Investigations

Three Lies

Lie Space

Scary Terry

New Times Owners Arrested

Redskins Safety Sean Taylor Shot in Florida Home

Four Years Later, DJ's Death Still Unsolved

Breaking News: Miami’s Top Lawman, John Timoney, Breaks the Law

Junior Goes Free in Estefano Shooting Trial

The Classic Caddy Conundrum

One 1973 ragtop Cadillac. One seller. One buyer. One's got the title, the other's got the car. Who owns the Eldorado?

When Internal Affairs Gets Too Cozy

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement recently ended an investigation into the onetime commander of the Miami-Dade Police Department's internal affairs unit, concluding Donald Rifkin was hoping to get laid by talking to county cop Carmen Pichardo about sensitive information in the internal affa ... More >>

Internal Affairs = Sexual Harrassment

Donald Rifkin, a former Miami-Dade police major accused of trying to exchange sensitive information about internal affairs cases in exchange for sex from a female cop, is no longer investigating county officers accused of misconduct. He is now assigned to the Strategic Planning and Policing Bureau, ... More >>

See Joey Run

Six things you might want to consider before casting your vote for Joe Gersten

Sudden Impact: Part 2

There's no way to undo the damage to her mangled Sentra, but this car-crash tale has a satisfactory conclusion

UM Frat Has Members Arrested For Drug-Related Charges ...Again

Zeta Beta Tau's official song is "My Brother, Here is my Hand." The chapter at the University of Miami might as well amend it with "...it is full of drugs, so many, many drugs." Today, the Coral Gables Police Department Vice Squad raided the historically Jewish fraternity's house on UM's campus as p ... More >>

Homestead Councilwoman Threatened By Amateur 'N Sync Video on YouTube

Judy WaldmanThe FBI is currently investigating a YouTube video set to the music of 'N Sync's "Bye, Bye, Bye" that apparently infers that Homestead Councilwoman Judy Waldman should either be killed or off herself. The South Florida times broke the story. As of this afternoon the video has been r ... More >>

Burn, Baby, Burn

Don't show up for work? Don't worry.

Scalded

A long-time aide. A few thousand dollars' worth of dubious insurance receipts. A cauldron of allegations. U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey has been . . . scalded

Slime and Schemes Simmer in Surfside

John Davis is a cop who won’t stop

Inspector Imperiled

Incredibly, the job of one of the county's most successful and vigilant agents is on the line

Travail to the Chief

Raul Martinez is a product of Miami's dysfunctional police department, so how can he be expected to transform it?

Taking Heat

Maj. Frank Christmas, the Miami Police Department's top in-house investigator, finds himself the subject of a criminal investigation

Best Erratum

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

To Serve and Protect

And in the case of the Miami Police Department: To Lose

Best Used Bookstore

Eutopia

Border Wars

Nearly a dozen people in the local INS office have filed sexual-harassment complaints against the agency

Letters

Nearly a dozen people in the local INS office have filed sexual-harassment complaints against the agency

Alonso to Corrupters: Watch Out!

Nearly a dozen people in the local INS office have filed sexual-harassment complaints against the agency

Jimmy in the Lion's Den

Nearly a dozen people in the local INS office have filed sexual-harassment complaints against the agency

Double Jeopardy

Nearly a dozen people in the local INS office have filed sexual-harassment complaints against the agency

Michael Jackson's Miami Beach Doctor Reportedly Under Investigation

Portrait of Farschian via his websiteIn the wake of his death, nine doctors who have treated Michael Jackson across the United State are under investigation, including Dr. Alimorad "Alex" Farschchian of Miami Beach. Riptide has already discussed the numerous connection between Dr. Farschia ... More >>

Bad Homework

Would you tell your grandson to lie about an essay for a few lousy bucks?

Peace, Love, and Terror

The investigation into a cop killing in the '70s leads to a law professor who helped launch Barack Obama's political career.

Police Searching for Unidentified Man in Murder of Paula Sladewski

Police are searching for a new person of interest in the murder of Paula Sladewski, the aspiring model who was found burned to death in a dumpster in North Miami-Dade after traveling to Miami for a Lady Gaga concert New Year's Eve.Surveillance video from that weekend shows Sladewski leavin ... More >>

Calder trainer is suspected of selling racehorses to a slaughterhouse

Police are searching for a new person of interest in the murder of Paula Sladewski, the aspiring model who was found burned to death in a dumpster in North Miami-Dade after traveling to Miami for a Lady Gaga concert New Year's Eve.Surveillance video from that weekend shows Sladewski leavin ... More >>

North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso cheated the IRS, the bank, and his city

