Police & Law Enforcement

A onetime Miami-Dade officer is at least the third current or former South Florida policeman to be charged with federal loan fraud since last June.

Take a dive into Enrique Tarrio’s uniquely Miami saga, from his days chainsmoking Malboros near his family home in Flagami to his darkest hours cleaning up human feces in a jail cell.

LEO Technologies is poised to deploy its AI software across Florida prisons to monitor inmates’ phone calls.

Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz, the scandal-plagued officer who racked up abuse and misconduct allegations over nearly two decades, has been reinstated.

An elderly vet was hospitalized for five days after he was grabbed by the throat and arrested by a Miami sergeant in a misunderstanding over spittle, an internal affairs report says.

Two officers claim they were demoted in retaliation for blowing the whistle on corruption in the Miami Police Department.

After a three-year gap in carrying out executions, Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed death warrants for three Florida inmates in less than three months.

Customs agents at Miami International Airport heard strange noises coming from Szu Ta Wu’s luggage and suspected something was alive inside.

The feds say this officer from the Miami Police Department submitted fraudulent documents to lock up two loan draws under a CARES Act loan program.

Commissioner Ricky Arriola said Miami Beach’s reaction to the Spring Break violence is like “rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.”

Police misconduct is out of sight, out of mind when Miami officers fail to follow body-worn camera rules during tense interactions with civilians.

As jury deliberations continue, does the defense have cause for hope?

The family of Antwon Cooper, who was fatally shot in a tussle with Miami police, says the gun found near his body is conspicuously absent from footage of the incident.

To the surprise of federal prosecutors, January 6 defendant Gabriel Garcia popped up at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he schmoozed with Matt Gaetz.

Closing arguments concluded in the trial of three men accused of murdering Broward rapper XXXTentacion as he was leaving a motorcycle dealership in 2018.

A post-doctoral researcher dubbed “Chicken Man” claims cops were acting as political lapdogs when they arrested him for protesting Joe Carollo’s new pet sculpture park downtown.

Highlights from the ongoing trial of the trio accused of the 2018 murder of Broward rapper XXXTentacion.

While awaiting trial on felony charges in the January 6 Capitol riot, Trump family hobnobber Gabriel Garcia has been allowed to jet across the U.S. on at least nine trips and counting.

Highlights from the trial of three men accused of murdering the Miami rapper in 2018.

Stevenson Charles faces life in prison with a possible hate-crime enhancement.

Dillbeck’s February 23 execution is moving forward as planned after the Florida Supreme Court denied his pleas for relief.

Prosecutors declined to pursue charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct against the 23-year-old.