If at first you don’t succeed, just set a few more fires and hope that this time the firefighters can’t get there quick enough. That was the mindset of an arsonist in Wynwood last night who tried to burn down a warehouse near North Miami Avenue and 29th Street, only…
If ex-police chief Miguel Exposito didn’t look all that torn up on Monday when the Miami City Commission sacked him, there’s a good reason: Not only can he ignore all of Mayor Tomás Regalado’s nonsense from now on, but also he’s walking away with some serious money.Exposito will leave the…
Steve Berke, a candidate for Miami Beach mayor, had a serious message at the city commission meeting last night: He wants current Mayor Matti Herrera Bower to resign.Then Berke brought out some serious music to emphasize his point: a sexy sax man named Sergio with a live rendition of George…
For nine years, LEO Affairs has been a rowdy online meeting spot for anyone in search of the inside scoop on local police, a place where off-duty cops banter about crappy shift supervisors, overzealous internal affairs snoops, and incompetent chiefs (ahem, Exposito!).That banter has gotten a bit too loose for…
MBPD Chief Carlos Noriega erupts at resident’s questions about Nevin Shapiro
Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Miami Heat great Glen Rice had a “steamy” one-night stand with Tea Party queen bee Sarah Palin back when he was a University of Michigan star and she was a local TV sportscaster. Wait, no one has ever heard that one before because…
Donna Shalala’s month keeps getting worse. Fresh off a public flogging over failing to sniff out Nevin Shapiro, the University of Miami prez allowed a shady, drug-company-funded professor to be hired as psychiatry department chair because new funding was on the line, according to a new report in i>Forbes this…
See ya, Expo! Miami’s finest reality-show filming, mayor-baiting police chief catastrophe is officially looking for a new job thanks to Michelle Spence-Jones’s vote.MSJ evidently decided her district’s outrage over the Miami Police Department’s wave of seven fatal cop-involved shootings this past year outweighed her own desire to stick it to…
Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega is already in hot water. This summer, his cops seized cameras after a fatal police-involved shooting. And two officers on a drunken ATV joyride ran over beachgoers. So he probably should avoid berating a resident who’s simply asking questions — particularly when they relate…
This morning Miami-Dade Judge Barbara Areces threw out suspended Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito’s lawsuit against the city, putting his fate back into the hands of the commission.In case you’ve forgotten that we live in a very strange city, Areces decision essentially means that Michelle Spence-Jones — who, until about…
It seems Nevin Shapiro, the scrawny, debauched Ponzi schemer currently trying to dynamite University of Miami athletics, is even slimier than we thought. A woman now claims that Shapiro, along with his convicted felon stepdad, once helped launder drug profits for the PKK, a notorious Turkish terrorist group. The claims…
University of Miami professor cracks MLB’s umpire code
Ah, petting zoos. They seem so innocent, all those pretty horses letting you stroke their manes just like a real-life Sunday morning cartoon. It’s great! Until the horse gets a taste for human blood, that is, and decides to bite the thumb right off your hand.That’s exactly what Ann Lavecchia…
In this week’s New Times, we laid out the case for indicting North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre. Now, Pierre’s administration has just named Marc Elias Jr. as acting chief.Yes, the one and same Marc Elias Jr. who was fired as chief in Florida City a couple years back over two…
That was quick! We were all set to start a “Miguel Exposito Firing Watch” at Riptide today after numerous reports surfaced on Friday that he was going to be suspended and possibly fired today. But City Manager Johnny Martinez beat us to the punch!Moments ago, Martinez suspended Exposito after a…
Next time you’re six Buds deep at Sun Life Stadium and venting your rage at the ump about another wasted Marlins summer — “Hey, blue! Grow another eyeball and you’ll be a f***ing Cyclops!” — consider this: The guys behind home plate have a pretty insane schedule.They actually have to…
Dear Miami: You’re the capital of Latin American culture, a city so soccer-crazy that trying to find a free field for pick-up footy is tougher than sneaking an inflatable banana into a nightclub. Yet you cared so little for your MLS franchise that it dissolved after three seasons. The only professional…
Do not let Michael Moore read this story or that fat bastard will never shut up about it. A new comprehensive study on newborn deaths in every country in the world was just published and — gulp — the data shows that kids are less likely to die in their…
Indict North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre
It’s about time to give Miami-Dade’s northern seaside enclave a more appropriate moniker — Shady Isles Beach, perhaps?Consider: Last fall, voters in Sunny Isles Beach had three choices for city commission. One of them, Isaac Feldman, was later arrested for his role running an amazing South Beach scam involving Eastern…
Political yard signs usually highlight a promise or throw out a catchy slogan: Smith for Jobs or I Like Ike! Not too many politicos have spent cash to highlight their escape from felony cases.Only in Miami would you find the kind of yard signs that have been popping up all…
Last December, the Disney-planned utopia of Celebration, Florida — a Rockwellian copy of small-town Americana, complete with calming elevator music piped around town — made headlines for its first murder and, days later, its first hours-long police standoff ending in suicide. Now, courtesy of a broker named Daniel Sebastian, Celebration…
