Subject: Miami Police Department

• Three Lies

  July 11, 1996

• I Smell a Rat

  February 5, 2007

• Panel Probes Miami PD's Secret "Sub-Stations"

  May 25, 2007

• Cops Crash Alternative Critical Mass Ride

  May 30, 2007

• Cruisers and Cruisers

  June 4, 2007

• Kid's Ride, Critical Mass, and Hashing

  June 29, 2007

• Castro Is Dead. Or Not.

  August 24, 2007

• Umoja: One Year Later, Still Controversial

  October 23, 2007

• Crazy Homeless Guy With A Rock Gets the Drop on Miami PD

  September 22, 2008

• A Snitch Seeks His Money

  November 9, 2006

• 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 $28,000 cash for his services. Silly crooked cop. Turned out the whole thing was an FBI set up, and after being found guilty Nunez was sentenced today to 135 months behind bars, plus five years of super

  December 8, 2008

• News Roundup

  Sarah Palin's is a grandmother to a child named Tripp. [WaPo]Miami Beach has the highest income disparity in the United States. [Herald]At least somebody is driving American cars. Miami Police have two new unmarked Dodge Chargers that will be used to help ticket you for speeding more often. [CBS4]A woman on a cruise ship disappeared on Christmas Night. Video surveillance tapes show a person falling over board, and now her family fears she may have chosen to jump. [CBS4]250 thong panties we

  December 30, 2008

• Kicking cars and punching cops: Highlights from Gaza Protest Arrests

  An 18 year-old from Coral Springs was busted for wielding brass knuckles and a pocket knife, a petite middle-aged woman shouted "baby killers!," and a mob of protesters chucked rocks at a cop car. The Israeli-Palestinian protest Sunday on Biscayne Boulevard was a loud, colorful microcosm of hate - with Muslims waving red and green Palestinian flags on one side of the boulevard, and Jews holding hand-penned signs on the other. As the Herald reported yesterday, a dozen people were arrested, mostly

  January 7, 2009

• Passerby Finds Human Remains Floating In Pelican Harbor; Police Open Homicide Case

  Just before 9 a.m. this morning, someone was walking near Pelican Harbor -- the water next to the 79th Street Causeway -- when they noticed a bag bobbing in the murk.Something didn't look right, so they called 911. Miami Police pulled out the bag around 11 a.m. Inside, they found human remains, Officer Kenia Alfonso, an MPD spokesman says.Police aren't saying just what was in the bag, or whether the victim's age or gender are apparent. Divers are out in the harbor right now, combing the bottom f

  June 3, 2009

• Coalition Wants Miami Cops to Drop Protest Charges

  As the world collectively crosses its fingers that a second cease fire talk will work in Gaza -- and raging South Florida protests fade into tepid peace rallies -- a temporary truce in the middle east doesn't seem so far away. But in Miami another battle is boiling. This past week, the Florida branch of ANSWER (Act Now to End War and Stop Racism) launched a campaign to get Miami police to drop a the felony battery charge an Islamic Bonita Springs veterinarian picked up at a recent Miami pr

  January 18, 2009

• Mosaic of a Murder

  June 1, 1994

• The Bad Karma Motel

  March 16, 1995

• Fighting The Man

  Palestinian protester Riadh Atmani wants to clear his name.

  January 22, 2009

• Police Patrol Park West and Overtown Clubs

  So be careful where you party.

  September 11, 2008

• Fewer Lawmen

  February 16, 2006

• Orange Crush

  A Chinese pathogen has the citrus industry talking apocalypse.

  July 24, 2008

• The Sex Doll Diaries

  May 22, 2008

• UPDATE: Even More Body Parts Floating in the Bay; Victim's Family Pleas for Help

  For the third day in a row, Miami Police officers began their morning fishing in the bay for dismembered body parts.  Just before 9 this morning, cops surrounded the bay shore near NE 96th Street, Miami PD spokesman Delrish Moss tells Riptide, after reports of human remains spotted in the water. UPDATE: Just after 1 p.m., police confirmed that they did find another bag with human remains inside this morning. Here's what happened, according to Officer Jeffery Giordano, an MPD spokesma

  June 5, 2009

• Ruano Roulette

  June 7, 2007

• Kiss and Expel

  July 20, 2006

• Letters from the Issue of January 5, 2006

  January 5, 2006

• 21,000 Code Citations Can't Be Wrong

  November 24, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of July 7, 2005

  July 7, 2005

• Bork Torque

  December 18, 2003

• BEST GUN SHOP

  May 15, 2003

• Timoney's Cleanup: Part One

  April 24, 2003

• M.O.B. (money over bitches)

  November 14, 2002

• Travail to the Chief

  August 22, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  April 5, 2001

• Under Suspicion

  March 1, 2001

• Tale of the Ticket

  February 24, 2000

• Riptide

  September 2, 1999

• Policing the Police

  October 24, 1996

• A CANF-Do Attitude

  May 23, 1996

• These Are the Times That Try Men's Soles

  December 22, 1994

• Wachovia Robber Caught on Tape

  Around 11:20 this morning, a slim black man -- about six-foot-one and wearing camouflage pants, a yellow shirt, and a black skull cap -- walked into the Wachovia Bank at 160 SW Eighth St. He waited patiently in line, and when he got to a teller, he handed her a note demanding cash. Police aren't saying how much he asked for or what the note said, but the teller complied. The man took off on foot, heading eastbound. Unfortunately for the bandit, the heist was caught on tape. We've got a few more

