A Miami Police officer who needlessly tasered a homeless man and then covered it up will be reprimanded, his department says. The incident was the central focus of a recent New Times investigation into widespread Taser misuse by Miami cops. Officer Vincent Miller’s punishment has yet to be finalized, a…
Miami Gardens, the city that’s home to Sun Life Stadium and one of Florida’s highest crime rates, has had a wrenchingly difficult week. Days after police fatally shot a mentally ill man armed with a broom, city leaders are now dealing with an apparent hate crime. Yesterday, someone spray-painted “KKK”…
On Saturday, Lavall Hall, a Miami Gardens man diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was having an episode. His mother called police to help her calm down her son. As it turns out Hall’s mother would never see her son alive again. Miami Gardens Police showed up the scene and…
Update: Shortly after Bosch’s sentencing, Alex Rodriguez issued his first apology to fans for secretly buying banned drugs from Bosch for years. This morning, U.S. District Court Judge Darrin Gayles sentenced Biogenesis chief Tony Bosch to 48 months in federal prison and three years of probation upon his release on…
On December 30, New Times published a yearlong investigation showing local cops routinely broke department policy on Tasers: using the weapons on skateboarding teenagers, shocking the mentally ill, even killing 18-year-old graffiti artist Israel “Reefa” Hernandez. The most disturbing finding, however, was evidence that Miami Police Officer Vincent Miller had…
Catherine Daniels called Miami Gardens Police Sunday morning with a plea: Her son, a mentally ill man named Lavall Hall, needed help. After she called police, Hall walked out of the house holding a broom. Daniels never saw her son alive again, because the two Miami Gardens Police officers who…
Next Tuesday, Biogenesis chief Tony Bosch will learn how long he’ll spend in federal prison for running an illegal steroid operation. On one hand, he’s admitted to supplying dozens of Major Leaguers — and at least 18 Miami high schoolers — with ‘roids. He’s also fessed to helping run a…
For years, cops accused of needlessly tasering suspects have been protected in South Florida. Even in instances when suspects have died after being shocked, officers have avoided blame in both criminal and civil courts. That could be changing, however. Last week, district judge James Lawrence King ruled that a jury…
When Tony Bosch — the steroid-dealing founder of Miami clinic Biogenesis — agreed last summer to help Major League Baseball go after his biggest clients, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, he demanded some favors in return — namely, that MLB wouldn’t go after his family and that the league…
In March 2013, Chicago resident David Schlessinger was at the Calle Ocho music festival when he tried to take a group of friends to a restricted area. He mentioned his Clear Channel connections and flashed old BET credentials, but a guard refused to let him pass. “‘That guy’s an idiot,'”…
Thirty-year-old Reginald Killings was outside his home. Twenty-one-year-old Maurice Cabrera was riding his bike. Both men were shot multiple times, and both were killed. A 14-year-old was shot in the face, and another man was shot in the upper chest. And all the gunfire went down in a few hours…
A lot of loose change can add up. And for Miami flight attendant Marco Costa, stealing a lot of loose change can add up to serious time behind bars. The 56-year-old AmericanAirlines employee was arrested January 31 after investigators discovered he had stolen about $5,000 in coins meant to be…
Andrew Cummings was caught on an episode in 2006 confessing to killing his roommate. But a judge has now ruled that the footage proves he was illegally detained.
Well, you can’t say local cops get away with everything. Miami-Dade Police Officer Joshua Zacarias will face charges after he had a minor run-in with a gate at a police station parking lot and then lied about it…
When a Miami PD officer approaches Warren Redlich at a DUI checkpoint outside the AmericanAirlines Arena, he calmly presses a sheet of paper and his license to the glass. The cop looks confused, calling over a colleague. They study the paper for a moment, pause, and then give Redlich the…
Kerry Pierre appears to be artist Romero Britto’s scariest fan. The 33-year-old has been arrested twice in the past seven days for allegedly harassing the artist and his staff at Britto’s Lincoln Road studio. In fact, Pierre has a history of stalking and harassing Miami’s most notable pop artist that…
When police pulled Orin Tong over during a narcotics sweep yesterday and found ecstasy pills in his car, police say he quickly fingered his source: his own daughter, Mariah. The cops got a search warrant, went to the Tongs’ nearby home in Little Haiti, and inside found a full-on grow…
Police can’t even seem to break up a dog fight without the use of bullets. Miami-Dade Police opened fire on two escaped pet dogs that got into a fight with a police K9 yesterday afternoon. One of the dogs died, while the other is in an animal hospital requiring serious…
Four years after a fatal shooting shattered two families, new court documents add to the evidence that a Miami-Dade Police detective botched her investigation of the incident. On May 21, 2011, 14-year-old Jack Davis fatally shot an unarmed Reynaldo Muñoz Jr. while Muñoz was trying to steal a WaveRunner. In…
The gunshots rang out around 10:30 a.m. yesterday, sending panicked customers at an Aventura shopping center with a Whole Foods, Target, and Best Buy running for cover. Only after the dust settled was it clear where the gunfire had originated: from two Aventura PD officers who had each fired rounds…
In just under a month, Tony Bosch is scheduled to face the music for his years selling steroids to ballplayers from his Coral Galbes clinic Biogenesis. In the meantime, though, Bosch has been trying to work through his own addiction to decidedly non-performance enhancing drugs. Bosch lost his bail back…
Nationwide and in Miami, outrage over police violence against African-Americans has reached a boiling point, fueled by the lack of indictments in the Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice cases. So it’s beyond baffling why the North Miami Beach Police Department not only used photos of local black men…
