New York Crime

Boxer Yathomas Riley: Beast or Victim?

Chris Paciello's Five Best New Crimes: More Docs Prove SoBe King's Infamous Past

​Earlier this month, New Times revealed the staggering number of serious felonies committed by mob turncoat Chris Paciello. The secret FBI interviews with Paciello unearthed by author Frank Owen exposed the former SoBe club king as the very model of the multi-tasking Mafioso, a virtual one ma ... More >>

Chris Brown's Arrest Warrant Not Likely To Come Today, Prosecutors Say

​After allegedly furiously swiping a fan's iPhone last weekend, Chris Brown may find himself behind bars sometime soon. Jose Lambiet at Gossip Extra says that Miami Beach Police and the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's prosecutors are in the process of planning on the best way to arrest Brown an ... More >>

Man on a Ledge goes thud

​After allegedly furiously swiping a fan's iPhone last weekend, Chris Brown may find himself behind bars sometime soon. Jose Lambiet at Gossip Extra says that Miami Beach Police and the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's prosecutors are in the process of planning on the best way to arrest Brown an ... More >>

Rick Santorum Invites Ex-Yahweh Member Michael The Black Man To Open Rally (Video)

via You TubeMichael the Black Man rallies for Santorum on Sunday.​After stinging losses in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Rick Santorum came to Florida this weekend hoping to reboot his push toward the White House. But the ex-senator may want to vette his opening acts a bit better: At a Coral S ... More >>

Carnage: Roman Polanski's transparent look at parental rage

via You TubeMichael the Black Man rallies for Santorum on Sunday.​After stinging losses in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Rick Santorum came to Florida this weekend hoping to reboot his push toward the White House. But the ex-senator may want to vette his opening acts a bit better: At a Coral S ... More >>

Miami's Dirty Dozen 2011

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Michael Corleone Blanco lives in the shadow of his cocaine-queen mother

View the Miami New Times Dirty Dozen 2011 slide show.

Tayshana Murphy, Recruited by UMiami Basketball, Gunned Down in Harlem

​Tayshana Murphy, an 18-year-old basketball star in Manhattan who was being heavily recruited by the University of Miami women's basketball team, was fatally gunned down this past weekend in what appears to be a tragic case of mistaken identity. Murphy, ranked the 16th best point guard in the nati ... More >>

Will Da Real One's murder left many questions

But a tight-knit group is ready to keep preaching the word.

Notre Dame Coach Hopes His Players Don't Get Killed by Mexican Drug Lords

​First year Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly really does seem to have a lot of odd things on his mind in the run up to the Sun Bowl, which will see his team reignite its historical rivalry with the Miami Hurricanes. First, he was just glad that El Paso, Texas, doesn't have nude beaches like the bastio ... More >>

Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants

​First year Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly really does seem to have a lot of odd things on his mind in the run up to the Sun Bowl, which will see his team reignite its historical rivalry with the Miami Hurricanes. First, he was just glad that El Paso, Texas, doesn't have nude beaches like the bastio ... More >>

Sterling Wilde, Drunk Atlanta Tourist, Got Ass Kicked in Brawl With Female Miami Beach Cop

​This mug shot tells only half the story, but it tells it clearly: Sterling Roderick Wilde, a 26-year-old Atlanta tourist allegedly found sleeping in a South Beach hotel hallway, tangled with the wrong lady cop.

Liberty City's Roosevelt Ivory is a Throwback to the 5th Street Gym's Bad Old Days

The usually dapper Ivory slums it in a mug shot.​A week or so ago, Riptide braved the overhyped media maelstrom that was the grand opening of the new 5th Street Gym. A sanitized version of the South Beach boxing den where Muhammad Ali trained, it's now helmed by a Chicago-based ownership group. Al ... More >>

Nude Looks Like a Lady

The usually dapper Ivory slums it in a mug shot.​A week or so ago, Riptide braved the overhyped media maelstrom that was the grand opening of the new 5th Street Gym. A sanitized version of the South Beach boxing den where Muhammad Ali trained, it's now helmed by a Chicago-based ownership group. Al ... More >>

Suge Knight / Kanye West Lawsuit Stemming From 2005 Shore Club Shooting Still Unresolved

