Federal Bureau of Investigation

David Rivera's Missing Pal Ana Alliegro Found Hiding in Nicaragua

Exclusive: Miami New Times Finds David Rivera's Missing Pal Ana Alliegro

In the lakeside tourist city of Granada, Nicaragua, visitors strolling along La Calle Libertad come upon a blue Colonial-style building with a small sign reading, "Salon La Libertad." On a recent afternoon, a slim Cuban-American woman with short blonde hair and intense blue eyes chats on her cellpho ... More >>

FBI Fugitive Leslie Delbecq Explains Why She Kidnapped Her Daughter and Fled South Florida

Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez Promises Reforms As He Fights For His Job UPDATE

Miami Beach residents are happy, the city is a well-oiled machine and -- despite a string of embarrassments by the police and a mass FBI corruption bust last month -- the majority of city employees do good work. That was City Manager Jorge Gonzalez's upbeat message, at least, to an angry, packed roo ... More >>

William Joseph and Michael Bennett, ex-NFL Players, Busted By FBI In Tax Fraud Case

At the University of Miami, William Joseph was a star of the 2001 national championship team's fearsome defense, leading the Canes in QB sacks and tackles for a loss. Joseph has since retired from football after an eight-year NFL career, but he'd better hope he's still got some killer defense left i ... More >>

Chris Paciello ratted on mob bosses, new documents show

Miami River Cops, Other "Iconic" Magic City Crime Sprees Star in Discovery Channel Show

Filmmaker Steve Peterson​When he was a kid, Steve Peterson had a cameo role alongside Don Johnson in an episode of Miami Vice, the epic fictional crime series that captured the city's heady cocaine-fueled era during the 1980s. As a teen, he interned at the Miami Herald where he met great reporters ... More >>

Newt Gingrich Once Probed by FBI Over Ties to Miami Arms Dealer Sarkis Soghanalian

​After a thorough beatdown in the Iowa caucuses last night, Newt Gingrich turned this morning to Miami, announcing a new gala fundraiser at the Biltmore that he hopes will re-energize his presidential campaign. Too bad Newt can't ring up legendary Miami arms merchant Sarkis Soghanalian, ... More >>

Film's Biggest Losers and Winners of 2011

In many ways, 2011 was a great one for movies. Some really good films came out this year -- some that broke the mold and swirled genres together in unprecedented ways. Several icons of the movie world made remarkable contributions that should be mentioned at the year's close. On the other hand, y ... More >>

Opa-Locka Police Captain Arrested for Protecting Murderous Drug Ring

Arthur Balom, an Opa-locka police captain, has been arrested on allegations he helped protect a South Florida drug ring and had knowledge of the murder of a Brinks armed truck guard that happened last year. The arrest was part of an FBI investigation. Three other men, members of the drug ring, were ... More >>

Jorge Uscamayta, Skycap Arrested In Luggage Scam, Is Dad Of Bomb-Strapped Bank Robbery Victim

via Miami-Dade CorrectionsJorge Uscamayta was arrested along with more than 20 other baggage handlers yesterday.​How's this for a truly bizarre crime connection? Last night, Miami-Dade police announced the arrests of more than 20 curbside baggage handlers at MIA on charges that they'd taken cash b ... More >>

Blood and Body Parts

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 >>

Son Shoots at Home Invaders Who Shot Dad in Mouth

Two armed robbers entered the home of several migrant workers on SW 141st Avenue at 282nd Street last night. They demanded cash and valuables, but one man decided to fight back. They subdued him and held him at gunpoint, eventually shooting him the mouth.The man's son went inside, retrieved a gun, a ... More >>

Gov. Crist's Security on Alert After Anti-Gov't Group Sends Threatening Letters

Gov. Charlie Crist's security team is on alert this afternoon after an anti-government group called "Guardians of the free Republics" (sic) sent threatening letters. They aren't just nut-job anti-government extremists -- they're also terrible at capitalizing properly in their propaga ... More >>

Thousands Attend Puerto Rican Band Calle 13's Habana Concert

Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up.from diplo's twitter​ It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August's Juanes show. Singer René Pérez J ... More >>

Naked Pictures of Trina Are On the Internet, So, Of Course, the FBI is Involved

​Not so flattering nude pictures of Miami rapper Trina leaked to the internet yesterday, and the Diamond Princess is calling in the FBI.Trina tells MTV news that a thief stole her cell phone at the BET Awards last October, and that the criminal tried to shake her down for money."I just think it wa ... More >>

Is Miami guy Robert Kelly a spy or a wacko?

