Just after sunrise on a muggy September morning, Steve Dutton and Tom Lang sip coffee at a sidewalk table in downtown Miami. Steve, who has warm brown eyes and an easy smile, drinks black coffee from La Provence; his husband of 11 years, Tom, blue-eyed behind the oval-shaped lenses of…
It has been 11 months since investigators say Franklin Chavez drove the wrong way on I-95 and caused a high-speed, head-on collision that killed 23-year-old Carmen Criales and seriously injured her mother and brother. Chavez has been charged with vehicular homicide and manslaughter while driving under the influence. Now the victims’…
The blond corpse floats in a blood-filled bathtub.The face bobs just barely above the surface. She wears nothing but a thong. Her hands are tied with a ribbed fabric sash. The feet are bound with a beige electrical cord. Stab wounds dot her body. The sprawling Mediterranean-style home is a…
October has been the deadliest month for drug overdoses in Delray Beach. As of October 19, the city’s police force reported 38 overdoses, nine of them deadly. Though cops, firefighters, and experts continue to warn about the dangers of mixing heroin with fentanyl and carfentanil, it seems…
As John Wilson cooked dinner for his family in March 2010, an eerie silence filled their cozy Plantation home. Usually around 6 p.m. on a school day, the place was bustling. Four kids were asking about dinner or playing videogames. John, a mild-mannered musician with salt-and-pepper hair and rimless glasses,…
As patrons were bargain-hunting for flashy iPhone cases and designer perfume at Festival Flea Market in Pompano Beach, all sorts of shady deals were happening in its back offices, a new lawsuit alleges. In the 84-page complaint, the flea market’s former chief financial officer, Harlene Zweig, accuses the owner Daniel…
Last November 2015, Judge Matthew Destry sentenced a black 23-year-old named Herbert Smith to 60 years in prison for driving on a suspended license (a violation of his probation). Thousands were outraged and accused the white-haired judge of being excessive, cruel, or, as Howard Finkelstein of the Broward Public Defenders…
A Broward activist was allegedly beaten and tased at least five times at Broward County Jail last February. Stephanie Auguiste (who is also known as Billie) was released after less than six hours, bruised and cut up. Though it has been more than seven months since the incident, the 30-year-old is…
As the gospel choir finished the last chords of “Going Up Yonder,” Deborah Frazier approached her brother’s powder-blue coffin. It was surrounded by heaping bouquets of baby’s breath and blue roses. For a moment, the cavernous sanctuary of the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was silent except the sound of her…
When the passenger came to, she was on a desk aboard the M/V Norwegian Sky, crying hysterically and trying to figure out how she’d wound up there. Her vaginal area was sore, and the last thing she could remember was being trapped in a storage room by the bartender who’d…
“Great news!” Rica Danastor told New Times yesterday “I can’t wait to call everyone and tell them. We’re so happy.” Though Danastor’s brother, Maxime Cherilus, was sentenced to 10 years in prison—more than six times the prosecution’s recommendation for selling 1 gram of crack cocaine for $50, that ruling was reversed by…
As crowds stumble along South Beach’s most iconic strip of art deco hotels and restaurants on a hot Saturday in July, the chipper sidewalk hostesses do a quick mental calculation, looking for a phrase that might lure passersby. “Table for two?” they hawk. “Happy hour!” “Two-for-one drinks!” It’s 5:45 p.m…
Seven days after he slipped out of shackles and left the Broward County Courthouse through a back door, allegedly with the help of at least seven others, accused murderer Dayonte Resiles was marched back into the Fort Lauderdale jail not long before dawn this morning. Surrounded by a SWAT team…
When Thaddeus Martin won the first season of MTV’s “From G’s to Gents” in 2008, he wanted to mark the permanence of his transformation into a gentleman. So four months later, in a post-season reunion episode, the Miami Gardens native rolled up his sleeve and revealed a tattoo of the…
There’s no escaping the cult phenomenon of Pokemon Go in South Florida. Millennials teem the tri-county area on their phones, hunting for invisible creatures in what the app calls an “augmented reality.” Generally, the battling and violence stays in the virtual realm, but the Morikami Museum is reporting that Pokemon…
Melissa Rodriguez was collecting seashells on Hollywood Beach, hours after the last fireworks had dimmed on the 4th of July, when she realized her pants were missing. She had left her black jeans, her wallet, and her car keys on a lifeguard stand before walking to the water. When she…
The grainy security video shows Steven Rodgers, a 43-year-old Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police officer, inside his Miami Edison Senior High School office. His silver badge glints against the dark blue of his uniform as he grins into the camera. And his penis is in his hand as he pleasures…
Perhaps the string of shootings at nightclubs, offices and schools is sparking your imagination. What would you do if you were breezing through you regular routine or enjoying an evening out, and suddenly bullets started flying? The Broward Sheriff’s Office Weston district is providing some advice. The office is inviting…
Shoplifting is a crime. But it’s not punishable by death. And yet, after Eduardo Prieto Jr. was caught stealing DVDs for his estranged children from a Hallandale Beach Walmart in September 2012, he was ultimately shot dead by Hallandale Beach Police officers, due to what his family now claims were…
The call came in to police at 1:16 a.m. November 22, 2009: a burglary in progress at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, a former yacht club that had become a resort hotel perched on the Intracoastal Waterway just off the 17th Street Causeway. Kenneth Post, the burglar, was a 46-year-old,…
On a Sunday afternoon one week before Easter 1999, Mark Williams pulled his SUV into the parking lot outside his estranged wife’s West Palm Beach apartment with his 11-year-old son Lamatra riding shotgun. For most of his life, Lamatra had shuffled between his mother and his grandmother, but this week…
Last weekend, a Delray Beach hit-and-run shattered the MMA community. On Sunday morning, Jordan Parsons was struck by a Range Rover while crossing the street in Delray Beach. It was a hit-and-run. The 25-year-old MMA featherweight prospect was rushed to Delray Beach Medical Center. Parsons underwent several surgeries and part…
