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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2012 Stories by Tim Elfrink

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  Man, Pregnant Woman Shot Blocks Away From Wynwood Basel Revelry

  published Dec 10, 2012

  As art-bloated partiers wound down the last dregs of Basel Week on Sunday with a final stroll through Wynwood's murals and galleries, a horrific shooting went down just a few blocks south.At 7:45 p.m.... More >>

• University of Miami Warns Students, Faculty: There's A Black Man On Campus

  published Dec 07, 2012

  The emergency alert text went out to thousands University of Miami students and faculty last night. Here's what it said, in its entirety: "UMIAMI alert black male on campus wearing black and white ten... More >>

• Florida Man Found Driving Around With Traffic Sign Embedded In His Skull

  published Dec 06, 2012

  When Florida Highway Patrol officers pulled over an erratically swerving gray Camaro yesterday outside of St. Augustine, they figured they had a standard DUI on their hands. The driver, 63-year-old Le... More >>

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  Miami Beach Cop Fired For Harassing Gay Tourist Gets His Job Back

  published Dec 06, 2012

  In 2009, a gay tourist in South Beach noticed two men in plainclothes roughing up another gay man in Flamingo Park. He called 911 and stayed on the line until suddenly the two men noticed him, approac... More >>

• Florida Man Who Stuffed Kittens In Freezer Is Also Roommates With Double-Shooting Suspect

  published Dec 05, 2012

  Rodney Blanchard had already solidified his bid for "Worst Person In Florida" when police came to his mobile home this weekend to find that he'd stuffed four live kittens into plastic bags and trapped... More >>

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  Miami Marlins Trade Yunel Escobar, Now Have MLB's Lowest Payroll

  published Dec 05, 2012

  Yunel Escobar promised to be the strip-mined Miami Marlins' most interesting player next year. The Cuban shortstop had loads of talent, plus an unmatched ability to act incredibly dumb -- like last se... More >>

• Bob Costas Cites Florida Teen's Murder Over Loud Music, Advocates Gun Control

  published Dec 03, 2012

  Most sportscasters treat off-field tragedies the way Dolphins punter Brandon Fields treated the football on Sunday: like a live hand grenade. But rather than dance around the NFL's latest gruesome dea... More >>

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  Terry Jones, Koran-Burning Florida Pastor, Sentenced to Death in Egypt

  published Nov 29, 2012

  Terry Jones is going to have to put off that tour of the pyramids. The firebrand, Koran-burning, riot-inciting minister of hate in Gainesville has been sentenced to death in Egypt over his role in pro... More >>

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  George Zimmerman Is Now Selling Autographs To Fund His Defense In Trayvon Martin Case

  published Nov 29, 2012

  Ever wanted to own the autograph of a man who gunned down an unarmed teenager guilty of nothing more than being black in his own neighborhoodr If you agree with that sentiment, probably not. But the l... More >>

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  Florida Man Says Elmo Actor Sexually Assaulted Him As A Teenager

  published Nov 28, 2012

  Kevin Clash, the puppeteer behind beloved Sesame Street character Elmo, resigned last week after two men claimed he'd sexually assaulted them when they were underaged. Clash denied that he'd abused th... More >>

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  Miami-Dade Police Shoot Robbery Suspect At Flea Market USA, Scattering Panicked Shoppers

  published Nov 26, 2012

  Sunday afternoon shoppers at Flea Market USA had to dive for cover behind their cars yesterday afternoon when Miami-Dade Police opened fire on two robbery suspects they'd cornered in the store's parki... More >>

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  Fontainebleau Owner Jeffrey Soffer Survives Deadly Bahamas Helicopter Crash

  published Nov 23, 2012

  A helicopter ferrying Thanksgiving guests to an uber-exclusive Bahamas resort went into a tailspin yesterday, killing one passenger who was flung from the aircraft and injuring four others in the cras... More >>

