Hours after Miami Police Officer Mario Figueroa was charged with misdemeanor assault today, the city’s police union released a doozy of a statement defending Figueroa and insisting he hadn’t broken the law or department policy.
Last Thursday, a clip went viral of Miami Police Officer Mario Figueroa taking a running start and kicking the head of a defenseless, handcuffed black man.
Puppy Collection Inc., a Broward County pet shop with interior decor like a Barbie Dreamhouse, sells a range of “teacup puppies” — the extremely small, $1,000 dogs you might find in Paris Hilton’s handbag. The store, whose slogan is “Where celebrities buy their puppies,” says it’s a pet seller to the stars with “over 100+ celebrities” as clients.
In 2007, New Times broke national news with a story about how a group of sex-offenders was forced to live in tents underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway because of restrictive laws barring them from living within thousands of feet of schools or playgrounds. Their case became a focal point in efforts to reform…
In September 2014, Norma Healey, a widow from Texas, took a weeklong Royal Caribbean cruise with a pack of younger friends. They’d leave Galveston, Texas, and stop in Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica. Healey, a rouge-haired, blue-eyed 75-year-old of medium build and a skin tone that “doesn’t do well in…
Six hours ago, Miami Police held a press conference where Mayor Francis Suarez lauded the cops for their “diligent” work apprehending two suspects in last month’s high-profile shooting in Liberty City that killed two teenagers and sparked a student-led walkout. Just hours later, MPD sheepishly released those same suspects and…
Critics have slammed Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie all day amid news that — contrary to Runcie’s repeated claims — Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz was involved in the controversial Promise disciplinary program before becoming a mass killer. Now Runcie is pushing back by blaming inefficient record-keeping and insisting he gave the best information he had at the time about Cruz’s participation in Promise.
WLRN dropped a bombshell report this morning: After months of denials from Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and other top officials, the district admitted that, in fact, Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooter Nikolas Cruz was assigned to the controversy-mired Promise program.
Because Florida is run by former hospital executive Rick Scott, you might assume the state would have a solid health-care system. But Scott is a profiteer whose company stole an unprecedented amount of money from Medicare and Medicaid in the ’90s and who as governor then refused to expand Medicaid…
The City of Miami Police Department is back in the news for embarrassing reasons. This past Thursday, Facebook user Lisa Harrell posted footage of MPD Officer Mario Figueroa taking a running start and kicking a handcuffed black man, David V. Suazo, directly in the face. Miami PD claims in an arrest report…
The Miami Police Department took swift action yesterday after a bystander filmed Officer Mario Figueroa kicking a handcuffed man directly in the head. Newly appointed Chief Jorge Colina suspended the officer and promised a full investigation. But activists are still raging today, demanding to know why the other officers on the scene weren’t suspended and why Figueroa is suspended with pay.
Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio fired off a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding investigations into what Rubio called “alarming” claims made about Broward County Public Schools in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High mass shooting. Many of those claims have already been rebuffed by Broward administrators.
Most cell-phone-using Americans might not be familiar with BLU, a Miami-based tech company that makes budget-level Android phones and sells them at markedly cheap prices. But the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges some third-party Chinese data-collection agencies knew BLU well. The company was secretly selling phones infected with spyware…
Earlier today, the City of Miami Police Department issued an ominous statement: Chief Jorge Colina said he’d received a video of an officer clearly violating departmental policy. That cop had been relieved of duty, he reported, adding the department had sent the clip to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.
En el 2015, Raquel Perera, esposa del 17 veces ganador del Latin Grammy Alejandro Sanz, inauguró la escuela “Rainbow Cultural Garden” ubicada en en el distinguido sector de Midtown, Miami. En declaraciones a Univision, Perera alardeo acerca del singular método educativo del plantel, basado en una immersion lingüística…
For almost ten years, Pastor Frank Diaz has been feeding the homeless in Overtown. But beginning last year, he says, he and his volunteers have been repeatedly stopped by Miami Police officers and told they’re no longer allowed to hand out food.
In January, Miami-Dade prosecutors charged 42-year-old Ana Watson with four felonies for allegedly stealing thousands from the North Bay Village condo board where she served as treasurer. The charges came after months of work by Det. Tom Columbano, a 30-year veteran who pieced together the alleged scheme to pass off photoshopped checks.
Thanks to the cache of John F. Kennedy-related files the government recently released, Miamians now know about the utterly bonkers plot the feds cooked up to stage a false-flag bombing on its own populace in Miami and then blame the deaths and chaos on Fidel Castro. But according to CIA documents the Miami Herald dug up yesterday (and a few that New Times subsequently found)…
A new study from Florida International University warns that, despite strict environmental regulations protecting the unique trees, carbon emissions from cars, power companies, and other fossil-fuel-burning industries have succeeded in all but killing South Florida’s coastal mangrove population.
Since the Parkland massacre, the Sun Sentinel’s journalists have done exemplary work detailing the failures of Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies in responding to the mass shooting and covering the national gun control movement sparked by Stoneman Douglas survivors and parents of the victims. Yet amid all of that stellar journalism, the paper’s advertising staff continued taking money from gun sellers.
In the long, hot, powerless days after Hurricane Irma, Miamians grew all sorts of irate at Florida Power & Light, South Florida’s largest electricity company. After sweltering for more than a week without power, a group of sweaty Miami-area residents sued FPL last year over the widespread outages after the storm.
The strip search played out in broad daylight on a sidewalk near Mana Wynwood: As Wendy Matute screamed for help, two male Miami Police officers held down her arms while a female officer held her legs apart. Another female officer, Annette Delgado, unzipped Matute’s shorts, pulled them partway down, and reached inside to grab three baggies of suspected drugs.
