Monroe County

Florida Keys Deputy Arrested After Buying Drugs From Informant While In Uniform

Monroe County Deputy Jaime Miranda pulled into a Winn-Dixie parking lot Saturday night and left with a whole lot of beef -- the kind of beef that will get you a crap load of time in the joint that is. Miranda is accused of buying drugs from an informant, all while in uniform in his police car like D ... More >>

Deni Noa Punched Woman Then Stripped Naked and Laid Down On the Road

It was a wild New Year's Eve for Florida Keys resident Deni Noa.According to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, the 24-year-old Stock Island resident reached into a car and punched a woman in the eye as she was idling at a light on US 1 and Cross Street around 9: 30 p.m. He then fled the scene on f ... More >>

Keys Substitute Teacher William Britt Arrested With More Than 100 Kiddie Porn Pics

For two years now, William Britt has been subbing in classrooms around the Florida Keys, including inside a handful of local elementary schools. At home, Britt was stockpiling hundreds of images of child pornography.After a landlord spotted the illegal porn and called the police, Britt admitted he w ... More >>

One in Every 17 Floridians Can Carry a Concealed Gun

Ever casually glance around the supermarket and wonder just how many folks loading milk into their cart are also secretly packing heat? The answer, based on new data from the state, is one in every 17 of them. Or at least that's how many Floridians now have valid concealed carry permits as the state ... More >>

Keys Mail Carrier Veronica Johnson Arrested For Delivering Ten-Pound Package of Pot

​Veronica Johnson is Riptide's kind of mail carrier. Mixed in with all the glossy fliers from pizza-by-the-slice places and the gas company bills, Johnson's mailbag often included some more intriguing packages. Police say they caught her on her route on Tuesday in Marathon with a 10-pound package ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Bills Introduced In Florida Senate and House

​Miami-area State Sen. Larcenia Bullard has fired up a big ol' blunt of legislative reform this morning, as her proposal to give Florida voters a chance to legalize medical marijuana was introduced in the Senate. Bullard's bill joins a similar proposal by Lake Worth Rep. Jeff Clemens in the House ... More >>

Kenia Bosque Tried to Sell Her Baby for $7,000, Keys Police Say

​Parents, how much is your kid worth to you? For Kenia Bosque the answer is a cool seven grand, according to Monroe County Sheriffs agents.The now-front runner for the Hialeah mother of the year award had arranged to meet a man from Monroe County to trade her 8-month-old son for the money, but aut ... More >>

Kenneshia Thurman Cut Infant With A Knife In Argument Over Bread Slices, Cops Say

via Monroe County Sheriff's OfficeKenneshia Thurman wanted two slices of bread and ended up cutting a baby, cops say. ​We all know that times are tough, but in Marathon last night a scene straight out of Charles Dickens worst imagination played out when a brawl that erupted between neighbors over ... More >>

Escaped Bald Inmate John Garrido on the Loose in Miami: UPDATED

​John Paul Garrido, a 26-year-old inmate, is on the loose in Miami after slipping out of police custody earlier today. Miami-Dade police officers are conducting a mass search for the man near the 1400 block of Northwest North River Drive -- and have enlisted the help of Photoshop in their effort t ... More >>

Ryan Pettit Mugged His Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend For Two Hundred Bucks, Keys Cops Say

via Monroe County Sheriff's OfficeRyan Pettit​Wondering if you've hit absolute rock bottom yet? Well, have you mugged your pregnant ex-girlfriend for a couple hundred bucks, laid low in the woods for a few hours and then gotten caught by police hiding next to a bait shack behind someplace cal ... More >>

Florida's Unemployment Rate is Lowest Since August 2009, But Miami-Dade's Rises Again

​The unemployment rate in Florida has fallen for the fifth straight month in May, mirroring a national trend. Unfortunately, there isn't much to celebrate in Miami-Dade. The local unemployment rate rose once again by 0.5 percent and is now the second highest unemployment rate of any county in Flor ... More >>

Thieves Attempt to Steal 30 Pounds of Chicken Nuggets from Key West School

Courtesy of Monroe County CorrectionsCarl Dudley Crabtree (left) and Sir Lawrence Scipio Dixon.​>The theft of chicken nuggets should always be taken very seriously as those things are just ridiculously delicious, and depriving someone else of those precious fried meat bits is as an un-American ... More >>

