If the pungent aroma of weed is wafting from your ride, South Florida cops usually have a green light to search your car.
But with medical marijuana now allowed in Florida, along with some production of the similar-smelling hemp plant, a Miami man is challenging whether cops had the legal right to search his truck based on odor alone.
The novel defense is being employed by Victor Chavez, who was found with a stash of marijuana hidden... [...]
Three years later, fragments from a police bullet are still lodged in Charles Kinsey’s leg.
The pain is the physical reminder of the day a North Miami cop shot Kinsey as he lay on the ground, his hands up in the air as he tried to protect his severely autistic client. The emotional trauma is just as acute.
“I don’t know what to think. I don’t know what to expect,” Kinsey told the Miami Herald. “I still ask myself... [...]
The suspect in Saturday night’s fatal shooting in the middle of South Beach’s busiest tourist area surrendered to Miami Beach officers Thursday, police said.
Alan Michael Alt, 32, gave a statement in the tune of Stand Your Ground, saying he was attacked and “believed he was in physical danger.”
Alt is charged with second degree murder after the shooting of a 32-year-old man Saturday night at 14th Street and Collins Avenue, one... [...]
Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
While the decision marks a victory for crime victims, the federal judge, Kenneth A. Marra, stopped short of overturning Epstein’s plea deal, or issuing an... [...]
MIAMI, FL -- The former owner of a Miami medical clinic has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in connection with a $3.7 million scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting fraudulent billings from the clinic and by supplying patients to three home health agencies that submitted fraudulent bills.
Fifty-three-year-old Juliette Anais Tamayo, who owned Sunshine Medical Care Group, Inc., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care... [...]
