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Florida Man Took Key Photo of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, Now ID'd as Second Boston Bomber on the Run

All over the country, people are waking up, checking their Twitter feeds and then spending at least half an hour trying to figure out what the hell happened since they went to bed. In short: Police in Boston have killed one of the two marathon bombing suspects -- whom they've ID'd as two brothers or ... More >>

Miami Beach City Employee Claims He Was Punished For Wearing a Wire For the F.B.I.

Twelve months ago, Miami Beach seemed on the verge of a very necessary cleanup. On April 11, 2012, FBI agents arrested six city employees -- four code compliance officers and two firefighters -- and an FBI liaison stayed in city hall to look into more corruption. Beach officials urged employees to c ... More >>

"Conservative Bad Girl" Ana Sol Alliegro Might Be Hiding in Nicaragua

Where in the world is Ana Sol Alliegro? We've heard joking answers from the bottom of the Everglades to St. Tropez, but there hasn't been an actual report on David Rivera's shady lady friend until now. According to sources who spoke to América TeVé, she may be in Nicaragua.

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

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 could the Sunshine State have to Petraeus' unwise liaison with his biographer?Doubt Florida's insid ... More >>

Rep. David Rivera Broke Ethics Laws, According to State Commission

For a while it seemed like GOP Rep. David Rivera may as well have been named Teflon Dave. No matter what accusations were flung at him, nothing stuck.Now, it looks like he's running out of luck. The Florida Commission on Ethics has found that Rivera broke state laws by failing to fully disclose his ... More >>

Miami-Dade Cop Arrested by FBI for Pulling Over and Sexually Harassing Women

Miami-Dade Police Officer Prabhainjana Dwivedi worked the midnight shift around Key Biscayne, Metrorail stations, and Jackson Memorial Hospital. If what the FBI says is true, woe unto any woman who ran into Dwivedi in the middle of the night. Because the cop had a bad habit of pulling over women for ... More >>

South Beach B-Girls Scam Artist Arrested at Miami International Airport

Also read "Eastern European B-Girls in SoBe Scam."It was perhaps the perfect South Beach scam. A ring of Eastern European men set up private "night clubs" and sent beautiful girls out on the town to bring in unsuspecting male tourists. Once inside, the victim's credit cards were charged exorbitant p ... More >>

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Marcus Faella and His Florida White Supremacist Group Arrested For Plotting a Race War

Inside a heavily fortified compound in rural Osceola County, Florida, a well-armed group of white supremacists lead by 39-year-old Marcus Faella held regular paramilitary drills where they pretended to shoot black victims, talked about attacking Orlando's city hall and even discussed obtaining ricin ... More >>

Miami Beach Officials Arrested In Bribery Sting Had Awful Records, Yet Still Made Six Figures

When the FBI swooped into Miami Beach last week to arrest seven city workers for extorting thousands from a South Beach club, the higher-ups in City Hall shouldn't have been shocked. The Miami Herald got their hands on the personnel records of the five code officers and two fire inspectors busted by ... More >>

Chris Paciello's Five Best New Crimes: More Docs Prove SoBe King's Infamous Past

​Earlier this month, New Times revealed the staggering number of serious felonies committed by mob turncoat Chris Paciello. The secret FBI interviews with Paciello unearthed by author Frank Owen exposed the former SoBe club king as the very model of the multi-tasking Mafioso, a virtual one ma ... More >>

Otis Wallace's Shady Web: A Guide To This Week's New Times Investigation

​This week's profile of Otis Wallace raises serious questions about corruption in Florida City, from accusations of bribery and secret real estate deals to stolen votes. The article also reveals for the first time FBI and Miami-Dade investigations into the mayor and his administration.To help you ... More >>

Andrew Marshall Sentenced to 10 Years in Jail For Assembling Arsenal in Dinner Key Marina

Andrew Marshall fought government -- city, state, and federal -- tooth and nail for years. On Wednesday, the government finally won.Marshall was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for making and possessing unregistered firearms. Originally from a wealthy New York family, he moved to Miami and d ... More >>

John Stirling, Canadian Busted With 800 Lbs of Coke, Tells FBI "There's Nothing Wrong With Cocaine Trafficking"

