The Score Desk
The Biggest Score
Somewhere in Miami, every day, somebody walks away with something that isn't theirs. Our desk reads the day's affidavits, police reports, and court filings and crowns the biggest take — ranked by the dollar value in the record itself. What was taken, where it happened, how it went down, who is charged — and the document that proves the number.
The value rule. Dollar values come from records, period. The amount on this page appears in the official record itself — an affidavit, a police report, or a court filing. Never an estimate, never a rumor.
The slot is empty because the desk is honest, not because Miami behaved. A Score is crowned only when the dollar value appears in an official record the desk holds — an affidavit, a police report, a filing. Some days the verified number never lands, and some days Miami's thieves rest. We never inflate a value, borrow one from a news article, or crown a rumor to fill this space.
How This Page Works
| The rule | Dollar values come from records, period. The amount on this page appears in the official record itself — an affidavit, a police report, or a court filing. Never an estimate, never a rumor. The editor who enters a candidate attests — in the publishing system — that the value appears in the record. No attestation, no publication. |
| Sources | Official records only: arrest affidavits, police reports, and court filings from county, municipal, state, and federal custodians. A news story about a theft is a lead, never the record. |
| Ranking | One crown a day: the biggest verified value the desk holds that day. A smaller theft with a wild story can still lead Mugshots of the Day — the Score is ranked by dollars, the blotter by story. |
| Overlap | If the biggest theft also produced the day's best mugshot, the Score runs the story and the trio may still carry the face — the two pages cross-link. |
| Charges | Charges are as booked; outcomes are added to the story when cases resolve. A charge is not a conviction. |