The last time there was a Miami Heat roster that did not include Udonis Haslem was 2002. According to various reports, 2018 will not be the year that impressive streak is broken. All signs point to the Heat and Haslem settling on a deal that will keep the Heat’s longest-tenured player in uniform for at least one more season…
Another day, another South Florida cop suing his department because he feels persecuted for being white. Poor guy. In the latest case filed in Miami-Dade court last week, Miami Gardens Police Officer William Dunaske sued the force for “anti-white” harassment. The twist: Dunaske has repeatedly been accused of racism and abuse, and he filed the suit after a fight over why he had named his dog after a black officer in the department.
During his career at South Miami Senior High School, Armando Alejo got rave reviews from students for being a laid-back guy who taught difficult concepts in a way that was easy to understand.
Florida, Jeff Greene wants to be your next governor. This will perhaps be a difficult accomplishment for Greene, because, and this is key, he appears to be a massive idiot. A huge, honking stooge. Just a grade-A fool-boy. Despite being a billionaire, or perhaps due to the fact that he is filthy rich, Greene appears to have legit zero idea…
Boca Raton’s private-prison juggernaut, the GEO Group, makes more money from Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts than any other company in America. The company has been repeatedly sued for allegedly forcing immigrant detainees to work for food and itself has threatened to sue critics for protesting the company. Earlier this month, a fringe white-supremacist group, Identity Evropa, showed up at an ICE facility in Colorado and handed the workers there a thank-you card and gift basket.
There Joe Carollo is, caught in a grainy image like he’s some unholy cryptid combination of Bigfoot, Angela Lansbury, and Alex Jones. The fact that the photo is low-res and black-and-white somehow makes it more compelling. Look at how his eyes glow like he’s the Loch Ness monster, but with a forged private detective’s license.
After Ultra Music Festival’s organizers had to shell out $400,000 to an innocent concertgoer who was thrown to the ground, beaten, and tasered by Miami Police officers who lied about their actions in official reports, festival organizers understandably asked the city to send different cops next time.
The utterly bizarre and horrid tale of Pennsylvania-turned-Florida-turned-Cuban priest George Zirwas has taken an even darker turn this week. More than 15 years ago, New Times published a meticulously reported feature delving into Zirwas’ 2001 murder in Havana, where he was injected in the neck with an overdose of muscle relaxant…
There’s good reason Miami’s former mayor earned the nickname “Crazy Joe” Carollo. So when voters elected him to the city commission last fall, it’s no surprise he brought that gravitational mass of insanity back to Dinner Key. Now Carollo is allegedly harassing his enemies in parking lots at 1:30 in the morning and yelling, “I am the law!” when confronted. Good job, everyone!
Three separate shots of the incident show that no flatbed or dollies were used for the tow — but that didn’t stop Beach Towing from charging Alford $40 for it.
The last time a giant protest turned into a chaotic state of civil unrest in Hialeah was — well, it’s hard to point to a recent example. The city’s police stay busy chasing crotch-grabbing car dealers, fake veterinarians, and mail thieves, but a mob of angry rioters has yet to descend upon the “City of Progress.”
North Miami City Clerk Michael Etienne might have just committed the most wholesome theft of public money in American history. Sure, people steal a few thousand dollars in taxpayer cash all the time — but instead of using that money to cover something heinous, like dog-track gambling debts, Etienne legit stole some money to stare at Abraham Lincoln’s giant head…
Medical pot is on the rise in Florida. Since voters legalized medical marijuana and low-THC cannabis in the November 2016 general election, Florida has added 144,557 patients to the Office of Medical Marijuana Use’s user registry, according to the Department of Health’s latest update. For a state with a population of 21 million, about one in 145 Floridians can legally use medical weed.
David Beckham’s quest to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami has so far run as smoothly as Daphne Campbell’s campaign to return to the Florida Senate. Beckham and his partners have spent so long fumbling between various stadium schemes that it takes the kind of faith usually found only in remote Benedictine monasteries to believe his franchise will ever take the field in South Florida.
Unlike the NFL, college ball has no preseason appetizer to holds fans over until the football is real. Instead of getting a quarter-season of fake games like in the NFL, the best college fans get are a few sparse clips on Twitter of their favorite school’s team half-assing a practice in shorts before the season opener.
Last Friday, Miami Beach City Attorney Raul Aguila schooled the town’s mayor and commissioners in how to avoid getting in trouble during election season. He sent all the officials a three-page memo, written by the county’s Commission on Ethics & Public Trust, spelling out some clear ground rules…
When 25-year-old Cuban native Danay Ojeda got into her car last Wednesday afternoon, she had no idea she was being watched. By the time Ojeda loaded 26 pounds of marijuana into the back of her 2017 Dodge Durango, the cops had already been tailing her for weeks.
Bribing the head of an entire nation’s anti-corruption task force is apparently cheaper and way less glamorous than you might think. Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, who was the director of Colombia’s Office of Anti-Corruption, admitted in court today that he could be bought with about $132,000 and that he’d taken a portion of that money inside a bathroom at Miami’s Dolphin Mall.
Daphne Campbell is the worst candidate on this month’s primary ballot. She lies about basically everything: her dead mother, her liens, her debts to the federal government, and the cash a lobbyist stuffed into her purse on camera. When reporters question her about these lies, she either pretends she’s not Daphne Campbell or calls the cops.
After 12 senior citizens overheated and died last year in a sweltering Hollywood nursing home where Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, commissioners in Miami-Dade County agreed to look into installing generators in all of the county’s public housing developments. But now that officials have crunched the numbers, those improvements seem unlikely to ever happen.
Raymond Odigie Uadiale, age 41, is great with computers. Good enough to be hired by Microsoft as a network engineer. And good enough, according to the feds, to run a virus scamming ring that seized computers via a fake warning from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, charged people a $200 “fine” to unlock their desktops, and warned users they might be sent to prison if they didn’t pay up.
In 2014, Russian hackers nearly wreaked havoc on Ukraine’s presidential elections. Their plan: Sneak into the country’s election website to make it look like an ultra-right-winger had won with 37 percent of the vote, when in reality he’d received barely 1 percent. That plan was foiled at the last minute, but a similar disinformation campaign might be way too easy to pull off in Florida.
