Miami is chock full of more cocaine than a Mexican narco-piñata. And yet, the city’s most dangerous drug may just be imaginary. According to an investigation by USA Today, Miami is the main staging ground for controversial ATF sting operations in which undercover agents trick suspects into plotting robberies of…
Salvation Army’s HIV-Positive Residents Kicked Out Over Budget Cuts
Miami Police are investigating accusations that a local doctor hit a father and son with his car as he weaved his way through Friday’s Critical Mass bike ride. According to a police report and interviews with victims, Mt. Sinai surgeon Irvin Willis drove his black Mercedes SL 550 into the…
Critical Mass Miami has blown up over the past year. The last-Friday-of-the-month rides now regularly draw more than 2,000 cyclists at a time. Even celebs such as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Gabrielle Union have participated. But there are signs that the movement is experiencing some growing pains, not least…
The “War on Terror” has raged for 12 bloody years, cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and taken a bite out of the Constitution. And yet, many Americans have long since retreated into the easy routines of American life: morning latte, evening beer, and no time in between for worrying…
HIV-positive residents at a Salvation Army shelter in Liberty City claim they are being forced back onto the streets this weekend because of bigotry and budget cuts. Two people living in the charity’s command center on 38th Street say they have been told to move out by Monday, insulted by…
“I’m just looking for a generous guy who wants to spoil me like I deserve,” Rachel croons into her cell phone, leaving a not-so-subtle message with the cool, coquettish tone of a practiced phone sex worker. Her voice is high and childlike, but in reality, the black 20-year-old is all…
“If you call a tail a leg, then how many legs does a cow have? Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.” No, this is not the terrible opening joke to the trial of George Zimmerman. Instead, this is the equally terrible analogy (actually an Abraham…
Prostitutes or students? Vulnerable victims or tech-savvy businesswomen? Whatever your opinion on sugar babies, there is no doubting one label in this part of the country: it’s popular. According to leading sugar baby website Seeking Arrangement, Florida coeds are taking up the profession like nowhere else in the nation. Forget…
The past 24 hours have been a mierda monsoon for Miami Heat fans. Forty-nine states are rooting against our boys. Meanwhile, the national media love to portray us as a bunch of rich pingas in Porsches. Even Chris Bosh (rightly) tore into those weak-ass Lil Wayne-like fans who left Game…
City’s Plan to Remove Invasive Pines From Virginia Key Has Cyclists Worried
Jack Davis, the 14-year-old Miami Shores resident who shot and killed a WaveRunner thief two years ago, will not face criminal charges. Prosecutors announced yesterday that they would not put the teen on trial because he “reasonably believed he and his mother were being attacked and were in imminent danger”…
Five years ago, the only athletic activity on Virginia Key was getting buzzed at Jimbo’s and bowling bocci balls with the beach bums. Ever since the island’s 82-acre park reopened in 2008, however, Miami cyclists have turned the mounds of dredge detritus into a mountain biker’s Mecca. Miles of trails…
Last month, 25-year-old college dropout Chris Delamo set off on a grand trek through our concrete jungle. The political provocateur planned to spend a week without shelter in order to film a documentary about homelessness in Miami. “It’s going to be like Urban Survivor Man,” he told Riptide. We gave…
The Heat may be the best basketball team in the nation, but when it comes to this city’s public parks, Miami performs more like the miserable Marlins. According to Parkscore rankings released yesterday, Miami is one of the worst major cities in the country when it comes to providing green…
Miami Strip Club King Finally Out of Panamanian Jail
Tim Tracy, an American filmmaker who spent the last six weeks in a Venezuelan prison cell, has been released and is on his way back to the United States. Tracy was arrested by Venezuelan intelligence police on April 24 while working on a documentary. Officials accused him of being an…
Miami has a serious pot problem. According to a study released yesterday by the ACLU, Miami-Dade is one of the most aggressive and racially biased counties in the country when it comes to marijuana arrests. Not only did Miami have the ninth most marijuana arrests of any American city in…
Wrongly imprisoned. Reborn behind bars. It’s not quite Shawshank Redemption, but when Tony Galeota walked out of a Panama City jail cell May 23, it was still a small serving of justice. Galeota is no angelic Andy Dufresne, the main character in Shawshank who serves two decades behind bars for…
In this week’s metro, we describe how advances in DNA technology have allowed Miami-Dade medical investigators to solve at least 16 cold cases in the past couple of years. The murder of one woman, whose body parts were found all over town, haunted cops and coroners alike for nearly 30…
Mina Coleman was standing in the driveway of her Tamiami home when she noticed her pack of puppies scrapping over something in the dirt. Vultures circled in the blue sky above. They must have gotten out through that damn hole in the fence again, she thought as she stomped through…
Miami’s Mysterious Dead: DNA Identifies Corpses
