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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2010 Stories by Tim Elfrink

• So It Turns Out The Bathrooms At The Opa-Locka Hialeah Flea Market Aren't All That Gross

  published Dec 31, 2010

  Exactly one month ago, Riptide asked the kind of burning, investigative question that has won us so, so many Pulitzers: Are the bathrooms at the Opa-Locka Hialeah Flea Market the skankiest in all of M... More >>

• Mugshots Friday: Santa Got Booked In Miami

  published Dec 31, 2010

  Have you spent the last week wondering why that plate of cookies went untouched and your stocking was bereft of swagr No, it's not because Santa found out about your massive Medicare fraud; Ol' Saint ... More >>

• Carlos Andres Perez, Ex-Venezuelan Prez, Has Burial Delayed While Wife and Mistress Argue Over the Gravesite (Update)

  published Dec 30, 2010

  After a week of kind eulogies for Carlos Andres Perez -- including our own arguing the world would be a better place if he could have just held off the coup-crazy Hugo Chavez -- the post-death story o... More >>

• Henry A. Ferguson, Repeat Felon, Arrested In Killing of Corrections Officer Ciara Lee and Her Son

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Police have arrested a Miami Gardens man with a long record of felony charges in the brutal late-night shooting earlier this month that killed 24-year-old corrections officer Ciara Lee and her two-yea... More >>

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  Cuba Could Let Baseball Stars Play Overseas -- But Don't Expect U.S. Defections To Stop

  published Dec 29, 2010

  From Livan Hernandez to Vladimir Nunez, the underground pipeline of Cuban baseball studs fleeing their homeland for MLB fortunes has always run through the Magic City. As a star in Cuba's national lea... More >>

• Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman's First Day in Court Postponed Again Until January

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman, the Perrine convenience store clerks accused to beating a customer to death last month in an argument over pocket change, will have to wait another couple weeks for their fi... More >>

• Buju Banton: Dirty Dozen 2010

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this yearr We're... More >>

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  Garrett Wittels, Streak-Hitting FIU Star, Charged In Rape of 17-Year-Olds In Bahamas

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Garrett Wittels, the Florida International University baseball star who made national headlines last year with a DiMaggio-esque hitting streak, is about to be all over the interwebs for much less savo... More >>

• Dominic Raiola, Detroit Lions Center, Caught on Tape Telling Dolphins Fans To Suck His D***

  published Dec 27, 2010

  As if taking a kick to the nuts from the horrific Detroit Lions wasn't bad enough, a few fans got a little cherry on top of their Sunday turd sandwich courtesy Dominic Raiola, the Lions' center. As he... More >>

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  Wyclef Jean: Dirty Dozen 2010

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this yearr We're ... More >>

• Five Worst Miami Cops Of the Year: Pot-Growers, Russian Kidnappers and Tow Truck Scammers

  published Dec 23, 2010

  Let's start this list with a caveat: In the 305, the vast majority of police officers are decent men and women risking their lives to protect America's craziest county. It's not a job most of us could... More >>

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  Carlos Alvarez and Norman Braman: Dirty Dozen 2010

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this yearr We're rel... More >>

• Carlos Bertonatti Released On Key Biscayne House Arrest After Posting Bond

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Last we heard from Carlos Bertonatti -- the handsome, would-be pop singer accused of killing a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway while drunkenly speeding home from Club Space -- his bond had been rev... More >>

• Carlos Alvarez Recall Certified By Harvey Ruvin, Likely Headed To Voters Next Year

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Miami voters are one big step closer to a vote on whether to strip County Mayor Carlos Alvarez of his office, as Clerk Harvin Ruvin officially certified billionaire car dealer Norman Braman's recall e... More >>

• WikiLeak founder's accuser probably did not work for the CIA

  published December 23, 2010

  Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, shook the Washington, DC bureaucracy to its core with embarrassing revelations from illicit contacts with... More >>

• Ex-modeling King Jerry Babij faces smear campaign

  published December 23, 2010

  Jerry Babij, a fit-looking 65-year-old clad head-to-toe in black leather, wants you to know he can still tussle. "I'm a tough guy," he says,... More >>

• Rick Scott Snubs South Florida In His Inaugural Parade -- Maybe For the Best

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Inaugural parades are a time-honored American tradition, a treasured moment when fat corporate cats and scummy developers can make millions of dollars rain on a newly elected governor, all so he can t... More >>

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  Frank Martin Is Not a 'Scapegoat': New Times Busted Him Cold at Miami High

  published Dec 20, 2010

  This weekend marked the homecoming of Frank Martin, a Miami native who's turned the Kansas State Wildcats into a Top 10 basketball team. If you read the Herald's glowing piece on Martin though, you ma... More >>

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  Anna Ardin, Swede Accusing WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange of Assault, Probably Didn't Work For the CIA In Miami

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has shaken the Washington D.C. bureaucracy to its core with embarrassing revelations -- from illicit contacts with Fidel Castro to State Department plans to steal... More >>

• Jerry Babij, Ex-King of SoBe Modeling, Fights To Win A Condo Board Presidency

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Jerrry Babij, a fit-looking 65-year-old clad head-to-toe in black leather, wants you to know he can still tussle. "I'm a tough guy," he says, bunching up his weathered fists. "John Gotti blew up my re... More >>

• Miami Police Shoot Another Suspect In Liberty City (Update)

  published Dec 17, 2010

  City of Miami police have shot a suspect armed with a shotgun in Liberty City, leaving the man seriously wounded -- and giving Chief Miguel Exposito a new round of questions to answer about violence i... More >>

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  EcuRed, Cuba's Castro-Approved Wikipedia Clone, Launches, Has Curious Take on Miami

  published Dec 16, 2010

  The resurgent Fidel Castro -- riding a new high as the world's foremost peddler of Bilderberg conspiracies -- has lately been helping his island nation lurch toward the Information Age. Last year, we... More >>

• What Housing Bubbler Here's a $32 Million Indian Creek House That Just Went On Sale

  published Dec 15, 2010

  We don't know about you, but Riptide is still fishing soda cans out of Lincoln Road trash bins to scrounge up enough pocket change to pay rent. But apparently the Great Recessiongeddon really is over ... More >>

• Two top Miami Beach bureaucrats brawl in City Hall

  published December 16, 2010

  Inside Miami Beach City Hall early this month, two fully grown men — highly paid public servants — had a staring... More >>

• Nevin Shapiro: Miami's Caligula

  published December 16, 2010

  Nevin Shapiro reclines on a deck chair, pulls his plush bathrobe tight, chews a cigar, and grins. All around him on the wooden deck, hundreds... More >>