​A tip for all you would-be cocaine kingpins: When the FBI catches you off the coast of Colombia with more than 800 pounds of yeyo stashed in your boat, do not argue that "there is nothing wrong with cocaine trafficking." That's exactly the tact John Philip Stirling, a 60-year-old Canadian captain ... More >>

Calle 13's Amazing New "Latinoamérica" Video Is All Heart

Visitante y Residente​Calle 13's Residente and Visitante are nominated for ten Latin Grammys this year, an impressive stat for a group that in the past five years has gone from the viral diatribe of "Fuck The Dear FBI" to filling stadiums in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Chile, and wherever else they ... More >>

FBI Arrests Hialeah Gardens Cop Jorge Romero for Being Part of Thief Gang

​For 13 years, Hialeah Gardens Police Officer Jorge Romero has been charged with patrolling his city for crime. This morning he found himself charged with an actual crime. FBI agents arrested him for alleged participation in a gang of thieves that terrorized cargo trucks and made off with valuable ... More >>

Barry Minkow Has To Pay Lennar Corp. $583 Million And Serve Five Years

via LA WeeklyBarry Minkow​An ex-con man who two years ago wreaked havoc on the price stock of a Miami-based national builder is going back to prison after pleading guilty to one count of securities fraud.During a hearing yesterday morning, Miami federal Judge Patricia Seitz handed Barry Minkow a f ... More >>

Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson Want Feds to Crack Down on Porn

​Regulating what America whacks off to has not been a chief concern of the Obama administration. But now a group of 42 senators have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder complaining that his justice department hasn't been keeping a close enough eye on the mainstream adult pornography busi ... More >>

Mad Scientist Leo Mascheroni Caught Trying To Sell Nuclear Bomb To Venezuela

Does this look like a man who should have a nuclear bomb?​P. Leonardo Mascheroni had a simple dream: earning billions of dollars in government funding to build a gigantic laser beam that would create stable nuclear fusion and limitless, free energy for the world. So simple! But the government woul ... More >>

A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner

Gerald Posner Plagiarized in Why America Slept and Secrets of the Kingdom, Research Shows

Photo by Bill Cooke Gerald Posner​In this week's Miami New Times, we write about new evidence that Gerald Posner plagiarized dozens of passages in his 2003 book Why American Slept and in 2005's Secrets of the Kingdom. After the jump, you can check out all the proof. But first, a little back ... More >>

Time to Battle

Miami Beach cops are paid up to $225K and face lawsuits galore

Miami Police: Miguel Exposito In. Frank Fernandez Out.

​Mayor Tomas Regalado;'s new administration has made its first choice -- and it's a guy who ain't likely to be too popular at the headquarters on NW Second Avenue. Miguel Exposito who parlayed a whistle blower suit into a the rank of major, will become new Miami police chief, multiple sources are ... More >>

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Mayoral candidate Tomas Regalado may be accused of not being able to deal with his personal finances (he claims to only be worth $5000 year after year, and once had his wages garnished for not paying taxes), but his campaign manager is doing a good job with his war chest. He's consistently out-raisi ... More >>

Five of The Liberty City Six Convicted

The judicial saga of men who came to be known as "The Liberty Six" reached what may be the beginning of the end today. After two mistrials, and a total bill that cost taxpayers over $10 million, five of the men were convicted. Another was acquitted. The men were charged with plotting with al Queda t ... More >>

Watch Pussy Play Poker

Big Pussy at Hot Tuna pushing Sleeping Fish sounds like a porno flick that takes place on a sunny day at the wharf starring a legendary prostitute and an American Indian. Really it's an ex-Soprano appearing at a Coyote Ugly-esque bar and hawking a newItalian-inspired sushi roll. Vincent "Big Pussy ... More >>

The Sad Irony of a Kidnapping Expert Being Kidnapped

This unfortunately is not a headline from The Onion; it's a story from the Austin Statesman about the kidnapping of Felix Batista, a Cuban-American, Miami-based expert in kidnapping negotiations. Batista apparently worked for a Houston-based security firm and was invited by Mexican police to pa ... More >>

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