Police & Law Enforcement

To be honest, we’re more shocked that someone found a basement in Miami than an illegal grow house. Yes, last week, Miami-Dade Police found a home with a makeshift basement that served as a grow house…

Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel, 23, a Palestinian national who had attended Hialeah Senior High, and Yanny Aguila Urbay, 24, who arrived from Cuba seven years ago, have been arrested on terrorism-related charges. The two were caught in a scheme to purchase more than 300 stolen weapons, including AK-47s, M-16s, and grenades…

Quotas to police chiefs are like mistresses to politicians: Nobody wants to get caught with one. No cop brass wants to admit that they’ve boiled the delicate art of policing– where discretion and fairness is key– to a crude numbers chase…

Clownish convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein made a habit of making large donations to several local charities to pump up his credibility and be able to rub shoulders with big wigs. Now he’s serving a 50 year& sentence for his scheme that ripped investors off to the tune of $1.2…

On the police report, it will say something like “observed vehicle swerving erratically. Issued verbal traffic warning. Officer detected aroma of marijuana.” But in reality, says Ofc. Frank Adams– the renegade 15-year Miami-Dade veteran who this week claimed to New Times that he watched his fellow officers severely beat an…

An armed bank robber is on the lose in Coral Gables near the University of Miami campus. The college is on alert, while two public schools with young children in the area, Sunset Elementary School and Henry S. West Laboratory School, are in precautionary lock down…

Efraim Diveroli, the irrepressible 24-year-old arms trafficker and Miami Beach felon, was arrested Friday for attempting to sell large quantities of ammunition to undercover federal agents in central Florida. He’s been detained without bond in Orange County and charged with “possession of firearms as a convicted felon” and “possession of…

In today’s roundup of the sins of South Florida: A congressional candidate has her purse snatched after a man points a gun at her head outside a church; some students will spend their first month of class in a fancy hotel; a traffic accident claims one life; and another storm…

Two teens in St. Petersburg, Florida evidently decided to while away their fading halcyon days of youth with a time-honored American tradition: Sneaking into the fanciest hotel pool in town and pooping all over that bastard. What, like you’ve never done it? (Looking at you Kim Kardashian.)It was the perfect…

In today’s roundup of the sins of South Florida: A former county employee faces 20 charges of child pornography, a man is killed after a fight at a South Beach club, a veteran security guard is mysteriously found dead behind a dollar store in Southwest Dade, two men are arrested…

The Magic City’s violent summer just keeps boiling on, as Miami police shot and killed another suspect early this morning– the fourth police shooting in just over a month.Details on the latest clash, which ended just a few hours ago, are still sketchy. Sometime after midnight last night, cops were…

Miami-Dade County’s once-burgeoning horse meat black market has become a foolhardy trade due to prowling undercover cops and a new Florida law sending equine-flesh-peddlers to prison for a year. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of criminals still determined–or dumb–enough to sell horse meat. “A lot of people are…

While state laws are trying to put a stop to South Florida’s notorious pill mills, the area is still a popular destination for those looking to load up on illicit substances. Kelly Mowery and four others recently made a bit of an OxyContin shopping trip in Miami. While returning to…

In today’s news roundup: The city’s big brass shows up at the scene of a police-involved shooting, Miracle Mile goes up in flames, the future president of Earth visits, and a Miami Beach serial robber comes clean…

​In this morning’s slow but deadly news roundup: A Hialeah man impersonates a police officer, makes off with a woman’s purse, and then gets sat on; and two terrible car accidents send multiple people to the hospital…

Say what you will about our friends in the Conch Republic — life is never boring on Duval Street. Just ask the Key West beat cops, who spent their Sunday night chasing and tasering a local man armed with a ninja sword and a baseball bat outside the VFW hall.Benjamin…

In today’s roundup of midsummer bummers: Fontainebleau black widow Narcy Novack is connected with yet another murder plot, a Miami Beach hotel ruins a couple’s wedding but offers to hold the ceremony in a sandwich shop, the Founding Fathers shed tears of joy over the return of a very patriotic…

Twenty months after a mysterious car accident near Miccosukee Indian land claimed the life of Coconut Grove woman Tatiana Furry, the State Atorney’s Office has concluded its investigation and released a shocker. According to an autopsy report, Furry had a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .32, four times the legal…

In today’s roundup of bullets and other bad things: A taxi cab is shot up in a drive-by, leaving one man dead; another teen is a victim of gun violence in Liberty City; the Miami Hurricanes football team struggles with Twitter; and early voting begins…

A McDonald’s in Hialeah was robbed not once, but twice by a man dressed like a ninja, in head-to-toe black. Turned out the robberies were perpetrated by Michel Quiroz, an 18-year-old employee at the restaurant. He even continued to show up for work after the robberies, but eventually his co-workers…

In today’s news roundup: A dead body is found in a truck, a teacher drives while under the influence of booze and Xanax, and those huge LCD billboards in downtown Miami have a long way to go before they’re erected…

In today’s roundup of the woes of South Florida: An airboat accident injures a young girl, another Florida panther dies thanks to careless drivers, the father who beat his son to brain-death in a “boxing lesson” will face murder charges, and our old friend Principal “Eat Shit and Die” has…