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  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Panhandle Tourism Official Spent $710K in Taxpayer Money on a Boat, Is Now Missing

    You think South Florida has the state's most corrupt local officials? Not all the time. The stink of corruption likes to settle itself evenly across this great state.Mark Bellinger, the director of the Okaloosa County Tourist Development Council, resigned this week after the local sheriff's office a ... More >>

  • News

    May 3, 2012

    Coral Reefs Are Being Decimated, All for a Few Gaudy Trinkets

    You think South Florida has the state's most corrupt local officials? Not all the time. The stink of corruption likes to settle itself evenly across this great state.Mark Bellinger, the director of the Okaloosa County Tourist Development Council, resigned this week after the local sheriff's office a ... More >>

  • News

    March 29, 2012

    Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Robert Maler is a horrible boss, lifeguards say

    You think South Florida has the state's most corrupt local officials? Not all the time. The stink of corruption likes to settle itself evenly across this great state.Mark Bellinger, the director of the Okaloosa County Tourist Development Council, resigned this week after the local sheriff's office a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Manuel Orosa Named New Miami Police Chief

    New Miami Police chief Manuel Orosa​Manuel Orosa has been named the new Chief of Miami Police.Orosa now officially inherits a department currently under investigation by the Department of Justice for seven fatal police-involved shootings in a six-month stretch of last year.Since taking over as act ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Sarah Glidden's Occupy Miami Cartoon Essay Sketches the Scene

    ​Dozens of news cameras and reporters armed with tape recorders have attempted to explain the scene down at the Occupy Miami camp in Government Center, but sometimes someone armed with a sketchbook and a patient set of ears manages to capture the moment even better. Sarah Glidden, who recently pub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Regalado: Payout Offer To Exposito Was 'Severance,' Not A Bribe

    via City of Miami​Hours after the Hoedown in Hadley Park, Riptide caught up with Mayor Tomas Regalado in Little Haiti to press him on the $400,000 "bribe" Chief Miguel Exposito says he was offered to resign. This time Regalado argued the deal was a perfectly legal severance package -- negotiated s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Miami Beach Police Deny Smashing Narces Benoit's Cell Phone

    ​Narces Benoit claims that Miami Beach Police smashed his cellphone and threatened him at gunpoint after they noticed he had captured video of the shooting on Memorial Day Weekend. However, the police department has released a statement today claiming that they did not smash Benoit's phone, and th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Hialeah Man's $40 million Ponzi Scheme Nets More Arrests

    Julio Robaina​Nine more individuals have been criminally charged in the ongoing federal investigation into a $40 million ponzi scheme in Hialeah. The arrests come in the wake of news reports that the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are investigating Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina for alleged loa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    To Catch a Predator

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Police Searching for Ex-Boyfriend of Marisol Ramon, After Her Remains Were Found in Everglades

    via NBCMiami​Today's wrap up of the sins of South Florida is a doozy: remains found in the Everglades have been identified as Marisol Ramon and police are searching for her abusive ex-boyfriend, one person is dead after a crash on an I95 exit ramp, a man was shot at a Metrorail station, and a woma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Four-Year-Old Dies After Shooting Himself in Head

    ​In today's roundup of the travesties and tragedies of South Florida: A 4-year-old boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head, a police officer shoots and kills a man during a traffic stop, the search for a missing boater has turned into a homicide investigation, and a teen dies o ... More >>

  • News

    June 24, 2010

    Miami-Dade Pretrial Detention Center guard beats inmates off camera

    ​In today's roundup of the travesties and tragedies of South Florida: A 4-year-old boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head, a police officer shoots and kills a man during a traffic stop, the search for a missing boater has turned into a homicide investigation, and a teen dies o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Guard at Dade Pretrial Detention Center Beats Inmates Off Camera

    Miami-Dade Pretrial Detention Center​Dale Picardat isn't your typical jailbird. The slight, bespectacled 53-year-old has zero criminal record, a degree from Michigan State University, and about as much street cred as a granny with a walker. But he ended up at the Miami-Dade Pretrial Detention Cent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Floating Bodies Update: One Suspect Charged, Two Cases Still Unsolved

    Let's call it the Week of the Floaters: Since Monday, three mysterious corpses have bobbed to the surface in waterways around the metro area.via Miami-Dade CorrectionsPolice say Arthur Johnson stabbed to death the man whose body washed up near Peacock Park yesterday.Saddled with three new homicide i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    A Dead Body and a $24,000 Heist at the Delano

    ​The ultra-posh Delano Hotel in Miami Beach, where your average room price exceeds $800 per night, had a disastrous Christmas. The morning of December 24, cops found the body of a giant washed up on the beach behind the hotel. They still haven't identified the 6'9", 335-pound corpse, and homicide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Crist Asks For A Grand Jury Investigation Into South Florida Shenanigans

    Memo to Miami politicos with dirt under your fingernails: It's time for that midnight flight to Bolivia. Just do it now.​The FBI fired the first warning shots earlier this month, busting three Broward politicians for corruption. Now, Gov. Charlie Crist wants a wide-ranging grand jury probe into th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Bad Homework at the Miami Beach PAL: Would You Tell Your Grandson to Lie For a Few Lousy Bucks?

    Lumilon.com via Flickr CC​Just a few weeks ago, at a county school board meeting, Bernie Winer -- a consultant for the Miami Beach Police Athletic League -- received a standing ovation. A month before that, Miami Beach city commissioners handed him an award. But Riptide has uncovered a PAL e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Murder Miami Style: Police Release Sketch of Suspect in Saturday Shooting

    Police this morning released the first details of a Saturday night murder in Allapattah -- including a sketch of the prime suspect in the killing.Around 11:45 p.m. on Saturday, someone shot a man named Hector Belgrade near 2261 NW 28th St. and then ran off, says Det. Juan D'Elia of the Miami Police ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Miccosukee Cop Rants About Tatiana Furry Accident Online?

    As reported in "Renegade Road," New Times' feature published today about the suspicious secrecy surrounding a tribal police department's handling of a fatal car accident, Miccosukee cops have not uttered public word one about the death of Tatiana Furry.Unless you count a deeply unprofessional rant ... More >>

  • News

    January 10, 2008

    Miami's Top Cop Breaks the Law

    Chief John Timoney refuses to testify about his free use of a Lexus SUV.

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Davis Discharged from Surfside Force

    Chief John Timoney refuses to testify about his free use of a Lexus SUV.

  • News

    August 4, 2005

    In the Aftermath

    For public figures and journalists alike, actions have consequences

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    Ethics and E-mails

    Miami-Dade's ethics czar decides to use the Internet to upbraid the inspector general. Bad decision

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME

    Celeste Fraser Delgado

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST LAWYER

    Lida Rodriguez-Taseff

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST PUBLIC MELTDOWN

    Joe Arriola

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST NEWS FOR OVERTOWN

    Criminal investigations

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST LOCAL GIRL GONE BAD

    Denise Calvo

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    The Hot Seat

    Pepe Cancio faced big trouble on his first day as a county commissioner, but no one likes trouble

  • City Life

    May 16, 2002

    BEST PEOPLE POWER

    Miami's Civilian Investigative Panel

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    The Coach's Record

    Miami's Civilian Investigative Panel

  • News

    March 23, 1995

    Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss

    Opa-locka is flush with a new corps of officials itching to clean up the scandal-plagued town. But why do so many of them look so familiar?

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    Critical Condition

    AIDS researcher of high repute. Proprietor of a glamorous Miami Beach spa. Target of a federal criminal probe. The many sides of Dr. Lionel Resnick.

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