Porter Fisher, the former Biogenesis employee who provided documents to Miami New Times to help blow open the massive Major League Basbeball PED scandal, stored boxes of documents related to the case in the trunk of his Toyota Camry. This past March, while Fisher was getting a spray tan in…
Criminality and social media have rarely had a harmonious relationship. There are several obvious reasons, but the most important is this: Cops have Facebook. And Twitter. And — it has surely dawned upon 19-year-old Dupree Johnson — Instagram. Dupree Johnson, who’s evinced an iron dedication to crime, racking up five…
The three Florida International University students arrested late last night in a crackdown on a test-answer-stealing ring have been identified as students Krissy Lamadrid, 21, and Jason Calderon, 23, as well as alum Alex Anaya, 30. The three orchestrated a scheme in which they stole test answers and then sold…
Three Miami-Dade Police officers are recovering this morning and two suspects are dead after a massive county-spanning manhunt. The incident began around 4:30 a.m. when the first officer tried to arrest a subject after gunshots were reported in the 2200 block of NW 27th Avenue. The suspect shot the officer…
Baseball is America’s pastime. But it’s also an international business that sucks in scores of foreign-born players every year. Behind that business are men who secret ballplayers into the United States in exchange for a slice of their future earnings. This side of baseball tends to remain in the shadows…
Despite the fact there’s no argument that Derek Medina pulled the trigger that killed his wife shortly before he posted a photo of her dead body on Facebook, Medina plead not guilty to first-degree murder charges in court this morning. Medina’s case will now head to trial as soon as…
Few things arouse a man’s anger like American football. When the Dolphins lose, a thousand dudes across South Florida launch their remotes in unison at their TV screens. Road rage rises and bar fights break out. But murder? That’s exactly what happened earlier this week in North Miami Beach, however,…
Four Miami Beach buildings were tagged with messages of hate last night, and two of those were associated with the city’s Jewish community. Messages and symbols including “KKK,” the anarchist symbol and bulls’ eyes were scrawled in red paint…
The Florida Keys, haunted dots of green floating in the Atlantic, have long attracted despondent souls plotting violent escapes from reality. In 2011, a prominent and sadistic Wisconsin surgeon named Glen Tucker shot to death his wife, Joan, before turning the gun on himself. His death, as we reported last…
Riptide isn’t in the habit of giving away robbery tips, but it’s pretty obvious that once you pull off your heist and get your cash you need to run like hell. Well, a quick-thinking gas station store clerk foiled a robbery attempt by suggesting that they also load up on…
Two Miami-Dade brothers are behind bars on $2 million bail after a botched drug deal left two young men dead in Naples. According to the Naples Daily News, Jacob and Nickolas Mislow allegedly shot Keegan Leon, 21, and Eric Riley Jr., 23, to death Saturday around 9:30 p.m. before taking…
On Saturday night, hours before authorities say 20-year-old Kayla Mendoza pulled her Hyundai Sonata onto the Sawgrass Expressway going the wrong way and crashed into a 2012 Toyota Camry, killing the two passengers inside, she tweeted “2 drunk 2 care,” her Twitter feed shows. Mendoza, of Hallandale Beach, who calls…
In Miami, it seems the difference between clubbing with friends and filming porn is a fake ID and a sleazy dude.
Miami Beach cop Reinaldo Casas really wants his job back. He wants it back so badly he’s willing to admit he was once an aficionado of the most embarrassing product ever. Sexual aid cream. On February 27, the Miami Beach Police Department fired Casas — who’s been reprimanded for making…
How much Red Bull would one need to drink to successfully pull of a heist off half-a-million dollars worth of Red Bull energy? That’s what Medley police are asking after they discovered that about 100 pallets of the wing-giving energy drink were stolen from a warehouse over the Veterans Day…
George Zimmerman certainly hasn’t managed to keep himself on the right side of the law ever since he was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and now he’d heading back to jail. Zimmerman was arrested this afternoon by Seminole County deputies after they received reports of a disturbance…
A few months ago, New Times chronicled the world of Miami’s “sugar babies,” women who date rich older men with the expectation of receiving money and gifts in exchange. And while that’s certainly ethically questionable, at least those women are adults. A Miami man was arrested after he traveled to…
Jason Beckman is currently on trial for the shocking 2009 murder of his father Jay Beckman, a South Miami commissioner. Testimony from one of a Beckman’s fellow inmates provides a bizarre motive for the slaying. The younger Beckman apparently snapped after his father made a joke about actress Megan Fox…
This week, New Times pulls back the spattered porn curtain on one of the most bizarre and brutal stories in South Florida history. It’s the tale of Miami’s biggest male porn performer, his rise to smut-screen stardom, and his descent into murder. But John Snavely — better known as “Champ”…
After years of trial delays and four days of juror deliberation, a verdict has finally been delivered in the Sean Taylor murder case. The jury found Eric Rivera Jr. guilty of the second-degree murder of the late Miami Hurricanes and Washington Redskins star. See also: Redskins Safety Sean Taylor Shot…
Rafael Herman, a man who never fails to run for mayor of Miami Beach while stirring up more controversy than any chance of being elected, is at it again. Yesterday, the perennial candidate was arrested in an incident that started with him yelling at African-American passengers on a Miami Beach…
Just an hour after losing to the New England Patriots, Dolphins center Mike Pouncy was served with a subpoena in the Aaron Hernandez case. The two were teammates at the University of Florida and remained good friends. Pouncy had earlier courted controversy by wearing a hat with the words “Free…
