Email Author Tim Elfrink

Awards

• 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"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, 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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2013 Stories by Tim Elfrink

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  FEATURED STORY

  Carlos Bertonatti Set to Plead Guilty to Key Biscayne Hit-and-Run

  published Feb 12, 2013

  It's taken three full years, but Carlos Bertonatti is finally set to admit in court that he killed cyclist Christophe LeCanne in a drunken, early-morning hit-and-run on the Rickenbacker Causeway. Bert... More >>

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  Marco Rubio Will Deliver the GOP's State of the Union Rebuttal In English and Spanish

  published Feb 07, 2013

  Any doubts that the Republican party is pinning all hopes of recouping Hispanic voters on Miami's own Sen. Marco Rubio should be dispelled by the news out this morning: Rubio isn't just going to deliv... More >>

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  Miami-Dade Could Print Ballots In Just One Language

  published Feb 05, 2013

  On the same day Rick Scott's secretary of state issued a plan to avoid a repeat of November's catastrophic voting delays, a Miami commissioner put out his own, more radical idea: Printing Dade County'... More >>

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  Miami Among the Nation's Worst Cities For Congested Traffic

  published Feb 05, 2013

  Here's something to read on your smartphone while sucking exhaust and staring at the miles of immobile cars ahead of you on the Dolphin this morning: A new report out of Texas A&M University ranks... More >>

• Three Shot, One Killed At Miami Gardens Super Bowl Party

  published Feb 04, 2013

  The row of ranch houses sits along a canal in Miami Gardens, dwarfed by the structure just across the water: Sun Life Stadium, home to scores of Super Bowls. As neighbors gathered last night to watch ... More >>

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  ESPN Sources: Tony Bosch Injected Alex Rodriguez With Performance Enhancing Drugs

  published Feb 01, 2013

  In the wake of New Times investigation into Coral Gables clinic Biogenesis, both Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and clinic owner Tony Bosch have denied any link to each other or to performance enhanci... More >>

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  The Tony Bosch Files: Nelson Cruz, Yasmani Grandal, Wayne Odesnik, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Yasmani Grandal, Jimmy Goins and Yuri Sucart's Records

  published Feb 01, 2013

  On Monday, New Times released an investigation into Biogenesis, a local anti-aging firm run by Tony Bosch. Records obtained by New Times suggest Bosch was selling performance enhancing drugs to a numb... More >>

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  The Melky Files: All the Mentions of Melky Cabrera in Tony Bosch's Records

  published Feb 01, 2013

  Up through last August, Melky Cabrera was having a career year for the San Francisco Giants. He smacked 51 hits in May alone and was honored as the All Star Game MVP after going 2-3 in a National Leag... More >>

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  Alex Rodriguez, Gio Gonzalez, Wayne Odesnik, Anthony Bosch Deny Miami New Times Biogenesis Report UPDATED

  published Jan 30, 2013

  Three of the nine athletes named in New Times investigation into Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic run by Anthony Bosch, have responded to the story. Alex Rodriguez, Gio Gonzalez and Wayn... More >>

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  The Gio Gonzalez Files: Every Mention of The Nationals Pitcher in Tony Bosch's Notebooks

  published Jan 30, 2013

  Hialeah native (and Washington Nationals Pitcher) Gio Gonzalez has issued a denial via Twitter that he has ever been associated with Tony Bosch's shuttered Coral Gables clinic, Biogenesis. Here's what... More >>

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  The A-Rod Files: Every Mention of the Yankees Slugger in Tony Bosch's Records

  published Jan 29, 2013

  This week, New Times takes you inside Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables run by Miami entrepreneur Anthony Bosch. His name is familiar to sports fans because he and his father, Dr. Pedro... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports' Biggest Names

  published January 31, 2013

  A-Rod and Doping: A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports Biggest Names See also: " More >>

