Miami-Dade Police Give Most Pot Citations to White People, While Black People Are Jailed
New data from the Miami-Dade Police Department confirms the conclusions of a recent New Times investigation showing that thousands of South Floridians are needlessly arrested and saddled with criminal records for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The strategy is employed in a racially biased fashion and wastes tens of millions of taxpayer... [...]
A federal judge didn't fully buy prosecutors' argument that Dr. Andres Mencia, who specialized in geriatric care, deserved a more severe punishment for illegally prescribing addictive pain pills. The appropriate penalty, the judge ruled, was six and a half years in federal prison.
Source: www.sun-sentinel.com
Popular Broward Doctor's 'Pill Mill' Punishment is Much Less than Feds Sought
When a popular doctor went to trial this year on a... [...]
By Amanda Batchelor - Senior Digital Editor
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - Police are searching for a man who was captured on surveillance video smashing the drive-thru window of a Wendy's restaurant in northwest Miami-Dade.
Police said the incident happened at 4:50 a.m. Monday at the Wendy's at 8295 NW 27th Ave.
According to investigators, the man pulled up on a bicycle and threw a blunt object at the drive-thru window, shattering... [...]
Published: June 26, 2018
CHICAGO (AP) — A 67-year-old Florida man has been arrested in the theft of $170,000 worth of diamonds from a Chicago jewelry store.
Chicago police say Tamaz Hubel of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, was taken into custody Sunday while trying to board a plane to France from Miami-Dade International Airport. Police say he's being held in Florida pending his extradition to Illinois.
Authorities say the theft... [...]
By Amanda Batchelor - Senior Digital Editor
Posted: 2:26 PM, June 26, 2018Updated: 2:28 PM, June 26, 2018
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - A 17-year-old boy was shot in the buttocks Sunday night in a drive-by shooting in northwest Miami-Dade.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho took to Twitter to condemn the shooting.
"A 17-year-old rushed to a trauma center after bullets pierce his body," Carvalho... [...]
