Questions surrounding police conduct in two Memorial Day shootings are growing by the day, most recently fueled by a report in the Miami Herald that Miami Beach police captured a couple at gunpoint and smashed the man’s cell phone after he was spotted using it to film police killing 22-year-old…
Oscar Varela García is a bad dude.The high-level coordinator of a murderous Colombian cocaine-smuggling organization was convicted in Miami last Friday of murder, obstruction of justice and five counts of conspiracy to do all sorts of illegal things, including launder money and distribute cocaine.Garcia oversaw a “large group of enforcers…
Of the three referees assigned to game two between the Heat and Mavericks, one was suspended in 2007 for challenging Tim Duncan to a fight, another spent five months in jail, and the third once ejected the Celtics’ Paul Pierce for, well, no one really knows what. All three of…
Five reasons Miami is better than Dallas
José Canseco needs a woman. The Cuban American baseball player, who grew up in Miami before juicing harder than a Cuisnart and winning two World Series, has lately been taking to Twitter in search of a wife. He’s the total package — a six-time MLB all-star and member of the…
Miami Beach is largely helpless to stop Memorial Day partiers from coming to town for Urban Beach Weekend, which saw seven injured and one killed in police-related shootings this year, city Mayor Matti Herrera Bower said Tuesday afternoon. According to police, more than 400 were arrested.”There is no organizer, no…
As the story surrounding the two early-morning Memorial Day police shootings evolves, numerous questions have been raised about the circumstances under which one person was killed and seven people injured.Two separate shootings happened early Monday — in one, a man was reportedly driving recklessly and shooting from his car; in…
Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin says a curfew imposed for next year’s South Beach Memorial Day festivities may be in order.Libbin, in response to two police shootings that left seven injured and one dead early Monday, wrote on his Facebook page that the “mayhem on the streets of Miami Beach”…
Before at least seven people were injured or killed in multiple early-morning shootouts Monday, many were saying Sunday night that the scene at South Beach’s Urban Beach Weekend didn’t seem as bad as it had in the past.The long weekend was expected to draw 300,000 visitors to South Beach this…
There were thousands of fans at Thursday night’s watch party at the American Airlines Arena to see the Chicago Bulls fold like a fitted sheet in the final seconds and lose 83-80 to the Heat, who will face Dallas for the NBA crown. But only two attendees of the “White…
The Dallas Mavericks earned a spot in the NBA Finals Wednesday night with their 100-96 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder, which means once the Heat finally put the Chicago Bulls out of their misery tonight, all that stands between Miami and a national title is a shaggy, horse-toothed German…
As it turns out, a Hialeah father who was arrested yesterday when his bruised toddler was found wandering down 74th Street alone might not be a very nice guy.Thirty-one-year-old Carlos Aybar Oliveras is now in jail on $20,000 bond, WSVN reports, and the girl’s mother, Jessica Pinon, 23, is on…
Miami River shipping company Antillean Marine has been charged with knowingly dumping oil into U.S. waters, then falsifying its records to omit the offense, which could cost them more than $1.5 million in fines and put them on probation for years.The drama is over the ship’s bilge-cleaning equipment, which filters…
Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson have taken a stand — keep planting grass for people to mow.The National Hispanic Landscape Alliance — which held its first conference in March and has already accrued a staggering two fans on Facebook — came out earlier this month in staunch opposition…
Say what you will about former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina’s questionable dealings with everyone he’s ever had dealings with, but don’t accuse the guy of leaving anyone hungry Tuesday night.The Miami-Dade mayoral candidate took first place in the election last night and so will head to a runoff with Carlos…
Until Saturday, the recent killing-people-for-stupid-reasons fad was confined to adults — a barber shooting another barber who disrespected him, say, or a man whacking his neighbor over a parking space. Then a 14-year-old shotgunned a Jet Ski thief in the head.Twenty-year-old Reynaldo Muñoz rode his own wave runner to the…
