Well, it’s only Tuesday and there are already quite a few trials coming to an end in Miami courts this week. First there was the international drug lord who got 150 years, then the delusional but smooth con man who was sentenced to five years, and now, naturally, there’s the…
Jimmy Sabatino has spent most of his adult life living in fancy hotels or prison cells. For the next five years, he’ll be in cell mode after spending much of last summer conning various Miami Beach hotels out of nearly $600,000. It’s just the latest in a long line of…
Last fall, Miami leaders finally admitted they’d known for years that the long-shuttered Old Smokey trash incinerator in Coconut Grove had poisoned the earth with toxic ash. But they’ve also insisted contamination is contained within a 4.5-acre, fenced-off facility. However, new reports obtained by New Times contradict that claim, revealing…
It took more than six hours, a frantic round of last-minute backroom negotiations, and dozens of speeches from backers and lobbyists, but the massive Miami Worldcenter project passed one of its last remaining roadblocks at the city commission last night. The commission eventually voted 4-0 to approve key zoning agreements…
Rich Wilkerson Jr. isn’t your average fourth-generation Pentecostal. He’s a camera-ready natural charmer who lives in a sunny midtown Miami loft, knows the words to the hip-hop songs on the radio, and binge-watches HBO shows.
Fast cars. Beautiful women. And more bling than the Tower of London. From the moment he stepped foot in this city, Álvaro López Tardón embodied Miami’s reputation for risky business and mind-boggling rewards. Yesterday he finally paid for that excess with his life — and then some. Already found guilty…
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The dog sales day could soon be over in Miami. The city commission unanimously voted this morning to pass a six-month moratorium on any new stores selling dogs and cats in the city. The temporary ban will serve as a test run for a possible permanent ordinance. No existing pet…
A 20-year-old man died this morning in an apparent accident after he climbed the mast of the Carnival Ecstasy while it was docked at PortMiami. The incident happened shortly after 7 a.m., and the as yet unidentified man visiting from North Carolina broke into a restricted area of the ship…
DecoBike, Miami Beach’s 3-year-old bike-share program, has been a stirring success, with more than 1.5 million rides logged on the blue-and-silver cruisers just last year. But spend half an hour watching cyclists zipping around South Beach and you’re about as likely to spot a bear on a unicycle as you…
Across the nation, the August 9 shooting of unarmed teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri provoked angry calls for cops to wear body cameras. Here in South Florida, Miami-Dade and Miami Beach cops quickly announced they were on board with the idea. But the Miami Police Department, perhaps the state’s…
Ryan Tannehill has one question for the haters: How does his pass taste? Fancy yourself a second helping, do you? Following an awkward week that felt like the worst dating show ever titled Joe Philbin Plays Hard To Get , Ryan Tannehill proceeded to rip the long-stemmed-rose out of his…
Fifteen people were shot at an adult nightclub in Liberty City early Sunday morning, according to Miami police. The injured range in age from age 11 to 25. “At 1 a.m. this morning we received multiple calls for several people who were shot at Northwest Seventh Ave. and 64th Street,”…
Alexander Rousseau, the 31-year-old former Miami firefighter and frequent charity calendar model, has been sentenced to 27 years for downloading child porn to his laptop from firehouses. Rousseau was arrested last April after being accused of downloading hundreds of videos of prepubescent girls engaged in sexual activities on his laptop…
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Oh my God, I can’t believe the Dolphins missed another first down / They’re losing to the Chiefs / That’s like so embarrassing / I can’t even / Hey, do you wanna get another beer / I really need one / But first … Let me take a #Selfie Yes,…
This thing definitely looks like it belongs in some superhero or dystopian sci-fi movie. We just can’t tell if it’s the secret headquarters of the good guys or bad guys. Fairholme Fund, an investment fund worth $17 billion and run by Bruce Berkowitz, is moving into Edgewater, further signaling the…
Ana Alliegro, the former David Rivera campaign manager and “Conservative Bad Girl” currently serving six months house arrest for her part in a fake candidate scheme, posted a long statement on her Facebook page. While admitting that some of her actions “were wrong and illegal,” she also excoriates Rivera’s former…
On Wednesday, seven people were seriously injured in what has to be one of the craziest carjackings in Miami history. As valets at downtown’s J.W. Marriott Marquis unloaded bags from a brand new Lexus, a man jumped in and plowed through cars and bystanders to escape. This morning, police have…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week, that includes a dad who handed his suicidal son a gun, a robber who was “just kidding” and barbershop SWAT raids…
If your Friday night plan was to skip traffic and sneak across the Venetian Causeway to Miami Beach, you might reconsider. The narrow, two-lane toll road will host this month’s tour de Critical Mass. It’s the first time in five months that Critical Mass will cross the causeways and maneuver…
Haider Zafar had quite some balls. He defrauded Mike Miller, James Jones, and Rashard Lewis out of a combined $7.5 million in a shady investment scheme, and then turned around to use some of that money to buy season tickets to watch his victims play basketball. Zafar was of course…
