Miami Beach Police Department

Peddling Out of a Tight Spot

Kelis Hates The Miami Beach PD So Much Right Now

Letters from the Issue of June 9 , 2005

Friends of Fidel, Miami Beach beatings, handgun chic

Unsolved Mysteries, Dateline Miami Beach

Those real-life police dramas, they'll quicken your pulse

Lonely at the Top

Those real-life police dramas, they'll quicken your pulse

Swelter

Those real-life police dramas, they'll quicken your pulse

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

Miami According to Brooklyn: One Reason the Miami Beach Police Suck

photo by Justin Namon, www.thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. I think I'm gonna talk about the Miami Beach Police and how they just worry about the petty shit and don't see the big picture. Like yesterday, I'm driving down West Avenue and get pul ... More >>

Pop a Wheelie on SoBe

photo by Justin Namon, www.thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. I think I'm gonna talk about the Miami Beach Police and how they just worry about the petty shit and don't see the big picture. Like yesterday, I'm driving down West Avenue and get pul ... More >>

Citizen’s Arrest

photo by Justin Namon, www.thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. I think I'm gonna talk about the Miami Beach Police and how they just worry about the petty shit and don't see the big picture. Like yesterday, I'm driving down West Avenue and get pul ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of June 30, 2005

Feuding neighbors, art objects, and combative cops

Strange Case of the Misplaced Murders

How Miami Beach homicide cops came to make a horrifying discovery

Side Dish

"An estro-genius town"

The Politics of Music

Forget the protests, the visa hassles, even the bomb threat that marred MIDEM. In the end, Cuba's finest musicians rocked the house.

When the Flak Flies, the Flack Flees

How's the search for a new Miami Beach police public information officer going? No comment!

Body by Joke

Cross-dressing Elliot Offen wants to help you

Urban Beach Week Returns

Watch out on Memorial Day — you might end up jailed.

Cops Bust More People For Drugs at Urban Beach Week

Memorial Day weekend in Miami Beach is wild. In the past seven years, cops have made thousands of arrests. The craziness included: A double homicide outside David's Café II, a mini riot on Washington Avenue, and smatterings of pro sports players who enjoy drinking too much and manhandling officers. ... More >>

Murder Miami Style: One Officer Involved in Two Deadly Shootings in 4 Days

Four days after being cleared of any wrongdoing in shooting an unarmed tourist, Miami Beach Police Officer Adam Tavss has been involved in another shooting death. The incident reports have not been made public because the fatal shootings are "still under investigation," police say. Facts though ha ... More >>

News Roundup

WPLG pulled the files on Adam Tavss, the Miami Beach Police officer involved in the questionable killing of a Arab-American tourist. Nothing all that interesting; they describe him as a "satisfactory" rookie cop. [JustNews]Portions of southbound Palmetto Expressway will be closed tonight. [Herald]R ... More >>

News Roundup

What... the...? Slot machines at MIA? Like that airport needs to be any more of a circus than it already is. [Herald]Miami-Dade commissioners have no problem with Carrie Meek representing Wackenhut and the county, even while the two are in a legal dispute. [Herald]Adam Tavss, the Miami Beach Police ... More >>

Airport Shuttle Passenger Dies After Crash with Police Cruiser

An airport shuttle collided with a Sunny Isles Beach Police car, killing a shuttle passenger early this morning in Miami Beach, police said.via CBS4.comTo view a CBS4 report of the fatal traffic accident, click here.The intersection of 71st Street and Abbott Avenue was closed from the time of the cr ... More >>

News Roundup

Efraim Diveroli, the 23-year-old Miami Beach arms dealer who illegally supplied Chinese-made ammunition to Afghanistan, has pleaded guilty. He face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. [Reuters] Mitch McConnell and John McCain are confirmed to be at that health-care forum today in Hi ... More >>

Legends of the Fall

In Miami's jungle of condo towers, 16 people have jumped to their deaths.

Family of slain tourist wants Miami Beach cop to pay

In Miami's jungle of condo towers, 16 people have jumped to their deaths.

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 >>

Delano hotel heist leaves Greek tycoon Achilles Vigopoulos out $24,000

​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 >>

Gays leave unfriendly South Beach for Fort Lauderdale

​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 >>

Possible Murder-Suicide in Miami Beach

​Miami Beach Police were called this morning to Akoya, the luxury high-rise condo with the familiar crown-like structure on top in Mid-Beach, to face the possibility of a jumper. When they arrived at 7 a.m., they found the dead body of a man on the south side of the building.Inside an apartment in ... More >>

News Roundup: Deadly Crash Kills Driver and Dozens of Animals

Jesse Jackson was in town for the Super Bowl and decided to engage in his number one hobby: protesting. He marched against high rates of foreclosure and unemployment. [NBCMiami]A truck pulling a livestock trailer jackknifed in Weston. The driver and about 100 of the animals were killed, bu ... More >>

Miami Beach Police Plays Mind Games Using Fake Cop Cars

So you're speeding down the MacArthur Causeway in your beat-up Toyota when you spot a Miami Beach Police cruiser. Only it's the same cop car you've seen there for the past month. It hasn't moved an inch. It's been glistening in the morning, slumbering at night -- but there's no driver. Where could t ... More >>