  June 23, 2009

• Miami Police Bravely Target Petty Crimes Against Rich and Famous

  Miami has earned its rep as a world-class mecca of crime. Just this weekend, Miami Police gunned down a man stalking the streets with a machete. In recent weeks, a Metrorail guard was murdered on the job, a young man's body -- chopped into tiny pieces and stuffed into bags -- floated ashore out of Biscayne Bay, and AK-47-wielding thugs continued months of shootouts in Liberty City.Today, Miami Police announced a bold new plan to keep the Magic City safe: going after petty criminal

  June 29, 2009

• Twelve People Shot at B-day Party in Miami's Overtown, Near Cop Shop

  Miami police this morning are reporting twelve people shot in Overtown. Details are really vague, but it seems a group of three wearing black clothes shot into a crowd at a birthgday party. In addition, one person was hit by a car. Police chief John Timoney reported AK-47 casings were found at the site. It all happened not long after midnight at 527 NW Fifth Street. Three of the victims are in critical condition. The area is just a half mile from the Miami Police station, and has a long t

  July 6, 2009

• Twelve Shot Near Lummus Park This Morning

  Two men dressed in black sprayed a crowd with bullets at Northwest 5th Avenue and Northwest 5th Street at 12:45 this morning. Twelve people were injured and three are in critical condition. A driver in a passing vehicle was also struck by a bullet. The group had gathered for a "festive event," says Miami Police Department Spokesperson Officer William Moreno. Cops don't yet have many other details. The investigation continues. Says Moreno: "That's all I can say at this point." We'll keep you

  July 6, 2009

• Brisco Got Robbed at a Barber Shop Last Week

  via myspace.com/brisco305​This is a little late, but we just got word from the City of Miami police that Brisco got got last Wednesday, in the middle of the afternoon, while trying to get a haircut at a barbershop at NW Sixth Avenue and NW 63rd Street. Four men invaded the store at about 12:51 p.m. brandishing guns. One pistol-whipped the rapper while demanding his car keys. They got some cash, jewelry, and his Range Rover, but police later recovered everything a little further east, at NE Sec

  August 6, 2009

• Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Inevitable

  Jacob KatelStay tuned. Next week Short Order goes Behind The Line at MIA at Biscayne.​Did you know that there's a Miami Police Department Café...and that back in 08' they caught a restaurant inspection violation for "identity of food product misrepresented?". According to WPLG10 it was for mislabeled fish. Something funny about that. Here's what you might have missed this week:Jackie Sayet goes in on the Kobe controversy. Are restaurants violating "truth in menu" for the sake of designer meat

  September 11, 2009

• News Roundup

  Manny Diaz sent letters to a hundred Miami Police officers informing them they'd be let go unless the police union agrees to pay cuts. [Herald]Doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine were able to use a portion of a woman's tooth to restore her eyesight. [ABCNews]Yet another Miami teen has been accused of trying to kill animals. Eighteen-year-old Luis Miguel Cordero allegedly asked a man to help him kill two horses. At least 17 horses have been slaughtered in the area this ye

  September 17, 2009

• Update: Miami Cops Looking for Suspect in Early-Morning Taco Rage Shooting

  Around 3:40 this morning, a 20-something black man in a white SUV rolled up to the Taco Bell at NE 79th Street and Sixth Avenue with a serious jones for some cheese and refried beans.via Wikimedia Commons​Big problem: The Taco Bell had already shut down for the night. When the man rolled up to the drive-through window, an employee told him as much.Undeterred, the taco-craving fiend demanded fast food. Again, he was turned away.Furious and completely lacking in third-rate Mexican cuisine,

  October 6, 2009

• Naked Guy Breaks into Little Havana Home, Flees Without Pants

  Miami Police are on the lookout for a naked burglar.via Wikimedia Commons​Sometime after midnight early this morning, a white Hispanic man crawled through a window of an apartment on the 1200 block of SW Sixth Street, says Det. William Moreno, a Miami PD spokesman.A woman sleeping inside with her two young children woke up to the man grabbing her by the hair. She apparently put up more of a fight than the nude intruder was prepared to deal with, Moreno says.The bare-ass burglar ran out the bac

  October 15, 2009

• Dirty Dining at Miami Police Café

  Breakfast at Timoney's? No thanks.​City of Miami cops want you to think they're clean. Clean arrests. Clean records. Clean city. But if you believe the State of Florida, the place where they eat is dirty, dirty, dirty.This past June, state inspectors cited a tiny café in police headquarters on NW Second Avenue with 23 "critical" violations. Among them: "encrusted" and "soiled" material on a slicer, no soap in the men's room, and reuse of dirty gloves.That's not the only problem at the homey c

  October 27, 2009