Well, here it is, your front runner for “most Miami news story of the year.” It involves a telenovela starlet, a fancy South Beach nightclub, a bouncer, people not being on the list, and a champagne glass. The only way it could get more stereotypical is if it involved cocaine,…
Don’t park too close to Reynaldo Miranda’s car. The City of Miami firefighter doesn’t appreciate it. In fact, the firefighter wound up behind bars after allegedly going berserk on a 71-year-old man who parked a little too close at Southland Mall. See also: Miami Firefighter (and Calendar Model) Arrested for…
The doctor and the lawyer showed up at Opa-locka Executive Airport ready for a fight. As they rolled down the tarmac toward the yawning hangars, the pair was well past the boiling point. For months, they’d dealt with evasions and lies, and now — after weeks of detailed forensic accounting…
Let’s play trivia. Today’s topic: laughably inept local governments. Can you name the Miami-Dade village that mysteriously suspended its top three cops March 27? No, not Sweetwater. That was then-mayor Manny Maroño, who was busted for taking bribes. No, not Homestead. There, it was Mayor Steve Bateman arrested for unlawful…
Jose Bautisa, an 18-year-old student at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, wanted to boost his GPA. Instead of improving his resumé, though, he ended up adding to his rap sheet. The teen now faces eight felonies and has been placed under house arrest after hacking into a school website…
On a recent Friday afternoon, Orvil Delisson sat on a crate in front of his family’s small ranch house in Little River. He looked relaxed in an unbuttoned Hawaiian-style shirt, white shorts, and sandals; a few feet away, a pink-and-purple girls’ bicycle lay toppled on its side. Then Delisson lifted…
Miami-Dade County is the NBA for corrupt politicians: With a deep talent pool, incredibly rich history, and always blossoming crop of new stars, it’s the top of the game for shady politicos. And David Rivera is the Derrick Rose of the league, a multitalented scandal machine who’s been sidelined the…
It ended with a boom: a 40-year relationship and two lives — one dead and gone, the other alive and alone. Jorge Arrojas and his partner, Miguel Larrieu, were heading home, fresh from a dinner party in Bal Harbour around midnight last August 10 on I-75 when a red 2009…
Ron English spent two years creating his brightly colored mural and deer sculptures at Wynwood Walls. It took thieves less than four minutes to steal them. Last month, three young men stole English’s last remaining deer sculpture. Now the street artist is asking for them to return it. “It’s fine…
Never expect a cop to be cool about a little bit of pot. The Florida Sheriffs Association has officially taken a stance on medical marijuana. They’re against it. Because you know, it’s common practice for sheriffs to take stances on what kind of medical treatment people should be allowed to…
The Miami lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police has chimed in on Ultra Music Festival’s future in Miami. The police union is all for it — just as long as all private security guards are replaced by City of Miami Police officers and that they’re allowed to pat down…
David Llama Lopez, 46, has been arrested and is being held without bond as police investigate a scheme in which he allegedly tried to sell North Miami Senior High School students into sex slavery. Yesterday, the State Attorney’s Office Human Trafficking Unit, Miami-Dade Schools Police, and a SWAT team all…
Miami Beach may have found its new police chief. CBS Miami confirms that Aurora, Colorado police chief Dan Oates has been selected by Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales to take over for retiring chief Raymond Martinez. However, the city commission must vote on the matter before Oates officially takes…
According to the T-shirts on display at Ultra this year, many concertgoers were looking for someone named “molly.” Apparently, it wasn’t very difficult to find her. Miami Police arrested 20 people at the music festival for selling or possessing MDMA, commonly known as molly. That’s according to a summary of…
In last summer’s Michael Bay movie Pain & Gain, bodybuilders portrayed by Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson conspire to kidnap and extort a random rich prick named Victor Kershaw (played by Tony Shalhoub). In real life and the Miami New Times series that inspired the movie, bodybuilders Daniel Lugo and…
Miami Dade College music professor Marc Magellan was heading into a Kendall campus parking garage last week when someone yelled out, “Professor Marc!” Next thing Magellan knew, he’d been punched in the face, knocked to the concrete, and brutally beaten until his nose shattered and his hand broke. The music…
Ever since he earned a midsummer promotion to the Dodgers last year, Cuban defector Yasiel Puig has been the most electrifying man in Major League Baseball — flying heedlessly into walls, smacking absurd home runs, and annoying columnists by showing up late to games and speeding in his sports car…
The decision over Ultra Music Festival’s fate was delayed yesterday, but the debate rages on. Even as city commissioners consider banning Ultra, thousands of people per day are signing a petition to keep UMF in downtown Miami. Ultra opponents accuse the event of descending into drugs and violence. Its defenders…
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Caolin Kaepernick, wide receiver Quinton Patton, and Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Ricarod Lockette are the subjects of a sexual assault investigation by the Miami Police Department. The incident allegedly happened at Lockette’s room at the Viceroy Hotel in downtown April 1. A woman claims she was…
A Miami-Dade cop charged with protecting citizens now finds himself on the other end of the law for endangering and injuring two of our youngest citizens. Officer Ryan Robinson, 41, was arrested on Saturday night for drunk driving after he struck a shopping cart with two children inside in a…
It has been an interesting few months for Ultra. In late March, the mega music festival once again drew nearly 200,000 people to Bayfront Park, making untold millions of dollars, and firmly establishing itself as America’s premier EDM event. But a concertgoer’s death and a stampede that nearly killed a…
Until yesterday, Lt. Ralph Mata was the picture of an upstanding Miami-Dade cop. He was a top leader in Internal Affairs, spending his days going after corruption and abuse in the ranks. He’d earned exactly one mention in the Miami Herald in his career, for helping to lead a feel-good…
