Email Author Tim Elfrink

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2011

  "Santeria Stalker"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 19, 2011

  "Guns Online: No Permit Needed"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 3, 2011

  "The Fight to Bury Venezuelan President CAP in Miami"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published March 25, 2010

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published December 16, 2010

  "Hurricane Nevin"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published May 20, 2010

  "Hack Pack"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published March 25, 2010

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published July 22, 2010

  "Tea Party Pretty Boy"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published March 25, 2010

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 25, 2010

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published April 9, 2009

  "The Fall of a Titan"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published February 26, 2009

  "Guantanamo's Final Days"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published June 4, 2009

  "Swamped"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published April 9, 2009

  "The Fall of a Titan"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published May 21, 2009

  "Dog Fight"

• 2010 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published February 26, 2009

  "Guantanamo's Final Days"

• 2009 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published December 18, 2008

  "Black October"

• 2009 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published December 18, 2008

  "Black October"

• 2009 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published December 18, 2008

  "Black October"

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2009 Stories by Tim Elfrink

• Thanks For Ruining the World Baseball Classic, Netherlands

  published Mar 11, 2009

  Here's something you don't know: In the Netherlands, professional baseball is called Honkbal Hoofdklasse.   Something else you don't knowr A single player on the Netherland's World Baseba... More >>

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  Feds: Miami Man Funneled Money To Irish Terrorists Behind This Weekend's Attacks

  published Mar 09, 2009

  A Cutler Bay man funneled money to the Irish terrorists who murdered two British soldiers in Belfast on Saturday, federal prosecutors say in a complaint unsealed in Miami-Dade court today and obtained... More >>

• Yes, Those Are Slaves On The Steps of The Florida Capitol Today

  published Mar 09, 2009

  If you happen to wander by the Capitol on your daily stroll around Tallahassee today, yes, that is in fact a truck full of farm workers being beaten into unpaid slave labor right on the steps of the F... More >>

• Congrats on the Obscure New Job, Larry Coker! Now Let's Watch That FIU Brawl Again

  published Mar 05, 2009

  In hindsight, it's tough to argue that Larry Coker didn't get a little bit screwed. He got canned as University of Miami head coach in 2006 after piling up a 60-15 record and bringing a national champ... More >>

• New Tax Might Kill Miami's Cigar Rollers

  published March 5, 2009

  Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and... More >>

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  Obama's New Cigar Tax Might Just Kill Miami's Torcedores

  published Mar 03, 2009

  Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and a long counter where a wrinkled 80-year-old brews espre... More >>

• Just Who Was That Guy Police Shot After a SoBe Rampager Cops Still Aren't Sure

  published Mar 02, 2009

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• Where's Omar Khadr Goingr Not Back to Canada Anytime Soon

  published Mar 02, 2009

  As President Obama tries to keep his pledge to close Gitmo by next January, his biggest challenge -- as told in-depth in your New Times this very week -- is figuring out what to do with guys like Omar... More >>

• Katherine Harris Enjoyed a Nice Caribbean Vay-cay with 'Mini-Madoff' Allen Stanford

  published Feb 26, 2009

  There are quite a few South Florida connections to the ongoing "mini-Madoff" scandal surrounding Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, who faces civil charges from the SEC that he orchestrated a "massi... More >>

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  One Lawyer's Fight to Change Guantanamo Bay -- At the Expense of His Career

  published Feb 25, 2009

  Maj. Tom Fleener was enjoying a quiet life as an assistant public defender in Wyoming when he was thrust into the greatest legal conundrum of our times.Fleener, an Army Reservist, became more and more... More >>

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  Guantanamo's Final Days

  published February 26, 2009

  The soldiers move through the wheat field, scanning the windswept plain for signs of trouble. There are six of them, dressed in fatigues... More >>

• Obama to Manny Diaz: Don't Ef This Up

  published Feb 20, 2009

  As his young administration stomps frantically on the flaming bag of crap formerly known as the global economy left smoldering on the White House doorstep by a snickering Dubya on his way out, Preside... More >>

• 'I Was Cooperating with Evil': A Former Gitmo Prosecutor Sounds off About a Corrupt Process

  published Feb 20, 2009

  Two years ago, when Darrel Vandeveld flew to Guantanamo Bay to work as a prosecutor, no one else believed more in the detention camps and all they stood for in the War on Terror."I was totally gung ho... More >>

• Ridiculous Bush-Era 'Liberty City Six' Case Just Won't Die

  published Feb 18, 2009

  Change may have come to Washington but the Bush era in all its absurd, truth-defying glory is alive and well in Miami's federal courthouse.This morning, the third case kicked off against six Miami men... More >>

• Budget Cuts at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office

  published February 19, 2009

  Just after 6 p.m. on a warm December Tuesday, two unseasoned cops cruised up to a dark videogame arcade on NW Third Avenue in Overtown. After... More >>

• Memo from Caracas: Venezuelan Jews, Democracy Are In Trouble

  published Feb 16, 2009

  It was a damn good weekend for the vanguard of the Bolivarian Revolution, Fidel Castro's BFF Hugo Chavez.About 54 percent of Venezuelans on Sunday voted to remove term limits so that Chavez can run ag... More >>

• Sarnoff, Commission Say 'No Thanks' To $1.9 Billion Stadium Commitment -- For Now

  published Feb 13, 2009

  This can't come as a shock to anyone, can itr Surely even the most passionate Marlins fans in South Florida -- all 500 of them -- probably spit out some coffee on their Miami Herald this morning when ... More >>

• Wait, the Marlins Are Playing Baseball This Yearr

  published Feb 12, 2009

  With all the hullaballo and hubbub over the giant tax-pit ... um ... new Marlins Stadium proposal, it's easy to forget that the Fish are still a baseball team and the new season is almost upon us. It'... More >>

• A Last-Minute Reprieve for Miami's Constant Gardener

  published Feb 11, 2009

  A few months ago, the New Times brought you the story of De Hull, a world-renowned palm expert with an incredible garden teeming with rare plants on the fringes of South Dade. Hull's way of life was a... More >>

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  Who Hates the Marlins Stadium Dealr Not Just Norman Braman

  published Feb 10, 2009

  Michael Burnstine may be comically underfunded and critically late to the game, but he's not lacking in passion. He hates the $515 million Marlins Stadium deal. And he's not alone."It's horrendous. It... More >>

• Sometimes Vampire Love Really Sucks

  published Feb 06, 2009

  So you're a 16-year-old girl, and you desperately want to break off the illicit internet romance you've sparked with a 44-year-old vampire. What do you dor The only logical thing you can do: tell... More >>

• Maybe the Hurricanes Don't Completely Suck at Basketball

  published Feb 05, 2009

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• Obama's Chief Counsel Dismissed from 'Black October' Case

  published Feb 04, 2009

  Two months ago, the New Times brought you the story of the "Black October" legal case in Miami's federal court, where a handful of poor Bolivians are suing Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada and Carlos ... More >>

• Vultures Circle Miami's Condo Market

  published February 5, 2009

  A brushed-chrome-and-wood elevator rises through a Sunny Isles tower just off Collins Avenue, lifting Jenny Huertas toward an 11th-floor condo... More >>

• Muck Bowl Alum Dominates the Super Bowl (But It's Not Boldin)

  published Feb 02, 2009

  A few miles north of Miami, on the swampy edges of Lake Okeechobee, there are a couple of impoverished little towns called Pahokee and Belle Glade where they churn out gasp-inducing foo... More >>