This past October, New Times obtained a video clip of Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Manuel Regueiro throwing an utterly unnecessary punch to the face of a handcuffed suspect named Bryan Crespo. It wasn’t the first time Regueiro had been accused of using excessive force. Today, Miami-Dade County prosecutors announced they’ll charge more…
Ron Book, one of the most powerful lobbyists in Florida, was arrested Sunday for DUI, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office online arrest database. Book is one of the most influential behind-the-scenes political figures in the state. In addition to being the lobbyist for powerful private firms such as the prison giant GEO Group, Book is also the official lobbyist for Miami-Dade County.
Last week, notorious right-wing provocateur and misinformation artist Roger Stone sat in a Washington, D.C. courtroom and stated that a team of Florida-based “volunteers” runs his social-media accounts, handles his cell-phone, and “revolves” in and out of his home. Stone listed three well known members of the Proud Boys extremist…
Throughout Marco Rubio’s push to attack Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, the Florida senator’s defenders have claimed it would be nothing like the military disasters of the past. But Rubio yesterday seriously undermined that argument — by comparing this new conflict to the ’80s Cold War and catastrophic 2011 invasion of Libya.
Broward County cannot stop itself from generating problematic rappers who create fantastic music but destroy their careers. First, there was Kodak Black, who shot to fame despite the fact a fan says he brutally raped her. Then there was XXXTentacion, who, before his untimely passing, was accused of sexual abuse and other crimes.
In a case that illustrates America’s bizarre and quasi-colonial relationship with the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard announced today that, while its officers were just buzzing around in Bahamian airspace over Andros Island, about 154 miles from Miami, its officers “smelled” marijuana…
In an absolutely staggering announcement, Jupiter Police today announced that billionaire and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with soliciting prostitution in Palm Beach County. Kraft is one of 25 people who have arrested as part of a huge sex-trafficking sting. The TC Palm yesterday reported that,…
Roger Stone today is sitting in a D.C. federal court begging a judge not to crack down on him for being, well, Roger Stone. The Fort Lauderdale resident was arrested last month as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump administration and Russian hackers.
In 2018, Miami-Dade County residents passed a ballot initiative that gave a $232 million pay raise to public schoolteachers. That seemed logical since Florida teachers rank among the lowest-paid educators in America. While the ballot’s language clearly stated the raise was supposed to go to public schools only, Florida’s…
America’s drug war is still here and still going strong. Today, Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced that her office persuaded a grand-jury to indict two fentanyl dealers for first-degree murder — purely because they sold the opiates to a user who later died. Rundle’s office said two…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said virtually nothing about Matt Gaetz in public. But, given the life experience and political beliefs of the Democratic U.S. representative from New York, she likely finds her Florida Republican colleague cretinous. She’s a former bartender who skyrocketed to fame by making a moral and pragmatic case…
In a move that foreign-policy experts say is both unprecedented and dangerous, Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart this past weekend showed up in Cúcuta, Colombia, a town on the Venezuelan border, to effectively threaten war against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
It’s not clear whether former Vice President Joe Biden will run for president in 2020. But something else is apparent: He’s making money by keeping the public guessing. He pocketed a $150,000 speaking fee for a January trip to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, according to newly unearthed public records.
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the 12 months since 17 kids and teachers were slaughtered, mass-shootings have obviously not stopped, and it is still remarkably easy to obtain a gun in Florida. Numerous news outlets — including the New York…
One of the nation’s landmark homeless-protection laws is now gone. Since May 2018, the City of Miami has been trying to invalidate a 1998 legal decision that prevented city cops from arresting homeless people for living their lives outside. The so-called Pottinger Agreement, named for homeless Miamian Michael Pottinger…
Business has been good for Cape-Canaveral based Comprehensive Health Services, a federal contractor that specializes in providing medical care and other support services to major government projects. The company, for example, currently holds a $180 million contract to run Miami-Dade’s Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, the largest federal detention…
It is a fact that Elliott Abrams, America’s special envoy to Venezuela, covered up at least one Latin American genocide. In the 1980s, Guatemalan Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt’s U.S.-backed forces slaughtered 1,771 indigenous Mayan people whom Montt’s forces fraudulently claimed were supporting “left-wing” guerrillas. According to two-time George Polk Award-winning reporter Allan Nairn…
Like most Soundcloud rappers, up-and-coming Treasure Coast hip-hop artist YNW Melly has a bunch of face tattoos. Curiously, the 19-year-old Melly had an artist ink the word “Sakchaser” on his forehead, just above his left eye. The tattoo honored a fallen friend: A member of Melly’s rap crew, YNW Sakchaser,…
Former Miami Gardens Police Sgt. Javier Romaguera’s reputation is so tarnished the U.S Attorney’s Office refuses to prosecute his cases. But he says he’s just a Good Samaritan who’s been wronged. You might remember Romaguera. He was fired last fall and subsequently sued after a woman said he kidnapped…
There’s a growing movement in America to defund and/or abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE was created in 2003 — many progressives within the Democratic party are currently debating whether we should dissolve the deportation agency, shift some of its least-harmful responsibilities to other agencies, and pare back America’s…
More than a year ago, a group of City of Miami Fire-Rescue employees got canned after committing what looks, on paper at least, to have been a racist attack on a black firefighter. In November 2017, six firefighters were terminated after they allegedly took their black colleague’s family photographs, drew…
The Florida Democrats are constantly in a shambles — but they’re even more of a mess than usual lately. Left-leaning voices within the party are furious at leader Terrie Rizzo and second-in-command Juan Peñalosa since Republicans flattened the Dems in statewide races during the 2018 midterm elections. After the losses, critics noted that…
