For weeks after a joyriding Miami Beach cop crashed his ATV following a night of on-duty drinking on Ocean Drive, some in the department have argued that a couple rogue cops were to blame. That argument won’t hold water today with the release of an internal investigation.At least three more officers…
Next time you have a few minutes to burn in Palm City, Florida, why not book a leisurely afternoon at Negrohead Point? No? Perhaps a relaxing drive over Negro Jim Hammock Bridge near Moore Haven would calm your nerves. Then you could hop up to Jefferson County to cool off in…
Until last year, Jamie Alberto Marin-Zamora was one of the last leaders standing in Colombia’s once-feared Norte del Valle Cartel. Nicknamed “Belo Marin,” he ran a ring that distributed thousands of kilos of coke every year.This morning, Belo Marin is surrounded by guards in Miami’s Wilkie D. Ferguson Federal Courthouse, preparing…
Royal Caribbean doesn’t care about employees raped at sea, a lawyer says
Burn Notice doesn’t tell the half of the absurd real-life characters who call Miami home. Take Sarkis Soghanalian, our very own “Merchant of Death,” who sold Saddam Hussein his arsenal, profiteered from dozens of bloody wars, and whenever things went sour, traded his freedom for juicy CIA intel on crime…
Manuel Galan and Cirildo Soliz — both young, gay and living in rural Collier County — were walking in the center of Immokalee recently when a car pulled up and someone yelled, “Fucking fags!” Five or six young men jumped out and beat Galan and Soliz bloody while yelling homophobic…
On October 10, 2010, off the coast of Israel, a 40-year-old South African woman working on a Celebrity cruise ship blacked out while having a drink with a male co-worker in his cabin. She awoke hours later to find the man, a Costa Rican, raping her.The sexual assault at sea…
Even in death, Carlos Andres Perez managed to ruffle his nemesis Hugo Chavez’s feathers. After the ex-president passed away in Miami last Christmas, his body was caught in a tug-of-war between Chavez loyalists and the Magic City’s anti-regime exiles as two sides of his family battled over whether to bury him…
Two years ago, a tiny, Doral-based computer firm called Psystar challenged Apple with a legal question its two 20-something founders believed had never really been answered in court: Can Steve Jobs legally force consumers to use Apple operating systems only on Apple hardware?Psystar just got its answer in the Court…
Say farewell to the most enduring image of the time bubble the Castros have built around Cuba: the kinda charming fleet of jerry-rigged ’50s American cars clogging Havana’s streets, held together with not much more than duct tape and hope.For fifty years, the regime has forbidden most Cubans from buying…
The Miami Marlins must suck up to a boat salesman for a website
Rhett Fuller spent 21 years running from murder charges; now he’s coming home
Faced with a massive $62 million gap in city finances, angry unions and an increasingly hostile commission, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado did what any good leader would do: He kept commissioners up so late they didn’t know what they were voting on.It worked! Just after 3:30 this morning, they voted…
The good citizens of Ocala have been mighty concerned lately about the man in the pointy-headed white hood waving at cars from a downtown street corner. “Is the KKK back in Florida?” they naturally wondered.But no. Ocala’s most questionable street-corner display is simply an anthropomorphic ice-cream cone gone horribly, horribly wrong…
Judging by the comments around baseball, not many players are going to weep openly tomorrow when the Marlins play their last game ever at Sun Life Stadium. “There were a lot of rain delays, and no fans,” Josh Willingham recalls. “You’re talking about the worst conditions,” ex-fan fave Cody Ross…
Deep in the sweatiest bowels of Sun Life Stadium, one of Jeffrey Loria’s minions is ticking off a to-do list for next season, when his ball club will be rechristened the Miami Marlins and move into a gleaming, fresh Little Havana home.”New $515 million stadium at taxpayer expense?” Check! “Garish…
Six weeks ago, Jennifer Lynn Hearn started bragging on Facebook that her husband had left her, but she’d already found a new man: “Wow. I am so glad one person walked out of my life so others could walk in,” she wrote.Turns out, her husband, Carl “Cliff” Hearn, didn’t exactly…
Det. Ed Hill of North Miami Beach has already broken one giant police no-no: sleeping with the Russian mail-order bride of a man he’d just arrested for murder. Just for good measure, he went ahead and took over the jailed man’s driveway-paving business, too.Now Hill is accused of forging a…
Believe it or not, the right wing is targeting Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a rumored vice presidential contender. They argue he is ineligible for the job because his Cuban parents weren’t U.S. citizens when he was born in Miami in 1971.It is the same argument of twisted logic and…
Police union chiefs try to silence online message board LEOAffairs.com
How best to celebrate the opening of a taxpayer-manhandling new ballpark that looks like the grotesque lovechild of the ’70s spaceship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and a cheap toaster oven? How about a new logo that’s the hideous mutant spawn of the Mets’ emblem and that time…
A vicious crime wave has gripped Central Florida’s finest fabric stores, seeding blind terror in the sequin isles, panic in the feather-boa racks, and knee-shaking fear in the wig department. Tell us of the horror, Amanda Marshall, Orlando-area Jo-Ann Fabrics manager: “It’s a whole gang of drag queens,” she tells the…
