A tip for all the Tony Sopranos out there: If you decide to flip, testify to the feds, and then enjoy every mobster’s retirement dream — running a pizza shop named “Goomba’s” in Florida, naturally — try to keep your temper under control behind the front counter. All your hard…
This really is the only logical endpoint in a state so obsessed with sex crimes that we banished sex offenders to live under a bridge and unleashed prosecutors onto sexting teens: A teacher sees two 12-year-old students smooching in gym class and tells the school’s principal, who then reports the kids…
OK, so maybe Michelle Obama didn’t actually break any barriers yesterday in Homestead as the first black woman ever to watch a NASCAR race. She may well have set a different, all-too-predictable record, though: most heartily booed MC at the season-ending race south of Miami.Broadcast live on ESPN, Obama and Dr…
As much as he loved visiting Hogwarts, something always bugged author Lev Grossman when he worked his way through J.K. Rowling’s epic.”I found it really odd that Potter never seemed to have read C.S. Lewis growing up. No one in his world seems to have ever read any fiction at…
What would happen if Judy Blume rewrote Dante’s Inferno to star a sexually repressed teenager who thinks she’s in hell for overdosing on pot? There’s only one author alive qualified to tackle that question; luckily Chuck Palahniuk, maverick author of Fight Club and Choke, decided to give it a shot…
Sure, John Philip Stirling may be Canadian, but he’s also the most Miami-flavored drug smuggler to land in local federal court since the heyday of the Cocaine Cowboys. When he was caught at sea last week off Colombia with 800 pounds of coke, the good captain flat-out told the feds:…
Miguel Exposito may be gone, but the blowback from his turbulent reign atop the Miami Police Department hasn’t ended yet. Eight months after the last of seven fatal shootings of young black men by Exposito’s force, the U.S. Justice Department is set to announce this morning that federal investigators will probe…
North Miami Beach blogger Stephanie Kienzle’s campaign against suspect T-shirts gets nasty
Miami-Dade police drones are ready for action
Who knew churning out McLovin licenses for desperate college kids was a goldmine? For Brandon Albanito, a 25-year-old in Cape Coral, the fake ID biz was a million-dollar enterprise, with a 2010 Lexus, a Bentley and a 2003 Ferrari, a nearly $400,000 house and mountains of drugs as the side…
Next time you barricade yourself inside a parking garage with an AK-47, keep an eye out for the flying garbage can. It weighs about 18 pounds, can hover in midair, and is loaded with video cameras to send precise footage of your every move back to cops swarming on the…
A candidate making a pit stop for cafecitos at Versailles isn’t exactly hot news, even for a guy improbably still leading the GOP after a month fending off more sexual harassment accusations than Gene Simmons’ tongue. The Cuban landmark is such a de facto stopover for White House wannabes, the…
When Stephanie Kienzle, a North Miami Beach activist and blogger, saw the official senior class shirts that the proud grads of 2012 would be rocking around NMB High’s hallowed hallways, she did a double take. Then she jumped online to kick up a shitstorm that in the past two weeks…
On stage in Tampa, local comedian Jeffrey Lluis told the audience that his relationship with Johnny Law wasn’t fantastic: “As you just heard, I’m on probation,” he says in a routine uploaded to YouTube. “I lost my job recently … things got kind of complicated around the office after the…
As hundreds of spectators on Mallory Pier watched in horror in Key West yesterday, a powerboat skipping across the water during the Super Boat World Championships hit a wake, caught too much air, and violently flipped. A helicopter rushed to the crash, but the boat’s pilot and throttleman were both…
Dr. Felipe Caballero Hialeah Hospital adoption lawsuit
When former mayoral candidate and commissioner Joe Sanchez announced this morning that his Florida Highway Patrol cruiser had been vandalized with human feces — possibly the latest salvo in a war raging between FHP and the Miami police — we were picturing a liberally placed turd or two. Maybe a…
Dade County is quickly devolving into a real life Spurbury, Vermont, the town in cult classic Super Troopers where war erupts between cool, hipster Highway Patrol officers and douchebag townie cops. Except instead of fighting over Canadian drug shipments, Miami police and Florida Highway Patrol troopers are brawling over footage…
A tip for all you would-be cocaine kingpins: When the FBI catches you off the coast of Colombia with more than 800 pounds of yeyo stashed in your boat, do not argue that “there is nothing wrong with cocaine trafficking.” That’s exactly the tact John Philip Stirling, a 60-year-old Canadian…
It sounds like a tale adoptive parents tell around a campfire to scare each other sleepless: A doctor, distraught over his failed marriage and custody fight, holds a baby hostage until the would-be new parents promise to return the kid to its birth mother.Yet that’s exactly what happened in real…
On Sunday, Donald Mason climbed a chair in an upstairs bedroom of his historic Little Havana house to deal with a swarm of bees so massive that it “sounded like the walls were alive,” according to police. Mason fell from the chair while fighting off the insects, and when paramedics…
Let’s take a moment to remember back to the distant past. Cue the theremins. The time: Last November. The place: Miami-Dade. The conflict: County residents enraged over the economic free fall are close to recalling Mayor Carlos Alvarez over a host of missteps. That’s when Riptide and Random Pixels published…
