The property at 420 Hibiscus Dr. — just off the MacArthur Causeway on the 0.1-percenter playground that is Hibiscus Island — was built in 1937. Compared to other Florida buildings, that might as well be the Stone Age: The structure is so old it’s been deemed “architecturally significant” by the Miami Beach government.
In 2015, the Hialeah Police Department claimed it had suspended Sgt. Jesus “Jessie” Menocal Jr. and removed him from street patrols after he was accused of kidnapping a 17-year-old girl, driving her to a police building, and forcing her to strip while he pleasured himself in front of her.
Hurricanes: They suck! You’re out of power for days or weeks, all the food in your fridge spoils, maybe your house or boat or houseboat gets completely destroyed and you have to move, and you probably have no WiFi in the meantime.
In a move some defense lawyers have blasted as cruel, Miami-Dade County yesterday evening said in a media release that it is trying to force some inmates currently out on pretrial release back behind bars before Hurricane Dorian hits Florida.
Hurricane Dorian isn’t supposed to hit Florida until Tuesday. Forecasters still don’t even know where the storm will make landfall. But that hasn’t stopped Floridians from preparing for the worst: Social media users have already posted images of long lines at grocery stores and barren shelves at home-improvement warehouses.
Miami-Dade County ethics investigators are once again focusing their sights on the perennially scandal-plagued North Miami Beach. In recent years, two of the city’s mayors have pleaded to criminal charges.
In news that perhaps might not sound surprising for Sunshine State government, a former employee of the Florida Office of the Attorney General was charged today with securities fraud.
By 2014, the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) and Broward State Attorney’s Office had learned of misconduct allegations against former BSO crime lab analyst Kelli McDonald. That year, New Times broke the news that multiple cases handled by McDonald had either tainted or missing drug evidence.
So you’ve settled in: You have a few new tropical plants you’ve named Harriet and Oswald, you’ve got a basic handle on which highways suck (all of them), and you’re at least tangentially aware that whatever apartment you inhabit now will probably be chronically flooded by 2100. You’re coming to…
Pedro Rene Gonzalez had been sitting in Miami’s Federal Detention Center (FDC Miami) awaiting trial on weapons charges since December 18, 2018. Despite languishing in jail for eight months, Gonzalez never made it to trial: The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) today confirmed to New Times…
The University of Miami — allegedly an upstanding institution that’s supposed to teach students right from wrong — is refusing to voluntarily hand Miami’s police-oversight board some payroll documents tied to the single most controversial cop in town: perennial troublemaker and Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz.
Donald Trump, a man who last week referred to himself as “the chosen one,” is somehow still the president despite the fact he never gave up a controlling financial stake in his real-estate companies. You can just pay Trump a bunch of money whenever you want, and it sure seems like the president is willing to pay back favors to people who buy hotel rooms or condos at his properties.
The Florida Retail Federation (FRF) is one of the most powerful political forces in the state of Florida. While the federation itself might not be a household name, its members sure are: The FRF represents huge corporations, including Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Target, and Publix.
Washington state resident Eric Lin was not shy about his love for Adolf Hitler. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Lin enjoyed referencing the Third Reich in writing: He apparently sent a litany of Hitler-referencing death threats to a Hispanic woman in Miami and got himself arrested last week…
Payday lenders are already some of the worst people on Planet Earth. They lend money to the poor and desperate at loan-shark-level interest rates and essentially trap people in debt for ungodly long periods of time. The industry also donates heavily to Donald Trump’s campaigns.
Many of the land developers gentrifying portions of central Miami are already fairly annoying. For example, Bob Zangrillo, one of the major investors in the controversial Magic City Innovation District in Little Haiti, is a Burning Man attendee who was indicted earlier this year for allegedly paying bribes to get his daughter into the University of Southern California.
To make something of a severe understatement, many questions remain in the wake of accused sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide last weekend. For Miamians, one particular question has gone unanswered: Why did the billionaire’s black book of contacts include 13 phone numbers for former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, a noted friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton?
Miami has long been a wildly unequal place. It’s a city where wages don’t come close to keeping up with local rent costs, a place where a staggering number of millennials still live with their parents, and a town where hospitality and tourism workers are often forced to trek miles on hours-long bus rides…
Florida has always been a stomping ground for whackjobs, but the state’s political climate seems to be attracting a particularly diseased group of people as of late. Roger Stone already lives here. The disgraced alt-right personality Milo Yiannopoulos briefly moved to Miami a few years ago. The InfoWars-appearing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is apparently now running for Congress in Palm Beach County.
Protecting your private data in 2019 is a struggle, to say the least. Even something as innocuous as an app that makes your face look old might secretly store all of your photos and create a database of faces in a Russian basement somewhere.
Progressives, critics, and basically all people with moral backbones and souls this week are furious at Stephen Ross — the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the gym chains Equinox and SoulCycle, as well as an investor in many other ventures — for quietly planning to host a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.
State Attorney Mike Satz has been the top prosecutor in Broward County since 1976. He’s somehow won every single reelection bid, every four years, for the past 43 years. In that time, the criminal-justice world has changed around him.
