UM Hospital Has Dozens of Petty Thefts Every Month, Stats Show
UM Hospital Has Dozens of Petty Thefts Every Month, Stats Show
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Miami’s Romney Supporters Chugging $10 Drinks, Confident Mitt Will Pull Off Florida UPDATED
Inside a packed conference room at the Doubletree by Hilton near the airport, Ben Powell, chairman of Miami-Dade Republican Party, leaned into his mic and bellowed, “Are y’all ready for victory?” The crowd of about 200 Romney supporters let out a boisterous cheer.Even as returns are showing Obama clinging to…
UM Hospital Suffers Dozens of Thefts In Wake of $14 Million Drug Heist
When Aaron Todd returned to his sports medicine office at the University of Miami Hospital in July, his laptop bag — which held his social security card, keys, and Veterans Affairs card — was gone. So began his maddening descent into the lax security at the giant hospital, which made…
Mugshots Friday: The Lost Romney Son and Jesus Condom
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Hurricane Sandy, The Day After: Escape From (Southern) New York
Although Hurricane Sandy did not, as some meteorologists and media folks predicted, cause the earth to split asunder and drown us all in magma, it did put a pretty big hurt on New York City and the rest of the Northeast. In Gotham, the toll was massive: Flooding all over lower…
Hurricane Sandy Dispatch From New York To Miami: This Storm Blows
The morning of Monday, October 29 dawned cloudy and a little windy in New York City, which came as a surprise to the eight million or so inhabitants who had expected God himself to be pissing on the city at the break of dawn.The national media had been breathlessly predicting…
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Mugshots Friday: Big Hair, Bad Sunburns, and Bags of Money
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Ex-MDPD Cop In Excessive Force Lawsuit Was Fired After Skipping Emergency Calls, Attacking Reporter
Last week, we reported on a lawsuit accusing two Miami-Dade officers of excessive force in an arrest outside a Kendall nightclub in 2010. As it turns out, one of those officers, Jose A. Huerta, was recently fired after 10 years on the force. Turns out his firing, had nothing to…
Health Department Study Finds No Cancer Cluster In Northwest Miami
The Miami-Dade County Health Department has officially released its findings on the cancer scare in northwest Dade: There’s no cluster in Broadmoor, they say.”We have not found or identified a cluster,” says Lillian Rivera, the Health Department’s administrator. “Based on the incidence and methodology of our study, this community is…
Mugshots Friday: The Bloodiest Man In Miami
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Miami-Dade Police Hit With Excessive Force Lawsuit Over 2010 Nightclub Arrest
Attention Miami residents: Next time you’re out and about, having a perhaps animated discussion near some cops, be careful. You might find yourself on the receiving end of a surprise flying tackle.That’s what Elsa and Gustavo Martinez say happened to them two years ago outside a Kendall lounge. The siblings…
North Miami Gives Hundreds of Thousands to a Racketeering Suspect
North Miami Gives Hundreds of Thousands to a Racketeering Suspect
North Miami Faustin Denis Opa-locka Racketeering
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Cancer, Asthma, and Death Prowl a Miami Neighborhood
Cancer, Asthma, and Death Prowl a Miami Neighborhood
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Poisoned: A New Times Investigation Into a Neighborhood’s Toxic History and Cancer Scare
Last month, the Miami-Dade County Commission quietly passed a terrifying-sounding resolution, voting to ask health officials to travel to the small neighborhood of Broadmoor in Northwest Dade to investigate whether a recycling plant had caused a cancer cluster. Residents there made frightening claims: Eight people had died from cancer in the past…
Mugshots Friday: Highly Appropriate T-Shirts and Tattoos
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Mayor Andre Pierre, Ex-Mayor Joe Celestin Supported Racketeering Suspect’s $270K Contract
On Tuesday, Faustin Denis, general manager of IMECO, Inc., got a $270,000 contract from North Miami despite an ongoing felony racketeering and fraud case against him over a bribery scandal in Opa-locka. It was his fourth contract from the city in just over a year despite questions over whether his…
North Miami Gives Racketeering Suspect’s Company $270K For Landscaping Contract
Apparently, it takes more than felony charges to dissuade the North Miami City Council from giving your company a six-digit payout. On October 9, by a vote of 4-1, council members in North Miami awarded a $270,000 contract to IMECO, Inc., for a streetscaping project at Pioneer Boulevard. That winning…
North Miami Pastor Jack Hakimian Thinks a “Gay Mafia” Is Out to Get Him
North Miami Pastor Jack Hakimian Thinks a “Gay Mafia” Is Out to Get Him
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North Miami Nearly Gave Racketeering Suspect’s Company $99K To Clean Three Blocks Of Sidewalk
Need a quick infusion of cash? Don’t bother signing up to sell cheap knives door-to-door or be part of dodgy medical study. Instead, head up to North Miami and bid for a city contract. Because as one company learned, you can quite easily bankroll yourself through the North Miami City…
Dade’s Palms Woodlawn Cemetery Intentionally Buries Bodies In Wrong Graves, Lawsuit Claims
When Warren Griffith died in March 2001, there was one thing his wife, Janet Griffith, and his daughter, Cynthia Quintana, could be sure of. His body, which had been laid to rest at the Palms Woodlawn Funeral Home and Cemetery, would be buried in a plot that Janet had purchased,…
Mugshots Friday: What Goes Around Comes Around
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Miami Prison Inmate Set Up For Brutal Beatings By Crooked Guard, Lawsuit Claims
The random beatdown is a staple of prison life, right up there with the occasional cafeteria riot and your first bad batch of wine made in a toilet. So the fact that Calvin Kingcade got stomped by a group of fellow inmates shouldn’t surprise anyone. Kingcade’s problem, however, was that…