Meet Robert Kelly. He Says He Infiltrated Castro's Spy Service And Tricked Miami Exiles

Robert Kelly certainly has the tricks of the spy trade down pat. ​He talks in mysterious acronyms, like "NOC" -- which stands for "no official cover." He refuses to have his photo taken. He talks about elaborate take-downs and ruses straight out of a Burn Notice plot.Getting the full truth is much ... More >>

Fugitive Returns from Cuba After 40 Years and Turns Himself in for '68 Pan Am Hijacking

via Flickr​One of the FBI's longest-known fugitives turned himself into federal law enforcement officers in New York yesterday after hiding in Cuba for more than four decades.Louis Armando Peña Soltren, 66, and two other men hijacked a Pan American flight in November 1968 after entering the cockp ... More >>

Rare Penis Mouthed Shark Found in Everglades National Park

 So, about a year ago some fisher-folk went out shark fishing in Flamingo Bay in the Everglades National Park. The crew of the boat was never heard from again, and now the FBI has arrested a group of men connected to the Governor for what they believe could be politically motivated murder.  ... More >>

New Trial Sought in Liberty City "Terrorist" Saga

Just when you thought the saga of the "Liberty City Seven" was finally over, the five men who actually ended up with convictions are asking for either an acquittal or yet another retrial. The Seas of David group was originally arrested in June 2006 for suspicion that it was plotting with Al-Qaeda ... More >>

DNA privacy keeps Aventura cops from solving the city's only murder

News Roundup

The National GOP wants Charlie Crist to run for Senate. [Hill]Ex-FBI agent John Connolly gets 40 years for his role in a mob murder. [Herald]Beware the dreaded lube ring thieves. [CBS4]With the Orange Bowl demolished, where will we have our official Fidel Castro death party? [CBS4]Burger King hired ... More >>

Crooked Cop Gets 11 Years

So this Police Officer, Mr. Geovani Nunez, a 13-year veteran of the City of Miami Police Department, thought he was helping some flashy trucking company owner smuggle around things like stolen iPhones and 12 kilograms of cocaine. He used his police car to escort the trucks and was paid a total of $2 ... More >>

High-Class Heists

Hang on tightly to those Picassos at Basel. Art crime is on the rise.

The Suitcase Murders

He hasn't struck lately, but South Florida's fourth serial prostitute killer is likely still on the loose

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Letters from the Issue of March 1, 2007

"Leave bees to the experts."

Lights! Camera! Terrorists!

The federal indictment against the so-called Liberty City 7 was TV at its finest

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 You Can't Use

Everything you didn't know -- and would never have asked -- about the newspaper biz

The Accidental Terrorist

He stumbled into a group of Muslim extremists with plans to attack America. Then he stumbled into Miami. Today Shaheed Mohamed is nowhere to be found.

The Foolproof 9/11 Antidote

Live from OJ's front yard, this is Brian Andrews!

Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

Where can terrorists find safe harbor? If you're of the Cuban exile variety, right here.

Best Erratum

"Newspaper rewrites paragraph, reveals possible Castro infiltration of U.S. government radio station"

Cuban Missive Crisis

For years the infamous Wasp Network collected reams of data on Miami's anti-Castro forces -- and the sundry, sometimes bizarre, attempts to infiltrate them

Free at Last

Danny Felton admitted to betraying the public trust when he worked as a Miami cop. Now his apparent misdeeds are forgotten.

Best Used Bookstore

Eutopia

Con Kid

Jimmy Sabatino, self-described child of the Mafia, displayed a prodigious talent for confidence games even as a teenager. If he hadn't threatened to kill President Clinton, he'd probably be scamming today.

Best Recording Studio

Miami Beach Recording Studios

In Pursuit of Willy and Sal, Part Two

Having lost their case against the drug kingpins, federal prosecutors vowed to convict jury foreman Miguel Moya of bribery. Didn't quite work out that way.

The Company He Keeps

Final Jeopardy

Letters

Letters

DeFede

A Marked Man

Tamper Tantrum

Taped conversations helped convict George Gandelman of money laundering. Now the Miamian tries an unusual appeal: Don't believe everything you hear.

JFK Assassination Theorists

Michael Finney's Last Flight