Miami Police Employees Fired for Taking Items From Storage Units

Two civilian employees of the Miami Police Department were quietly fired this week after they were caught taking police “property” from storage lockers and placing it inside their own cars, a Miami Police spokesperson confirmed to New Times yesterday. A third civilian employee tied to the scheme resigned amid the investigation.

FBI Reportedly Visiting Cuban Anti-Embargo Activists in Miami

Americans have the right to express their political beliefs without threats from the government. But according to a New York Times report published late yesterday, FBI agents are scouring Miami to knock on the doors of Cuban-Americans who have agitated to end the anti-Castro embargo.

Rick Scott Ducks Trump but Lets George W. Bush Fundraise for His Senate Run

For all of Donald Trump’s ills, he has not done anything (yet) as evil as lying to the American public in order to start a continent-destabilizing war that killed 500,000 to 1 million Iraqis. George W. Bush is a monster who jump-started the NSA’s internet-spying apparatus, launched America into a perpetual state of war across the globe…

Miami Beach Considers Charging Unlicensed Airbnb Hosts With Misdemeanors UPDATED

There are perfectly legitimate worries that Airbnb gentrifies neighborhoods and makes cities even less affordable than they already are. But so far, cities have had a hard time figuring out exactly how to handle the service, which lets homeowners rent their properties for days at a time. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is locked in a fierce fight with the company over his city’s plan to crack down on Airbnb.

Miami City Employee Says He Was Fired for Using Medical Marijuana

More than 70 percent of Floridians voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2016, yet many local governments still have bizarrely hostile relationships with pot. Take the City of Miami. Despite the fact that Miami-area cops have the option to issue tickets for weed, a New Times investigation found that they’re instead…

Carollo Used Nearly Identical Parking Scheme to Attack Opponent in 1990s

In the 1990s, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo didn’t get along with then-Mayor Stephen P. Clark. Carollo, a square-headed paranoiac who sees communist symbols in burnt toast and cloud formations, is not exactly an easy guy to get along with. But during a particularly nasty battle in 1996 over the then-extant Miami Arena…

Miami Suspiciously Sues Carollo’s Alleged Enemy Amid Vendetta

Bill Fuller, who co-owns the historic, infamous Little Havana bar Ball & Chain (as well as many other properties in the neighborhood), claims Miami commissioner and former mayor “Crazy Joe” Carollo has launched a political vendetta against him. The reason: Fuller kinda-sorta supported Carollo’s 2017 election opponent Alfie Leon.

Marco Rubio Kinda Threatened to Beat Up Alex Jones on Video

The U.S. Capitol is filled with even more dumb, morally bankrupt, fame-hungry lunatics than usual. Today a group of octogenarian lawmakers is holding essentially a sham hearing on transparency and censorship in online media while Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, along with others, testifies on Capitol Hill.

Chicago Priests Caught Having Sex in Public on Ocean Drive

Have sex indoors. Do whatever the hell you want as long as it’s consensual and behind closed doors. Don’t have sex in public. Especially don’t have sex on the 1300 block of Ocean Drive in broad daylight on Labor Day. Especially if you are a Catholic priest visiting Miami Beach with another church-affiliated man.

Eight Times Ron DeSantis “Accidentally” Did Racist Stuff

After enough racism scandals involving a particular political candidate, you’d think everyone might just admit that person is simply racist. Yet a whole lot of people — from bad-faith conservative pundits to easily fooled reporters — continue offering excuses for Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis’ infamous statement on Fox News that Andrew Gillum would “monkey… up” Florida.

Mother Held by ICE Over Traffic Ticket Freed After Posting $20,000 Bond

Earlier this year, New Times detailed the horrific case of Maria, a 24-year-old who fled persecution in Guatemala, gave birth to multiple American children, and wound up jailed in an ICE detention facility in South Florida after she was arrested while trying to pay a $150 traffic fine. Speaking from inside the detention center, Maria told New Times in Spanish that she was allowed to see her three young children only an hour or two each week and that her 9-year-old daughter was afraid she’d also be detained if she visited her mom.

Civil Rights Groups Demand South Florida Cities End Bans on Homeless Panhandling

Americans have a First Amendment right to walk up to other Americans and ask for help, money, or supplies. That’s why cities almost always lose in court when they try to ban what’s pejoratively known as “panhandling” by the homeless. In Florida alone, courts have struck down anti-aid ordinances in Tampa and Miami for violating that basic American right to ask other people in public for a few bucks.