Late last month, Miami Beach Police swept into an $8.3 million mansion perched on the bay. As they climbed a marble staircase looking for the master bedroom, the house seemed empty. But inside a cavernous closet, they found nearly $17,000 in cash next to the bearded and sallow body of…
Miami Beach cop Reinaldo Casas really wants his job back. He wants it back so badly he’s willing to admit he was once an aficionado of the most embarrassing product ever. Sexual aid cream. On February 27, the Miami Beach Police Department fired Casas — who’s been reprimanded for making…
Late last month, Miami Beach Police swept into an $8.3 million mansion perched on the bay. As they climbed a marble staircase looking for the master bedroom, the house seemed empty. But inside a cavernous closet, they found nearly $17,000 in cash nearby the bearded and sallow body of Texas’…
Yesterday afternoon, something insane happened. Prominent local blogger Carlos Miller declined to comment for a story when reached by New Times. This was remarkable because (a) Miller loves to talk and (b) the circumstances of the short conversation were rather strange. Miller, who runs the blog Photography Is Not a…
On schedule at exactly 10 a.m. yesterday morning, Miami’s most notorious con man called New Times to chat. This rigmarole has been happened every day at the same time for weeks now, but yesterday’s made for slightly different fodder. For the next 30 minutes, Jimmy Sabatino held forth on every…
It was near midnight on a Saturday in late August when a thin 25-year-old in a Miami Dolphins cap flexed the platinum chain around his neck, hoisted a two-inch-thick stack of hundred-dollar bills, and giggled at the absurdity of it all. Just two months ago, the young rapper had been…
Lydia had just left a phone message, and it sounded urgent. “I need a babysitter,” she murmured into the Miami man’s voicemail from her house on East Seventh Street. “There are a few kids here that need to be disciplined. I really need someone to get through to these rascals,…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department, which recently came under scrutiny when a New Times investigation exposed how its loose off-duty detail policy has abetted bouncer violence at beach bars, has known security personnel at such establishments are too aggressive since at least 2010, according to an internal affairs investigation obtained…
Try not to laugh when you read this. The Dolphins, whom the Bucs clobbered last night, are in an obvious tailspin. So now, following l’affaire Incognito, team owner Stephen Ross, who solemnly declared himself “appalled” yesterday, has assembled a few Men of Honor to Restore Respect to the Dolphins. These…
Lydia had just left a phone message, and it sounded urgent. “I need a babysitter,” she murmured into the Miami man’s voicemail from her house on East Seventh Street. “There are a few kids here that need to be disciplined. I really need someone to get through to these rascals,…
A corporate affiliate of the Mormon Church announced it’s finalizing a deal with St. Joe Company that will bring its overall land ownership to nearly 670,000 acres.
Facebook is a humorless overlord that has taken sweeping control over our lives, subconscious, and, apparently, the freedom we have to create domain names. That, at least, is the message that was sent loud and clear to Key West native Cody Romano late last month when he unwittingly started a…
Straddling a mountain bike at the corner of 71st Street and Dickens Avenue in North Beach last weekend, a man in sunglasses grinned, grooving to the music blasting in his headphones. His face was hidden in scruff, and there was a certain street hardness about him. His dirt-splattered hands held…
Straddling a mountain bike at the corner of 71st Street and Dickens Avenue in North Beach last weekend, a man in sunglasses grinned, grooving to the music blasting in his headphones. His face was canvassed in scruff, and there was a certain street hardness about him. In his dirt-splattered hands…
North Beach, you’re it, baby. Lord knows I’ve wandered, slumming the Pubbelly restaurants of South Beach, trolling the art galleries of Wynwood, diving the waters of Key Biscayne. But listen, North Beach, I always come back to you. You’re what I want. You’re what I need. You’re it. North Beach:…
At 1 a.m. last Thursday, Miami Beach Police discovered a short, bullish man wandering on the Rivo Alto bridge. He was wearing blue jeans and a dark shirt, and his face was covered in hideous purple bruises. This man — who once sued Goldrush strip club over a $19,000 bar…
Late last week, one of Miami Beach’s wealthiest and most flamboyant characters was found wandering the streets, his face battered and bruised. Police arrested the five-foot-five Mark Gold — who once sued Goldrush strip club over a $19,000 bar tab and uses chimpanzees as commercial props for his behemoth law…
At 1 a.m. last Thursday, Miami Beach Police discovered a short, bullish man wandering on the Rivo Alto bridge. He was wearing blue jeans and a dark shirt, and his face was covered in hideous purple bruises. This man — who once sued Goldrush strip club over a $19,000 bar…
Pollo Tropical. Snapper. TGIF Friday’s. Dunkin Donuts. McDonald’s. Miami City Commission candidate Richard Dunn loves him some food. And, according to yesterday’s campaign finance report — which arrived three weeks late — he will spend, and spend freely when it comes to terrible food. While other candidates sashay and schmooze…
Last week, the Miami-Dade medical examiner released a scathing report condemning the medical treatment of local Spanish-language radio personality Betty Pino, who died in August at age 65 after wounds from a procedure to remove silicone from her buttocks became infected. In that report, Pino’s family said they were considering…
There was once a time in Miami, long before this epoch of patas sucias, EDM, and LeBron James, when vagrants and vagabonds pervaded the city, and good, God-fearing folks feared proud sluts roaming the streets. Or at least that’s how it appears according to the 1917 Miami city code, which…
Here at Riptide, we chew on the fodder of public corruption, despotism, and power-hungry cops gone bad. But today, we’re thrilled to report, this story won’t be another entry into the annals of Miami mayhem. Late last month, 29-year-old Jessica Robles looked at her three children and came to a…
