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Tim Elfrink

Tim Elfrink is a former investigative reporter and managing editor for Miami New Times. He has won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

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Miami Parks Worker Beat Up a Man Trying to Get a Domino Park Table

By Tim Elfrink
Oct 10, 2018

Rayan Rodriguez just wanted to play a few rounds of dominoes in Máximo Gómez Park — better known as Calle Ocho's famous Domino Park — where tourists line up all day to snap photos of viejitos slapping tiles down on the park's tables. But instead of snagging a table, Rodriguez...
Miami-Dade Police Investigating Insane Video of Woman Firing Gun, Abducting Kid From Flea Market

By Tim Elfrink
Oct 5, 2018

A few seconds after storming into a flea market parking lot with a handgun, firing that gun into the same car where her kid was sitting, and then grabbing her son and speeding away, the woman with bright green hair suddenly realizes she perhaps shouldn't have let her friend film...
Haulover Beach Closed as Red Tide Reaches Miami

By Tim Elfrink
Oct 4, 2018

After months of watching a wrenching natural catastrophe unfolding in slow motion across Florida's Gulf Coast and hoping against hope it wouldn't move to the Atlantic, Miami's dreaded day has come at last: Red tide is here.
Trump Takes Question From Racist, Homophobic Florida Conspiracy Website

By Tim Elfrink
Sep 27, 2018

For the past two decades, Pastor Rick Wiles has built a career on the far fringes of the evangelical movement by railing against Jews, gays, and immigrants in language so over-the-top it would make Pat Buchanan blush. Wiles blamed Hurricane Harvey's devastation in Houston on the city's "LGBT devotion,"...
"Blacks for Trump" Founder Banned From Bankruptcy Court for Abusing System

By Tim Elfrink
Sep 25, 2018

Maurice Symonette has become a political celebrity thanks to Donald Trump's staff, which has repeatedly given the ex-member of Miami's deadly Yahweh ben Yahweh cult prime seats behind the president at nationally televised rallies to show off his "Blacks for Trump" signs. But Symonette recently told a bankruptcy court that he's dead broke...

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