead-Exemption Fraud Office has received “numerous complaints” after local blogger and mortgage broker Grant Stern published documents he said show…
Leonard Pozner has lived through unimaginable pain. His son Noah was shot to death during the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, in which six adults and 20 children were murdered in Newtown, Connecticut. Then, after that incomprehensible tragedy, conspiracy theorists and gun-rights advocates have continued to harass him. Pozner is suing InfoWars’ Alex Jones for defamation after Jones repeatedly claimed Pozner was a fake “crisis actor.”
A 26-year-old Miami woman was out enjoying the long Labor Day weekend last year in Wynwood when her evening took a nightmarish turn. She’d had too much to drink when she and a friend stepped outside El Patio. When 51-year-old Uber driver Fredrick Gaston offered her a ride, she was…
In September, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission slapped Miami biotech billionaire Phillip Frost with a massive lawsuit accusing him of stock fraud. According to the SEC, Frost and his co-conspirators artificially inflated the price of stocks and then exited with millions, leaving other investors with virtually worthless shares. After the charges were announced in national media, stock prices for Frost’s company, Opko Health, plummeted.
Rayan Rodriguez just wanted to play a few rounds of dominoes in Máximo Gómez Park — better known as Calle Ocho’s famous Domino Park — where tourists line up all day to snap photos of viejitos slapping tiles down on the park’s tables. But instead of snagging a table, Rodriguez…
Flavio Musmanno lost his wallet August 28. He has lived in North Miami Beach on an expired visa since emigrating from Argentina in 2000, but he’d since married an American citizen and is in the process of applying for permanent residency.
Miami Police officers nearly just won the right to do drugs and get away with it. Last month, New Times obtained a copy of the police department’s new labor contract, and its language would let cops caught doing illegal drugs keep their jobs as long as they entered rehab after failing a drug test. Many critics found the rule hypocritical because one of the police department’s main jobs is to arrest people doing drugs.
“The [City] Manager has informed me that the officer in question is in the process required by law and collective bargaining before an officer can be officially terminated,” Gilbert said in a written statement sent to New Times. “The behavior of which [Clarke] is accused, and the poor judgement which he has allegedly shown, is not consistent with the high standards to which we hold all City employees.”
A few seconds after storming into a flea market parking lot with a handgun, firing that gun into the same car where her kid was sitting, and then grabbing her son and speeding away, the woman with bright green hair suddenly realizes she perhaps shouldn’t have let her friend film…
Clarke has been investigated by MGPD’s internal affairs unit twice for having inappropriate relationships with women while on duty. The first complaint against him in 2016 was sustained and resulted in a five-day suspension, though that didn’t stop him from becoming a finalist for the 2017 Dade County “Officer of the Year” award this past May.
Only about 3,000 people live in Biscayne Park. Yet despite the village’s small size, for years city documents bragged about how its cops were making hundreds of arrests and thousands of traffic stops every year. In 2011, Raimundo Atesiano was named 2011 “Officer of the Year” after making 2,236 traffic stops and 305 arrests…
As he turns the corner of SW 113th Place in Richmond Heights, Chuck Berriman hits the brake pedal of his red Toyota pickup and looks over his shoulder toward the place where his youngest brother died. “That’s it right there,” he says, pointing toward a dilapidated beige townhouse with an…
When the controversial Netflix documentary Hot Girls Wanted premiered in 2015, some sex workers were upset about the film and argued it was a needlessly negative take on the porn industry. Some porn performers said the that film was demeaning to actors who consensually have sex on camera and that the movie, produced by Rashida Jones, cherry-picked negative stories from porn stars to make the industry look worse than it really is.
