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Miami-Dade Police Department

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    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 now fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    Miami-Dade Police Slapped Man With Down Syndrome

    ​Just weeks after North Miami Police fatally shot an autistic man playing with a toy gun, officers from another South Florida police force are in hot water for using violence against a mentally disadvantaged man. NBC Miami reports that Saturday night, a Miami-Dade Police officer slammed a man ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2011

    North Miami finance director's son involved in attempted murder case

    ​Just weeks after North Miami Police fatally shot an autistic man playing with a toy gun, officers from another South Florida police force are in hot water for using violence against a mentally disadvantaged man. NBC Miami reports that Saturday night, a Miami-Dade Police officer slammed a man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2011

    Son of North Miami Finance Director One of Three Arrested In Bumbling Murder-For-Hire Case

    Daniel Perez's mugshot after being charged with a Nov. 2010 burglary.​Attention, modern criminals and/or wayward offspring of public officials: We know that you, like all of us, are pressed for time. And sometimes it's so much easier to send a text than to meet on a misty loading dock under th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Miami-Dade Police Kill Four Men During Redland Investigation

    ​Miami-Dade police officers shot and killed four suspects Thursday while investigating criminal activity near the Redland. Officers had been called to a home near Southwest 216th Street and 189th Avenue when they were confronted by four men in ski masks armed with firearms. Very little informa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Police Bust Sex Trafficking and Brothel Ring in Homestead

    Daysi Jaques if charged with helping run a prostitution ring.​Seven people have been arrested by the Miami-Dade Police Department for running a ring of brothels in Homestead that possibly exploited human trafficking victims. 53-year-old Daysi Jaques, known around the neighborhood as "Mami," is bel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Gunman Barricades Himself on Farm Full of Snakes

    ​At Tom Crutchfield's Reptile Farm in Homestead, you can find deadly creatures such as Chinese bamboo vipers, Mojave rattlesnakes, black Pakistan cobras, and, apparently, right now, a man with a gun. Yes, according to reports, a man has barricaded himself inside a building on the property after sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Bill Parcells: Dirty Dozen 2010

    ​Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We're releasing the names one by one ahead of next week's issue, which comes with a full-page illustra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Thanksgiving? No Thanks for Cody, George W. and J Lo

    No thanks, Dubya.​Thanksgiving: a glutton's favorite holiday and a vegetarian's worst nightmare. Love it or hate it, we're a week away from miserable flight delays, Salvation Army Santas, and arguing about politics with distant family relatives at the dinner table; we love the Holidays. And this y ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Florida immigration bill would give white folks a pass

    No thanks, Dubya.​Thanksgiving: a glutton's favorite holiday and a vegetarian's worst nightmare. Love it or hate it, we're a week away from miserable flight delays, Salvation Army Santas, and arguing about politics with distant family relatives at the dinner table; we love the Holidays. And this y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Florida's Arizona-Style Immigration Bill Would Give Canadians, Europeans a Free Pass

    Florida's new immigration bill would let guys like this off the hook, papers or not.​Florida state Rep. William Snyder, the slow-drawling ex-Miami-Dade Police officer who has drafted Tallahassee's version of the hotly debated Arizona immigration bill, is adamant that his law would not lead to raci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Miami-Dade Police Chief Quits Police Union

    James Loftus tells PBA to hit the road.​Miami-Dade Police Director James Loftus is no longer a member of the Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents more than 6,500 law enforcement officers in the county and several cities. In a memo sent yesterday to all county cops, Loftus says ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Police Investigating Brazen Dinner-Time Robbery and Shootout At Homestead Wendy's

    Photo via dave_mcmt's flickr and wikimedia commons.​What's gotten into Miami robbers this week? Just a few days after the made-for-Hollywood heist of a Coral Gables Bank of America -- complete with a kidnapped teller with a bomb strapped to his chest -- another gang of bandits knocked over a Wendy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez Silent On Police Corruption

    ​Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez hasn't said a peep about the corrupt actions of some of his close friends in the Miami-Dade Police Department, which speaks volumes about hizzoner's willingness to combat violations of the public trust when it involves his boys in brown. It's time for Alvare ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Banana Republican Fails at Cop School

    Maybe I'll have better luck blowing this guy away.​Banana Republican is watching a projection screen inside a chilly classroom with no desks.On the screen, a police officer in a tan uniform talks to a middle-aged man in farmer duds on the side of a rural road. It looks like a scene from the TV sho ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 13, 2010

    History Miami Museum commits to crime

    Maybe I'll have better luck blowing this guy away.​Banana Republican is watching a projection screen inside a chilly classroom with no desks.On the screen, a police officer in a tan uniform talks to a middle-aged man in farmer duds on the side of a rural road. It looks like a scene from the TV sho ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    Yuppie Rambo Richard "Kudo" Couto takes on the C-9 Basin, Miami-Dade's most lawless outpost

    Maybe I'll have better luck blowing this guy away.​Banana Republican is watching a projection screen inside a chilly classroom with no desks.On the screen, a police officer in a tan uniform talks to a middle-aged man in farmer duds on the side of a rural road. It looks like a scene from the TV sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Trapping Migratory Birds is Illegal, Cuban Immigrant Learns

    Adrian Acosta Gonzalez Via the Miami-Dade Police Department​Not far from Miami International Airport, there's a little pink house where one man lives with 24 pigeons. Adrian Acosta-Gonzalez is a 37-year-old, Cuban-born landscaper with bronze skin and good bone structure. He slides open a bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Fake Cop Knifes Man After Pulling Him Over, Fake Firefighter Just Really Wants to be a Firefighter