CC by 2.0, via Jurvetson on FlickrKanye West refuses to take responsibilty for Suge Knight's 2005 Miami shooting.It's been five years since former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was shot at the Shore Club, a crime that remains unsolved and that put a serious damper on the MTV VMAs' last year in M ... More >>

Hialeah Murder Suspect Related to Two Major League Pitchers

WikiCommons El Duque is related to shooter​Gerardo Regalado, the 38-year old man alleged to have shot and killed four women, including his girlfriend, before turning the gun on himself, is the half brother former New York Yankee pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. El Duque, in turn, is t ... More >>

Cocaine king Max Mermelstein came out of hiding for a screenwriter

WikiCommons El Duque is related to shooter​Gerardo Regalado, the 38-year old man alleged to have shot and killed four women, including his girlfriend, before turning the gun on himself, is the half brother former New York Yankee pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. El Duque, in turn, is t ... More >>

Jonathan Henry Cobb, The One Who Didn't Get Away

Last Friday, I told you about a wild police chase down NE Second Avenue. Well here's a mug Miami-Dade CorrectionsJonathan Henry Cobb Got A Free Ride to Dade County Lock-Up​of the culprit who thought he was reprising Wesley Snipes' role in U.S. Marshals. His name is Jonathan Henry Cobb, a 25-year-o ... More >>

Gay Smackdown: South Beach Ain't What it Used to Be

​Lately, the South Beach strip looks more like an enormous Lil Wayne concert than the shimmering gay playground it once was. Warehouse-size clubs that brimmed with shirtless boys have closed and hip-hop venues sprouted in their place. What was once pastel and glitter is now chrome and ice.You can' ... More >>

Sweat Goes Noir

​Lately, the South Beach strip looks more like an enormous Lil Wayne concert than the shimmering gay playground it once was. Warehouse-size clubs that brimmed with shirtless boys have closed and hip-hop venues sprouted in their place. What was once pastel and glitter is now chrome and ice.You can' ... More >>

Celebrate Devil's Night with Quantic, Roberto Rodriguez, and Nickodemus at Electric Pickle This Friday

​If Halloween is for treats, then Devil's Night is for tricks! A little known tradition that originated in 1930s Detroit, Devil's Night (or "Mischief Night") involved the Motor City's youth engaging in pseudo-criminal behavior on the night of October 30 each year -- mostly acts of petty vandalism, ... More >>

Peace, Love, and Terror

The investigation into a cop killing in the '70s leads to a law professor who helped launch Barack Obama's political career.

Animal Instincts

Zoophiles love and have sex with animals. Will the world ever accept them?

News Roundup

LocalGeorge Novack, Jr., son of the Fontainebleau's original owner and a Ft. Lauderdale convention planner, was found beaten to death in his hotel room in New York City. [USAToday]A North Miami Beach imam is facing deportation, so he's reaching out to Kendrick Meek. [Herald]The express lanes on I95 ... More >>

Rat Pack Redux

LocalGeorge Novack, Jr., son of the Fontainebleau's original owner and a Ft. Lauderdale convention planner, was found beaten to death in his hotel room in New York City. [USAToday]A North Miami Beach imam is facing deportation, so he's reaching out to Kendrick Meek. [Herald]The express lanes on I95 ... More >>

Agnostic Front

LocalGeorge Novack, Jr., son of the Fontainebleau's original owner and a Ft. Lauderdale convention planner, was found beaten to death in his hotel room in New York City. [USAToday]A North Miami Beach imam is facing deportation, so he's reaching out to Kendrick Meek. [Herald]The express lanes on I95 ... More >>

The Kinks' Ray Davies Plays Solo at The Fillmore

Catch him this Saturday.

Sham Marriage Hell

Bigamy charges and dozens of people busted after fake weddings: It must be South Florida.

Killer Kids

An epidemic of payback murder is wiping out a generation of inner-city youth

Pain & Gain, Part 2

Miami's Sun Gym gang developed a taste for blood and money. The police could have stopped them before they killed somebody. But they didn't.

Pain & Gain

They were local bodybuilders with a penchant for steroids, strippers, and quick cash. And they became expert in the use of a peculiar motivational tool: Torture.

Dangerous Liaisons

Police may never know for sure how a young gay man ended up shot to death in a field off Bird Road. But they have a theory: Cruising can kill.