You’ve got to give Allen Stanford credit for thinking big — instead of sinking his $8 billion Ponzi scheme profits into the usual uber-rich guy stuff, he bought himself the entire Caribbean nation of Antigua, sponsored giant cricket tourneys (despite being from Texas) and gave his mistress a moat-surrounded Coral…
Miami Beach Police say they have found a gun in the blue Hyundai that Raymond Herisse was driving when he was shot and killed by cops early Monday morning during Urban Beach Week.According to police Chief Carlos Noriega, officers discovered a black Beretta 92-F semiautomatic pistol hidden somewhere in Herisse’s…
Twenty-two-year-old Raymond Herisse has been identified as the man shot and killed by police during an early morning Memorial Day weekend incident in the streets of Miami Beach, according to CBS4’s Jim DeFede. Herisse had a long criminal history and had been arrested numerous times before in Palm Beach and…
Miami Beach is largely helpless to stop Memorial Day partiers from coming to town for Urban Beach Weekend, which saw seven injured and one killed in police-related shootings this year, city Mayor Matti Herrera Bower said Tuesday afternoon. According to police, more than 400 were arrested.”There is no organizer, no…
As the story surrounding the two early-morning Memorial Day police shootings evolves, numerous questions have been raised about the circumstances under which one person was killed and seven people injured.Two separate shootings happened early Monday — in one, a man was reportedly driving recklessly and shooting from his car; in…
Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin says a curfew imposed for next year’s South Beach Memorial Day festivities may be in order.Libbin, in response to two police shootings that left seven injured and one dead early Monday, wrote on his Facebook page that the “mayhem on the streets of Miami Beach”…
A woman cried out: “Why God? Why did you have to take Will? He was a good man!” Her friends embraced her and wept along with her. A light sun shower sprinkled them, as if Will Da Real One was sending a message from up on high to them and…
Before at least seven people were injured or killed in multiple early-morning shootouts Monday, many were saying Sunday night that the scene at South Beach’s Urban Beach Weekend didn’t seem as bad as it had in the past.The long weekend was expected to draw 300,000 visitors to South Beach this…
South Beach’s annual Urban Beach Weekend ended on a bloody note early this morning when two different police-involved shootings broke out near Collins and Washington Avenues, shattering the night with multiple rounds and leaving one dead and at least six — including three police officers — in the hospital.Click through…
A couple of weeks ago, 21-year-old Juan Rivera was listening to his favorite station, New York’s 97.9 La Mega, when an excited voice announced a contest: “Answer this trivia question first, and you’ll win a four-day trip to Orlando!”Rivera was engaged to marry in July and on the hunt for…
Just days after announcing that state authorities were investigating massive police corruption in his city, Opa-locka city manager Clarance Patterson has abruptly announced his resignation. Patterson, who held the post for only 16 months, made the announcement Tuesday, one day after Channel 7 news followed a New Times story posted…
We know times are tough, but we don’t know how many times we have to tell you all: do not try and save a few bucks when it comes to having potentially dangerous chemicals injected in to your face. You want Botox, that’s fine, but for the love of God…
Liz Marie Perez Chaparro was celebrating her quinceañera on a Carnival cruise with her parents last summer when an employee convinced the family to join an excursion in St. Thomas. What he didn’t mention, Chaparro’s family says, is that a heated gang war was raging in the area.Chaparro died on a tour…
As it turns out, a Hialeah father who was arrested yesterday when his bruised toddler was found wandering down 74th Street alone might not be a very nice guy.Thirty-one-year-old Carlos Aybar Oliveras is now in jail on $20,000 bond, WSVN reports, and the girl’s mother, Jessica Pinon, 23, is on…
Miami River shipping company Antillean Marine has been charged with knowingly dumping oil into U.S. waters, then falsifying its records to omit the offense, which could cost them more than $1.5 million in fines and put them on probation for years.The drama is over the ship’s bilge-cleaning equipment, which filters…
Just another Tuesday night down at the Trailerama Trailer Park in Marathon last night, where a crazily bearded fellow named Fidel grabbed a rusty machete and attacked his roommate, who narrowly escaped a gruesome end by hurling cinder blocks at Fidel’s head. Life in the Keys!…
Miami is riding high on a heat wave, but it’s only a matter of months until we’re forced to turn our attention to the glum Dolphins (baring of course a cancellation of the season). Their off season has been highlighted by misery, none more dramatic than Brandon Marshall being hospitalized…
It’s been there for decades, lurking just out of sight: not a razor-toothed leviathan but shark fishing itself.As this week’s feature explains, increased state and federal regulations have forced most shark hunters to lay down their nets (and shotguns). But the Sunshine State remains a major player in the national…
Until Saturday, the recent killing-people-for-stupid-reasons fad was confined to adults — a barber shooting another barber who disrespected him, say, or a man whacking his neighbor over a parking space. Then a 14-year-old shotgunned a Jet Ski thief in the head.Twenty-year-old Reynaldo Muñoz rode his own wave runner to the…
Last Monday, Lucretia McKinney was delivering mail on her route of mansions along Pine Tree Drive when she turned the corner to a horrifying sight: Mariana Cruz — former soft-core porn actress and wife of longtime Miami Beach Commissioner Simon Cruz — standing in front of her house with her…
We’ve all been waiting for this moment: the day South Beach claimed its first NFL lockout victim. Because even when pro football players have a job to go to in the morning, they manage to get arrested on Washington Avenue at a rate that would make Rod Blagojevich blush.Take away…
Back in December, New Times reported the long and shady past of newly elected state Rep. Daphne Campbell’s questionable dealings while running group homes for adults who need special care. Now her son, 28-year-old Gregory Campbell, has been charged with Medicare fraud for allegedly billing the government for $299,000 worth of services…
