Miami Cops Ask Panel to Overturn Convictions for Helping Drug Dealers
The two former officers were caught as part of an FBI sting when they accepted thousands of dollars in cash payments to protect shipments of cocaine.
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Mexican Ex-Mayor Among Those Charged in Massive Miami Meth Haul: US
The United States has charged a Mexican ex-mayor and five others for trafficking the largest shipment of meth seized in Miami history, officials said Thursday.
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Miami Beach Curfew Aims to Shut Down Spring Break Partying
A party-ending curfew imposed after fights, gunfire, property destruction and dangerous stampedes broke out among huge crowds of people could extend through the end of Spring Break in Miami Beach.
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11th Circuit Upholds Termination of Protections for Miami Homeless
An 11th Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the termination of long-standing judicial protections for Miami’s homeless population, finding that the city had overhauled its homeless policing to the point where court oversight is no longer warranted.
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Protections for Miami Homeless Hang in Balance at 11th Circuit
A group of homeless litigants fought in the 11th Circuit on Tuesday to reinstate a 20-year municipal settlement designed to protect Miami’s homeless population from harassment and systemic arrests.
Read moreResidence Restrictions
The 11th Circuit upheld a ruling against two Florida sex offenders who challenged Miami-Dade County residence restrictions that prohibit them from living within 2,500 feet of a school. The offenders had claimed the ordinance made them homeless and amounted to retroactive criminal punishment.
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Comedian Hannibal Buress Sues Miami Police Over 2017 Arrest
Popular stand-up comedian and actor Hannibal Buress says he was wrongfully arrested in Miami in a federal lawsuit filed against the city on Friday.
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Miami Scrambles to Pin Down Plan to Curb Covid-19 Spread
Lawmakers from Florida’s Covid-19 epicenter on Tuesday pitched plans to stem the spread of the virus, outlining a ramp-up in contact-tracing and a program to house residents with mild infections in hotel rooms.
Read moreVote Suppression
Miami sued Miami-Dade County in state court for its “refusal to provide for adequate early voting sites in the city’s predominantly Hispanic-American neighborhoods.”
Read moreHospitals Near Capacity as Miami Recloses Restaurants
Hospitals rapidly approached capacity across the Sunbelt, and the Miami area closed indoor dining at restaurants and gyms again because of the surging coronavirus Monday.
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Miami Puts Brakes on Reopening as Florida Virus Cases Pass 200K
The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Florida surpassed 200,000 on Monday, a troubling milestone that prompted a Miami-area mayor to reverse the march toward economic reopening.
Read moreCovid in Prisons
A 65-year-old inmate seeks release from the South Bay Correctional Facility in Miami, claiming at least 68 fellow prisoners have tested positive for Covid-19 there.
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11th Circuit Tosses Virus Safety Order Against Florida Jail
Inmates seeking stronger coronavirus protections at a Miami jail ran into a setback in the 11th Circuit, where a three-judge panel found Monday that the prisoners fell short of showing the jail was deliberately disregarding their wellbeing.
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Panel Hears Challenge to Miami Sex-Offender Residency Rules
An attorney for two Florida sex offenders asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit challenging residency restrictions in Miami-Dade County that effectively rendered them homeless.
Read moreCovid-19 on Buses
A transportation workers union sued the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation & Public Works in Miami-Dade County Court, claiming “multiple county transport employees have tested positive for Covid-19,” and the county is not properly sanitizing buses or providing workers with protective gear.
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Mexican Man Accused in Miami of Working as Russian Agent
U.S. authorities have arrested a Mexican citizen they say was hired by a Russian government official to locate the vehicle of a U.S. government source in the Miami area and inform the Russian of its location.
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High Arsenic Levels Found at Miami Soccer Stadium Site
Threatening to derail the project, an environmental analysis found arsenic contamination more than double the legal limit at the site of David Beckham’s proposed $1 billion Major League Soccer complex in Miami.
Read morePolice Violence
A federal judge refused to grant summary judgment to the City of Miami and its police Officer Antonio Vicente Torres IV, who shot a man “ten times after (he) was incapacitated.”
Read moreWells Fargo
Reviving fair-housing claims, the 11th Circuit ruled that Miami plausibly alleged Wells Fargo’s discriminatory mortgage-lending practices injured the tax base, resulting in “a disproportionate and excessive number of defaults by black and Latino homebuyers.”
Read moreGuatemalan Presidential Hopeful Arrested in Drug Plot
Two months out from Guatemala’s presidential elections, one of the candidates was arrested Wednesday in Miami on charges of conspiring with the Sinaloa drug cartel to import tons of cocaine into the U.S. and assassinate political rivals in a bid to secure millions of dollars to finance his election.
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