Miami Beach's Original Fake Cop Car Returns for Ultra Music Festival

Last month, we were vexed by an empty police cruiser that sat for a whole month at the entrance to Palm Island. ​Soon after, we found out it was actually a decoy cop car and that Miami Beach Police used five others around the city to spook speeding drivers. The fuzz was so devastated that we smoke ... More >>

Which Miami Beach Cops Earned Six Figures Last Year? Here's the Full List

This week, a New Times investigation revealed that 54 percent of the Miami Beach Police Department's 367 non-executive officers pulled in at least six figures last year, a figure that far exceeds other similarly sized departments in the county. ​The numbers matter in Miami Beach because the c ... More >>

Letters from the issue of April 1, 2010

This week, a New Times investigation revealed that 54 percent of the Miami Beach Police Department's 367 non-executive officers pulled in at least six figures last year, a figure that far exceeds other similarly sized departments in the county. ​The numbers matter in Miami Beach because the c ... More >>

Ex-Miami Beach Cop Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping, Extortion Charges

A former Miami Beach cop has pleaded guilty to charges that he kidnapped and tortured a Russian man in an attempt to extort more than $100,000 from him, bringing to an end one of the strangest crimes connected to the troubled police department.via Miami Beach Police DepartmentAnastasi was one of the ... More >>

Grow House Accidently Discovered While Police Search for Burglar

Most of what we know about running a grow house we learned from Weeds, and even we know not to open a door for just anyone.​North Miami Beach Police Officer John Baker was conduction a routine search for a burglary suspect at an apartment building and decided to knock on neighbors doors to see if ... More >>

Klutch Your Cannon

Most of what we know about running a grow house we learned from Weeds, and even we know not to open a door for just anyone.​North Miami Beach Police Officer John Baker was conduction a routine search for a burglary suspect at an apartment building and decided to knock on neighbors doors to see if ... More >>

Klutch Your Cannon

Most of what we know about running a grow house we learned from Weeds, and even we know not to open a door for just anyone.​North Miami Beach Police Officer John Baker was conduction a routine search for a burglary suspect at an apartment building and decided to knock on neighbors doors to see if ... More >>

Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega Takes New Times to Journalism School

In March, we published a feature about the Miami Beach Police Department, detailing how more than 50 percent of the force earns at least six figures a year and profiling the myriad legal problems involving Beach cops. (You can read it here.) ​We've also reported extensively about former Office ... More >>

Man's Decomposed Body Found in Canal, Police Suspect Murder

via CBS4 Vanhouston D. Flowers's body was found decomposed and floating in a canal.​In today's roundup of horrible crimes and other assorted sins, a shooting victim is left paralyzed, a man dies while in the custody of the Miami Beach Police, an SUV somehow lands directly atop a Honda, Vanhouston ... More >>

Miami Beach Resort Shooting Was Over Drugs, Not Hookers

​Turns out the shooting at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa Saturday had nothing to do with hookers, but drugs. At least that's what the Miami Beach Police Department is saying. Oh, and that weird smell? It was pepper spray.

Man Dies After Swallowing Cocaine During a Traffic Stop

Cocaine: not for eating.​In today's roundup of the sins of South Beach and the rest of Miami-Dade: The death of a man in police custody is blamed on desperate cocaine ingestion, two separate shootings are being investigated, a string of car break-ins is being questioned, and a boat fire sends one ... More >>

Vodka & Latkes Party and Recipe for Hanukkah

Photo via megan.chromik's FlickrPotato latkes.​What goes better with latkes than applesauce and sour cream, you ask? Why, vodka, of course!!!The good news is you don't have to shred pounds of potatoes yourself this year, especially if you are a single Jewbie aged 22 to 39. A local group called The ... 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 >>

Ten Other Things We Wish We Could Recall

​Even if you didn't think yesterday's recall of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and Commissioner Natacha Seijas was a good idea, you must admit it was immensely satisfying to watch those lopsided results come in. We posit that it was better than sex. Fornication is wonderful and all, but how oft ... More >>

Miami Beach PD Says Officer Who Body-Slammed Woman in Melee Did Nothing Wrong

A handcuffed Sara Greenback is dragged across the sand by a Miami Beach Police officer.​The Miami Beach Police Department offered a swift reaction to videos that surfaced online after this weekend's on-the-beach melee between angry partygoers at Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel event and cop ... More >>

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 >>

Cop Fired For Alleged Drunken ATV Joyride Also Involved in Raymond Herisse Killing

Raymond Herisse was killed in an early-morning police shootout on Memorial Day.​In another astonishing chapter of staggering ineptitude surrounding the Miami Beach Police Department, the officer fired last week for running over a couple on the beach during an on-duty ATV joyride was one of the off ... More >>

S.W.A.T. Team Stand-Off at 13th Street and Euclid Avenue in Miami Beach UPDATE

Tim McAteer via Wikimedia CommonsMiami Beach SWAT is out in force tonight​The Miami Beach Police Department S.W.A.T. Team was called in to handle a stand-off on South Beach tonight.An unidentified white male "barricaded" himself at 1309 Euclid Avenue, according to Det. Vivian Hérnandez. As o ... More >>

Body Washes Up on Miami Beach, Police Investigating Possible Suicide

photo by Jessie LuttmanDetectives work around a body on Miami Beach this morning.​An early-morning beachgoer called Miami Beach Police shortly before 7 a.m. today to report a disturbing find: a body lying near the sea around 68th Street.The dead man had a gunshot wound to the head, Det. Juan Sanch ... More >>