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Cocaine

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Mugshots Friday: Daddy's Girl

    ​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 th ... More >>

  • News

    May 24, 2012

    Miami-Dade Police Lured Robbers to the Redland, Then Shot Them

    ​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 th ... More >>

  • News

    April 12, 2012

    Miami-Dade TNT Unit Loses the War on Drugs and Liberty City's Trust

    ​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 th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Mugshots Friday: He's Sexy and He Knows It

    ​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 th ... More >>

  • News

    February 16, 2012

    Reader mail: Gay-bashing Buju Banton needs to make peace with the Lord

    ​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 th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Cyclist Aaron Cohen Dies After Rickenbacker Hit-and-Run; Driver Michele Traverso Arrested

    ​Aaron Cohen, one of the two bicyclist who were injured in an early morning hit-and-run car crash on the Rickenbacker Causeway on Wednesday morning, has died.Meanwhile, police have arrested the driver Michele Traverso, 25, after he turned himself in early this morning. Traverso was driving with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    One-Legged Drug Dealer Attempts to Hop Away from Police in Jacksonville

    As the suspect was not Rose McGowan in Planet Terror, he didn't pose much of a threat. ​What do you call a drug dealer with one leg trying to escape from police? Caught.No, this isn't open mic night at the Chuckle Hut, this is quite naturally real Florida news.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    1,300 Pot Plants Seized After 25 Miami Grow Houses Busted in "Operation Machete"

    ​Twenty-five people were arrested yesterday after Miami-Dade police discovered 25 separate hydroponics labs in the county during a crackdown dubbed "Operation Machete." Besides the alleged criminals, police also seized more than 1,300 pot plants during the daylong sweep.

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    How I Met Your Mother, Who Also Had a Slit Throat Tattoo

    ​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 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Matchmaking With Mugshots, a Nervous Chuckle, and a Beard-Off

    ​​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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Stynx, Shark Teeth, and the Funnest Guy at the Racetrack

    ​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 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Miamians Now Too Poor to Be Cocaine Addicts

    ​The way we snort now: with less frequency and with less potent cocaine. The Miami Herald crunched the numbers (which aren't exactly anything new) and found cocaine use has declined in South Florida. That doesn't mean the War on Drugs has actually worked. Of course not. We're just doing cheaper dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    A Boy Named Barbara, Flattop Moustache, And What You See When You Die

    ​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week 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 series.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Mugshots Friday: A Meta T-Shirt, A Pimp's Broken Spirit, and Beards, Beards, Beards

    ​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week 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 series.

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Mugshots Friday: Mr. Babyhair, Future Justin Bieber and a Cranium Tarantula

    ​​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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2011

    High Times

    ​​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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Buju Banton Found Guilty in Cocaine Case

    ​Despite a triumphant concert in Miami and a Grammy win within the last few months, Buju Banton's dark days are not behind him. After an initial trial on drug charges was declared a mistrial, Banton has been found guilty of conspiring to set up a Florida cocaine deal back in 2009.

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Today In Cocaine: Ten Busted in Juarez-to-Miami Ring, Colombian Coke Lord Due In Federal Court

    ​It's already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami -- or at least for the feds' perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then came word that a muc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Massive Police Sting Nets 2,369 Pounds of Pot Worth $9.4 Million

    A massive sting on Wednesday uncovered 49 hydroponic labs in Miami-Dade and put 42 people behind bars. The pot is believed to have a street value of $9.2 million. Police also found 11 grams of cocaine, 40 grams of processed marijuana, 126 Oxycontin pills, an Audi, and $9,562 in cash.The sting, known ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Fumble-Prone Former Dolphin Sammie Smith Gets Civil Rights Back

    "Sammie Sucks. Sammie Sucks," chants are long since gone from Miami Dolphin home games, as is the unfortunate and short-lived pro football career of former running back Sammie Smith. But things finally seem to be turning around for one of the most hated Dolphins of all time. After finishing up a sev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Fifteen Members of "Murda Grove Boys" Gang Arrested by FBI

    A handmade t-shirt displaying the group's insignia with guns we found on one possible members MySpace​The Murda Grove Boys are not, as their name would suggest, a horror-core boy band but actually one of Miami-Dade's most violent criminal gangs. CBS4 reports that Miami Gardens police, the FBI and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Eighty Percent of Cocaine Contains Chemical That Will Rot Your Flesh

    ​We've seen some coke heads practically descend into a zombie-like state where they become completely devoid of normal human emotion and only fixate on their next fit like they were in a George Romero movie looking for brains (pure, uncut Bolivian marching brains). Well, now co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Charles Bennett Is Called "Krazy Horse" Because He's 100 Percent Normal

