Miguel Exposito

Francis Suarez Will Challenge Tomas Regalado in Miami's Mayor Race

After weeks of speculation, City of Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez officially announced today that he will challenge Mayor Tomas Regalado. Suarez is only 35, and has spent barely three years on the commission, but his family connections have given him a boost to the top of the city's political la ... More >>

Vote For Miami's Worst Cop of 2012

It's pretty hard to follow in the large boot steps of John Timoney, the one-time Miami police chief. In fact, ever since Miami New Times crowned Timoney "America's Worst Cop" in 2007, it's taken us five years to find suitable successors to the title.But the quintet of contenders in Miami this year u ... More >>

Miami Cop Cleared in Shooting of Unarmed Man Who Was Reaching For His Cellphone

During last year's string of questionable fatal shootings by Miami police, Officer Reinaldo Goyo shot and killed Travis McNeill, a 28-year-old unarmed black man during a traffic stop. The controversy stemming from the death was, in part, the reason that former police chief Miguel Exposito was fired, ... More >>

Federal Trayvon Martin probe is just a coverup

The Federal Investigation Into Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Bound To Fail

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke scoffs at the Justice Department's investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin.Ever since I heard the 911 tapes of 17- ... More >>

Al Crespo: Bank robber and justice seeker

Miami's Dirty Dozen 2011

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Miami's top news stories of 2011

Dude, where's my city? Miami wakes up with a pounding headache.

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 >>

Miami Cop Fausto Lopez's 120 MPH Turnpike Drive Caught On Video

via You Tube​How often does one grainy police video end up capturing the best and worst of local cops? One on side, there's Fausto Lopez -- a 35-year-old Miami police officer whose name immediately joins the bad cop pantheon of Adam Tavss, Derick Kuilan and Lavont Flanders after he led a Florida H ... More >>

Police union chiefs try to silence online message board LEOAffairs.com

Regalado Asks Feds To Investigate MPD Just As Police Union Pushes His Recall

​Still doubt that the beef between Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and his police chief Miguel Exposito has reached Biggie-vs-Tupac-ian heights? Here's some more kerosene to toss on the campfire: Regalado has just sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to investigate the killing ... More >>

Miami Police Union President Wants To Recall Tomas Regalado

Tomas Regalado is no longer an FOP friend.​The police union president who helped Tomas Regalado become Miami mayor in 2009 is now calling on his brothers and sisters in blue to oust the city's embattled leader. Taking his cue from our recent cover story about the mayor's failures, Armando Aguilar ... More >>

Letters from the issue of July 14, 2011

85-Year-Old Coconut Grove Woman Says Miami Police Roughed Her Up

via Channel 10Hazel Mays is 85 years old.​Hazel Mays is 85-years-old, frail and hard of hearing. But according to one Miami police officer, the elderly Coconut Grove woman was strong enough to push him around and try steal his gun.Mays, though, tells a local TV station that the police used excessi ... More >>

Video: Johnny Martinez Introduced As Miami City Manager

photo by Tim ElfrinkJohnny Martinez takes the podium at City Hall.​Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado tried to sound a reassuring note this morning while introducing Miami's third city manager in six months. The hiring of Johnny Martinez, previously assistant city manager, should reassure investors that M ... More >>

Tony Crapp Jr. Resigns As Miami City Manager After Six Months on the Job

​After six months of doing exactly nothing about a police department in disarray and a looming $40 million budget gap, Miami City Manager Tony Crapp Jr. is packing up his office this afternoon and bailing for a cushy private-sector job in Broward County.Gee, thanks for all the hard work, Tony. Any ... More >>

Letters from the issue of April 21, 2011

Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina Leads In Bundled Contributions

Just call Julio Robaina the Bundle Master.​The race to become the next mayor of Miami-Dade County is turning into a costly affair. The three alleged front-runners, Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina, former county Commissioner Carlos Gimenez, and ex-state Rep. Marcelo Llorente have raised a combined $1.2 ... More >>

Miami Police shootings: Ex-FBI chief lumps dogs in with people

Jamal Singletary, 24-Year-Old Armed Suspect, Shot and Killed by Police in Allapattah