    ​Miami-Dade saw not one but two cases of people impersonating our men in uniform in the past day. One was using the powers of the badge for evil, while another just really, really seems to enjoy the idea of being a firefighter.In the first incident, a man posing as a cop pulled over car salesman C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Moron of the Week: The Confused Airplane Racist Screamer Takes it in a Landslide

    ​As always, there were plenty of undeniably idiotic contenders for this week's title, a couple of whom might have even taken top honors on a different week. Take, for example, this Totally Cliche South Florida Medicare Scammer, who allegedly blew millions on exotic cars- who's to say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Murder Miami Style: Two Dead in Separate Shootings Across Town This Morning

    View Larger MapIn a bizarre coincidence, two men died and another clings to life this morning after separate shootings 15 miles apart at virtually the same time. The deadly hour was 6:30 a.m. One shooting left 43-year-old Conrado Antigua Gallardo dead on the street at 1550 SW 131st Ct.. in Tamiami. ... More >>

  • News

    October 22, 2009

    South Florida dogfighting rages on despite tough laws

    View Larger MapIn a bizarre coincidence, two men died and another clings to life this morning after separate shootings 15 miles apart at virtually the same time. The deadly hour was 6:30 a.m. One shooting left 43-year-old Conrado Antigua Gallardo dead on the street at 1550 SW 131st Ct.. in Tamiami. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Miami-Dade Cops Raise Reward for Horse Killers; We Post Gross-Out Photos

    ​On Wednesday, another horse was stolen and slaughtered in Miami-Dade County. The cat killer is officially passe. Yesterday, the Miami-Dade Police Department raised its reward for information about the horse killings to $7,000 -- and that's in addition to the $5,000 the Humane Society is offe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Murder Miami Style: Man Fatally Shot in Northwest Miami-Dade

    A man was found lying dead with gunshot wounds on a Northwest Miami-Dade street last night, according to Miami-Dade Police.Cops found the body of 22-year-old Israel Travis on the pavement in front of 9111 NW 29th Ct. after they responded to a call about gunshots fired at 10:25 p.m.In January 2007,&n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Liberty City Violence claims a boxing promoter's son, UPDATED

    On Thursday, Riptide finds Roosevelt Ivory, Sr. stepping out of a white Lincoln Navigator, accompanied by an apparent bodyguard, at his two-house compound on Northwest 69th Terrace in Liberty City. It's advertised as "Roosevelt's Rooming House" in the White Pages, but this certainly is no Days Inn. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    The Week That Was: Can They Hurry Up and Stimulate Us Already?

    Here is your weekly wrap up of things that bravely dared to appear on Riptide this week. There was a Super Bowl this past weekend. Your Miami Dolphins team was not present, but perhaps they could have been if Wayne Huzienga hired Steelers coach Mike Tomlin instead of that Cam Cameron fellow. Though, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    Who Killed Rapper Toro?

    Here is your weekly wrap up of things that bravely dared to appear on Riptide this week. There was a Super Bowl this past weekend. Your Miami Dolphins team was not present, but perhaps they could have been if Wayne Huzienga hired Steelers coach Mike Tomlin instead of that Cam Cameron fellow. Though, ... More >>

  • News

    August 28, 2008

    Violent Jewelry Thieves Prowl South Florida

    They give new meaning to the term blood diamond.

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2008

    Journalist Mike Kirsch Gets Criminal Charges Reduced

    They give new meaning to the term blood diamond.

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2007

    Police Believe Sean Taylor was “Random” Victim

    They give new meaning to the term blood diamond.

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Letters from the Issue of June 28, 2007

    "I hope you stay on this. Nobody else seems to have the balls to do it.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2007

    Let's Talk Corruption

    "I hope you stay on this. Nobody else seems to have the balls to do it.

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2007

    "Another Embarrassment for Miami-Dade County"

    "I hope you stay on this. Nobody else seems to have the balls to do it.

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2006

    (Not) Made in Miami

    "I hope you stay on this. Nobody else seems to have the balls to do it.

  • News

    August 24, 2006

    Death Do Us Part

    A murder-suicide left Hialeah Gardens in shock. There were warning signs.

  • News

    August 17, 2006

    Weed Warriors

    Hydroponic marijuana production is growing up

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Miami Gun Rhapsody

    Who's packing heat in the Magic City? You don't have to conceal your curiosity a second longer

  • News

    November 18, 2004

    The Bitch

    End Times

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Fear? No, Evil

    The battle continues

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    Dangerous Medicine

    For street medics tending to FTAA protesters, neutrality was no match for brutality

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Crime and Water Balloons

    Have Miami city commissioners lost their (illegal) marbles?

  • News

    April 24, 2003

    It's Broken, So Fix It

    Corrections department investigators want an investigation -- of their department

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    The 24-7 Man

    Commissioner Dorrin Rolle feels threatened. So he's constantly guarded.

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    Mindless Security, 2002

    Dumb passengers: 50 Caught terrorists: 0

  • Best of Miami

    May 17, 2001

    Samantha Steinberg

    Personal Best

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    DeFede

    Meet MIA's Own Barney Fife

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Hialeah Drops the Secession Bomb

    Using a bomb scare as partial pretext, Mayor Raul Martinez is pushing his city's secession from Miami-Dade County

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    A Collision Course

    Drunk drivers are getting away with it these days, thanks to peevish Miami-Dade cops

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