A Colorado-based company vying for a lucrative contract to oversee Miami-Dade County’s multi-billion dollar sewer system renovation projects admitted it defrauded the federal government earlier this year. Back in March CH2M Hill and one its subsidiaries agreed to pay $18.5 million in civil fines and restitution because the firms had…
Another city mayor in Miami-Dade has been busted this morning. Less than a month after the arrests of Sweetwater Mayor Manuel Maroño and Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi on federal bribery charges, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office is accusing Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman of unlawful compensation. At his home earlier…
Brazilian twin artists Octavio and Gustavo Pandalfo, internationally known as Os Gêmeos, came through Miami on Friday to promote booze and drop beats. The Magic City was the third stop on a six-city tour for the quirky duo, who are hawking a new limited edition bottle of Hennessy VS featuring…
Andrew Mossberg made a painful mistake two months ago. He thought Miami Beach Police Det. Philippe Archer was a purse snatcher and tried to help the woman he believed was the victim. His thanks? Getting his face obliterated by the cop. In the early evening of June 26, the 50-year-old…
Reefer common sense might finally be on its way to the Sunshine State. Last week, both a statewide push for a constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana and a local move in Miami Beach blazed a little closer to reality. In Miami Beach, voters going to the polls in November to…
A City of Hialeah employee claims she was forced to retire because of her supervisor’s abusive behavior. In a June 26 resignation email to Mayor Carlos Hernandez, Edith Galloza alleges her boss Carlos Lopez intimidated her and created a hostile work environment. The day she sent the email, Galloza claims…
In South Florida, you can find a home fit for the King of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. No, really. For a cool $10.9 million, whether you’re a member of House Lannister, House Baratheon, or House Tully, you can stake your claim to the Redland’s Chateau Artisan, a 20,000-square-foot castle…
Reefer common sense is taking over Miami Beach. When voters go to the polls in November to elect a new mayor, they will also get the chance to answer a non-binding straw ballot question on whether the city commission should adopt a resolution urging the federal government and the Florida…
Usually WSVN reporter Rosh Lowe is on point. That’s why he received the Best TV reporter nod in this year’s Miami New Times Best Of issue. And it’s why he recently landed the first on camera interview with Carolyn Knox, mother of Jennifer Alfonso, the South Miami woman allegedly murdered…
It’s the time of year when South Florida politicians must reveal their net worth to their constituents. So Riptide is here to let readers know which Miami-Dade state legislators are ballin’ like the Bawse at his King of Diamonds birthday party and which ones are probably living on a steady…
Federal agents in Miami played a key role in nabbing two men accused of plotting to finance al-Qaida’s battles in Syria and Somalia. Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed and Mohamed Hussein Said pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in Miami federal court Tuesday. They were denied bonds after federal prosecutor Ricardo…
It’s the time of year when South Florida politicians must reveal their net worth to their constituents. So Riptide is here to let readers know which Miami-Dade state legislators are ballin’ like the Bawse at his King of Diamonds birthday party and which ones are probably living on a steady…
Steve Berke, a YouTube sensation who enjoys dabbling in Miami Beach politics, is on the prowl for kitty. But not any random alley pussy will do. Berke wants a feline with that Grumpy Cat Internet fame “IT” factor. He seeks a cat capable of spawning memes across the World Wide…
For the past two weeks Rev. Richard P. Dunn II has been riding high following his legal victory over longtime nemesis Miami City Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, preventing her from running for a third consecutive term — and thus allowing him to remove the biggest obstacle keeping him from reclaiming the…
The man’s eyes are wide with fury as he pounds the hood of the Tremont Towing truck that’s hauling his gun-metal Lexus from the plaza at 15th Street and Alton Road in South Beach. The truck stops, and driver Robert Ashenoff Jr. slowly climbs out. He dwarfs the angry Lexus…
Everything about yesterday’s arrests of lobbyists Richard Candia and Jorge Forte, Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi, and Sweetwater Mayor Manuel “Manny” Maroño on federal bribery charges screams “Only in Miami.” There’s a paid anonymous informant who happily served up lobbyist Candia as a bagman for corrupt politicians to the FBI…
For three seasons, reality television show junkies have tuned into South Beach Tow on the cable channel truTV to catch the absurd hi-jinks that occur when someone’s car is jacked by Tremont Towing, one of the two companies that hitch cars in Miami Beach. Cameras follow Tremont employees as they…
Living or visiting Miami Beach, tow trucks prowling for cars illegally parked on the streets and lots of the city is a common sight. No motorist who dares test Miami Beach’s parking laws is safe from the hooks of Beach Towing and Tremont Towing (which has its own faux reality…
Over the past month, there’s been a lot of hubbub over the opening of Lock & Load Miami, a machine gun shooting range in the heart of Wynwood, the city’s artsy neighborhood. Some locals expressed bewilderment to the Miami Herald that the range might find itself out of place amid…
A 30-year-old autistic man in Sweetwater was living in a terrifying dungeon straight of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, local police say. According to the Miami Herald, Sweetwater police officers responded to a trailer at 11250 NW Third St. after receiving an anonymous tip about the man’s “dungeon-like” living conditions early…
If you’re the ultimate pessimist, J.D. Patterson’s move to reassign 16 detectives from the Miami-Dade Police Public Corruption Bureau to other units means the fight against public rackets just got weaker. Political blogger Elaine de Valle, who first broke the news, offered her cynical take: “Guess we’re done with the…
Community outrage over Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s decision to potentially shutter 22 libraries has led to his administration removing six sites from the closure list. For now, the Culmer, Opa-locka, Lemon City, Little River, Shenandoah, and Lakes of the Meadows branches will remain open unless county commissioners vote otherwise in…
