The case is one of the biggest black eyes in the history of the Miami-Dade Police Department and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s administration. In 2015, local cops, elected officials, and Rundle stood at a podium and declared then-15-year-old Deandre Charles had murdered Joseph Raksin, a prominent New York City rabbi. Rundle then revealed an utterly ridiculous witness-drawn sketch.
The Miami Police Department resembles a middle-school playground. Here’s proof. Two brothers who recently won the cop union’s elections, Tommy and Matt Reyes, seem to be suggesting someone tied to the election’s losers is now fabricating evidence to smear them. Yesterday, New Times broke news that MPD Chief Jorge Colina has ordered…
Roberto Destephan, the City of Miami Police officer and former Fraternal Order of Police union vice president, filmed himself last year tossing Hebrew texts into a garbage heap outside an FOP office while calling the books “trash.” That video then leaked to WPLG Local 10 News last…
While living in Cartagena, Colombia, Jose Irizarry allegedly held lavish yacht parties with bikini-clad prostitutes. He took first-class flights to Europe and brought along some Louis Vuitton luggage and a gold Hublot watch. He funded his lifestyle by stealing cash from Colombian drug dealers and engaging in schemes to launder money…
Unlike five other members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office command staff, Col. Frank Adderley remained at the agency over the weekend after Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted his boss, Scott Israel, as sheriff. Adderley, the at-times controversial former police chief of Fort Lauderdale, tried his fate with new Sheriff Gregory Tony, who…
Despite the fact that City of Miami taxpayers in 2016 shelled out $400,000 to equip half of the 1,300-member police force with body cameras, the Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP) continues having to call out the city’s cops for misusing the devices. The Miami Police Department needed the cameras after the federal government whacked the department…
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel was basically fired on Friday. Israel’s cops demonstrably failed during the Parkland shooting: A scathing, 500-page report released earlier this month detailed how multiple BSO deputies failed to confront Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz. Deputies lacked proper training to handle mass shooters and it appears…
On the same day that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended their boss from office and named Gregory Tony the first black sheriff in Broward County history, five top members of the command staff announced their resignations, sources confirmed to New Times. Those who resigned include Undersheriff Steve Kinsey, Col. Jack…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to remove Broward Sheriff Scott Israel from his post today at 3 p.m. during a news conference in front of BSO headquarters. That much is clear. But there is much speculation about whom DeSantis will install as the top cop. New Times has confirmed a Politico report that the governor is expected to choose former Coral Springs sergeant Gregory Tony as the interim sheriff. Tony would become the first black sheriff in Broward history.
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was sworn in this week, rumors swirled that Broward Sheriff Scott Israel would soon be removed from office over his agency’s botched response to the Parkland school shooting. One possible replacement for perhaps the most powerful job in Florida’s most Democratic county, according to two…
Hector’s Pizza opening delayed.
Florida law prohibits police departments from using drones to surveil citizens. So Miami Beach cops instead got a small blimp. On December 28, MBPD flew a tiny, helium-filled dirigible, or “tethered aerostat,” over an Orange Bowl party called the Capital One Beach Bash. A camera attached to the balloon monitored…
Embattled Broward Sheriff Scott Israel’s second in command, Undersheriff Steve Kinsey, has informed numerous sheriff’s department staff members he is resigning his post, according to three well-placed BSO sources. The decision by Kinsey comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who took office Tuesday, is widely expected to suspend…
Look: If you’re going to take a bribe, at least take a cool bribe. Don’t end up on a list like this one because you illegally funneled a ton of taxpayer subsidies to a local gumball vending-machine magnate. Don’t, for example, fly to America to receive a boatload of illegal cash…
Jamar Rollins’ relatives believe a firearm was planted at the scene to provide a justification for the shooting.
Investors say Frost engaged in more schemes than the SEC said he did.
The record shows that BSO Lt. Kevin Shults’ high-ranking colleagues failed to conduct a complete investigation and essentially covered up the case, which has never before been made public
Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, the man formerly in charge of weeding crooked people out of Colombia’s very corrupt government, was sentenced yesterday to four years in federal prison for accepting an envelope full of bribery cash inside a Dolphin Mall bathroom. The case is as wild as Miami crimes get. While…
It has really happened, Idiot!
Hey, uh, a neo-Nazi was stopped within minutes of burning down a Miami Beach apartment complex and causing an international mass-death incident. It would be pretty hard to argue that a crime in Miami this year was more insane than that one. Or maybe not. Crime in this town is so utterly bizarre and inexplicable that the public tends to forget bonkers events mere days after they happen.
Frost is the namesake of Miami’s Frost Museum of Science.
On one hand, some Miami-area law-enforcement agencies are transparently corrupt, averse to public accountability, and face virtually zero consequences when they do racist stuff. On the other hand: Some Aventura cops just went viral for dancing at the mall! All is clearly well, good, and supernormal in Miami cop-land…
