Sherbrooke Hotel owner Mitch Novick woke up Friday to news of three robberies on South Beach. Novick, an outspoken critic of what he calls “a crisis situation of utter lawlessness” on Ocean Drive, was incensed, calling crime on the stretch a “cancer.” He didn’t have to wait long for a…
Across the nation, Black Lives Matter protesters have taken to the streets over the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Miami’s marchers gathered on Saturday, shutting down traffic downtown and on the MacArthur Causeway. More than 200 people started the protest outside the Wynwood…
In April, City of Miami Police arrested the University of Miami’s star running back Mark Walton in one of the oddest DUI cases in recent South Florida memory. A man resembling Walton, cops said, had pretended to be a cop, pulled a woman over, and allegedly rubbed his genitals on…
A small but obvious tip for police: Don’t accuse a man with a debilitating eye condition of “turning a blind eye” to drug dealers in his area. And then don’t also hit him right in the eyes. Yet that’s exactly what a 74-year-old landlord accuses a group of City of…
For an entire generation of South Floridians, Dwyane Wade is the last connection to long-gone period of sports fandom. When Wade arrived in Miami in 2003, there was no Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, or Instagram. “Hot takes” seemed more like the name of a food truck than a way to describe…
A little over a year ago, as Peter Beach was riding his bike across the Venetian Causeway, something caught his eye. He turned around to get a closer look. There, lying in the grass in front of Biscayne Bay, was a person huddled under a blanket, the bridge and luxury…
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is on lockdown while Miami-Dade police investigate reports of an active shooter and a bomb threat, according to the department’s Twitter feed. The threat was reported around 3 p.m. “Precautionary measures” are being taken to ensure the safety of patients, doctors, and visitors. A hospital representative tells…
Tensions between police-reform activists and law enforcement could not be higher today. Cops shot two nonviolent black men dead this week on film. A Dallas sniper gunned down 11 officers during a police brutality protest last night, killing five. So when Dashana Honore, a 26-year-old resident of Ives Estates in…
Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men, were killed by police in separate incidents this week. Sterling, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had been pinned to the ground and appeared to not be resisting when a cop pressed a gun to his chest and fatally shot him. Castile, from Minnesota,…
In 2013, New Times called Jimmy Sabatino Florida’s “most notorious con man.” For a con man, the word “notorious” basically means “has been caught a bunch of times,” so we’ll refrain from calling the 39-year-old “talented” — but damn if he isn’t persistent. Case in point: Federal authorities said yesterday that…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. And, also, this week we’re here to remind all Floridians that despite any appearances to the contrary, babies are incredibly fragile creatures and should be treated as such. Woman Allegedly Swung…
Most human beings would have a hard time sitting down to some ropa vieja with a guy they just spent months calling a “con man” and suggesting on national television might also have a tiny little micropenis. But then again, most human beings aren’t shameless political opportunist on the level…
When the City of Miami changed Wynwood’s zoning codes last year to make it easier for people to live in the area, everyone knew it was just a matter of time before a huge condo complex landed in the heart of the uber-hip neighborhood. That time is now, if developer East…
Donald Trump will give a his first campaign speech in Miami tomorrow — but it won’t be open to the public. Maybe that’s because was forced to cancel his last planned rally in Doral in March after protesters planned to storm the event. Or perhaps it’s due to the fact that…
A little over two years ago, Douglas Park, a ten-acre green area just north of Coral Gables closed after city officials found elevated levels of arsenic, lead, barium, and other hazardous materials in the soil. And then, nothing happened. Month after month, the park sat dormant and overgrown. A cadre of…
Exactly one year ago today, Ruben Sebastian was driving across the Rickenbacker Causeway with a trunk full of groceries in his Chevy HHR station wagon. Sebastian, who at that time was an armed security guard for Miami-Dade County, had been earning some extra cash by delivering groceries and was in…
Rayne Burse was walking her dog, Mojito, near a canal in her new neighborhood Sunday evening when an older woman first approached and shook a finger in her face. “You’re part of South Miami,” said the stranger, later identified by police as Maria Dorrbecker, who had come out of a…
Black people make up one-fifth of Miami-Dade County’s population. It doesn’t exactly take a Nobel Laureate to see the county hasn’t always treated its majority-black neighborhoods with a ton of respect. (See: Beckham, David.) There’s no one reason for the routine neglect of African-American areas, but a study released today…
Miami Beach Police issued a dire warning to residents last week: Stay off the beach when the sun goes down. The warning came after a string of high-profile robberies culminated in a Texas woman getting sexually assaulted by a trio of men on the beach after dark. They also robbed…
The Kevin Durant sweepstake is over, and the Miami Heat did not win. Dwyane Wade is flirting with joining the Cleveland Cavaliers. Chris Bosh is playing guitar with singer-songwriter Miguel on a yacht, but we don’t know if he will be playing basketball any time soon. Luol Deng, Joe Johnson, and…
If you’re living in South Florida, by now you’ve probably come around to the idea of climate change and realized that, like it or not, sea levels are rising. But solutions to the problem are pricey, and there’s no clear consensus for how we’re all going to pay for the…
“Ninth Street and A1A Boulevard.” Richard Whitecloud relays his oceanfront location to the emergency dispatcher. “The fatalities just keep racking up in this intersection,” he mutters. “Dammit, man. Intersection of death!” Whitecloud, six feet one with long, curly hair kept back in a ponytail, bends down to inspect a corpse:…
