Miami is dealing with another round of political death threats. Last year, Miamian Cesar Sayoc infamously sent pipe bombs to a host of Democratic activists and lawmakers. Then, this past April, a Broward County man, John Kless, was arrested for leaving voicemails threatening to kill Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and Reps. Eric Swalwell, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.
Court records paint an ugly picture of Vernon’s aggressive and often violent behavior.
South Florida’s high ranking when it comes to prosecuting child sex trafficking might come as a surprise given the district’s controversial deal-making with Jeffrey Epstein, brokered by former Trump Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. Nationwide, such prosecutions have plunged over the past two years despite overall federal prosecutions for crimes spiking under the Trump administration.
Just after 3:30 p.m. May 27, 2018, 29-year-old Yoinis Cruz Peña was driving his black 2008 Kawasaki north on the Rickenbacker Causeway at high speed. His wife, Yailen Gonzalez, was on the back. They slammed into a retaining wall, and Cruz Peña died.
President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement department is, according to reports, planning on launching immigration raids on Sunday in 10 cities — Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco, and Miami.
In 2016, an Illinois man named Jean Alexandre reached out to New Times with a pretty wild tip. The retired ob-gyn said he’d been ripped off by a North Miami real estate broker — and he was incredulous that the broker, Anis Blemur, had the gall to declare a run for Florida state senate.
Last month, President Donald Trump abruptly called off a series of planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in ten major U.S. cities after immigrant activists sounded the alarm. June 22, Trump tweeted he was delaying the raids for two weeks to give Congress time to fix issues at the southern border — or, in other words, to capitulate to his racist demands on immigration policy.
President Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Alex Acosta, used to be Miami’s top federal prosecutor. In his previous role, Acosta gave billionaire pedophile and alleged child rapist Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal so lenient it straight-up violated the law. Thanks to Acosta, Epstein was pretty much allowed to skate by despite the fact he had repeatedly been accused of raping children…
Ramon Bueno had a green light and was driving below the speed limit when Miami Police Officer Lucas Rodrigues ran a red light at double the speed limit and slammed his cruiser into Bueno’s car, killing the 71-year-old husband and father. But according to prosecutors who declined to file criminal charges against Rodrigues, Bueno should have yielded to the speeding cop.
Neighbors are a lot like family members. You don’t really get to pick them, and if you get a bad one, you’re often stuck with said person for quite some time. Sometimes these fights escalate — neighbor-on-neighbor violence is so common that the Investigation Discovery channel has an entire (terrible) series devoted to the matter called Fear Thy Neighbor.
For years, the Miami-Dade public school system has been aware of the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline,” in which troubled students are arrested instead of being disciplined at the school level. Almost always, the kids swept into the criminal justice system are students of color. So as part of a national movement…
Former North Miami Police SWAT Officer Jonathan Aledda was convicted last month of one misdemeanor count of culpable negligence after he tried to shoot at an autistic man, Arnaldo Rios Soto, and instead shot Rios Soto’s therapist, Charles Kinsey, in the leg in 2016.
Over the last handful of years, Miami Beach officials have pushed plans to blanket South Beach — South Florida’s top tourist destination — with a gigantic array of security cameras and police-monitored license plate readers. Civil liberty advocates have repeatedly warned that the city appears to be creating a gigantic…
Listen to the full “Loathe Thy Neighbor” story below: Mark Cantor was pulling his green Mini Cooper into his driveway one evening when a pair of headlights jumped the curb behind him and came barreling across the front lawn, straight toward him. The 54-year-old graphic designer was barefoot. As usual,…
A recent pool party in southwest Miami-Dade County was cut short by the sound of gunshots, as attendees trampled over each other in a rush to find cover. Miraculously, no one was hit. One county official has blamed the shooting, which remains under investigation, on an unlikely source: LED light bulbs.
Prisoners, in general, should not be sitting in solitary confinement. It’s a form of torture. But they absolutely should not be sitting in solitary during a historic Miami heat wave, when the heat index says it feels hotter than 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
As it stands, Jane Castor currently has two full-time jobs in two different major cities: She’s the Miami Police Department’s federal oversight monitor and she’s now the mayor of Tampa, a city of almost 400,000 people. Even before Castor won the Tampa mayoral race in March, some Miami officials weren’t all that happy with her performance — and now a police-oversight board has formally asked to fire Castor from her position as federal oversight monitor.
After nearly three years, Charles Kinsey has finally gotten some semblance of justice after being shot by a North Miami Police officer in July 2016. Kinsey’s case shocked the world: A bystander filmed as Kinsey lay flat on his back with his arms in the air and begged cops not to shoot.
ICE tiene planes de llevar a cabo redadas en hogares de inmigrantes indocumentados en varias ciudades — incluyendo a Miami — este fin de semana.
As President Donald Trump launches his 2020 reelection campaign, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to raid the homes of undocumented immigrants in multiple cities — including Miami — this weekend. The Miami Herald and Washington Post confirmed the federal government plans to target undocumented immigrants in predawn raids in as many as ten major U.S. cities.
In 2015, an underage Miami teen came forward to tell a harrowing story: She said she’d essentially been kidnapped by a Hialeah Police officer, locked in a windowless room in the police station, and forced to strip off her clothes while the cop, Jesus “Jesse” Menocal Jr., allegedly touched himself through his pants.
The day before Father’s Day in 2017, Ramon Bueno was driving through an intersection when a Miami police car driven by Officer Lucas Rodrigues blew through a red light and slammed into Bueno’s driver’s side door. The impact was so powerful that the two cars spun out of control and crashed into a car stopped at the light.
