For more than a year, FIU physics professor Stephan Linn warned campus administrators and Miami Dade Transit that using the bus to get to and from campus was risky for students. In letter after letter, he complained of bus stops that were inconvenient, unsheltered and unsafe— located too far from…
Early last month, Eduardo Goudie was set to move into his new home on North Greenway Drive in Coral Gables. He had already moved in his eclectic art collection which featured contemporary painters from all across the world, but when he returned to the him April 3rd he found that five paintings…
Andres Quintanilla, a 33-year-old 16-year veteran of the Miami Springs Police Department, was arrested yesterday for allegedly offering protection and information to an undercover FBI agent who was posing as an international drug trafficker. The investigation began in 2014 when the undercover agent informed Quintanilla that he was in the…
Congressman and potential Democratic Senate candidate Alan Grayson is no stranger to saying controversial things and calling others name, and he’s certainly no stranger to not apologizing if he offends anyone. However, Grayson’s office made a rare semi-appology lately to clarify that the Rep. did not indeed mean to tell…
It’s been a rough month for the Miami Beach Police Department. First came video of a detective punching a handcuffed woman in the face, followed closely by a press conference announcing that more than a dozen officers had sent or received boatloads of racist and pornographic emails. But don’t be…
Just hours into New Year’s Day this year, Roberto Ornelas, an 18-year-old resident of Key Largo, started acting erratically. So his father, Guadalupe, called police to intervene. Monroe County deputies ended up tasering Ornelas. He would die days later, but the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office claims its not their duty to…
The late-night party is over for Ocean Drive sidewalk cafes. The Miami Beach City Commission voted yesterday to ban all outdoor booze sales after 2 a.m., the first of several moves Mayor Philip Levine pledges will usher in a new era for the iconic beachfront boulevard. Several restaurant owners slammed…
The party was jumping behind the small beige house backed up against I-95 in North Miami. Dance lights flashed on hundreds of liquor bottles behind the makeshift bar. A DJ dropped a bass-heavy mix. And just before midnight, a party bus full of girls rolled up. It was tough to…
Despite continually dropping number of arrests during the weekend, despite having a new police chief and despite a recent racism scandal in the department, Miami Beach is once again turning itself into a mini-police state during Memorial Day Weekend this year. The traffic loops, barricades and checkpoints are all coming…
Reporters packed into a conference room last week around officials from Miami Beach and the State Attorney’s Office. Their message was clear: The Miami Beach Police Department was cleaning up its act. More than a dozen cops were now under investigation for sending and receiving hundreds of racist and pornographic…
Weird things happen every week in Florida. Every Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a heroic jujitsu class, a profane God-lovin man and Florida’s worst getaway driver. Robbery Stopped by Jiujitsu Class David Menzies had his eye on about $15,000 worth of merchandize from a triathlon…
On the job for less than a year, Miami beach Police Chief Dan Oates continues his very public cleaning up of the Miami Beach Police Department. Oates was joined by City Manager Jimmy Morales and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle to announce an investigation into officers sending thousands and racist, sexist, homophobic…
The woman, a resident of Stock Island, just east of Key West, had been out of the country, Monroe County Police Department spokesperson Becky Herrin says. So when she got a call, earlier this week, from a man named “Mike” telling her that there was a warrant out for her…
Aventura Mall may be one of the nicest shopping centers in Florida, but its parking garage continue to be the scene of an unusual number of high profile incidents. In just the latest example this afternoon, police ended up shooting a man in one of the garages after he was…
Twenty-three members of the Latin Kings street gang were dethroned today. United States Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer announced today that they were swept up in five separate indictments, and that all were dangerous or violent offenders. Many were high ranking members of the criminal group. Five other non- members were also…
Delvis Rogers is the band director at Grace Academy, a private Christian school in Opa-locka, but he was arrested this weekend for some particularly un-Christian off-tune crimes. Investigators noticed that more than 400 questionable tax returns, all together totaling $754,000 in refunds, used his Hollywood apartment as an address. A search warrant…
The way Armando Porto tells it, he was arguing with his girlfriend on a steamy September morning in a Miami Beach parking lot when three men approached. Before he knew what was happening, one pushed him to the ground and another handcuffed him. Then the third man — a larger,…
The number one rule of South Beach: Don’t assume anything is real. That was the first of many dumb mistakes Daniel Palmer made last week when he attempted a gold chain snatching. Back on April 30th, Palmer approached a group of friends who were standing near 11th Avenue and Ocean Drive…
Ever parked in a Miami-Dade County-run parking garage? You’d be hard pressed to find a customer who’d call the county’s parking hubs models of efficient business. But a new report from the Miami-Dade Inspector General suggests the department’s problems are far worse than anyone had guessed. Deposits went missing, checks…
This may be the oddst weave snatching in the storied history of weave snatchings. All the weave snatches on Real Housewives, Bad Girls Club and RuPaul’s Drag Race combined probably don’t even add up to the total bizarreness and monetary value of this. Police believe that four minors, with one…
On Friday, the Miami Beach Police Department announced that a detective had been suspended for 160 hours for violating department policies on use of force and handling prisoners in custody. The suspension stemmed from a case where Archer had punched a Good Samaritan in the head, but it turns out…
Andrew Mossberg was walking back to his condo in South Beach when he saw a disturbing scene: A muscular man was grappling with a thin woman, punching her and grabbing items from her purse. Naturally, Mossberg assumed it was a mugging in progress and called 911. That’s when the man…
