Arthur Balom, an Opa-locka police captain, has been arrested on allegations he helped protect a South Florida drug ring and had knowledge of the murder of a Brinks armed truck guard that happened last year. The arrest was part of an FBI investigation. Three other men, members of the drug…
A national legal magazine for prisoners has filed suit against the Florida Department of Corrections, claiming it’s been censored from distributing in Florida prisons due to a vendetta by the state agency. According to a complaint filed today, the DOC has rejected Prison Legal News off-and-on since 2005 because of…
Miguel Exposito may be gone, but the blowback from his turbulent reign atop the Miami Police Department hasn’t ended yet. Eight months after the last of seven fatal shootings of young black men by Exposito’s force, the U.S. Justice Department is set to announce this morning that federal investigators will probe…
Twin brothers, one an FIU student and another a UM student who was on track to become a Marine officer, have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after about $75,000 worth of marijuana plants were found in their shared South Miami apartment. The discovery was made after…
Paul Michael Mira, the athletic director of Archimedean Middle Conservatory and Archimedean Upper Conservatory, two associated Miami-Dade charter schools, is on the run after being accused of committing sexual battery on a 12-year-old girl. Police report that Mira has told relatives that he’d sooner kill himself than be caught alive. …
The end of the year is a time of reflection around these parts. Specifically, it’s a time to dig through our old police reports and find the most cretinous criminal offender in 2011. Our first nominee, 20-year-old Samuel Lee Walker, is a top front-runner. He’s a budding career criminal who…
While gang activity is nowhere near as prevalent in South Florida as it is in South California, it should come as little surprised that Miami-Dade has one of the highest gang populations in America, the highest in the Southeast, and the second highest on the entire East Coast. …
When former mayoral candidate and commissioner Joe Sanchez announced this morning that his Florida Highway Patrol cruiser had been vandalized with human feces — possibly the latest salvo in a war raging between FHP and the Miami police — we were picturing a liberally placed turd or two. Maybe a…
Dade County is quickly devolving into a real life Spurbury, Vermont, the town in cult classic Super Troopers where war erupts between cool, hipster Highway Patrol officers and douchebag townie cops. Except instead of fighting over Canadian drug shipments, Miami police and Florida Highway Patrol troopers are brawling over footage…
A tip for all you would-be cocaine kingpins: When the FBI catches you off the coast of Colombia with more than 800 pounds of yeyo stashed in your boat, do not argue that “there is nothing wrong with cocaine trafficking.” That’s exactly the tact John Philip Stirling, a 60-year-old Canadian…
Allen Henshaw is pretty recognizable, what with the permanent war paint, the word “Indian” tattooed across his chin, and– most notably– “Fuck You” lovingly penned on his neck.So it only makes sense when he’s evading police after doing drunken push-ups in front of a corner store, that our hero would…
Police are on the lookout for a possibly armed man who posed as a cop and then sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who was on her way to school.The incident occurred Wednesday morning between 6:45 and 7:15. The suspect approached the young victim near Northeast 166th Street and Eighth Avenue…
At 7:30 last night, Bunche Park was humming with activity — pickup basketball games scuffling on the asphalt, young football players running drills, and moms and dads enjoying the cool November weather. Then a black Chevy Impala slowly drove past and rained at least a dozen bullets on the crowd,…
On Sunday, a 21-year-old woman said she pulled over near NW 103rd Street near Sixth Avenue in Miami-Dade due to car trouble, and claimed she was beaten and raped by a stranger. Police issued a profile of the assailant, but now say that the victim has changed her story and…
Next time someone argues that justice is the end result after a trip through American courts, here’s the only rebuttal you need: “Liberty City Seven.” The informants were money-extorting, wife-beating lowlifes. Bush-era, terrorism-obsessed cronies hyped it. And after two straight juries deadlocked on whether seven poor dudes in Liberty City…
Three young men have been arrested after shooting a group of children dressed up in Halloween costumes while trick-or-treating in North Miami. Marc Dolcine, 18, Rodson Travine, 19, and Darrel Labranche, 21, are now facing charges of aggravated battery…
John Paul Garrido, a 26-year-old inmate, is on the loose in Miami after slipping out of police custody earlier today. Miami-Dade police officers are conducting a mass search for the man near the 1400 block of Northwest North River Drive — and have enlisted the help of Photoshop in their…
A 21-year-old woman had to pull off I-95 Sunday morning around 6:30 because her car was having trouble. She stopped in the area of NW 103rd Street near NW Sixth Avenue, where a young man approached her, hit her in the back of the head, and sexually assaulted her…
Last December, 18-year-old Angel Lazo stopped his Honda Civic in the right lane of a remote stretch of U.S. 27 so notorious for drag racing that its grassy medians are peppered with homemade monuments to crash victims. Lazo’s friend, 18-year-old Raymon Garcia, stopped his Integra right behind Lazo.Moments later, a…
How often does one grainy police video end up capturing the best and worst of local cops? One on side, there’s Fausto Lopez — a 35-year-old Miami police officer whose name immediately joins the bad cop pantheon of Adam Tavss, Derick Kuilan and Lavont Flanders after he led a Florida…
Last Friday, Miami International Airport officers inspecting the bags of a 17-year-old British girl headed back to London took a look at a couple dozen boxes of cake mix stuffed amid her clothes. They weren’t full of red velvet batter. The cops found 30 pounds of cocaine inside, and the…
Claude Dray, a billionaire French art collector and real estate investor, was found dead in his home in a Paris suburb Tuesday. Investigators believe the murder might have been a professional hit. Dray bought South Beach’s historic National Hotel in 2007 and also was involved in other real estate investments…
