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  Miami-Dade Firefighter Suspended After Arrest for Sexting 14-Year-Old Girl

  September 17 at 8 a.m.

  On May 1, detectives with the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children were assigned a case involving a 14-year-old girl. After downloading the contents of the girl's iPhone 8, the investigators found what they were looking for: a series of explicit text messages sent to her by Kevin Kerlin, a 45-year-old Miami-Dade firefighter.

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  Miami-Area Police Chief Pleads Guilty to Framing Black Teen

  September 14 at 3:43 p.m.

  It takes a special sort of asshole to pin a bunch of crimes on an innocent 16-year-old kid just for being black. But former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano now admits he's exactly that sort of asshole: Federal prosecutors announced today that Atesiano pleaded guilty to framing a Biscayne Park teenager...

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  Family of Man Shot Dead by Homestead Officer Files Federal Lawsuit

  September 13 at 8 a.m.

  Edward Foster was walking home in Homestead when Officer Anthony Green pulled up alongside him. Within minutes, the police officer had fired off 11 rounds, striking the 35-year-old father of six at least six times. Foster never made it home. The Homestead Police Department has always maintained Green was in fear for his life after Foster reached toward his waistband.

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  Miami Man Pleads Guilty to Sending $1 Million in Bribes to Ecuadorian Oil Officials

  September 12 at 4:19 p.m.

  The U.S. government recently launched a campaign to crack down on money-laundering and corruption in Latin America's state-run oil companies, including the one in Venezuela. Now the target has moved a bit south and west. A Miami man yesterday pleaded guilty to trying to funnel more than $1 million to an official at Petroecuador, Ecuador's state-run oil company.

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  Miami Police Chief Says Cops Can Finally Stop Arresting People for Small Amounts of Pot

  September 10 at 9 a.m.

  Seventeen months after the City of Miami signed an agreement allowing police officers to hand out civil citations instead of arresting people for certain minor misdemeanors — including possessing small amounts of marijuana — Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina says his officers will finally begin doing so by the end of this month.

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  Miami Billionaire Phillip Frost, Namesake of Museum, Hit With SEC Fraud Charges

  September 7 at 4:45 p.m.

  Miami can't build anything nice without someone getting charged with fraud along the way. Miami Beach pharmaceutical baron Phillip Frost pumped enough money into the new downtown science museum that the city wound up naming the place after him. He lives in a $59 million mansion on Star Island and sits in the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.