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

• Cops vs. cameras: filming cops illegal

  published January 27, 2011

  When Robert Hammonds and a friend, Brent Bredwell, finished filming a DJ show at Jazid in South Beach, it was around 3 a.m. on a Sunday in... More >>

• Can Police Arrest You For Videotaping Themr Four Miami Friends Find Out the Hard Way

  published Jan 25, 2011

  When a Miami Beach officer started loudly berating Robert Hammonds and his friends in September 2009, the aspiring filmmaker did what came naturally: He pulled out his videocamera and filmed it. Hammo... More >>

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  Frank Gehry's New World Symphony Is Making Critics Go B-A-N-A-N-A-S

  published Jan 25, 2011

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• Two More Florida Cops Killed While Miami Mourns Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth

  published Jan 24, 2011

  A horrible week for Florida's police officers turned even worse this afternoon. While thousands gathered in downtown Miami to remember Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth, the Miami-Dade veteran cops ki... More >>

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  David Pitchford, Trailer Park Resident Suing Julian Assange, Says Suit Isn't a Joke

  published Jan 24, 2011

  While asset-hiding Wall Street traders perch on their windowsills waiting for the latest from WikiLeaks -- which plans to soon release more than 2,000 secret banking records of tax-cheats -- founder J... More >>

• Johnny Sims, the Suspect Who Killed Two Cops, Had Long Record, Nasty Tats

  published Jan 21, 2011

  When Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth, two veteran officers on the Miami-Dade Police Department's Warrants Bureau, approached a dilapidated duplex on NW 6th Court yesterday, they knew their target wa... More >>

• Two Miami-Dade Cops Killed In Liberty City Shootout, Several Others Wounded (Update)

  published Jan 20, 2011

  An attempt by local police and U.S. Marshals to serve an arrest warrant on a murder suspect in Liberty City turned into a violent shootout this morning, leaving multiple officers injured -- and two de... More >>

• Drunk Grandpa Arrested In Marathon After Passing Out Next To Baby In a Stroller

  published Jan 19, 2011

  Among the many activities best done while relatively sober, walking a baby in a stroller along US-1 would have to be fairly high on the list. Raymond Dascott learned that lesson in Marathon yesterday,... More >>

• Marijuana-Smuggling Pigeon Busted Outside Colombian Prison

  published Jan 19, 2011

  When did Colombia's avian population fall into a desperate life of drug runningr First, there was Lorenzo the Parrot, who was arrested last fall for acting as a look-out for a weed and weapons stash. ... More >>

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  America's top exorcist-for-hire comes to Miami

  published January 20, 2011

  Is any city more firmly locked in the brimstone-y grasp of Satan than Miami? Lustful tourists gape at topless sunbathers while the rest... More >>

• Allen Stanford's Ponzi Trial On Hold While Court Decides If He's Too Crazy To Continue

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Not to say, 'we told you so,' but when a guy's behavior leads us to write about his similarities to maniac SNL character Bill Brasky, there's a good chance he's got some mental issues. Before he ever ... More >>

• West Little River Shooting Leaves a Woman Dead and Five Injured (Update)

  published Jan 17, 2011

  Miami-Dade Police this morning are looking for two shooters who lit up a front lawn in West Little River just before midnight last night, leaving a 20-year-old woman dead and five men wounded.An argum... More >>

• Miguel Exposito Survives Commission Vote, Violent Reality Show Clip

  published Jan 14, 2011

  When Riptide broke the news last week that a violent reality show clip filmed inside the Miami Police Department was making the rounds on YouTube, we knew the shots of cops chomping cigars and calling... More >>

• Rev. Bob Larson, Exorcist-For-Hire, Will Rid You Of Your Demons At Airport Hilton Today

  published Jan 14, 2011

  Been feeling a bit odd latelyr Did your last date with a Oujia Board end with your roommate babbling in ancient Assyrian and levitating off the groundr Had any head-spinning vomiting moments this mont... More >>

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  Luis Posada Carriles Got $300 a Month From CIA and Hoodwinked the Spies, Declassified Docs Show

  published Jan 12, 2011

  In case you needed any more proof that the CIA often is not the most astute judge of character, check out this 1966 report on accused anti-Castro mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles: "Although ... dedi... More >>

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  Roberto Garcia, 72-Year-Old Man, Charged With Fondling 4-Year-Old In Little Havana Shop

  published Jan 11, 2011

  Yesterday around  2:45 p.m., 72-year-old Roberto Garcia entered his usual neighborhood shop and ordered a Cuban coffee. Then, while the owner made a cafecito in back, police say Garcia attacked h... More >>

• Miami police chief Miguel Exposito's violent reality TV promo

  published January 13, 2011

  Reality Bites Mark down January 1, 2011 as the moment when the incendiary fight over leadership at the Miami Police Department... More >>

• Yamil Clavero Rodriguez Arrested in the Keys For Training Cock-Fighting Roosters

  published Jan 10, 2011

  Ever wonder where those razor-clawing, beak-breaking, brutally mistreated roosters who duke it out in illegal cockfighting rings across South Florida come fromr Yeah, neither had Riptide, though in hi... More >>

• Miguel Exposito Blasts Tomas Regalado, Says Police Aren't Following the Mayor

  published Jan 07, 2011

  In front of a dozen television cameras and a packed room of reporters, Police Chief Miguel Exposito blasted Mayor Tomas Regalado this afternoon over Regaldo's claims that he was being tailed by police... More >>

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  Miguel Exposito's Leadership Questioned Again Over Violent Reality TV Show Promo

  published Jan 07, 2011

  On Saturday, Miami police shot and killed a 27-year-old suspect in Overtown -- the sixth black man they've killed since last summer. The latest death has left Chief Miguel Exposito fighting for his jo... More >>

• Don Francisco, 70-Year-Old Host Of Univision's Sabado Gigante, Faces Chilean Paternity Suit

  published Jan 06, 2011

  rAnyone who watches Univision's decades-long institution, Sabado Gigante, knows that host Don Francisco is kind of a baller. The 70-year-old variety show wizard is an unholy mutant blend of Bob Barker... More >>

• Nevin Shapiro's Sentencing Postponed Until Valentine's Day

  published Jan 05, 2011

  Nevin Shapiro, the South Beach architect of a $880 million Ponzi scheme, will have to endure another few weeks of Jersey lockup before learning his punishment. His sentencing, which was originally sch... More >>

• Carlos Andres Perez Not Heading Back To Venezuela As New Tug-Of-War Erupts Over Body

  published Jan 04, 2011

  Just when it looked like ex-Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez was headed back to Caracas for burial, a brand new round of fighting between his wife and mistress has again left his body in a Mia... More >>

• The world's fanciest cat-poop map

  published January 6, 2011

  There's a four-foot-tall map hanging inside Miami Beach City Hall, a high-resolution satellite image of an oceanfront slice of town. The grainy... More >>

• Efraim Diveroli Earns Four Years In Prison For Fraudulent Arms Deal To Afghanistan

  published Jan 04, 2011

  Efraim Diveroli, the young Miami Beach gun runner who stirred national outrage two years ago with a fraudulent a $300 million Pentagon ammunition deal, listened with downcast eyes yesterday as a feder... More >>