Miami Beach Police have identified the officer who plowed his ATV into two beachgoers early Sunday morning as 30-year-old Officer Derick Kuilan, as investigators continue looking into whether he was drunk and joyriding with a woman he’d met at the Clevelander.Victim Luis Almonte tells Channel 7 that Kuilan didn’t have…
The squad car tears through the dark streets of Port-au-Prince. It screeches around tight corners well after midnight. Then it slams to a gravely stop in front of the tall iron gates of Bernard Mevs Hospital.As a cop leans on the horn, Amazan Jean-Uber lies motionless on the back seat:…
In October, a new law will make Florida the 31st state to outlaw bestiality. Yep, we will be tragically separated from the furry and hoofed objects of our lust, for no reason other than a pesky species divide. It’s like a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale, if Shakespeare had…
Manny Fernandez was defending an insurance company in Miami-Dade court when a witness, speaking in a halting, Ecuadorian accent, got emotional when he recalled seeing his roommate mauled in a construction accident. “He was amazing,” Fernandez says. “I was really blown away.”The testimony was especially impressive because the real witness…
Three people are recovering in local hospitals this afternoon, and police are looking into whether an on-duty Miami Beach cop put them there by getting blitzed at the Clevelander, picking up a girl, and then joyriding on an ATV early this morning.Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega says investigators are…
Here’s just another bit of info to pile on to illustrate the obvious: Miami’s Real Estate market is totally fucked. Excuse the profanity, but honestly is there any better way to describe? It is fucked. That’s what it is.Anyway, Business Insider compiled a not-so-cheery listicle, and determined that Miami will…
As far as we know Miguel Exposito is still the police chief in the City of Miami despite his ongoing tension between with Mayor Regalado. Well, despite no official announcement of his departure, the city is apparently already looking for a new chief. They’ve posted a help wanted ad looking…
Chris Boudreau of Brooksville, Florida fell behind on his mortgage. It’s not an uncommon tale in Florida right now. What is uncommon is the tactics his mortgage lender took to rectify the situation. 21 Mortgage Corporation of Knoxville, Tennessee hired a local company to come into his house, trash his…
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Gov. Rick Scott has seemed to overcome his hesitations about funding Central Florida’s SunRail commuter train program and announced his approval of state funding for the program today. Scott’s first big decision in office was surprisingly killing a federally funded high-speed train project, a move that proved highly unpopular and…
A 50-year-old Colombian drug kingpin was fined $1 million and sentenced to 22 years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge in Miami. And that was the plea deal.Edgar Vellejo-Guarin was indicted in 2001 after Coast Guard officers discovered 4,000 kilograms of cocaine on a freighter in the Caribbean and…
Aggressive LeBron James dunks may have been too few and far between during the NBA finals, but fear not Miami Heat fans, James can still take it to the house with no mercy …against middle schoolers at least. James made a surprise appearance at the Nothing but Net basketball camp…
There’s a cancerous strain of political outlook on both sides that views politics as nothing more than a game played by two sides. Somehow the conservative Sunshine State News Service managed to inject that outlook into the results of the Miami-Dade mayoral election, a non-partisan race that pitted two candidates…
Oh sure, we’ve all swiped a thing or two from the office, but taking a few items from the supply closet at NASA is a far more serious offense than taking home a few pens and sticky notes.Former astronaut Edgar Mitchell is being sued in a Miami Federal court for…
Last week, New Times published “Rotten to the Core”, a cover story exposing the Florida Department of Education’s failure to properly oversee schools receiving money from the McKay Scholarship, a state voucher program paying private school tuition for disabled students. The consequences, as I reported: corporal punishment in schools, dangerous…
Miami-Dade police officers shot and killed four suspects Thursday while investigating criminal activity near the Redland. Officers had been called to a home near Southwest 216th Street and 189th Avenue when they were confronted by four men in ski masks armed with firearms. Very little information seems to be available…
Hours after the Hoedown in Hadley Park, Riptide caught up with Mayor Tomas Regalado in Little Haiti to press him on the $400,000 “bribe” Chief Miguel Exposito says he was offered to resign. This time Regalado argued the deal was a perfectly legal severance package — negotiated solely by ex-CFO…
They’re listening. Really hard.Wiretaps in Florida authorized by district courts and the state attorney general rose from 78 in 2009 to 143 in 2010, according to a report released Thursday by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Florida’s 83.3-percent jump is the second-largest in the country…
Not content to pay their employees minimum wage, ten Homestead farms and contractors have been screwing their bean pickers — actual job description, not an ethnic slur — out of even that measly pay to the tune of nearly $700,000.As if working under the blistering sun all day in a…
Hugo Chávez has cancer.For nearly a month, rumors have been circling about the Venezuelan president’s health. But his mysterious sojourn to Havana became a little less murky Thursday night when a noticeably thinner Chávez announced in a live broadcast from Cuba that his doctors had removed a cancerous tumor.Chávez, who…
Governor Rick Scott wants to make Florida the best state to business in in the county, but a report by CNBC suggests he has a long way to go. In its annual rankings of business friendly states Florida came in at a respectable but not stupendous 18th place tie with…
The arrest of former Miami Dolphin Daryl Gardener has it all: cougars, accusations of cheating, sorority houses, cologne bottles, and a club called Fubar.The 38-year-old former defensive tackle was arrested early Tuesday morning in front of the University of Central Florida’s Zeta Tau Alpha house in Orlando along with his…
