Crime & Police

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.

“I got my life back,” former Broward deputy Scot Peterson told reporters outside the courtroom following the verdict.

Neo-Nazi Jon Minadeo, formerly known as the rapper Shoobie Da Wop, has been hanging around Georgia after Florida passed a law outlawing many of his anti-Semitic stunts.

This Miami police officer wasn’t going to let a little fender bender on the Palmetto Expressway get in the way of his morning golf appointment.

Kodak Black is running into more legal trouble ahead of his scheduled June 26 concert at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater.

The long-awaited capital murder trial of Rapper YNW Melly has begun.

Latoya Ratlieff can move forward with her lawsuit against a Fort Lauderdale cop who shot her during a 2020 protest after the murder of George Floyd.

A Doral cop proclaimed “someone is about to get stomped” moments before another officer ripped a man out of his car, shattering his leg.

Police have nabbed the suspect who they claim was the first to pull a gun in the Hollywood Beach mass shooting on Memorial Day.

North Miami Beach Mayor Anthony DeFillipo has been charged with three felony violations of Florida election law for using the wrong address to vote in 2022 elections.

The family of Garfield Green, an amputee with severe diabetes, wonders how long he’ll last in ICE custody.

Taiwanese national Szu Ta Wu flew to Nicaragua for a rendezvous at a hotel, where he picked up the bird eggs before making his way to Miami International Airport.

Prosecutors claim a high-level intelligence officer in the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department leaked information to then-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in advance of the January 6 siege.

Be on the lookout for a busty woman with a very expensive wristwatch.

Craig Sherman served as Bay Harbor Islands’ attorney for more than 40 years before he was accused of defrauding clients out of millions of dollars.

A misdemeanor police chase ended in tragedy after a Miami-Dade officer deployed his taser into the back of the fleeing suspect.

Associates of one of Mexico’s most violent cartels were driving around the country with millions of dollars in drug money while unwittingly being tracked by the feds, according to a federal affidavit.

A onetime Miami-Dade officer is at least the third current or former South Florida policeman to be charged with federal loan fraud since last June.

Take a dive into Enrique Tarrio’s uniquely Miami saga, from his days chainsmoking Malboros near his family home in Flagami to his darkest hours cleaning up human feces in a jail cell.

LEO Technologies is poised to deploy its AI software across Florida prisons to monitor inmates’ phone calls.

Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz, the scandal-plagued officer who racked up abuse and misconduct allegations over nearly two decades, has been reinstated.

An elderly vet was hospitalized for five days after he was grabbed by the throat and arrested by a Miami sergeant in a misunderstanding over spittle, an internal affairs report says.