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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2011 Stories by Tim Elfrink

• Florida's Obscene License Plate Countdown: Pimps and Hoes Edition

  published Feb 22, 2011

  On the maturity scale, Floridians land somewhere between early '90s-Urkel and your pre-teen cousin Jimmy who giggles every time someone says "Duty." At least that's what we found a couple weeks ago wh... More >>

• Judge Mindy Glazer Accused of Misbehaving at Her Luxury Condo Tower

  published Feb 22, 2011

  When Alex de Gasperi resigned last month as board director of Imperial House, a luxury Miami Beach tower, he didn't leave quietly. Instead, he circulated a four-page letter lambasting another high-pro... More >>

• North Miami Beach Official Martin King Does Perp Walk Over Misspent City Funds (Update)

  published Feb 16, 2011

  Former North Miami Beach public services director Martin King was arrested today and charged with 41 felony counts of money laundering for stealing millions in taxpayer dollars with fake work orders f... More >>

• Tension between Miami Beach police and full moon drum circles

  published February 17, 2011

  Like werewolves drawn to milky lunar light, they gather next to the sea every 29 days or so: drummers with Rasta dreads, teens with cartons of... More >>

• Corpse In Poisonous Pesticide Truck on I-95 Opens Bizarre Homicide Case

  published Feb 15, 2011

  A truly strange murder case sprouted along I-95 yesterday when rescuers -- who had just saved a man and a boy suffering from chemical fume exposure in a pesticide truck -- found a corpse in a bag stuf... More >>

• Miami Beach's Full Moon Drum Circles Threatened By Noise, Drugs, Cops

  published Feb 14, 2011

  Like werewolves drawn to milky lunar light, they gather next to the sea every 29 days or so: drummers with Rasta dreads, teens with cartons of Miller High Life, chanting Yoruba and Santeria worshipers... More >>

• Hosni Mubarak Steps Down -- Now How Much Longer Will Miguel Exposito Lastr

  published Feb 11, 2011

  Angry crowds have shouted for his ouster for weeks. Civic leaders have loudly decried his reign. His minions are accused of abusing the public with indiscriminate violence. And yet Miami PD chief Migu... More >>

• Miami PD Shoots And Kills Another Suspect in Little Haiti (Update)

  published Feb 11, 2011

  City of Miami police officers have shot and killed another suspect -- the seventh killed by MPD cops since last summer. The latest shooting happened last night around 11 p.m. at North Miami Avenue and... More >>

• Juan Carlos Rodriguez, Miami-Dade Cop Charged With Fondling Teens, Has Bond Reduced

  published Feb 10, 2011

  Juan Carlos Rodriguez, the Miami-Dade police officer accused of fondling two teenage girls during a traffic stop, will have to rustle up a little less cash to head home for house arrest before his tri... More >>

• Meanest High School Coach Ever Cuts Orlando Double Amputee From Baseball Team

  published Feb 10, 2011

  We all know Florida takes its high school sports more seriously than, say, its budget -- but a baseball coach in Orlando's hard-nosed attitude has suddenly made him the national face of villainous ath... More >>

• Top Five Obscene Florida License Plates, Visualized For Your Pleasure

  published Feb 10, 2011

  Thanks to the cackling eight-year-old child making poop jokes inside the minds of all Floridians, Riptide hit the mother lode last week. We made a Freedom of Information Act request for a list of all ... More >>

• I Cleared Johnny Ray Smith Jr. Of Burglary and Battery -- Here's Why

  published Feb 09, 2011

  I'd always believed the old wives' tale that journalists get tossed out of jury pools quicker than Liz Lemon in Princess Leia drag, so I almost dropped my book when Judge Nushin Sayfie called my name ... More >>

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  Censored license plates you won't see on the road

  published February 10, 2011

  Once every six weeks or so, a small, sober group of bureaucrats and cops gathers in a conference room in Tallahassee. Members of the group... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Andres Lopez exposes the Colombian cartels

  published February 10, 2011

  Picture this: Dozens of drug smugglers dance and drink outside a colonial-era farmhouse in a leafy countryside near Cali, Colombia. A salsa... More >>

• Keys Teen Arrested For Breaking Into Appliance Store to Watch Porn

  published Feb 08, 2011

  When Monroe County Sheriff's deputies responded to an alarm at an appliance shop in Marathon late last night, they expected to find the usual: a burglary in progress or perhaps a malfunctioning securi... More >>

• You Won't Believe What Floridians Have Tried To Put On Their Personalized License Plates

  published Feb 07, 2011

  Once every six weeks or so, a small, sober group of bureaucrats and cops gathers in a conference room in Tallahassee. Members of the group synch their iPhones to urbandictionary.com, bone up on the la... More >>

• Watch Natacha Seijas Storm Out Of Her Video Deposition In Recall Lawsuit

  published Feb 04, 2011

  When lawyers for Miami Voice -- the group that organized a successful recall effort against County Commissioner Natacha Seijas -- got her to sit down for a video deposition yesterday, they asked Heral... More >>

• Father Thomas Euteneuer, South Florida's Top Exorcist, Admits to 'Violations of Chastity'

  published Feb 03, 2011

  Tell us if this sounds a tad familiar, Miami: A clean-cut, best-selling celebrity Catholic priest and author from South Florida gets caught in some monkey business with a lady and loses his job. Ahem,... More >>

• Mark Siffin's 40-Story Billboards In Limbo As Land Deal With McClatchy Falls Through

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Mark Siffin's much debated dream to bring two 40-story billboards to downtown Miami appears to be in serious jeopardy this morning as McClatchy -- the parent company of the Miami Herald -- announced t... More >>

• Miguel Exposito's Week Getting Worse: FBI Probes, Internet Scandals and More Cop Arrests

  published Feb 01, 2011

  "Embattled" isn't nearly a strong enough adjective for Miami Police jefe Miguel Exposito these days, so we'll just have to invent a new one: em-blitzkrieged. Because it's only Tuesday and Exposito's j... More >>

• Read Miguel Exposito and Katherine Fernandez Rundle's Catty Email Fight

  published Jan 31, 2011

  Say this for Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito: With his seat warming to volcanic temperatures over a rash of police shootings and City Hall spats, he's not just sitting on his hands. He's already lo... More >>

• Cuba To Teach Youngsters About Taxes With World's Most Boring Video Game

  published Jan 27, 2011

  There's one hitch in Fidel Castro's plan to lug the Cuban economy closer to capitalism by laying off 500,000 state workers so they can start private businesses: None of these people have ever paid tax... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Meet Suzanne Beard, the Amateur Photographer Who Discovered the Biscayne Bay Piano

  published Jan 26, 2011

  Early this month, Suzanne Beard heard a crazy rumor from her neighbors in Quayside Towers: Someone had abandoned a grand piano in the middle of Biscayne Bay. So on January 8, Beard -- an avid amateur ... More >>

• Steve Berke, Comedian and Reality Show Contestant, Runs for Miami Beach Mayor

  published Jan 26, 2011

  If you've been withholding your support for Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower for all these years because you suspect she doesn't shoot nearly enough tequila and wavers in her commitment to fight ... More >>

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  Meet the man behind poorly spelled lawsuit against WikiLeaks

  published January 27, 2011

  While asset-hiding Wall Street traders perch on their windowsills waiting for the latest from WikiLeaks — which plans to release more... More >>