​Last night, a 24-year-old named Jamal Singletary pulled an assault rifle and started shooting at an officer in Allapattah. The detective pulled his own weapon and fired back, killing Singletary on the spot, police say.Singletary becomes the eighth suspect killed by police fire in an urban Miami n ... More >>

Paul Philip's Report Seems to Equate Dog Shootings With People Shootings

Paul Philip​Sheila McNeil couldn't believe what she was seeing printed in black-and-white.It was a recent Tuesday night at an Overtown community center, and McNeil had come to hear a presentation by Paul Philip, an ex-FBI chief hired by the City of Miami to investigate the Police Department's fata ... More >>

Guerrilla mural in Overtown pays tribute to police shooting victims

Tomas Regalado Got Thousands in Free Tickets To Heat Games, Boxing Event

courtesy Al CrespoTomas Regalado and Sean Penn in a private box at a Heat game.​In Miami Beach, a storm is brewing over accusations that city officials strong-armed the New World Symphony to give them free tickets to concerts. But Beach leaders aren't the only politicians accepting free seats.Miam ... 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 >>

Andrea Castillo Claims Miami Police Manhandled Her for No Reason

via WSVN​Police Chief Miguel Exposito has described his officers as "predators," and now there are calls for his department to be investigated after a string of police-involved shootings. Andrea Castillo claims that even when guns aren't involved, City of Miami Police officers are too quick t ... More >>

More Evidence Marc Sarnoff Is An Insensitive Buffoon

Marc Sarnoff, the Great Cornholio​Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff sure knows how to alienate people. We've made our case before why this guy should get recalled. The man is unfit for public office. He is absolutely clueless when it comes to dealing with the poor and the disenfranchised.On Feb ... More >>

Miami PD Shoots And Kills Another Suspect in Little Haiti (Update)

​City of Miami police officers have shot and killed another suspect -- the seventh killed by MPD cops since last summer. The latest shooting happened last night around 11 p.m. at North Miami Avenue and 75th Street, police sources tell Riptide, and left another man in critical condition.Police are ... More >>

New York Times Makes it Official: Miami is Once Again Bat-Sh*t Crazy

Michael E. MillerMaking national headlines, for the wrong reason.​Sometimes Riptide feels as if it's talking to itself. Like Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys, we yell at people about all the crazy crap going on around us but to little avail.So imagine our surprise when we flipped open this morning's New Yo ... More >>

Gibson Belizaire: Victim or criminal?

Letters from the issue of September 2, 2010

Letters from the issue of August 26, 2010

Miami Cops Shoot and Kill Another Suspect Near Pork And Beans Projects (Update)

​The Magic City's violent summer just keeps boiling on, as Miami police shot and killed another suspect early this morning-- the fourth police shooting in just over a month.Details on the latest clash, which ended just a few hours ago, are still sketchy. Sometime after midnight last night, cops we ... More >>

Tomas Regalado gets revenge

Alex Martinez's Charges Dropped As Regalado's 'Corruption Probe' Falls Apart

In early April, Mayor Tomas Regalado stood before a packed room of reporters and politicos at the Miami Police Department to praise the results of a sweeping corruption probe. Regalado's corruption probe has turned into a black eye for his administration.​"This is not another black eye for t ... More >>

Kathy Fernandez Rundle Slams Regalado's 'Corruption' Crackdown

Speaking to a jam-packed room of reporters, cops, and politicians yesterday, Mayor Tomas Regalado trumpeted eight corruption arrests as proof of his commitment to cleaning up city government. ​"For the first time ever in the City of Miami, we have an anti corruption department," Regalado crow ... More >>

UPDATED: Eight Named in Miami City Hall Corruption Sweep

Eight City of Miami officials and members of local charities were arrested today on corruption charges.The busts involved an array of unrelated scams -- and come as the city's finances are under intense scrutiny by federal officials. ​Mayor Tomas Regalado portrayed the arrests as the culmina ... More >>

Miami Beach cops are paid up to $225K and face lawsuits galore

Alberto Gonzalez -- Wild Man at the Plate