It ended with a boom: a 40-year relationship and two lives — one dead and gone, the other alive and alone. Jorge Arrojas and his partner, Miguel Larrieu, were heading home, fresh from a dinner party in Bal Harbour around midnight last August 10 on I-75 when a red 2009…
Ron English spent two years creating his brightly colored mural and deer sculptures at Wynwood Walls. It took thieves less than four minutes to steal them. Last month, three young men stole English’s last remaining deer sculpture. Now the street artist is asking for them to return it. “It’s fine…
Never expect a cop to be cool about a little bit of pot. The Florida Sheriffs Association has officially taken a stance on medical marijuana. They’re against it. Because you know, it’s common practice for sheriffs to take stances on what kind of medical treatment people should be allowed to…
The Miami lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police has chimed in on Ultra Music Festival’s future in Miami. The police union is all for it — just as long as all private security guards are replaced by City of Miami Police officers and that they’re allowed to pat down…
David Llama Lopez, 46, has been arrested and is being held without bond as police investigate a scheme in which he allegedly tried to sell North Miami Senior High School students into sex slavery. Yesterday, the State Attorney’s Office Human Trafficking Unit, Miami-Dade Schools Police, and a SWAT team all…
Miami Beach may have found its new police chief. CBS Miami confirms that Aurora, Colorado police chief Dan Oates has been selected by Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales to take over for retiring chief Raymond Martinez. However, the city commission must vote on the matter before Oates officially takes…
According to the T-shirts on display at Ultra this year, many concertgoers were looking for someone named “molly.” Apparently, it wasn’t very difficult to find her. Miami Police arrested 20 people at the music festival for selling or possessing MDMA, commonly known as molly. That’s according to a summary of…
In last summer’s Michael Bay movie Pain & Gain, bodybuilders portrayed by Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson conspire to kidnap and extort a random rich prick named Victor Kershaw (played by Tony Shalhoub). In real life and the Miami New Times series that inspired the movie, bodybuilders Daniel Lugo and…
Miami Dade College music professor Marc Magellan was heading into a Kendall campus parking garage last week when someone yelled out, “Professor Marc!” Next thing Magellan knew, he’d been punched in the face, knocked to the concrete, and brutally beaten until his nose shattered and his hand broke. The music…
Ever since he earned a midsummer promotion to the Dodgers last year, Cuban defector Yasiel Puig has been the most electrifying man in Major League Baseball — flying heedlessly into walls, smacking absurd home runs, and annoying columnists by showing up late to games and speeding in his sports car…
The decision over Ultra Music Festival’s fate was delayed yesterday, but the debate rages on. Even as city commissioners consider banning Ultra, thousands of people per day are signing a petition to keep UMF in downtown Miami. Ultra opponents accuse the event of descending into drugs and violence. Its defenders…
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Caolin Kaepernick, wide receiver Quinton Patton, and Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Ricarod Lockette are the subjects of a sexual assault investigation by the Miami Police Department. The incident allegedly happened at Lockette’s room at the Viceroy Hotel in downtown April 1. A woman claims she was…
A Miami-Dade cop charged with protecting citizens now finds himself on the other end of the law for endangering and injuring two of our youngest citizens. Officer Ryan Robinson, 41, was arrested on Saturday night for drunk driving after he struck a shopping cart with two children inside in a…
It has been an interesting few months for Ultra. In late March, the mega music festival once again drew nearly 200,000 people to Bayfront Park, making untold millions of dollars, and firmly establishing itself as America’s premier EDM event. But a concertgoer’s death and a stampede that nearly killed a…
Until yesterday, Lt. Ralph Mata was the picture of an upstanding Miami-Dade cop. He was a top leader in Internal Affairs, spending his days going after corruption and abuse in the ranks. He’d earned exactly one mention in the Miami Herald in his career, for helping to lead a feel-good…
Last year, Kevin Sutherland led his Mosaic Miami Church congregation through a sermon about sight and spirituality. “God begins to wash away” our blindness, the charismatic pastor said. “God begins to let us see.” Yet it was Sutherland’s foresight that would fail him. The 46-year-old preacher was charged last week…
You’re high on meth, cruising around Fort Lauderdale with dilated pupils, a rocketing body temperature, and a pipe on your lap, when cops suddenly pull you over. What do you do? Well, if you’re Carlos Lopez, then the purchasing director for the City of Hialeah, you stuff that meth pipe…
Alex Rousseau, a Miami firefighter who has posed twice for the popular South Florida firefighters calendar, was arrested today for allegedly downloading child porn while at the firehouse…
A man led police on a wild chase this morning after he escaped from Jackson Memorial Hospital’s crisis center. The unidentified suspect was being held under the Baker Act to undergo a mental evaluation but somehow slipped out and then tried to steal a car before successfully taking a bike…
Braulio Valenzuela-Villanueva, a 73-year-old Miami man, set his neighbors’ trailer home on fire simply because they were lesbians. “He stated that he despised the two adult victims for the simple fact that they were lesbians,” the arrest report reads. “According to the defendant, every time he saw them kissing, he…
Like many families in Miami, Nelson Valeriano Rodriguez and Nelson Angel Rodriguez were running a father and son business together. Thier’s just happened to be a drug ring. Miami-Dade police busted the pair yesterday after receiving an anonymous tip…
Atlanta rap trio Migos have had a hell of a 2014 already, with Complex naming one member, Quavo, the year’s most influential rapper for his oft-imitated rhythm as the group has dropped new videos with Souljah Boy and about Emmitt Smith. Early this morning, the crew were headed south down…
