More than 14 months after the saga of Fausto Lopez, the City of Miami police officer who was stopped by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper while speeding 120 mph down the Florida Turnpike to an off-duty job, is still causing embarrassment for the department.Now the trooper, Donna “Jane” Watts, has…
Nationwide, the use of the death penalty is in steep decline, with only nine states carrying out any executions at all last year. But in the Sunshine State, sentencing prisoners to die is as in vogue as ever.>In fact, Florida led the country in new death sentences handed down in…
Krishna Maharaj was a powerful local newspaper publisher when he was arrested in 1986 and accused of a grisly crime: the brutal double murder of a father and son in a downtown Miami hotel room. Maharaj was convicted, but as we reported back in 2007, the Trinidadian millionaire insisted he…
There’s no such thing as too much precaution following last week’s shooting in Connecticut.Two Miami-Dade schools were placed on lockdown today after a shooting occurred nearby…
Three defendants involved in the bonkers South Beach scam that involved sending hot Eastern European girls out on the town to lure men to what were basically fake nightclubs only to charge ridiculous sums to their credit cars have been convicted by a jury today. A fourth was acquitted.See also:-…
A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in Wynwood last night. The incident happened at about 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of NW First Avenue and 28th Street, just a block off of the art district’s main drag, and a few blocks from the Midtown shops…
When Henry Bryant and Daniel Mack were caught last year trying to transport a few kilos of cocaine, the arrest sent shock waves well beyond the usual coke bust. That’s because Bryant was a Miami Beach firefighter and Mack was a Miami-Dade cop. Their arrest came in a public corruption…
After a task force appointed by Gov. Rick Scott ultimately decided to make no substantial change to Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law after the Trayvon Martin shooting, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chris Smith has introduced his own changes to the law. The changes would ultimately give law enforcement more…
Steven Bauer, the Cuban-American actor best known for his roles in Scarface and ¿Qué Pasa, USA? was arrested yesterday by Sweetwater police on a 12-year-old outstanding warrant…
Miami-Dade Police have arrested 16-year-old Austin Lee Bowling for making threats to shoot up the Miami Lakes Educational Center on the one-week anniversary of the the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. In addition to threats about shooting fellow students, Bowling also tweeted that he had no sympathy for…
Florida’s Stand Your Ground law has been a catastrophe, a Wild West throwback that’s let killers justify everything from shooting an unarmed teenager for playing loud music to murdering a pizza store customer for complaining about a slice taking too long. So really, if there’s one man we should consult…
Narcy Novack will spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty of hiring men to kill her husband, Ben Novack Jr., and her mother-in-law Bernice Novack. The victims were the son and widow on Ben Novack, the man who built Miami Beach’s famed Fontainebleau resort…
It takes a lot of balls to straight up pack your luggage full of nothing but cocaine. For an unknown drug trafficker that gamble didn’t pay off.Federal customs agents at Miami International Airport uncovered 230 pounds of cocaine packed inside three suitcases yesterday…
You would think that after all the publicity that the arrest of Oneal Ron Morris, the transgendered woman who was caught injecting substance including Fix-a-Flat into people’s butts (and, seemingly, her own), received, people would know not to go shady people to get their butts enhanced.Yet, Samela Hernandez, 53, of…
Troubled anti-virus software guru and murder suspect John McAfee landed in Miami last night after getting deported from Guatemala, where he’d fled from an investigation into his neighbor’s shooting death. McAfee was allowed to go free after landing at MIA, and spent the night at Ocean Drive’s Beacon Hotel.WSVN caught…
It seems that all bizarre news stories somehow wind up finding their way to Florida.The saga of John McAfee, the anti-virus software tycoon who may or may not have murdered his neighbor in Belize, is following that natural trajectory now that he’s been released by Guatemalan police and soon will…
Early this morning, two people, including a dancer, were injured during a shooting at The Office Gentlemen’s Club in Miami Gardens. The shooter is believe to be a man who got in an argument with one of the club’s bouncers…
Congratulations, cocaine smugglers. You’ve successfully moved the War on Drugs from island-hopping airplanes to Caribbean submarines to the most daring transportation method yet: Huge breast implants.A Panamanian woman flying out of Bogota, Colombia has been arrested in Spain after cops became suspicious of her fresh boob job. They eventually found…
Need a perfect illustration of just absurd the fight against synthetic drugs has become? Take a look at the latest legal missive from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has just banned 22 new synthetic versions of weed and cocaine on sale in the Sunshine State. The document reads more…
The Transportation Security Administration workers who keep Miami International Airport safe from terrorists, criminals, and Solange Knowles’s Afro (no, really, they thoroughly searched her hair last month) earned a dubious distinction in October. According to an analysis by ABC News, the TSA had fired more agents for theft at MIA…
Jason Levesque, a Virginia-based artist, was strolling through Scope Art Fair this weekend, thinking about how much he’d love to be exhibiting there, when suddenly he turned a corner to find two of his images on sale. The only problem was, they didn’t have his name on them. A Miami-based…
Eighteen years ago, New Times published an investigation into a Miami doctor accused of preying on his HIV patients. More than a dozen men with the disease accused Dr. Homer L. Kirkpatrick of manipulating them, sexually assaulting them, even offering them medication in exchange for sex. Despite our articles, however,…
