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Puerto Rico's Wave of Drugs and Brazen Murders Reverberates to Miami

See the slide show "Puerto Rico Awash in Violence and Drugs."

Brazilian Couple Pleads Guilty to Smuggling People More Than 10,000 Miles to South Florida

How do you know when your immigration system is truly messed up? When people pay $16,000 to be smuggled more than 10,000 miles just to end up in jail and on the wrong side of an STD joke in South Florida.That's exactly what happened to some poor Brazilian bastards who posed as tourists in order to t ... 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 >>

Fat Joe Pleads Guilty to $3.7-Million Tax Evasion, Faces Two Years in Prison

These days, Fat Joe ain't so fat. But he owes an obese (or is that obscene?) amount of back taxes to the IRS. According to a press release from the Department of Justice: "Joseph Cartagena, the rapper popularly known as 'Fat Joe,' pleaded guilty [in New Jersey] today to two counts of failing to fil ... More >>

Election Turn-Out: Vote-Crazy Coral Gables, Motivated Miami Beach, Hopeless Homestead

Ever since Election Day, the New Times office has descended into tribal taunts as each employee has tried to claim that his or her 'hood was the nail in Mitt Romney's coffin or the only thing keeping Democrats from ransacking the House of Representatives.To settle the issue, we've prepared a list of ... More >>

Florida Dumping Disabled Children in Nursing Homes; Feds Say It's Against the Law

Florida is keeping disabled children in nursing homes and similar institutions, even though several of those children have families that want to care for them at home but don't have the money to do so. The U.S. Department of Justice has now sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi arguing that th ... More >>

Miami-Dade Police Drones Go Unused, but the Department Isn't Ready to Throw in the Towel

Miami-Dade Police Ask FAA To Renew Drone License For Another Year

Look! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a flying drone with a camera strapped to it! Odds are you've seen the first two in Miami airspace. But so far, the only people to have spied the third in action are the folks in Miami-Dade Police Department training sessions. A year and a half ago, M ... More >>

Florida Dept. of Corrections Sued for Not Offering Kosher Meals in Prison

Yes, there are people who don't care so much for obeying the laws of our government, but who do wish to adhere to Jewish dietary laws.The Florida Department of Corrections was sued this week by the Federal Department of Justice for not offering Kosher meals to prisoners.

Federal Judge Says Rick Scott's Voter Purge Is A-OK

Read also "New Voting Laws Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall," "Department of Justice to Florida: Stop Purging Voters" and "The Daily Show Rips Rick Scott's Voter Registration Laws."Rick Scott's partisan purge of voters from Florida's rolls a few months before a major election -- a move that has ... More >>

Filthy Dade County Jail Filled With Mold, Roaches and Leaky Urinals

A Department of Justice report slammed Miami-Dade County jails for their disgusting conditions back in August of 2011, and now ten months later it doesn't appear anyone has bothered to clean up the place. A corrections officer at the Dade County jail in West Miami-Dade leaked photos of the still dep ... More >>

Department of Justice to Florida: Stop Purging Voters

When Gov. Rick Scott's administration began a statewide purge of "non-citizen" voters, it didn't seem like a coincidence that the Miami Herald found the GOP-led effort disproportionately targeted Democrats, Hispanics and independents -- many of whom were in fact eligible to vote. It was also no grea ... More >>

Schools Ignore Gay Bullying at Their Own Peril

George Zimmerman's Family Member Implies AG Eric Holder Is Racist

The family of George Zimmerman has stepped up its public defense, and one relative has sent a highly critical letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking why the Department of Justice has not arrested members of the New Black Panther Party movement. The group has publicly put out a bounty for Zimm ... 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 >>

Online poker players want justice after feds crush $2.5 billion industry

Filet Mignon and Jameson Whiskey Top List of Most Stolen Items During Holiday Shopping Season

​'Tis the season for thievery, according to Adweek's list of most shoplifted items during the holiday season. Filet mignon and Jameson whiskey are numbers one and two on the list.Though that might conjure images of rich men stuffing meat and booze into their suits, most shoplifting is done by oppo ... More >>

Lost Boys: New child-sex-trafficking research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker

And sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.

