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Tons of Weed and Nobody to Smoke It

All for the Monet

The trail of a $6 million art heist in France ends in suburban South Florida.

Free Bird?

New evidence may exonerate Luis Diaz, imprisoned for 26 years as the Bird Road Rapist

News Roundup

Charlie Crist remembered he's a Republican and is introducing tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts! [Herald]U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ordering the deportation of 30,000 Cubans. [NBC6]Daequan Cook is the best three-point shooter in the history of the entire world, and for that he was awarde ... More >>

Feds: Miami Man Funneled Money To Irish Terrorists Behind This Weekend's Attacks

A Cutler Bay man funneled money to the Irish terrorists who murdered two British soldiers in Belfast on Saturday, federal prosecutors say in a complaint unsealed in Miami-Dade court today and obtained by Riptide.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAn IRA mural in Belfast. An IRA splinter group took credit for ... More >>

Irish Blood

Feds say Cutler Bay man funded Irish terrorists through Port of Miami scheme.

Crossing Over Is Borderline Offensive

Citizen's arrest for Wayne Kramer's tasteless immigrant drama.

The Agent from Iran

How a mother of two ended up in a plot to smuggle high-tech gear to the enemy.

Letters from the Issue of September 25,2008

"He entered a new country and effectively told the immigration services: 'I don't care about your laws, catch me if you can.'"

Violent Jewelry Thieves Prowl South Florida

They give new meaning to the term blood diamond.

Sham Marriage Hell

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

Haitians Sent Home

Refugees fled slavery, slaughter, and starvation, and got rejected.

Slime and Schemes Simmer in Surfside

John Davis is a cop who won’t stop

Hialeah Boat Captain Gets 3 Years for Human Smuggling

The young Hialeah boat captain caught transporting eight immigrants to Boynton Beach this past January will serve up to three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra sentenced 28-year-old Jovel Dominguez-Hernandez to 36 months yesterday for human smuggling. The indictment notes ... More >>

Infant Child of ICE Employee Has Swine Flu

Earlier this month, authorities confirmed an outbreak of the H1N1 virus at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, known as the Krome Service Processing Center, in Miami. Now the 19-month-old child of an employee at the center has a confirmed case of the virus, and the Americ ... More >>

Illegal Immigrant Crackdown

Can you say "profiling"?

Letters from the Issue of July 9, 2009

"I am sad to report I lost a few brain cells while reading your article."

FBI tries to deport Muslim man for refusing to be an informant

After Imam Foad Farahi declined to become a federal informant, the government tried to destroy him.

The Fast Lane: Championship Racecar Driver Will Do Three Years in Ecstasy Case

Joyoendho via Flicker CCWhen it comes to the drug habits of the rich and famous, there's a thin line between hilarious and disturbing. Championship race car driver Mariusz Malyszczycki's relationship with ecstasy is something closer to entrepreneurial. The Polish speedster was busted in the middle o ... More >>

Five in Homestead Fasting In Hopes of Forcing Obama to Halt Deportations

Thanks to crotch bombers and death panels, immigration reform hasn't been the topic du jour in the Beltway since Obama took office. via fastforourfamilies.org Jenny Aguilar, a Honduran who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years but now faces deportation, is fasting in Homestead along with four ot ... More >>

Cutler Bay man smuggles cigarettes through the Port of Miami and goes to prison

Thanks to crotch bombers and death panels, immigration reform hasn't been the topic du jour in the Beltway since Obama took office. via fastforourfamilies.org Jenny Aguilar, a Honduran who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years but now faces deportation, is fasting in Homestead along with four ot ... More >>

Badlands: From ground zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border

Thanks to crotch bombers and death panels, immigration reform hasn't been the topic du jour in the Beltway since Obama took office. via fastforourfamilies.org Jenny Aguilar, a Honduran who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years but now faces deportation, is fasting in Homestead along with four ot ... More >>

Feds Find Plundered Peruvian Artifacts For Sale on eBay, Return Them To Lima

A little tip for the would-be Indiana Jones profiteers out there: Don't sell your illegally plundered ancient artifacts on eBay. photo courtesy ICE Got some hot, plundered ancient artifacts? Don't sell them on eBay.​One seller learned that lesson the hard way last April, when Immigration a ... More >>

Cowboy Down: Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher

A little tip for the would-be Indiana Jones profiteers out there: Don't sell your illegally plundered ancient artifacts on eBay. photo courtesy ICE Got some hot, plundered ancient artifacts? Don't sell them on eBay.​One seller learned that lesson the hard way last April, when Immigration a ... More >>

What's a little marriage fraud between amigos?

It's a felony, sure, but in the absence of real immigration reform, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants see it as their best path to citizenship.

Ronald Reagan immigration amnesty 25 years later

Today, amnesty is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Phoenix, Arizona: America's kidnapping capital is brutal

Today, amnesty is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum

Today, amnesty is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Machete: Robert Rodriguez's latest is LOL-funny when it's not downright dull

Except when it's not downright dull.

Latin American dictators love South Florida

Except when it's not downright dull.