Police are searching for a new person of interest in the murder of Paula Sladewski, the aspiring model who was found burned to death in a dumpster in North Miami-Dade after traveling to Miami for a Lady Gaga concert New Year's Eve.Surveillance video from that weekend shows Sladewski leavin ... More >>

NARTH Had Hand in Rekers Damage Control, Escort Says

Did NARTH help George Alan Rekers with damage control?​Members of one of America's largest "ex-gay" organizations may have secretly intervened in the rentboy scandal, publicly calling for a "thorough investigation," while working behind the scenes to quash the story.Officials of the National Assoc ... More >>

Police Hunting For Serial Groper with Sticky Fingers

​Police are searching for a man involved in two robberies in the Kendall area who got his hands on more than stolen items. In the two robberies, a man ambushed women as they arrived home. Threatening his victims with a knife he stole their purses, and then proceeded to fondle the women on the brea ... More >>

Southwest Miami Pot Grow House Goes Up in Smoke, Second in a Month

​Don't you just hate it when your grow house gets discovered by firemen putting out a blaze in your home. Jorge Guzman and Yvette Garcia are the latest homeowners who suffered such a fate. According to property records, they own the house at 24644 SW 114th Court which was the scene of a house ... More >>

Miami-Dade Pretrial Detention Center guard beats inmates off camera

​Don't you just hate it when your grow house gets discovered by firemen putting out a blaze in your home. Jorge Guzman and Yvette Garcia are the latest homeowners who suffered such a fate. According to property records, they own the house at 24644 SW 114th Court which was the scene of a house ... More >>

Man Beaten By Police on Halloween Charged with Resisting Arrest

Matamoros shows bruises he sustained at the hands of police​Gilberto Matamoros, the 21-year-old man who's brutal beating at the hands of out-of-control City of Miami police officers on Halloween night in Coconut Grove was caught on YouTube, is being charged with resisting arrest. There's still no ... More >>

Police Suspect Missing Mom Lilly Aramburo May Have Been Killed

Miami-Dade Police​More than three years after she went missing, Miami-Dade Police investigators believe Lilly Aramburo was a victim of foul play. At least, that's what an updated missing persons flyer seems to indicate. New Times wrote a cover story about the young single mother's June 1, 2007 dis ... More >>

Al Sharpton Wants Justice Department to Investigate Miami Police Department

​Mayor Tomás Regalado isn't the only powerful enemy Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito has made in his relatively short run atop the department. Now, national civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton is calling for a federal investigation into the Miami Police Department. ... More >>

Shock Nightclub Now Under Investigation, According to Miami Beach Police

via FacebookOpen or closed, Shock nightclub is now under investigation​Shock nightclub in South Beach may be a chaotic vortex of revolving promoters, investors, and name-changes, but it finally looks like that cycle might be grinding to a halt.Miami Beach Police now say that they have begun an inv ... More >>

Barry Minkow Pleads Guilty to Lennar Conspiracy

​As expected former conman turned pastor turned corporate whistle-blower Barry Minkow has pleaded guilty to commit securities fraud. He was accused of purposefully trying to harm the business of Lennar, a home builder that is one of the largest companies head-quartered in Miami-Dade, by reporting ... More >>

NCAA Launching Investigation Into Shady SEC and Big 10 Football Recruiting in South Florida

​Used to be the University of Miami Hurricanes had a lock on recruiting football talents in the "state of South Florida," but over the past few decades other schools have recognized the importance of our local talent hotbed. Now the NCAA is launching an investigation into allegations of shady recr ... More >>

David Rivera Named One of Most Corrupt Congressmen

​With Anthony Wiener's sext scandal and Allen West's ongoing shenanigans, it's easy to forget just how horrible Miami's Rep. David Rivera is. The freshman Republican representative has been under investigation by several state and federal agencies since taking office. Unsurprisingly, he has now be ... More >>

Anthony Mangione, South Florida's Top Immigration Cop, Arrested on Child Porn Charges

​Anthony Mangione, the chief of the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's South Florida department, was arrested today on charges related to child pornography. Mangione had been suspended in April after federal investigators found images of child porn on his computer in his Broward County ... 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 >>

Stephanie Kienzle: Northern exposure

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 >>

Opa-locka Mayor's Husband, Son and Sister Arrested for Campaign Fund Fraud

Family drama and political corruption have collided in Opa-locka this afternoon as three immediate family members of the town's Mayor Myra Taylor were rounded up and arrested for campaign fund fraud. John Taylor, the mayor's husband, Demetrius Taylor, her son, and Elvira Smith, her sister, all ... More >>