America's drug war is still here and still going strong. Today Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced her office had persuaded a grand jury to indict two fentanyl dealers for first-degree murder after they allegedly sold opiates to a user who died.
Rundle's office said Karl Schmidt, age 21, and David Cash, age 52, had peddled the drug to David Calle, who overdosed. Charges like this are controversial in... [...]
Former Ecuadorean bankers William and Roberto Isaías, two brothers who fled to Miami after being charged with embezzling millions from one of Ecuador’s biggest banks, have been arrested by U.S. immigration officials and await possible deportation.
The men were detained for an alleged violation of U.S. immigration law. They were sent to an immigration detention center “pending removal proceedings,” the U.S. Immigration and Customs... [...]
Miami-Dade County is facing a lawsuit for its role in the saga of Ingrid Johnson, the newborn baby seized by Miccosukee tribal police at Baptist Hospital in Kendall.
It was nearly one year ago that tribal police, accompanied by Miami-Dade Police Kendall District officers, took the baby from her Miccosukee mother — against the woman’s will — at the hospital more than 30 miles from the reservation.
The tribe returned the child... [...]
A court hearing was held Tuesday morning on a complaint filed by a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School security monitor, who claims he is being harassed by the father of one of the 17 victims of the shooting.
Andrew Medina was seeking a protective order against Andrew Pollack.
The judge hearing the case made several rulings regarding civil lawsuits against Medina:
1) Scope of Medina’s history is limited to the... [...]
The man who pulled a gun on a group of black teens who were protesting on Brickell Avenue on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is now facing a host of charges that were enhanced because of a hate crime bill passed by Florida legislators.
In addition to the felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon, Mark Bartlett is now facing three counts of aggravated assault with prejudice, which are second-degree felonies and a single count of improperly... [...]
