7 January 1–7, 2026 miaminewtimes.com | browardpalmbeach.com NEW TIMES | CONTENTS | LETTERS | NEWS | NIGHT+DAY | CULTURE | CAFE | MUSIC | and money-laundering charges for allegedly selling millions of dollars’ worth of forged Andy Warhol artworks. Federal prosecutors say Roberts told his victims that he purchased the pieces directly from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. An April 2025 criminal indictment alleges that one of his employees pretended to work for an interna- tional auction house to authenticate the fakes. Despite strict bail conditions that barred him from selling art, Roberts operated an art gift shop just 400 feet away from his gallery, which was shuttered last year after the FBI raided it. After New Times reported on Roberts’ Miami Fine Art Gallery Gift Shop, Roberts transformed the store into Labubu Headquarters, peddling the popular Chinese collectibles. Six days after New Times shared news of that new hustle, Labubu Headquarters announced on Instagram that the store would be moving. “Stay tuned, Labubu lovers,” the post reads. “We’re cook- ing up something exciting. Our new location is coming soon —can’t wait to see you all again. The account has not posted since. M A R K R O H E R When you think of meatheads in South Florida, you are probably thinking of that un- naturally muscled dude posing for mirror selfies in his tank at the gym. Well, meet Mark Roher, a new breed of Miami Meathead. While attending a wedding in January at the Boca Lago Country Club in Boca Raton, the 53-year-old attorney allegedly flew into a blind rage after the man in front of him al- lowed his daughter and another young girl to join him in line for the prime rib carving sta- tion. According to the police report, “the large, bald man” (that would be Roher) struck “the slimmer man” (the victim) on the head with a dinner plate, and chaos ensued. In his police interview, Roher told officers that he was upset that the two young women had cut the line and got into an argument with the man, but he denied hitting him on the head with a plate. However, a country club em- ployee confirmed to police that she saw the plate shatter on the victim’s noggin. (Note: The event was a dry party, meaning no alco- hol was served.) Roher was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. The charge was ultimately reduced to misdemeanor battery, which Palm Beach County prosecutors deferred after Roher covered the court costs and paid the skinny fellow $3,000 in restitution. That said, it’s safe to say Roher didn’t ring in the new year at the Boca Lago Country Club carving station this week — he was banned for a year. J A M E S U T H M E I E R When he wasn’t railing against vaccines, en- dorsing other conservatives for office, or posting about nabbing child predators, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier spent the summer bullying local police de- partments into signing immigration enforce- ment agreements. For months, the prolific social media warrior took to X (formerly Twitter) to threaten lawsuits against South Florida cities that did not sign the federal 287(g) agreement, which provides training and authority for local officers to act as de- portation agents. Uthmeier spent months threatening to sue municipalities like South Miami (which filed an ill-fated lawsuit seek- ing to thwart the state’s overreach) and Key West. Uthmeier enjoyed other extracurricu- lar activities during his first year as attorney general, including tweeting several times a day from his personal and official accounts — to disparage, among countless other evils, the popular online kids’ game Roblox and the sin- ister DEI practices at Starbucks (for which the state sued the caffeine colossus). [email protected] Miami Fine Art Gallery photo X/@AGJamesUthmeier photo
