Taking advantage of Miami’s near-perfect year-round yacht weather, Angel Jose Limongi was frequently spotted jaunting around Biscayne Bay on his 45-foot pleasure craft, Breaking the Habit. And the boat was available for hire for anyone who wanted to do the same: For upward of $1,000, Limongi would find a captain and arrange a charter.
Several days after his May 2016 arrest for the murder of Dan Markel, Sigfredo Garcia made a jailhouse phone call to Kathy Magbanua, his former girlfriend and the mother of two of his children. He told her he would “be out soon and [would] either file a lawsuit or ‘get the hell out of Dodge’ and leave everything behind them,” according to an FBI transcript of the call.
A Miami-Dade correctional officer who has been with the department for 11 years has been charged with raping a woman he was supposed to be supervising while she was on house arrest.
Today 58-year-old Bernard Gonzalez became the first person in Broward County to be charged with murder for selling fentanyl to a person who later overdosed.
Sitting in front of a computer screen in his home in Brandon, Florida, Daniel McMahon allegedly carried out a campaign of terror, encouraging violence against countless people and helping influence at least one murderous white nationalist. This week, federal authorities finally caught up with him.
In July 2018, a Miami-area woman and her family members told a Miami Police Department officer that her estranged ex-husband had followed her car, cut off the vehicle, started pounding on the outside of it, and even ripped off one of the windshield wipers, all because he wanted to see the separated couple’s 10-month-old daughter.
Yoel Alonso Leal is a Cuban man who has lived in New Orleans and is seeking asylum in the United States. Beginning last October, he sat in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention despite the fact he suffered from severe gout and a host of other ailments. This past May, he went to the doctor for a lung scan…
Inmates and guards inside the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami (FCI Miami) have complained for years that the facility is full of enough mold and mildew to sicken those inside, In 2018, New Times obtained documents showing the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has repeatedly found leaking ceilings and mold growing on walls in multiple rooms.
Miami Beach is a tourist mecca to where wealthy folks knowingly move and then complain about all the things that come with living in a tourist mecca. Over the past few years, residents have wigged out over the idea that people like to visit South Beach to (and this is by no means an exhaustive list) drink, do drugs,…
Reports on the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children outside Miami tend to fall into two categories. The federal government likes to claim the place is a clean, happy, jovial temporary dorm for immigrant kids waiting to enter the United States. The kids themselves, however, consistently keep telling lawyers and advocates that the place sucks, makes them depressed, and is leaving some of them with lasting trauma.
New Times this week reported that, even though Hialeah Police Officer Jessie Menocal Jr. was accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl while on duty in 2015, he was only removed from street patrols this year.
Kelvin Harris, James Archibald, and Schonton Harris sure know how much a Miami Police Department uniform costs. In monetary terms: $1,500, which is the price an undercover FBI agent posing as a drug dealer paid to buy one from the group during a federal sting.
Thousands of children in Florida have been kept in conditions that a United Nations special report on torture calls “cruel, inhuman, or degrading.”
Throughout much of the past year, police-reform advocates in Miami have been upset with Jane Castor, the former Tampa Police chief whom the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had appointed to oversee the Miami Police Department in the wake of a scathing 2013 DOJ review that found MPD was wantonly using force against black and brown citizens.
In a blow to appointed Broward Sheriff Greg Tony’s fledgling administration, Tony’s hand-chosen undersheriff, Sean Zukowsky, abruptly left the agency today after just seven months on the job.
In July 2014, an anonymous tipster called police early one morning to report that a uniformed Miami Beach cop appeared to be drunk outside Mango’s Tropical Cafe on Ocean Drive. When officers showed up, they arrived to find their own Sgt. Mike Muley so plastered he apparently needed to be transported to Mount Sinai Medical Center.
In 2015, the Hialeah Police Department claimed it had suspended Sgt. Jesus “Jessie” Menocal Jr. and removed him from street patrols after he was accused of kidnapping a 17-year-old girl, driving her to a police building, and forcing her to strip while he pleasured himself in front of her.
In a move some defense lawyers have blasted as cruel, Miami-Dade County yesterday evening said in a media release that it is trying to force some inmates currently out on pretrial release back behind bars before Hurricane Dorian hits Florida.
In news that perhaps might not sound surprising for Sunshine State government, a former employee of the Florida Office of the Attorney General was charged today with securities fraud.
By 2014, the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) and Broward State Attorney’s Office had learned of misconduct allegations against former BSO crime lab analyst Kelli McDonald. That year, New Times broke the news that multiple cases handled by McDonald had either tainted or missing drug evidence.
Pedro Rene Gonzalez had been sitting in Miami’s Federal Detention Center (FDC Miami) awaiting trial on weapons charges since December 18, 2018. Despite languishing in jail for eight months, Gonzalez never made it to trial: The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) today confirmed to New Times…
The University of Miami — allegedly an upstanding institution that’s supposed to teach students right from wrong — is refusing to voluntarily hand Miami’s police-oversight board some payroll documents tied to the single most controversial cop in town: perennial troublemaker and Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz.
