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Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    March 8, 2012

    Chris Paciello ratted on mob bosses, new documents show

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Would-Be Terrorist Sami Osmakac Arrested in Plot to Blow Up Tampa Nightclubs

    ​Sami Osmakac was arrested Saturday night near Tampa after federal officials uncovered an alleged terrorist plot in which Osmakac planned to blow up a nightclub and shoot at crowds using high-powered assault weapons.Osmakac, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in the former Yugoslavia, had pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    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 >>

  • 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

    April 28, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    November 5, 2009

    Is Miami guy Robert Kelly a spy or a wacko?

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    Undercover Fed Busts Major Bonanno Mob Ring In South Florida

    An undercover FBI sting unraveled a South Florida wing of the infamous Bonanno Crime Family, leading to charges this morning against 11 members who are accused of running a dizzying criminal empire.Allegedly, the men smuggled cigarettes and committed bank and mail fraud. They laundered money, sold d ... More >>

  • News

    March 12, 2009

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

    An undercover FBI sting unraveled a South Florida wing of the infamous Bonanno Crime Family, leading to charges this morning against 11 members who are accused of running a dizzying criminal empire.Allegedly, the men smuggled cigarettes and committed bank and mail fraud. They laundered money, sold d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    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 >>

  • News

    December 4, 2008

    High-Class Heists

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

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    News Roundup

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

  • Film

    May 3, 2007

    Next

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

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    Letters from the Issue of March 1, 2007

    "Leave bees to the experts."

  • News

    June 29, 2006

    Lights! Camera! Terrorists!

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

  • 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.

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2004

    News You Can't Use

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

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    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.

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    The Foolproof 9/11 Antidote

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

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

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

  • City Life

    May 17, 2001

    Best Erratum

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

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    Revelation 19.63

    For nearly four decades the CIA has kept secret the identity of a Miami agent who may have known too much too early about Lee Harvey Oswald

  • News

    March 15, 2001

    What Spies Beneath

    Okay, so they really were spying for Cuba, but not in a bad way

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    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

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Free at Last

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

  • Shops and Wares

    May 11, 2000

    Best Used Bookstore

    Eutopia

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    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.

  • Music

    May 13, 1999

    Best Recording Studio

    Miami Beach Recording Studios

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    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.

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    The Company He Keeps

    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.

  • Film

    November 5, 1998

    Final Jeopardy

    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.

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    Letters

    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.

  • News

    January 8, 1998

    Letters

    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.

  • News

    August 28, 1997

    DeFede

    A Marked Man

  • News

    May 11, 1994

    Tamper Tantrum

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

  • News

    December 25, 1991

    JFK Assassination Theorists

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

  • News

    May 8, 1991

    Michael Finney's Last Flight

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

  • Film

    July 18, 1990

    Fit to Be Tide

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

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