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  Have You Seen Florida's Most Absurdly Blinged Out Camaror

  published Nov 21, 2012

  Somewhere in the Sunshine State, there is a truly bitchin' Camaro on the road. Every square inch has been covered in gold. The wheels hug 30-inch plates, also blinged out in solid gold. The interior i... More >>

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  15-Year-Old Charged In Fatal, Accidental Homestead School Bus Shooting

  published Nov 21, 2012

  When 13-year-old Lourdes Guzman-DeJesus was shot and killed on a school bus in Homestead yesterday by a classmate, the central question for police was whether another student had deliberately killed h... More >>

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  Allen West Finally Concedes His House Seat In The Least Gracious Manner Possible

  published Nov 20, 2012

  Well, we don't have Allen West to push around any more. After two weeks fighting his razor thin loss to newcomer Patrick Murphy, demanding recounts, and calling on fellow Tea Party patriots to battle ... More >>

• Florida Man Arrested For Skinning Dogs and Cats, Saving Their Pelts

  published Nov 20, 2012

  Hozae Milton's neighbors in Jacksonville came home last week to a truly disturbing sight: the 43-year-old was skinning a dog right in the front yard of his one-story brick house. When police later cam... More >>

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  Rydel Deed: Speed Demon

  published November 22, 2012

  When Rydel Deed began biking around Miami in 2006, drivers stared as if he'd wandered off the nude beach in Haul­over. When he invited... More >>

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  Aholsniffsglue: Eyes of Genius

  published November 22, 2012

  The car that changed Aholsniffsglue's life came out of nowhere on a rainy night in midtown Miami. It sent him flying off his moped and onto the... More >>

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  Miami Hurricanes Won't Go To A Bowl Game, Impose Ban For Second Year In a Row

  published Nov 19, 2012

  For the second year in a row, the Miami Hurricanes demolished South Florida on Saturday for their sixth win of the year, earning the chance to play in a postseason bowl. And for the second year in a r... More >>

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  IKEA Says It Never Sold Furniture Made By Cuban Prisoners (Though It Did Use German Forced Labor)

  published Nov 16, 2012

  In May, cheap chic Swedish furniture giant IKEA was rocked with shocking accusations in the German press: That it had manufactured products using forced prison labor in East Germany in the '70s and '8... More >>

• Miami Felon Arrested For Selling iPads and MacBooks Made Of Wood and Duct Tape

  published Nov 15, 2012

  Attention, computer-buying public of Florida: If a man approaches you in the parking lot of a Best Buy with a convoluted tale about needing money to get home and a strangely discounted iPad for sale, ... More >>

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  "I'm Not A Quitter:" Revisiting Jeffrey Loria's Most Hilarious Lies About the "New" Marlins

  published Nov 14, 2012

  Jeffrey Loria is a liar. This is well documented. After years of claiming poverty while begging for ballpark handouts, leaked documents showed that, nope, the Marlins were actually one of baseball's m... More >>

• Key West Man Upset Over Presidential Election Kills Himself, Writes "F*#* Obama" On His Will

  published Nov 14, 2012

  A tanning salon owner in Key West who increasingly blamed his personal struggles on President Obama warned his partner that "I'm not going to be around long" if the president won reelection last week.... More >>

• The Miami Marlins Just Traded All Their Players: Reyes, Johnson, Buehrle, Buck and Bonafacio All Gone

  published Nov 13, 2012

  One year after the taxpayers of Miami-Dade gave Jeffrey Loria a brand new, $515 million ballpark, he's already given up even pretending to field a major league baseball team. In one of the largest sal... More >>

• Jill Kelley, Florida Woman In Petraeus Scandal, Might Bring Down Top Afghan General Too

  published Nov 13, 2012

  When the news broke Friday that Gen. David Petraeus was stepping down from the CIA over an affair, the old adage that "every crazy story has a tie to Florida" seemed like a stretch. What possible link... More >>