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

• Miami Customs Agent Faces Prison After Posing As Diplomat To Woo Irish Girlfriend

  published Oct 09, 2012

  Bad idea: Cheating on your wife while working overseas for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Worse idea: Telling your new girlfriend you are a divorced, high-ranking diplomat, when in fact you are a... More >>

• Miami Customs Agent Faces Prison Time After Pretending to Be a Diplomat to Impress a Mistress

  published October 11, 2012

  Miami Customs Agent Roger J. Kiley Faces Prison Time After Pretending to Be a Diplomat to Impress a Mistress More >>

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  Carlos Bertonatti Is Finally Back in Court Over Killing a Cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway

  published Oct 05, 2012

  Will Carlos Bertonatti finally go to trial over the death of cyclist Christophe LeCanne, the 44-year-old cyclist police say a drunken Bertonatti slammed into on the Rickenbacker Causewayr Signs finall... More >>

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  Yoani Sánchez, Cuba's Best-Known Blogger, Arrested at Activist's Trial

  published Oct 05, 2012

  Yoanni Sanchez is a true oddity in Cuba -- a young political activist famous worldwide for penning a blog critical of the Castro regime. Sanchez's courage has earned praise from President Obama and a ... More >>

• Poll: Obama Leads Among Florida Hispanics 61-31

  published Oct 05, 2012

  Obama may not have done his reelection campaign any favors by pulling a Dan Carpenter-vs-the-Jets level chokejob in Wednesday's debate. But it's increasingly clear that, at least in Florida, the presi... More >>

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  American Airlines Passenger Seats Keep Flying Loose On Flights To Miami

  published Oct 02, 2012

  Flying can get awfully dull. Strapped into that tiny seat, crammed between a sweating offensive lineman in a business suit and a flu-infected grandma, don't you ever crave some excitement, some freedo... More >>

• North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's Bus Bench Blunder

  published October 4, 2012

  North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's Bus Bench Blunder More >>

• Miami Marlins Keep Lying About Stadium

  published October 4, 2012

  Miami Marlins Keep Lying About Stadium More >>

• Andre Pierre Took The Same Free Ads That Got Myron Rosner Arrested, Complaint Alleges

  published Oct 01, 2012

  On September 20, former North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner did the perp walk. His crime: allegedly accepting thousands in free campaign ads on bus benches from a company whose owner told prosecutor... More >>

• Michael Putney Got Soaked by Shady Candidate Justin Lamar Sternad's Wife

  published Sep 27, 2012

  Ah, the perils of an intrepid TV reporter. Sometimes crazed interview subjects attack you. Sometimes horses poop on your head. And sometimes the wives of shady, fake Democrats at the center of an FBI ... More >>

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  As Obama Opens 9-Point Lead In Florida, Republicans Claim Polls Are Bogus

  published Sep 27, 2012

  If the Quinnipiac poll released last night is even close to accurate, Mitt Romney is in big trouble in Florida. The survey found Obama with a commanding nine point lead in the Sunshine State -- a huge... More >>

• How a Keys Murder-Suicide Exposed a Disappearing Doc Who Faked His Own Death

  published Sep 26, 2012

  In May 2011, I wrote a short piece for Riptide about an 80-year-old Keys man who'd shot and killed his wife and his pet cat before ending his own life. I called it the "saddest story of the morni... More >>

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  Half of Miami Beach's Best-Paid Employees Are Cops, Including Three Suspended Last Year

  published Sep 25, 2012

  In 2010, a Miami New Times investigation revealed that more than half the cops in Miami Beach made six figures a year, and some racked up more than $200,000. What's more, some of the highest-paid offi... More >>

• Miami Beach Police Salaries Some of the Highest in the City

  published September 27, 2012

  Miami Beach Police Salaries Some of the Highest in the City More >>

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  Murder-Suicide in the Keys Unravels a Doctor's Decades-Long Mystery

  published September 27, 2012

  Murder-Suicide in the Florida Keys Unravels a Doctor's Decades-Long Mystery More >>

• Ozzie Guillen Might Get Fired Over Terrible Marlins Season

  published Sep 24, 2012

  The Miami Marlins first season in their taxpayer-funded Little Havana palacio has been nothing short of a catastrophe; the team was out of contention by August and so boring and terrible that the Fran... More >>

• Polls: Obama, Romney Now Tied In Florida, But Voters Trust President More On Medicare

  published Sep 24, 2012

  Anyone expecting Florida to swing for Obama after video leaked showing Mitt Romney heaping scorn on the "47 percent" -- filmed at the home of a Boca millionaire, no less -- obviously doesn't know the ... More >>

• Former North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner Charged With Grand Theft

  published Sep 20, 2012

  During Myron Rosner's tumultuous reign as mayor of North Miami Beach, he weathered accusations that he retaliated against a local blogger, broke ethics rules, bent city regulations to work on his hous... More >>

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  Fidel Castro Is Not Senile, Still "Working Hard," His Son Says

  published Sep 20, 2012

  Nary a single "crush the American oligarchy!" has been heard from Fidel Castro since June, when el jefe's regular columns began devolving into the kind of bizarre, haiku-like rants found only in assis... More >>

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  A Guide to the Most Despicable Florida Moguls on Forbes 400 Richest List

  published Sep 20, 2012

  Forbes' bean counters have compiled their latest list of the 400 most shameless oligarchs richest entrepreneurs in all the land, and South Florida keeps gleefully riding the money train. Twenty-four o... More >>

• New World School of the Arts Musical Group Investigated For Pay-For-Play Claim

  published Sep 18, 2012

  Since it opened in 1987, downtown Miami's elite New World School of the Arts has churned out generations of top local artists, from visual geniuses like Hernan Bas to Emmy-winning choreographers like ... More >>

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  Romney Video Leak: Party Host Was Florida Private Equity "Party Boy" Marc Leder

  published Sep 18, 2012

  Mitt Romney is still reeling today from the leaked video showing him hobnobbing wealthy donors with the worst kind of rich guy bashing on the lazy 47 percent. But who was Romney wining and dining with... More >>

• New World School of the Arts Accused of Giving Preferential Treatment to Students Who Pay for Summer Camp

  published September 20, 2012

  New World School of the Arts Summer Camp Preferential Treatment New World School of the Arts Accused of Giving Preferential Treatment to Students... More >>

• No One Bothered to Watch the Hurricanes Beat Bethune-Cookman

  published Sep 17, 2012

  Remember the good ol' days when the Florida Marlins played at Sun Life and the blinding sight of tens of thousands of empty orange seats mocked the athletes toiling inside the echoing, empty stadiumrI... More >>

• NBC Poll: Obama Up 49 to 44 In Florida, Most Voters Have Made Up Their Minds

  published Sep 14, 2012

  Obama has opened up leads outside the margin of error in Florida and two other swing states, Ohio and Virginia, at least according to a new poll from NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Marist Colle... More >>