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  Did Rick Ross Just Crash His Rolls-Royce In Fort Lauderdale After Getting Shot Atr UPDATED

  published Jan 28, 2013

  This much, at least, is clear: Around 5 a.m. this morning, someone opened fire on a Rolls -Royce on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. More than a dozen shots were fired, and the Rolls ended up ca... More >>

• Liberty City Mugger Shoots Mom In the Face In Front of Her Two Kids UPDATE

  published Jan 25, 2013

  A nightmare scenario played out in front of a Liberty City restaurant yesterday when an armed mugger confronted a mother with two young kids in tow and demanded her purse. The mom, identified by her f... More >>

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  Sorry Miami, That's Not Really Hugo Chavez On a Breathing Machine

  published Jan 24, 2013

  The dramatic photo went viral last night, shared hundreds of times on Facebook and splashed across Latin American blogs. It showed Hugo Chavez in exactly the kind of dire condition so many of his oppo... More >>

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  Another Bootleg Butt Doc Busted After Krazy Glue Surgeries In South Florida Motel Go Awry

  published Jan 23, 2013

  Miami was captivated in November 2011 when a would-be plastic surgeon with a prodigious ass named Oneal Morris was arrested after injecting mixtures including Fix-a-Flat into her patients' butts. Now ... More >>

• Photographer Carlos Miller Roughed Up Yet Again By Metrorail Security Guards

  published Jan 21, 2013

  Carlos Miller, the photographer and activist behind the "Photography is Not A Crime" blog, feels pretty damn strongly that there's nothing illegal about shooting photos or video on a taxpayer-funded M... More >>

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  Rejoice, Miami: Chris "Birdman" Andersen Is Now a Member of the Heat

  published Jan 21, 2013

  In a move that's a longshot to fix the Miami Heat's rebounding woes but is a surefire, lead pipe lock to fix the lack of hilarious people on the Heat to write about on local blogs, the team has signed... More >>

• Florida Man Bites Off Girlfriend's Thumb On the Way To Taco Bell

  published Jan 18, 2013

  Choose your own terrible crime adventure: Ricardo Davis was driving his girlfriend to work at Taco Bell this week just up the coast in Palm Bay when the couple started to argue. The girlfriend pushed ... More >>

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  Michele Traverso Sentenced To Less Than a Year For Killing Cyclist; Carlos Bertonatti Still Awaiting Trial

  published Jan 17, 2013

  It's been a terrible week for Miami's bicycle activists. First, a judge sentenced Michele Traverso -- who killed cyclist Aaron Cohen last year on the Rickenbacker Causeway in a brutal hit-and-run -- t... More >>

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  Florida Moves Closer To Banning Surveillance By Police Drones

  published Jan 16, 2013

  When the Miami-Dade Police Department acquired two drones in 2010 and then got FAA clearance to fly them, civil rights advocates warned the move was a harbinger of the Blade Runner police state to com... More >>

• Brad Meltzer, Miami Author and TV Host, Releases Assassination-Themed Novel Just In Time For Inauguration Week

  published Jan 15, 2013

  For two years, a slight, balding man in Miami has hunched over his desk, making dozens of calls a day peppered with phrases custom-built to perk up Secret Service ears: "assassination," "president," "... More >>

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  Rick Scott Rescued a Labrador During His Campaign, Dumped the Dog After Winning

  published Jan 15, 2013

  Among all the third rails in American politics -- abortion, gun control, Jodie Foster's Golden Globes speech -- there is one truly untouchable area: Messing with cute dogs. Just ask Mitt Romney how th... More >>

• Brad Meltzer's "The Fifth Assassin"

  published January 17, 2013

  Brad Meltzer's "The Fifth Assassin" More >>

• Miami Photog Leads Lawsuit Against Remington Over Misfiring Model 700 Rifles

  published January 17, 2013

  Miami Photog Leads Lawsuit Against Remington Over Misfiring Model 700 Rifles More >>