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Rapper Kenneth "Nu Money" Casilla Shot and Killed in Miami

Sitting in a car with two unidentified men near NW 152nd Street and Sixth Avenue in the parking lot of an apartment complex, Kenneth "Nu Money" Casilla was murdered. According to Miami-Dade Police Department (via NY1), the Brooklyn-bred, Miami-based rapper and Rich Mafia crew member was shot and ki ... More >>

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Puerto Rico Violence Calls Into Question America's War on Drugs

For this week's cover story on the soaring murder rate in Puerto Rico, I spent five days on the island. I visited crime scenes still wet with blood, picked up AK-47 shells sprayed around neighborhoods like confetti, and interviewed terrified locals.But at the heart of the Caribbean commonwealth's ki ... More >>

The TruStory of the Scrilla Shooting: "The Way They Got MLK, They're Trying to Get Us"

When Miami rapper Young Scrilla was shot in Overtown while making a music video a couple of weeks ago, details trickled out like a weekend baller trying to make it rain with Wingstop coupons. Now, in a Crossfade exclusive, Dave and LT of TruStory Entertainment -- the bosses who threw last year's Ri ... More >>

Assault Rifles Are Big Business in Florida as Federal Ban Looms

Barack Obama Was Not Welcome at This Miami Gun Show

On Sunday, Banana Republican stopped by the Victor Bean's Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show at the Miami-Dade County youth fairgrounds to gauge the mood of Second Amendment acolytes in the wake of Barack Obama's announcement last week that he wants to clamp down on guns.For all his blustering ab ... More >>

Mugshots Friday: Ben Franklin and Big Bad Bearded Guys

Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that ... More >>

Top Ten Totally Ridiculous Celebrity DJs

You know why non-EDM fans don't take DJing seriously as an art form? It's because celebrities keep ruining everything. When shit went digital in the mid 2000s, it was the coolest thing to happen since Grandmaster Flash figured how to scratch. And consequently, DJing became more popular, experimenta ... More >>

Pot Candy, Sleep Aids, and Anti-Energy Drinks

Happy 4/20! This holiday, once underground, has gone mainstream. MTV lists quite a few celebrations and legalization demonstrations in San Francisco, Seattle, and even Topeka, Kansas. (Willie Nelson is performing.)At 4:20 p.m., thousands of people are expected to "light up" in solidarity. Since we a ... More >>

Miami-Dade police drones are ready for action

MDPD is First Force to Get FAA Clearance to Fly Drones at Crime Scenes

via You TubeDon't be surprised to see this guy at crime scenes now that MDPD has FAA clearance to fly it.​Next time you barricade yourself inside a parking garage with an AK-47, keep an eye out for the flying garbage can. It weighs about 18 pounds, can hover in midair, and is loaded with video cam ... More >>

SpongeBob SquarePants AK-47 Robbery Spree Ends With Arrests

Surveillance footage of a SpongeBob robbery at a 7-11 three months ago.​In the end, the police found SpongeBob SquarePants not in a pineapple under the sea, but hunkered down in an apartment complex off the Turnpike with three of his convenience store robbing cohorts.Last night, Orlando cops final ... More >>

Moron Of The Week: Cocaine AK-47 - Driver's License = "Young Hope" in Esperanto

Jovens Esperance, which we are pretty sure means "Young Hope" in Esperanto. Does that still exist?​Jovens Esperance. The name sounds so innocent, like something Salma Hayek might whisper into your ear on a lazy Sunday morning. Or like the name of a Catalan charity devoted to taking thugs from the ... More >>

Luke's Gospel: Miami's inner-city parks need more police

Miami's Black Leaders Need To Unite Like The Cubans

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke calls for Miami's black political caucus to stop drive-by shootings.Last week, in broad daylight, two gunmen -- one carry ... More >>

Four Children Hit by Bullets When Gunmen Fire on Park

Two masked men drove up to Miami's West Little River Park yesterday around 6 p.m. and began firing. Four children, one as young as 3 years old, were hit by stray bullets. None of the injuries was life-threatening. 

