Miami Beach Police Department

What's Really Illegal on Miami Beach? Running Down the Law on Cans, Bottles, and Straws

For those of us with any semblance of common sense, there are certain things we know we shouldn't do in public: take drugs, have sex, streak. Polite society isn't into that stuff. Though Miami Beach might seem like it's a lot more liberal than most public places, those rules still apply -- among oth ... More >>

Here's the Crazy New Vehicle Miami Beach Police Are Unveiling This Weekend

The Miami Beach Police Department's plan to patrol South Beach during this Memorial Day Weekend is a lot like last year's, but this time they'll have a new tech addition: a cutting-edge light tactical all-terrain vehicle. The $140,000 LTV is on loan to the department this weekend.

Busted on South Beach for Diet Coke

Sorry, Miamians. Your Fundays on SoBe are about over. Unless you wanna pay a $50 (or more) fine, the city expects you to leave the booze, soda cans, and Styrofoam coolers at home. According to code enforcement officers, all of the above are illegal on the sands of Miami Beach. Didn't know? Too bad, ... More >>

Miami Beach Cops Accused of Roughing Up Toronto Sisters, Calling Them "Dirty Canadians"

During the darkest months of winter, half of Canada flees to South Florida. So you'd think police would have some respect for the maple-syrup-guzzling visitors who fuel the local economy through spring break.That's not what one pair of sisters from Toronto found in Miami Beach last month. The women ... More >>

Are We Really Surprised a Headless Goat and Some Roosters Were Found Floating in Biscayne Bay?

As far as things found floating in Biscayne Bay, yesterday's discovery of a headless goat and some decapitated roosters was pretty tame. So why are we acting like this is a thing that doesn't happen all the time here?

Juvenile's Miami Beach Arrest Report: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

See also "Juvenile Arrested in Miami Beach This Morning." When Terius Gray (AKA Juvenile) was arrested on Miami Beach outside LIV at 4 a.m. today, he might have said, "Ha? I'm just Being Myself, wearing these Solja Rags in this 400 Degreez heat, following The G-Code and speaking my Project English ... More >>

Surprise: Ex-Miami Beach Cop Who Illegally Sold Guns Was Bad At His Job

Last Monday, federal agents nabbed a former Miami Beach police officer, Jose Quintana, for illegally selling guns over the course of three years at various Florida gun shows. And as you would expect from an ex-cop who broke the law, Quintana's record with MBPD wasn't exactly sterling.According to em ... More >>

Urban Beach Week Arrests and Crowds Down From Last Year

Despite disputed reports of a 2,000-person arrest quota, Miami Beach Police only cuffed 321 people during the three-day Memorial Day weekend. That's slightly down from 332 arrests last year, and the vast majority of those arrests were for misdemeanors. Crowd numbers too seemed to have been down as w ... More >>

Miami Beach Police Union Rep: "We Have Arrest Quotas Every Memorial Day Weekend"

The chief of Miami Beach Police is insisting that his officers do not have a 2,000-arrest quota this Memorial Day weekend. But the department's union vice president tells Riptide that he witnessed a major announce the quota at an officer roll call -- and that his department has such quotas every yea ... More >>

Miami Beach Cop Punches Handcuffed Spring Breaker In the Face (Video)

The Miami Beach Police Department's brass probably winces anytime they hear the words "You Tube" these days. After this past year -- when their cops were caught on tape killing a Memorial Day Weekend visitor and speeding recklessly around South Beach -- amateur video is a recipe for MBPD heartburn.T ... More >>

Chris Paciello, Murderous Nightclub Impresario, Arrested For Drunk Driving at 80 MPH Through South Beach

​Chris Paciello is an old school South Beach legend, a Bonnano crime family goon who conquered the nightclub scene before being sent to federal prison for his role in a murder. These days, he's back in his old stomping grounds working for the Delano Hotel, and is very sorry about having helped kil ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

Letters from the issue of April 1, 2010

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Gays leave unfriendly South Beach for Fort Lauderdale

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 >>

Family of slain tourist wants Miami Beach cop to pay

Legends of the Fall

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

Urban Beach Week Returns

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

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 >>

Kelis Hates The Miami Beach PD So Much Right Now

Pop a Wheelie on SoBe

Peddling Out of a Tight Spot

Citizen’s Arrest

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"

When the Flak Flies, the Flack Flees

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

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

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