Elderly Murder-Suicide: 80-Year-Old Shoots Wheelchair-Bound Wife And Himself

via Monroe County Sheriff's OfficeDeputies outside the house where they say 8o-year-old Glen Tucker killed himself and his wife.Saddest story of the morning: An elderly Keys man has shot and killed his wife and his cat before committing suicide.Just after noon yesterday, Monroe County sheriffs got a ... More >>

Sex-Toy Stealing Marathon Man Arrested When Ex Turns in Box of Dildos

via Monroe County Sheriff's OfficeMitchell Tice​If only every case was this easily solved with a box of stolen dildos. Monroe County Sheriff's officers investigating the burglary of a trailer in Marathon caught a break when a woman turned over a box of sex toys and told them her ex-boyfriend had s ... More >>

Tar Balls May Be a False Alarm, But Oil Could Still Reach Keys by Sunday

US Coast GuardThe world's most famous tar balls​Twenty tar balls washed up on the shores of Key West today, but because sometimes tar balls occur naturally, and other times they're the product of those less dramatic, everyday ways we pollute our oceans (i.e., the shipping industry), it won't be kn ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Fried Fish Sandwich at Alabama Jack's

Jacob Katel​As a countdown to New Times' "Best of Miami" 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.

Calypso's Seafood Grill -- Fresh and Local in Key Largo

What the Hell Is She Crab Soup? from Miami New Times on Vimeo.One of the greatest things about livin' in South Florida is our proximity to the Florida Keys. Calypso's Seafood Grill has been standing at mile marker 99.5 in Key Largo, Monroe County, for 14 years. It's not the cheapest place down sout ... More >>

Chopper City War Horse

Mount up for Peterson’s Key West Poker Run.

Time To Revoke to the Gay Adoption Ban

The Iguana Huntress

Tired of those pesky reptiles? Here's one answer.

Pearls Before Pigs

A haywire hunting trip in the Everglades for an elusive oinker.

Key West Wrangle

Sides square off over Christmas Tree Island

Nature’s Candy

Check out a fruity celebration in Key West

The Hilliard’s Alive ...

How can someone with such a background be getting taxpayer money?

The Missionary

Shawn Beightol's education crusade is seeking believers

Fun Bus to the Keys

It costs a pittance and takes you to Margaritaville

Road Trippin'

Banned in Tampa

Welcome to Fabulous Tallahassee

Where your humble state legislators work hard by day and play hard by night

At Long Last Busted

The effort to bring felony charges against Manuel Diaz was fraught with innuendo, suspicion, and an alleged conflict of interest

Best Tollbooth

Card Sound Bridge

Close Encounters of the Swamp Kind

If the customs and legends of Loop Road seem strange, you probably don't live there

A Shock to the System

Ouch! INS prisoners claim they were tortured with electroshock riot shields.

The Addiction Connection

They'll bust you for using heroin. They'll sell you the more addictive methadone for a nominal fee at a local clinic--legally. This makes sense?

Nothing a Few Tons of Kitty Litter Wouldn't Solve

A South Dade rehab center has a problem: How to care for 26 wild animals and still keep the neighbors happy

Chomp in the Swamp

Tracking South Florida's endangered crocodiles is a business best left to experts and maniacs

A Revoltin' Development

Dade's shoddy builders beware: A new business regulation task force is looking to make some surprise visits

A Key Battle

The Conch Coalition and Taras Lyssenko claimed environmentalists were out to destroy the culture and economy of the Keys. Voters listened.

Mock Goth

Off the Hook

Caught between depletion and regulation, Dade's commercial fishermen are becoming the latest endangered species

Good Enough for Political Work

If You Sink It, They Will Come

Creating an artificial reef is no longer a slam-dunk affair, despite an abundance of missile sites, water towers, and wanna-be philanthropists

Judgment Day

After two years of litigation, a libel lawsuit against New Times is tossed out

Sorry About That Chief

As Miami Beach officials attempt to appoint a permanent top cop, anonymous critics try to stir up the selection process

The Great Largo Gumbo Limbo Imbroglio

When 350 trees fall in a protected North Key forest, they make a very loud noise

A Dull House

Waste Erased

Scientist Brian LaPointe wants to tame the sugar barons, corner the cat food market, and solve the sewage problems of the Florida Keys

Her Brother's Keeper: Part 2

It wasn't quite the resolution he or his sister had hoped for, but John Popejoy's child-molestation case is finally closed

Politics and Power

The Adventures of Eco Man