Guns online: No permit needed

Some Sanity in Florida Senate: Guns Won't Be Allowed on College Campuses

A few Republicans in the state legislator and the NRA wanted to push a law that would allow anyone with a concealed weapons license to carry their gun openly on public university campuses. Of course, guns and the atmosphere at Florida public universities don't really go together, as a tragic acciden ... More >>

Guns at College? Father of Girl Shot at FSU Frat House Doesn't Think So

​Ashley Cowie, a sophomore at Florida State University, was shot and killed last month after an AK-47 accidentally went off at a party at a property housing fraternity brothers. Clearly, firearms and college parties don't mix well, but a bill introduced last month would allow students at Florida ... More >>

Sun-Sentinel Sells Political Ad to Bat-Sh*t Insane Michael The Black Man

Laura Massa​Good ol' Michael the Black Man -- he should fit right in with the apocalyptic feel of this morning's news. The former cult member, who once was charged with cutting somebody's head off and led a group interrupting an Obama speech with signs bearing such slogans as "Obama is endors ... More >>

Arizona cop's tale of a Latino drug smuggler shooting him doesn't add up

Son of "Michael the Black Man" Charged With Shooting at Swimmers with AK47

Jeremiah Parham​In today's news roundup: the son of everyone's favorite anti-Obama, ex-cultist Michael the Black Man, is charged with shooting at two swimmers with an AK47, the Metromover re-opens, Miami-Dade may start charging for parking at parks, and neighbors fight over a dog attack.>

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Two Young Children Shot With AK-47s in Afternoon Drive-By

Two young boys, believed to be only 3 and 7-years-old, were the victims of random AK-47 gunfire this afternoon. Both kids were transported to a hospital, and neither appeared to have life threatening injuries. The shooting happened today around 58th Terrace and NW 12th Avenue. Police ... More >>

Firearms and a parrot stolen from a South Beach apartment

Overtown Killer Has a Bad MySpace

Rodney Miller, 18, was arrested yesterday in the July shooting at a birthday party in Overtown in which two were left dead, and 10 others shot. He was charged with two counts of second degree murder. There are six MySpace pages registered to a Rodney Miller in Miami. Though listing his age as 1 ... More >>

Twelve People Shot at B-day Party in Miami's Overtown, Near Cop Shop

Miami police this morning are reporting twelve people shot in Overtown. Details are really vague, but it seems a group of three wearing black clothes shot into a crowd at a birthgday party. In addition, one person was hit by a car. Police chief John Timoney reported AK-47 casings were found at ... More >>

Miami Police Bravely Target Petty Crimes Against Rich and Famous

Miami has earned its rep as a world-class mecca of crime. Just this weekend, Miami Police gunned down a man stalking the streets with a machete. In recent weeks, a Metrorail guard was murdered on the job, a young man's body -- chopped into tiny pieces and stuffed into bags -- floated ashor ... More >>

Silence and Death in Liberty City

Two killed, 16 wounded, and no answers in Liberty City.

News Roundup

LocalYet another publication takes a crack at understanding the reaction to President Obama's changes in Cuba policy amongst Cuban Americans in Miami. This time it's the Washington Post, and they find, quite poetically, that the hard lines have softened. I think honestly though, the pieces on the ma ... More >>

Miami Prosecutor Blames DeFede TV Investigation for Mass Shooting

Just before 5 p.m. this past Sunday, a Chevy Monte Carlo rolled up before a squat, one-story house in Liberty City. Someone inside the car pulled out an AK-47 and opened fire on a group of young men in the front yard, wounding five. via CBS4Jim DeFedeThe drive-by was especially significant because ... More >>

Not Your Father's Gun Show

Back when I was just a freelance Night & Day writer for your Miami New Times, I wrote this weird cap for Victor Bean's Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show. Somehow I wrote things like "Firing an AK-47 at Italian marble in order to create relief sculptures is all the rage in Wynwood," but Victo ... More >>

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