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 >>

Four Arrested for Skimming $1.5 Million From ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York

​The Department of Justice has indicted four foreign nationals for stealing more than $1.5 million from bank accounts by using "skimming" technology to help themselves to the bank accounts of customers who used ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York City. Mihail Dragici and Ionel Dedlescu, both ... More >>

Miami Shipper Antillean Marine Charged With Oil Pollution

via Wikimedia CommonsIt was like this, except the birds were alive and probably not covered in oil.​Miami River shipping company Antillean Marine has been charged with knowingly dumping oil into U.S. waters, then falsifying its records to omit the offense, which could cost them more than $1.5 mill ... More >>

Imam of Miami Mosque and Sons Indicted for Financially Supporting Taliban

​A father and his two sons in South Florida have been arrested and charged with financially supporting the Pakistani Taliban. Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, the Imam of the Flagler Mosque, was charged with providing "material support" to the terrorist organization by federal prosecutors. His so ... More >>

Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson Want Feds to Crack Down on Porn

​Regulating what America whacks off to has not been a chief concern of the Obama administration. But now a group of 42 senators have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder complaining that his justice department hasn't been keeping a close enough eye on the mainstream adult pornography busi ... More >>

Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum

It's Time to Recall Mayor Tomas Regalado

​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 calls out Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado. Miami really needs to get rid of Mayor Tomas Regalado. It's time to recall his ... More >>

U.S. Government Seeks to Block Cuban Spy's Ex-Wife Attempt to Collect Judgment

It's official. The Associated Press reports the U.S. Department of Justice is opposing Ana C. Stiles​Margarita Martinez's attempt to make charter companies that book flights from here to Cuba pay a $27 million judgment she won against the Cuban government. In submitting its opposition motion ... More >>

President Obama fails to go after those responsible for the financial meltdown

Dog Bites Man

Miami Police canine units attack first, ask questions later.

Outrage: Police Review Board Screwed Again By City Politicians

Back in the bad old days of 2002,  the City of Miami Police Department had some nasty habits: shooting dozens of people, beating suspects, ripping through the city on dangerous chases.City police averaged 80 shootings every year and killed 15 suspects -- most black and poor. Things got so bad t ... More >>

Turns Out U.S. Interrogators Went Waterboard Crazy in Gitmo

When we toured and wrote about Guantánamo Bay a couple of months ago, the military had already tossed out any pretense that waterboarding and other torture techniques had been used on inmates. But no one really knew how often the military and the CIA decided to violate the Geneva Conventions and hu ... More >>

Unequal Justice

At federal prisons across the country, guards are preying on inmates. FDC Miami is no different.

News Roundup

Fidel Castro is reportedly on his deathbed, and these reports are more sound than the one Perez Hilton posted last year. [Herald]Some thieves drove to the Village of Merrick Park, smashed their car into the Gucci store window, grabbed everything in sight, and took off. Police are on the lookout for ... More >>

Homeland Security, No!

Janet Napolitano's sorry service in Arizona makes her a terrible choice for Obama's cabinet.

Feds Investigate Miami-Dade Jails

Miami Immigration Judge a Would-Be Pol

Bush Administration Looks to Curtail More Gitmo Rights

Mock Trial

Miami’s immigration judges are not interested in your problems

Breakin' the Law

Miami resorts to threatening the feds in order to keep its secrets

Just Friends

If a man is known by the company he keeps, then FBI boss Hector Pesquera has a problem

Admitting Terror, Part 2

The INS has its own peculiar way of meting out justice: Promote the supervisor who intentionally misled Congress and harass the inspector who warned of terrorists

The Assassin Next Door, Part 2

Chile demands that former secret police agent Armando Fernandez Larios face justice for his role in the murderous Caravan of Death. But he seems to be safe in Miami -- thanks to the U.S. government.

The Assassin Next Door

Chile's infamous undercover operative Armando Fernandez Larios has lived a quiet life in Miami. But his past is about to catch up with him.

Civil Wrongs

The Weed and Seed program is supposed to clean up inner-city neighborhoods. Fat chance.

Cyber Stakes

South Florida is at the heart of the Internet gambling boom -- and of the war to stop it

Letters

The Boulder Boys Must Die

When federal prosecutors seek the death penalty in drug-related murders, the defendants are almost always black. Why should Miami's first "kingpin" case be any exception?

Triggerlock

Fraudbuster!

Pretrial Services

Of approximately 55,000 people arrested and charged with felonies in Dade County every year, more than 20,000 are released under the aegis of Pretrial Services while awaiting trial