Miami Police Officer Rony Rodriguez’s cruiser was idling in Brickell this past March when he turned to the camera and joked about whether he should really be filming a vlog while working on-duty as a cop.
The football media world exploded in 2017 when New York Jets wide receiver Robby Anderson was arrested for allegedly shoving a cop at Miami’s Rolling Loud. But as New Times warned at the time, the arresting officer — infamous Miami Police captain and union boss Javier Ortiz — has a history of making bogus arrests at music festivals.
Hollywood Police have now raided the same adult store twice in a single year. This past Thursday, Hollywood cops arrested 13 men for masturbating and having consensual oral sex in a secluded, private room — hardly the sort of police work that makes locals safer. Thanks to Hollywood PD, 13 men will likely be harassed or retaliated against by their families or employers simply for consensually enjoying themselves at a gay-cruising destination.
In February 2017, Miami-Dade Police arrested Bernardo Osorio, a decorated math teacher at Cutler Bay Senior High, and charged him with sexually abusing an underage student. The school district quickly fired Osorio and issued a statement condemning his behavior. But a new lawsuit from Osorio’s victim says the district failed to discipline the teacher after another student made similar abuse allegations years earlier.
Just after 8:30 last night, Miami Beach Police rushed to Española Way to find a woman who was eight months pregnant in distress. The woman told police she was having severe abdominal pain and contractions after another woman had beaten her in the stomach.
Moments before a rented Dodge Journey swerved in front of chart-topping musician XXXTentacion’s BMW outside a Riveria Beach motorcycle shop June 18 and two men pumped the 20-year-old full of bullets, surveillance cameras inside the dealership captured a short, heavyset man nicknamed “Big Rob” walking around the store.
Jose Farquaharson was standing on a street corner in Overtown one night in 2015 when a car sped past him. The 42-year-old says he shouted to two Miami Police officers across the road: “Do your fucking job and stop the cars from speeding!”
North Miami Beach, a city that does not work, continues not to work. Fresh off being named New Times’ second most corrupt city in Miami-Dade County, those pesky NMB’ers have done it again: State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s office today announced prosecutors have charged embattled Commissioner Frantz Pierre with bribery and money laundering.
As far as international crime syndicates go, Colombia’s Oficina de Envigado is old-school: The organization was founded in the ’80s as the enforcer and debt-collection arm of Pablo Escobar’s gigantic Medellín Cartel. Run by Escobar’s accomplice Diego “Don Berna” Murillo, La Oficina handled the syndicate’s dirtiest business, including contract killing…
Late last week, a Tampa-area white man shot a black man to death and, thanks to the state’s controversial and demonstrably racist “Stand-Your-Ground” law, was not even arrested for the crime. Surveillance footage showed the victim, 28-year-old father Markeis McGlockton, shoved a man named Michael Drejka to the ground before Drejka responded…
If you get arrested anywhere in Miami-Dade County, chances are you’ll end up spending the night at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, or TGK, near Miami International Airport. But a quick Google search for TGK will take you not to the Miami-Dade County’s official website, where you can deposit money into an inmate’s account or find visitation times, but to a nearly identical website for a bail bonds company called TGK Bail Bonds.
In January 2017, Carlos Gimenez became the first big-city mayor in America to capitulate to Donald Trump’s hollow Twitter threats. Miami-Dade County was not, in fact, a “sanctuary” community, he said before ordering his jails to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement “detainer” requests. The county began holding immigrants for up to 48 hours on ICE’s behalf. The county commission even ratified Gimenez’s rule change a month later.
Maria, an undocumented, 24-year-old mother of three from Guatemala, showed up to the Martin County Jail earlier this year to voluntarily pay a $150 traffic fine. Instead, she wound up handcuffed and thrown inside that jail. And even though she paid a $750 bond to leave the facility, Martin…
According to Facebook, Russian national Ksenia Khodukina grew up in Chelyabinsk before eventually moving to New York City and then to Trump Towers III in Sunny Isles Beach. Here, she runs a salon service called “Beauty by Ksenia” in Hallandale Beach.
After analyzing criminal-justice data across Miami-Dade County from 2010 to 2015, the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has confirmed something many Miamians of color already suspect: If you’re a black person, especially a black Hispanic, the Dade County criminal-justice system will treat you more harshly than if…
In 2014, two University of Miami Hurricanes football players — Alexander Figueroa and JaWand Blue, both 20 at the time — were arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old freshman who was intoxicated when the men admittedly assaulted her. The school immediately kicked Figueroa and Blue off the team and expelled them…
One day after his arrest for driving without a valid license, Moises Rojas showed up at the Miami Police Department’s headquarters to file a complaint. While the 32-year-old tiler was in custody, his mother said she got a call from an “Officer Rosa” who demanded $2,400 for his release. Emma Rojas met with the officer and handed over the money, but her son still wasn’t released. In the end, Moises Rojas’ girlfriend ended up having to bail him out.
A man with an apartment full of swastikas and Nazi memorabilia damn near blew up a Miami Beach condo building yesterday, according to Miami Beach Police, who say they arrived literally minutes before 72-year-old Walter Edward Stolper lit the Pavilion Residences at 5601 Collins Ave. on fire. Officers said they…
In the past three years, Miami-area police officers have arrested dozens of people — mostly homeless people — for sitting on a milk crate or possessing a shopping cart.
Michael Boatwright, a 22-year-old Broward resident, was arrested on July 5 on marijuana possession and probation-violation charges. Boatwright has been sitting inside the Broward County Jail ever since — and it now looks like he might wind up staying there for quite a while, since he was charged this morning…
Paul Haynes first heard of the murderer now known as the Golden State Killer through a television special. It was sometime around 2008, and there was little public awareness of the man who had terrorized California for over a decade beginning in 1976, ultimately committing at least 12 murders and 50…
A homeless man with no arms, Jonathan Crenshaw has spent years in South Beach painting colorful canvases using his feet while tourists circle and gawk at the work.