    C.StilesCharles "Krazy Horse" Bennett Seeks a title and an end to his madness.​When it comes to second chances, Charles Daniel Bennett Jr. will take four, five, six, and however many more he can get. Nicknamed Krazy Horse, the Ocala native has been one of the most scandalous characters to step int ... More >>

  • News

    March 18, 2010

    The murder of Stevie Febonio: South Florida's marijuana grow houses can be a deadly business

    C.StilesCharles "Krazy Horse" Bennett Seeks a title and an end to his madness.​When it comes to second chances, Charles Daniel Bennett Jr. will take four, five, six, and however many more he can get. Nicknamed Krazy Horse, the Ocala native has been one of the most scandalous characters to step int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Cocaine Blamed for Global Warming

    British Models: Your Government is concerned that your love of cocaine is killing trees, and then what will you dry hump in black lingerie?​Those of us who like to "ski" might be making it harder for those of us who want to, you know, actually ski. Apparently, members of the British Parliament are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Liberty City Violence claims a boxing promoter's son, UPDATED

    On Thursday, Riptide finds Roosevelt Ivory, Sr. stepping out of a white Lincoln Navigator, accompanied by an apparent bodyguard, at his two-house compound on Northwest 69th Terrace in Liberty City. It's advertised as "Roosevelt's Rooming House" in the White Pages, but this certainly is no Days Inn. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Prunk TV: Featuring Marilyn Manson

    via www.marilynmansonartworkonline.com'When I Get Old,' by Marilyn MansonMarilyn Manson's paintings are much better than his music. Just kidding; we love ya, Marilyn! His solo show, Trismegistus, debuted this past December during Art Basel Miami Beach. But if you missed the super-VIP opening, don't ... More >>

  • Music

    May 15, 2008

    The Spencer Davis Group

    via www.marilynmansonartworkonline.com'When I Get Old,' by Marilyn MansonMarilyn Manson's paintings are much better than his music. Just kidding; we love ya, Marilyn! His solo show, Trismegistus, debuted this past December during Art Basel Miami Beach. But if you missed the super-VIP opening, don't ... More >>

  • Music

    September 20, 2007

    What Pete Did Next

    The nine (and counting?) lives of Brit-rock’s weirdly compelling screwup

  • Music

    September 6, 2007

    Fortunate Son?

    Ky-mani is the unique Marley

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2007

    StreetWorks - Under the Bridge

    Ky-mani is the unique Marley

  • News

    July 5, 2007

    Break the Habit

    John Schmidt will save Danny. Come hell or a good high.

  • News

    August 3, 2006

    Crackhead Camera!

    These guys make Girls Gone Wild look lame

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    Graham CRACKer Crust Bust

    Who knew “New York-style cheesecake” meant “with a side of crack”?

  • Home Entertainment

    April 27, 2006

    To Each Theron

    Who knew “New York-style cheesecake” meant “with a side of crack”?

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Jump-Out Boys

    Scheming snitches, dirty detectives, intrepid investigators. This ain't The Shield's Strike Team.

  • News

    October 13, 2005

    Miami: See It Like a Drug Dealer

    During Miami's cocaine heyday in the Eighties, weird and interesting and scary things happened all over town all the time. Our coke map of Miami is by necessity incomplete, but even selected highlights make the point: Blow knew no neighborhood boundaries.

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    Until Proven Guilty

    24 HOURS. 1 FULL MOON. 265 Arrests.

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST LOCAL BOY GONE BAD

    Ric Sisser

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST LOCAL GIRL GONE BAD

    Denise Calvo

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Denise Calvo: Murder Suspect

    Tales of illicit affairs, heavy drug use, prostitutes, a strained marriage -- no wonder police are suspicious

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Porch Patrol

    Brownsville resident Lorenzo Jones is waging a one-man war against the drug dealing across the street

  • City Life

    May 11, 2000

    Best Defense

    Brownsville resident Lorenzo Jones is waging a one-man war against the drug dealing across the street

  • News

    January 27, 2000

    A Hatchet Job

    When Miami police tried to fell a beautiful oak, community activist Monique Taylor raised Cain

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    Our Hero the Drug Dealer

    The feds call Rickey Brownlee one of South Florida's biggest narco-traffickers. His friends and neighbors in Opa-locka call him a valiant victim.

  • News

    October 10, 1996

    Dynasty

    The feds call Rickey Brownlee one of South Florida's biggest narco-traffickers. His friends and neighbors in Opa-locka call him a valiant victim.

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    Search and Schnauzer

    North Miami Beach's drug squad shows dogged determination -- and an interesting interpretation of the Constitution

  • News

    August 17, 1995

    Bodies and Souls

    A young pastor aims his church's meager resources at some of Miami's neediest.

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    In Havana, On Drugs

    As faith in the revolution sinks to new lows, kids in Cuba are getting high

  • News

    April 14, 1993

    Junkies

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

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