Email Author Tim Elfrink

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2011

  "Santeria Stalker"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 19, 2011

  "Guns Online: No Permit Needed"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 3, 2011

  "The Fight to Bury Venezuelan President CAP in Miami"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published March 25, 2010

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published December 16, 2010

  "Hurricane Nevin"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published May 20, 2010

  "Hack Pack"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published March 25, 2010

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published July 22, 2010

  "Tea Party Pretty Boy"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published March 25, 2010

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 25, 2010

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published April 9, 2009

  "The Fall of a Titan"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published February 26, 2009

  "Guantanamo's Final Days"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published June 4, 2009

  "Swamped"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published April 9, 2009

  "The Fall of a Titan"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published May 21, 2009

  "Dog Fight"

• 2010 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published February 26, 2009

  "Guantanamo's Final Days"

• 2009 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published December 18, 2008

  "Black October"

• 2009 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published December 18, 2008

  "Black October"

• 2009 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published December 18, 2008

  "Black October"

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2009 Stories by Tim Elfrink

• Psystar, a Rebel South Florida Company, Takes On Apple

  published November 12, 2009

  Robert Pedraza is a 24-year-old self-taught programmer with a thin frame, spiky dark hair, gleaming braces, and squinty eyes. His brother Rudy... More >>

• Revolico Moves Cuba's Black Market Online

  published October 1, 2009

  Mateo might just be the best mecánico in Havana, Cuba. The cars that roll into his little garage — tucked into a... More >>

• On the Hunt for Exotic Lizards in the Florida Everglades

  published September 3, 2009

  Dennis Giardina was walking up a sun-blasted hill just outside Homestead Air Reserve Base when he spotted the monster. From the forked black... More >>

• Che Guevara Ordered His Father's Death, So Gustavo Villoldo Promised Payback

  published August 6, 2009

  Ernesto "Che" Guevara's famous beret is gone. His iconic beard is filthy and matted against skeletal cheekbones. One bushy eyebrow arches over... More >>

• South Florida Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism

  published July 2, 2009

  Their bags were packed. Their farewells had been said. Like the rest of the British 38th Regiment Royal Engineers, Mark Quinsey and... More >>

• South Florida's Best Fishing Hole, the L-67A Canal, Falls Victim to Environmentalists

  published June 4, 2009

  Iron wires dangle from a boat in a cool brown river deep in the Everglades. On this breezy April morning, a few hundred volts crackle through... More >>

• Pit Bulls Banned in Miami Find Refuge in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

  published May 21, 2009

  Back in February 1989, a 7-year-old girl named Melissa Moreira was walking home on SW 18th Terrace in Miami. She had spent the evening... More >>

• R. Allen Stanford's story tells how one eccentric billionaire can help bring the global economy to its knees

  published April 9, 2009

  It's a bright September afternoon in 2002 inside the towering Miami Center on Biscayne Boulevard. From his 21st-floor office, Charles Hazlett... More >>

• Fort Lauderdale builder gets no-bid contract to build new Marlins stadium

  published April 9, 2009

  Starting in 1997, Fort Lauderdale construction magnate Bob Moss decided to build stronger bridges with Florida politicians. Moss told employees... More >>

• Guantánamo's Final Days

  published February 26, 2009

  The soldiers move through the wheat field, scanning the windswept plain for signs of trouble. There are six of them, dressed in fatigues and... More >>

• Developer Tibor Hollo Helped Build Miami

  published January 29, 2009

  His thin, 81-year-old frame draped in a tan suit, his sharp eyes shaded by wraparound sunglasses, Tibor Hollo stands before a rusted fence... More >>