Miami Man Caught Smuggling Cocaine Hidden in Candy Easter Eggs at LAX

​Most peoples' idea of a white Christmas does not involve candy Easter eggs. Then again, Esteban Galtes wasn't planning to celebrate with that wholesome type of snow. The 23-year-old Miami resident was caught trying to smuggle approximately $100,000 worth of cocaine through Los ... More >>

Andres Lopez exposes the Colombian cartels

​Most peoples' idea of a white Christmas does not involve candy Easter eggs. Then again, Esteban Galtes wasn't planning to celebrate with that wholesome type of snow. The 23-year-old Miami resident was caught trying to smuggle approximately $100,000 worth of cocaine through Los ... 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 >>

Bruise Cruise Travel Tip: Don't Smuggle Drugs Onto the Ship

Torben Bjorn Hansen, Flickr ​The Bruise Cruise sets sail from the Port of Miami on Friday. And while there's plenty of dope coming through Dodge Island, y'all better think twice about sneaking some out; narcs like to prey on unsuspecting travelers, especially theme cruise passengers. In January, ... More >>

Haitian deportation process is unfair

Torben Bjorn Hansen, Flickr ​The Bruise Cruise sets sail from the Port of Miami on Friday. And while there's plenty of dope coming through Dodge Island, y'all better think twice about sneaking some out; narcs like to prey on unsuspecting travelers, especially theme cruise passengers. In January, ... More >>

Miami Couple Arrested for Contaminated Cheese Smuggling

​Cheese smuggling sounds like some sort of weird euphemism, but in this case we really mean that two people in Miami have been arrested for smuggling contaminated cheese into the country.  Yuri Izurieta, 41, and Anneri Izurieta, 46, husband and wife, and thier company, Naver Trading, Corp., h ... More >>

ICE Agent Charged with Molesting 16-Year-Old

​Neil Julien, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, has been arrested on charges that he molested a 16-year-old girl back in 2005. According to NBC Miami, he allegedly molested the girl multiple time during the summer of 2005 while dating the girl's mother. The charges surfaced af ... More >>

Lyglenson Lemorin, Deported Despite Liberty City 7 Acquittal, Can't Return For Son's Funeral

​​Lyglenson Lemorin's life already read like a John Grisham novel with a particularly cruel ending: acquitted in court of cooked-up, Bush-era terrorism charges, the legal U.S. resident with no criminal record was deported anyway to his native, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, leaving his family behind ... More >>

ICE won't let Lyglenson Lemorin return for his son's funeral

​​Lyglenson Lemorin's life already read like a John Grisham novel with a particularly cruel ending: acquitted in court of cooked-up, Bush-era terrorism charges, the legal U.S. resident with no criminal record was deported anyway to his native, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, leaving his family behind ... More >>

Miami's Curd Cowboys: Is Cheese the New Cocaine?

​On December 18, 2010, a freighter named America Feeder arrived at the Port of Miami from Nicaragua. Federal agents were secretly running surveillance on one container, marked ARLU 5102167. Five days later, the container was hitched to a truck and driven, with agents trailing, to a cold-stora ... More >>

Punk Ain't Dead! Miami's Top Ten Hardcore Punk Bands

Churchill's, home to all Miami's punks.​One day soon, a flood may come and drown all of Miami in the Biscayne Bay, but for now, the city stinks, God is broke, and the youth are getting restless. The politicians hate the workers and the poor, the pigs take every opportunity to slam your face in the ... More >>

Miami's top ten hardcore punk bands

Churchill's, home to all Miami's punks.​One day soon, a flood may come and drown all of Miami in the Biscayne Bay, but for now, the city stinks, God is broke, and the youth are getting restless. The politicians hate the workers and the poor, the pigs take every opportunity to slam your face in the ... More >>

Sofia Vergara's Brother Deported After Multiple Arrests for Pot Possession

​Four years after Modern Family star Sofia Vergara immigrated to Miami from Colombia, she moved the rest of her family, including her mother, sister, and younger brother Julio, to the country. However, after nearly 30 arrests during his time in the States, Star magazine reports that Julio was depo ... More >>

Anthony Mangione, South Florida's Top Immigration Cop, Arrested on Child Porn Charges

​Anthony Mangione, the chief of the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's South Florida department, was arrested today on charges related to child pornography. Mangione had been suspended in April after federal investigators found images of child porn on his computer in his Broward County ... More >>

ICE Chief Anthony V. Mangione Regularly Sent Child Porn, Ordered to Undergo Mental Evaluation

New details are coming out about the investigation that lead to the arrest of Anthony V. Mangione, South Florida's top immigration cop. The Sun-Sentinel reports that AOL e-mail accounts registered to Mangione regularly sent nude and pornographic images of children, including several images of n ... More >>

Math Teacher Jerome Pearson Found With 1,500 Child Porn Images in Hialeah

​Jerome Emery Pearson, a Hialeah resident and former math teacher at a Broward public school, has plead guilty to possession of child pornography after a gigantic stash of lewd images were found on his personal laptop computer. Pearson was initially released on bond, but couldn't keep away from po ... More >>

ICE snitch Angel Jose Perez duped the FBI and got rich

​Jerome Emery Pearson, a Hialeah resident and former math teacher at a Broward public school, has plead guilty to possession of child pornography after a gigantic stash of lewd images were found on his personal laptop computer. Pearson was initially released on bond, but couldn't keep away from po ... More >>

Buju Banton is innocent

​Jerome Emery Pearson, a Hialeah resident and former math teacher at a Broward public school, has plead guilty to possession of child pornography after a gigantic stash of lewd images were found on his personal laptop computer. Pearson was initially released on bond, but couldn't keep away from po ... More >>