Police response to the Parkland school shooting that left 17 students and teachers dead and 17 others injured has been under scrutiny in the nine months since the tragedy took place. Today a Broward Sheriff’s Office sergeant was placed on administrative duty while his response to the massacre is reviewed. A captain resigned.
By trade, Valerie Navarrete is a Miami Beach real-estate agent with Keller Williams. But she is most passionate about helping the homeless. As far back as she can remember, seeing homeless people always made Valerie Navarrete feel deeply distressed. Growing up in São Paulo, Brazil, she couldn’t comprehend how, as…
Cynthia and Humphrey Braaf left their home in Sunrise last November for a six-night Caribbean cruise to celebrate their 30th anniversary — but only Humphrey made it home.
Internal Affairs concluded that the allegations of improper procedure and discourtesy against Ortiz were not sustained. During his tenure as a City of Miami police officer, Ortiz has racked up 38 citizen complaints regarding 56 different allegations of misconduct, according to his IA summary obtained by New Times. Only six of those complaints have been sustained (five for improper procedure and one for discourtesy).
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff is a look into actor and writer Abbi Jacobson’s life that might surprise Broad City fans. It seems Jacobson, who shares a name with her brash onscreen Broad City character, in reality is often a private, guarded person.
Reviews on Google and Yelp show Pearson isn’t the only one to fall victim to the phone-snatching scam at Rácket Wynwood.
Congressman Ron DeSantis won the Florida governor’s race tonight with 49.9 percent of the vote with 99 percent counted, defeating his progressive opponent, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, in one of the most closely watched races in the nation. Despite the blue wave of support that showed up for Gillum and across the country, the Trump-backed former prosecutor won among men and older voters, continuing a two-decade legacy of Republican governors in the Sunshine State.
Franca says Beach Towing demanded she pay in cash when she went to retrieve her car, even though Miami Beach’s Towing Bill of Rights requires tow companies to accept at least two forms of payment. Franca was charged $140 for the hookup, $6 for the .4 mile Beach Towing dragged her car, $30 for the labor, $35 for an “admin charge,” and $2 in tax, all in cash.
City of Miami finally sent out a standard operating procedure detailing the program — and while the policy itself does not contain the language Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina promised, he assured New Times that the department is following through on his word.
“Dumbo” is what one Broward County schoolteacher called an 8-year-old student with autism and ADHD, according to a lawsuit filed in Florida’s Southern District Court earlier this month by the boy’s mother.
If you’re looking for someone who will legalize weed, here’s a list of all Florida candidates up for election this November who will fight for your right to light up.
On a recent Friday afternoon, Diana Androsova walked into the Halloween Megastore at NE 61st Street and Biscayne Boulevard. She grabbed a couple of items for her costume and went to the register, where a young man began ringing up her bill. Standing at the register, Androsova decided against buying an exaggerated pair of fake breasts along with the rest of her costume and put them aside.
The slew of unsolicited text messages from the Faith and Freedom Coalition pissed off at least one Miami resident enough to file a class action lawsuit against the nonprofit, since technically, text messages like the ones FFC spammed Florida residents with are illegal. Wijesinha, a registered Democrat, says he has no idea how the Faith and Freedom Coalition even got his number in the first place.
While Sayoc’s arrest yesterday focused attention on the Sunshine State, South Florida has a history of of residents who hatch half-assed bomb threats — and of anti-Castro Cuban exiles who actually made good on their plans:
“FPL will get what they deserve, and it will be worse than 9/11,” Sayoc said. When the representative on the phone said he should not be making threats like that, Sayoc said he doesn’t make threats; he makes promises.
Social media posts show that Sayoc, whose grandmother’s last name was Altieri and went by Cesar Altieri in his online profiles, was a big Trump supporter who loathed the Clintons and George Soros. Videos on one of Sayoc’s Facebook profiles show him at Trump rallies and posing with Michael the Black Man.
Friday, federal officers arrested a man outside an AutoZone store in Plantation in connection with several pipe bombs that were sent to several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Startling new footage shows Verne walking into the middle of the bar from the righ-thand side, speaking briefly with another man, then, for no discernible reason, walking up to another man he was not talking to, then choking him and slamming the back of the man’s head against a railing multiple times. Verne then places the man in a chokehold and appears to say something to the man with his face just inches away from the man he is choking. Then, bystanders intervene and Verne runs away.
While imprisoned on domestic abuse charges, XXXTentacion made hundreds of phone calls from jail, which were recorded and held as evidence against him by the State Attorney’s Office. In one of the recordings, Onfroy repeatedly demands his friend assault a teenager who used his phone while he was in jail.
On Tuesday, three City of Miami Police officers were arrested on federal drug charges. The trio are accused of working as armed escorts for drug traffickers. At a press conference yesterday, U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan said the three had received tens of thousands of dollars in compensation. Kelvin Harris,…
In 2014, Florida lawmakers reversed their stance on mandatory minimum sentences for opioid offenses, but that means little for the thousands of Floridians like Powell who were sentenced before the law changed. If Amendment 11 passes, changes the Florida Legislature makes to criminal statutes would be retroactive, meaning a person who received a harsh mandatory minimum sentence when lawmakers were cracking down on things like opioid use would have a chance to get their sentence retroactively reduced. The impact on Florida’s prison population — the third largest in the nation — could be huge.
The Florida Commission on Ethics today released a trove of documents that darkens the cloud that has hung over Andrew Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign for months. They show an undercover FBI agent gave the Tallahassee mayor tickets to see the blockbuster Broadway show Hamilton during a 2016 trip to New York City.
