In June 2013, Alex Rodriguez was sweating the biggest drug scandal in MLB history. Six months after Miami New Times had revealed a local clinic called Biogenesis was selling steroids to scores of top players, MLB was closing in on Tony Bosch, the clinic’s owner. Bosch was a big problem,…
Police have connected 22-year-old Alexander Tyler to the murder of a homeless man. The victim, whose name has not yet been released, was in his late 40s. According to NBC Miami, he was believed to have lived under the 836 bridge, and came to a Little Havana laundromat once a…
Between October 11 and October 29, several cars in a Hialeah neighborhood went up in flames. Two of which just happened to belong to the same woman. Police have now arrested Armando Hernandez, 51, the woman’s boyfriend, and charged him for the car-charring spree…
There are a plenty of terrifying real-life Florida stories for Halloween, but let’s be honest: Ain’t nothing scarier than clown crimes. And the Sunshine State has had more than its share of felonious clowns terrorizing the population…
City of Miami Police officer Jose Maldonado-Dick might have misunderstood the “protect and serve” part of his job description, because he’s been arrested for offering to protect and serve drug traffickers. A seven-year veteran of the force, Maldonado-Dick approached a drug dealer back in July and offered his protection. He…
The video begins with a motorcyclist waving a ticket he’s just gotten from veteran Miami Beach Police Officer Kenneth MacLeod. “God bless you,” the man says. Is there sarcasm in that remark? MacLeod certainly thinks so. “You want to be a sarcastic bitch?” the cop asks, wheeling back around and…
In a bit of a twist on the old saying, dog bites cat isn’t news… unless everyone thought it was a case of man using cat as a bow-and-arrow practice target. Police in Palmetto Bay say that a string of cats found dead in the city last week were probably…
Miami Beach Commissioner Ed Tobin is nearly 53 years old. He’s been a city commissioner for seven years and a working lawyer for almost 30. But now Tobin wants to begin a new career — as a Miami Beach beat cop. “I figured I’m not getting any younger,” Tobin tells…
Three cats have been found dead in Palmetto Bay in the past week, with at least one cat having been shot with a bow and arrow. The news comes five years after several cats were found dead in Palmetto Bay and neighboring Cutler Bay. Police believed a human was behind…
On June 30, 2011, Miami-Dade Police officers ambushed a band of robbers in the Redland, killing four — including the cops’ own informant — in a fury of bullets without receiving a shot in return. But when it came time to investigate the suspicious shootings, the agency leading the inquiry…
Last week, Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally selling testosterone from his Coral Gables clinic to hundreds of clients, including Major League Baseball players. Today, the feds have arrested another man who they say supplied some of that illegal testosterone. Paulo Berejuk, a chemist based…
Judges may set bonds over $1 million for serious crimes such as murder, high-profile cases, or for defendants who present a serious flight risk. Jorge Vargas simply got caught with some undersize lobster tails, so why did a judge set his bail at a hefty $1.4 million? Well, Vargas was…
Last week, New Times revealed at least two Miami Police officers had been customers of Biogenesis, the notorious Coral Gables steroid clinic at the heart of Major League Baseball’s biggest doping scandal, and that a former Florida Department of Health investigator refused to involve the force in his case after…
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of protecting a privacy right that many Floridians might not have even known they’d lost, and we have a convicted drug dealer to thank. Police departments often use cell phone data and spying tools known as “stingrays” to track people’s locations through…
Jean Mirabal’s attempt to buy a car couldn’t have been a bigger disaster. After purchasing a Toyota 4Runner a friend had seen a for sale sign in at a gas station, Mirabal went to register the car at a tag agency only to find out that the car had been…
A married couple who had begun their day fishing in Biscayne Bay made a startling discovery this morning near the Julia Tuttle Causeway. They found the body of a woman floating in the water. Police say that the woman is believed to have been in her 30s and that she…
Just two years ago, Tony Bosch was the go-to source for customized steroid cocktails for some of the biggest names in professional baseball. Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, and Nelson Cruz all paid the unlicensed doctor thousands to cook up testosterone creams and lozenges that could beat Major League Baseball’s drug…
Detective Suberto Hernandez, a heavyset undercover cop with a scraggly beard and long greasy hair, pulled to a stop in an unmarked car just south of Calle Ocho on a quiet Little Havana corner across from a vacant grass lot. Wearing clothes that made him look like a grungy construction…
Our cover story this week is Tim Elfrink’s latest dip into the apparently never-ending pool of scandal surrounding the Coral Gables “anti-aging” clinic turned one-stop steroids shop Biogenesis. Amongst the latest scoops: Miami Police Department officers turned up on the client lists of Tony Bosch’s clinic, and steroids connected to…
More than three years after police on Miami Beach shot more than a 100 rounds into a car driven by Raymond Herisse during a busy Memorial Day weekend because they felt he was trying to run an officer over, the Miami Beach Police Department has enacted a new policy under…
The City Beautiful has a problem ugly. Police say they’re dealing with some perverted crimes, including peeping Toms in the northern part of the city, and hope to put an end to it. First order of business: locating a man who allegedly snuck up and exposed himself to a female…
Gangs. Same as always, just with weirder names. A joint effort by the U.S. Attorney Office of South Florida, the Miami Police Department, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives resulted this week in the arrest of 21 members of a gang known as the Big Money Team…
