There’s good reason Miami’s former mayor earned the nickname “Crazy Joe” Carollo. So when voters elected him to the city commission last fall, it’s no surprise he brought that gravitational mass of insanity back to Dinner Key. Now Carollo is allegedly harassing his enemies in parking lots at 1:30 in the morning and yelling, “I am the law!” when confronted. Good job, everyone!
Three separate shots of the incident show that no flatbed or dollies were used for the tow — but that didn’t stop Beach Towing from charging Alford $40 for it.
The last time a giant protest turned into a chaotic state of civil unrest in Hialeah was — well, it’s hard to point to a recent example. The city’s police stay busy chasing crotch-grabbing car dealers, fake veterinarians, and mail thieves, but a mob of angry rioters has yet to descend upon the “City of Progress.”
North Miami City Clerk Michael Etienne might have just committed the most wholesome theft of public money in American history. Sure, people steal a few thousand dollars in taxpayer cash all the time — but instead of using that money to cover something heinous, like dog-track gambling debts, Etienne legit stole some money to stare at Abraham Lincoln’s giant head…
Medical pot is on the rise in Florida. Since voters legalized medical marijuana and low-THC cannabis in the November 2016 general election, Florida has added 144,557 patients to the Office of Medical Marijuana Use’s user registry, according to the Department of Health’s latest update. For a state with a population of 21 million, about one in 145 Floridians can legally use medical weed.
David Beckham’s quest to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami has so far run as smoothly as Daphne Campbell’s campaign to return to the Florida Senate. Beckham and his partners have spent so long fumbling between various stadium schemes that it takes the kind of faith usually found only in remote Benedictine monasteries to believe his franchise will ever take the field in South Florida.
Unlike the NFL, college ball has no preseason appetizer to holds fans over until the football is real. Instead of getting a quarter-season of fake games like in the NFL, the best college fans get are a few sparse clips on Twitter of their favorite school’s team half-assing a practice in shorts before the season opener.
Last Friday, Miami Beach City Attorney Raul Aguila schooled the town’s mayor and commissioners in how to avoid getting in trouble during election season. He sent all the officials a three-page memo, written by the county’s Commission on Ethics & Public Trust, spelling out some clear ground rules…
When 25-year-old Cuban native Danay Ojeda got into her car last Wednesday afternoon, she had no idea she was being watched. By the time Ojeda loaded 26 pounds of marijuana into the back of her 2017 Dodge Durango, the cops had already been tailing her for weeks.
Bribing the head of an entire nation’s anti-corruption task force is apparently cheaper and way less glamorous than you might think. Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, who was the director of Colombia’s Office of Anti-Corruption, admitted in court today that he could be bought with about $132,000 and that he’d taken a portion of that money inside a bathroom at Miami’s Dolphin Mall.
Daphne Campbell is the worst candidate on this month’s primary ballot. She lies about basically everything: her dead mother, her liens, her debts to the federal government, and the cash a lobbyist stuffed into her purse on camera. When reporters question her about these lies, she either pretends she’s not Daphne Campbell or calls the cops.
After 12 senior citizens overheated and died last year in a sweltering Hollywood nursing home where Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, commissioners in Miami-Dade County agreed to look into installing generators in all of the county’s public housing developments. But now that officials have crunched the numbers, those improvements seem unlikely to ever happen.
Raymond Odigie Uadiale, age 41, is great with computers. Good enough to be hired by Microsoft as a network engineer. And good enough, according to the feds, to run a virus scamming ring that seized computers via a fake warning from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, charged people a $200 “fine” to unlock their desktops, and warned users they might be sent to prison if they didn’t pay up.
In 2014, Russian hackers nearly wreaked havoc on Ukraine’s presidential elections. Their plan: Sneak into the country’s election website to make it look like an ultra-right-winger had won with 37 percent of the vote, when in reality he’d received barely 1 percent. That plan was foiled at the last minute, but a similar disinformation campaign might be way too easy to pull off in Florida.
The Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group formed near the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, has helped turn the GEO Group, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s single largest contractor, from a largely unknown private prison firm hated by justice-reform activists into a toxic company from which even some Republican politicians are now refusing donations.
Last Friday marked the “United the Right 2” rally in Washington, D.C., an extremely sad, Pepe-the-Frog-filled, neo-Nazi march to commemorate the time last year that a bunch of white supremacists killed a civil-rights protester in Charlottesville, Virginia. But Pepe, his chubby racist-frog-meme buddy Groyper, and the rest of the bizarre,…
The man said he had been set up, and that he was “in his car and felt something on his lap that was choking him and something possessed his body, therefore he exited his vehicle and started to take his clothes off.”
Miami Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart is not exactly known in local political circles for being particularly bright. But, in what might be the single most-boneheaded thing he’s done ever, the congressman on Tuesday tweeted out a photograph of himself at an anti-Nicaraguan-President Ortega rally — posing with a man in a…
In 2016, Miami Beach became one of the hardest places in America to book a short-term vacation rental. Thanks to laws enacted over the past two years, the city now levies fines as high as $100,000 on property owners with illegal rentals and has plans to target platforms such as Airbnb.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills has been kneeling during the national anthem to protest the racist American justice system for portions of the last three NFL seasons. Stills is extremely serious about his activism — in February, he took a road trip in an RV to meet civil-rights supporters…
Coming off a 10-3 season that saw the Canes end the year ranked 13th in the USA Today Coaches Poll, few were surprised to see the Canes debut at 9th in the same poll this year. With much of last year’s defense returning and a plethora of talent on the…
Earlier this year, real-estate analyst Peter Zalewski warned that South Florida developers had so overbuilt luxury condos for the global 1 percent that it would take an estimated four years to sell them all. At the rate condos were selling in downtown Miami, he found, the 505 available units would have taken nearly 6.5 years…
