Rakontur Productions’ new Miami steroid documentary, Screwball, hits theaters on March 29. We’d like to say we’re promoting the film simply because it’s an absolutely hilarious, only-in-Miami crime-caper, black comedy, and piece of journalism all rolled into one. But there is more to it. Though all that is true, we are…
A former Venezuelan vice president and five others, including three men with South Florida connections, were charged today with moving tens of thousands of dollars in cash from Venezuela to the United States in violation of federal sanctions and a drug-smuggling law. Tareck Zaidan El Aissami served as vice president…
The Miami Herald this morning broke a doozy of a story: Li “Cindy” Yang, the woman who founded the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida — where Patriots owner Robert Kraft got caught allegedly paying for sex from trafficked women — watched the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl with Donald Trump.
It’s the worst kept secret in the NFL — nobody wants to be featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” the wildly popular behind-the-scenes training camp series that airs on the network each summer. It’s every team’s worst nightmare and they’ll do anything to get out of it. But the Miami Dolphins should beg…
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting this morning that a Boca Raton legislator, State Sen. Kevin Rader, has filed a bill to study moving the Florida capital from Tallahassee to Orlando. The two-page measure — and these babies are never two pages — suggests things like ease of travel and economic impact…
In 2017, Florida lawmakers bizarrely spent a bunch of time passing a bill forcing the state to display the phrase “In God We Trust” in public schools. As it turns out, this was just the beginning of a pro-Christian legislative push in Florida: State lawmakers — namely Jacksonville State Rep. Kim…
In the past year, Donald Trump’s golf resort in Doral has lost a whopping $26 million in value. Hotel executives have blamed the president’s politics: Liberal Northeasterners would rather vacation elsewhere, and organizers for NASCAR and PGA Tour events simply don’t want the bad PR.
Nouma Raja, the former Palm Beach Gardens cop who killed local drummer Corey Jones in October 2015 as Jones was waiting to get his car towed off the highway, was found guilty this morning of manslaughter and attempted first-degree murder in a South Florida courtroom…
It was the happy ending heard ’round the world. When New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft visited Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, two Chinese women gave him a massage. According to the billionaire’s arrest report, the women, aged 45 and 58, followed up with a hand job, which the Jupiter Police tell us is…
In November 2016, 80 percent of Miami Beach residents voted to legalize medical marijuana. More than two years later, the city has only a single dispensary — and now one commissioner wants to prevent others from opening.
North Beach could become home to up to 624 “micro-units” — apartments as small as 375 square feet, or a little bigger than two parking spaces put together — as part of city commissioners’ latest plan to revitalize the sleepy area. During today’s Land Use and Development meeting, committee members approved…
Conditions at Miami’s major Immigration and Customs Enforcement office — just north of the Miami-Dade County line in Miramar, Florida — continue to seem dire. Immigrant-rights groups have complained about conditions at the Miramar office for years. Since Trump took office, crowds have swelled and immigrants say they’re often…
Claudio Rojas is sitting in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, quite likely for political reasons. Rojas, an Argentine immigrant, was detained by ICE and later reported on conditions inside the Broward Transitional Center, a for-profit ICE detention facility in Pompano Beach run by the Boca Raton corporation GEO Group…
On a Saturday last October, Raymond Ortega and Toni Llerena stopped to order some food at the Burger King Whopper Bar in South Beach. They were sitting down with their meals when an employee asked them to leave, saying that section of the restaurant was closing.
The date was June 26, 2003. The NBA draft was taking place in Madison Square Garden. The Miami Heat held the fifth-overall selection. The pool included some of the most talented players ever. it was important the Heat get this one right. In retrospect, no one, not even the Miami Heat,…
In a piece of news that begs the question, “What the hell were you doing beforehand?,” the FBI yesterday announced in a press release that it’s creating a permanent task force to investigate money-laundering and corruption in Miami’s real estate sector. Per the FBI release, the new “Miami International Corruption Squad” will…
Sometime after noon today, a plane went down 23 miles southeast of Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos. The Federal Aviation Administration immediately received a notification and quickly orchestrated a rescue mission. Luckily, the Regal Princess cruise ship was in the area on its way to St. Thomas.
After scrutiny from New Times and other major media outlets, Caliburn International — the for-profit investment company that, among other projects, runs the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children near Miami — has killed its plans to sell $100 million in shares on the stock market.
Hundreds of activists plan to rally this morning to shut down the Homestead Detention Center for unaccompanied minors. The center, which is the only one of its type in the nation, will soon — or maybe already has — double in capacity to 2,350, as a tent city in Tornillo…
Still dressed in her school uniform, Naika Venant went live on Facebook at 6:12 p.m. November 10, 2016. Earlier that day, the 13-year-old foster child from Miami had stolen a phone from her caseworker. Now, as an audience of three watched her video feed, she clumsily navigated the iPhone’s camera,…
For the second straight year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Miami field area saw the largest proportional spike in immigrant arrests, according to a New Times review of ICE data. ICE released its yearly arrest and deportation statistics for the 2018 fiscal year last December — apprehensions in ICE’s Miami “area of…
All stories of fraud, theft, and scumbaggery flow through Miami at some point. And there is maybe no bigger swindle in U.S. history than Donald Trump’s hoodwinking of the American people in 2016 — a man with a brain made from congealed Wendy’s Frosties managed to win just enough states…
