Crime & Police

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Miami Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla after details of his alleged bribery scheme came to light.

City of Miami Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla is facing multiple felony counts arising from a corruption investigation spearheaded by Florida state law enforcement.

The officer allegedly pummeled the woman in the head after she was neutralized by a barrage of gunfire.

Hurtado told the police on July 30 that her boyfriend, a local detention officer, threatened to kill her.

The former adult film star, who has been accused of causing at least four car accidents in South Florida, allegedly told police she’s “naturally wobbly.”

Long before he made headlines as the architect of the January 6 attack, New Times chronicled Tarrio’s rise among Proud Boy circles in South Florida and his run-ins with the law.

“I don’t lick boots,” Ragomonkey insisted.

According to the FBI, the woman’s friend said she awoke to find the bartender lingering over their naked bodies inside the cruise cabin.

He sported green surgical scrubs, a Mickey Mouse shirt, and other memorable garb while attempting to rip off a half-dozen banks, according to an FBI charging document.

Tekashi was allegedly caught zipping down the Turnpike at an absurd speed.

Florida taxpayers are picking up the tab for elderly prisoners’ progressively more expensive health care bills, covering everything from wheelchairs to hearing aids.

Just before the 100th anniversary of the Rosewood massacre, a local resident in the rural Florida town flew into a racist rage against Black historian Marvin Dunn.

Jurors couldn’t agree on what had transpired on the morning in 2018 when Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr. arrived at a Miramar hospital in a blood-soaked Jeep.

Randy Heath, who “loved to eat,” weighed 204 pounds before he was incarcerated. At the time of his death at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, he weighed just over 100.

The defense team’s sole witness in the double-murder trial of YNW Melly, a childhood friend, testified that the rapper cried when he learned two of his crew members had been killed.

Jurors may be weighing whether rapper YNW Melly had a minor business tiff or a deadly dispute with his friend Anthony Williams weeks before Williams showed up riddled with bullets at the hospital.

When Hollywood police arrived at the bank, they found the alleged robber dutifully sitting in the lobby, waiting for the teller to resolve “computer issues.”

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Allegedly defraud federal loan programs.

In a radio transmission, a Miami officer indicated police were familiar with the rifle-wielding man, saying that they had confiscated a gun from him earlier in the day.

Brandon Labiner’s father accused him of defrauding a Palm Beach County judge shortly before the elder Labiner was found dead outside his Boca Raton law office.

It seems we haven’t learned a damn thing.

Come July 1, folks who bought guns in private sales but never underwent a background check will be allowed to carry the weapons in public spaces across Florida.