Texas Man Eats Dog While on Synthetic Drugs

This synthetic drug-induced zombie apocalypse is apparently now spreading outside of Florida. Naturally, Texas was the next stop. A man there got high on K-2, a form of synthetic marijuana, started chasing his neighbor, and then ate his dog…

Hialeah Police Shoot Man Who Hit Officer With Car

A suspected car thief and a Hialeah police officer are both in the hospital this afternoon after a chain of events involving a hit-and-run accident and a police-involved shooting. The officer, who has not yet been identified, attempted to stop what was believed to have been a stolen car near the…

Miami Youth Hockey Coach Charged With Molestation of Former Player

Six years ago, Miami New Times profiled a group of teens from Miami-Dade taking part in the unconventional-to-south Florida sport of ice hockey. Known as the Miami Toros Junior Hockey Club, the team was coached and owned by a Long Island native named Joseph Timpone. The article notes how Timpone…

Allen Stanford Gets 110 Years In Prison For Massive Ponzi Scheme

Allen Stanford — the massive Ponzi-schemer and full-time nutter who put his billions in illicit profits into a Coral Gables castle and cricket tournaments in the Caribbean — was sentenced to more than a century of jail time for his crimes today. A federal judge in Texas sentenced the financier,…

U.S. Customs Nabs $7.3 Million in Cocaine at Miami Seaport

What can $7.3 million buy you nowadays? How about 459 pounds of cocaine?That was the amount seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on May 29 at the Miami Seaport. CBP officers discovered 169 bricks of coke in eight cardboard boxes in a shipping container. The container came off a…

Director Billy Corben Off the Hook for Tweeting During Jury Duty

Billy Corben, Miami’s master documentarian, has found himself innocent on charges of being a “Tweeting twit.” Corben, director of films like The U and Cocaine Cowboys, pulled jury duty earlier this year and updated his Twitter and Facebook followers about the inanities of sitting on a jury, but never mentioned…

Florida Man In “A-Team” Van Rams Police, Gets Tased

Luis Davilo was just livin’ the dream — drinking some beers, cruising his A-Team van around suburban Orlando, pityin’ fools — when the Man unwisely intervened. An Orlando cop pulled Davilo over for not having his lights on. That’s when Davilo sprang into Mr. T-worthy action, repeatedly ramming the cop…