When a Miami PD officer approaches Warren Redlich at a DUI checkpoint outside the AmericanAirlines Arena, he calmly presses a sheet of paper and his license to the glass. The cop looks confused, calling over a colleague. They study the paper for a moment, pause, and then give Redlich the…
Kerry Pierre appears to be artist Romero Britto’s scariest fan. The 33-year-old has been arrested twice in the past seven days for allegedly harassing the artist and his staff at Britto’s Lincoln Road studio. In fact, Pierre has a history of stalking and harassing Miami’s most notable pop artist that…
When police pulled Orin Tong over during a narcotics sweep yesterday and found ecstasy pills in his car, police say he quickly fingered his source: his own daughter, Mariah. The cops got a search warrant, went to the Tongs’ nearby home in Little Haiti, and inside found a full-on grow…
Police can’t even seem to break up a dog fight without the use of bullets. Miami-Dade Police opened fire on two escaped pet dogs that got into a fight with a police K9 yesterday afternoon. One of the dogs died, while the other is in an animal hospital requiring serious…
Four years after a fatal shooting shattered two families, new court documents add to the evidence that a Miami-Dade Police detective botched her investigation of the incident. On May 21, 2011, 14-year-old Jack Davis fatally shot an unarmed Reynaldo Muñoz Jr. while Muñoz was trying to steal a WaveRunner. In…
The gunshots rang out around 10:30 a.m. yesterday, sending panicked customers at an Aventura shopping center with a Whole Foods, Target, and Best Buy running for cover. Only after the dust settled was it clear where the gunfire had originated: from two Aventura PD officers who had each fired rounds…
In just under a month, Tony Bosch is scheduled to face the music for his years selling steroids to ballplayers from his Coral Galbes clinic Biogenesis. In the meantime, though, Bosch has been trying to work through his own addiction to decidedly non-performance enhancing drugs. Bosch lost his bail back…
Nationwide and in Miami, outrage over police violence against African-Americans has reached a boiling point, fueled by the lack of indictments in the Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice cases. So it’s beyond baffling why the North Miami Beach Police Department not only used photos of local black men…
Lazaro Cancela was eating at a Cuban restaurant in Sweetwater when the meal was rudely interrupted: Gerard Brito, who was formerly married to Cancela’s mom, became enraged at the sight of his former step-son and decided to take action, according to a recent complaint reported on by Courthouse News. Cancela’s…
There was a brutal scene in front a Westchester strip mall Party City last night. A man gunned down his estranged wife in the busy parking lot while the couple’s 15-year-old daughter looked on. He then turned the gun on himself in an apparent suicide attack…
For two decades, Gerald Bailey compiled a sterling reputation with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, including over the past eight years as the force’s commissioner. Until last month, that is, when he abruptly and quietly left office. What happened? “He resigned,” Gov. Rick Scott told reporters yesterday after confirming…
The dead birds are back. A year after a slew of brown pelicans were found in the Keys with their pouches slashed, the bizarre bird mutilations have resumed. In recent weeks, more than a dozen pelicans have been found with their gullets fatally cut. “It’s a mystery,” Maya Totman, director…
In Miami, identify theft starts young. Brothers Stanley and Steven Fertil, now just 20 and 19 and who started an ID theft ring more than two years ago, have been sentenced to nine and 12 years in prison respectively…
Krishna Maharaj, the British millionaire imprisoned since 1986 for a double murder, won’t be getting out any time soon. Despite dramatic courtroom testimony from crooked cops and retired drug runners, circuit judge William Thomas shot down Maharaj’s motion to overturn his conviction for killing two businessmen in a downtown hotel…
Amid a roiling national debate about police oversight, the Miami City Commission last night voted to take away Miami PD’s ability to investigate its own police shootings. Instead, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement will probe those deaths. Miami’s police union president didn’t take the news quietly. Sgt. Javier Ortiz…
Ornan Antoine was just trying to get home. It was a rain-laced July night around midnight in 2013. The stocky, gap-toothed Haitian was pedaling down SW 28th Avenue, heading from a buddy’s house to his own sea-green single-story bungalow a few blocks over in the Melrose Park section of Fort…
Justin Robert Muoio pressured his victim for years to work as a prostitute while he lived off of her profits. When the woman got pregnant, Muoio didn’t relent. Prosecutors now say he advertised her services to fetish clients and made her work for two months while she was with child…
From the get-go, Major League Baseball made no secret that one of the costs of doing business with Tony Bosch was a promise to ask the courts to go easy when criminal charges came down. (You remember Bosch, the Coral Gables steroid dealer who snitched on Alex Rodriguez and more…
Sunday-afternoon visitors to Graceland Memorial Park were greeted by an unusually macabre scene. A small fire smoldered under a tree next to the cemetery’s stony entrance on Calle Ocho at SW 44th Avenue. Passing motorists who slowed long enough to look could just make out an all-too-familiar form: a charred…
Former Miami Police Officer Christopher Vital might have been 2014’s craziest local cop of the year, but he won’t face any charges. Instead, he’ll be forced to hang up his badge for good. In September, Vital was driving his BMW late at night with a lady friend when he roared…
This morning, New Times published a yearlong investigation into Taser abuse committed by local cops. Among our findings: Miami’s three major police departments have tasered more than 3,000 people in less than eight years. Eleven men — including teenager Israel “Reefa” Hernandez — have died after being stunned. Local cops…
Richard Rosengarten walked into Publix at 4:20 p.m. November 15, 2013. Normally, not even Rosengarten, a brilliant and bespectacled University of Miami law student, would remember the exact date and time he went grocery shopping. But it’s not every day you see cops electrify an innocent man. The supermarket’s automatic…
