4 January 30 - February 5, 2025 miaminewtimes.com | browardpalmbeach.com New Times | music | cafe | culture | Night+Day | news | letters | coNteNts | MONTH XX–MONTH XX, 2008 miaminewtimes.com MIAMI NEW TIMES | MUSIC | CAFE | FILM | ART | STAGE | NIGHT+DAY | METRO | RIPTIDE | LETTERS | CONTENTS | ▼ PALM BEACH COUNTY GOT BEEF FLORIDA ATTORNEY ARRESTED AFTER BUFFET LINE BRAWL. BY NAOMI FEINSTEIN D o not get between a man and his meat. When two girls cut Mark Ro- her in line for the carving sta- tion at a wedding at Boca Lago Country Club on Saturday, January 18, the South Florida attorney flew into a rage. The 52-year-old confronted the man who’d allowed his daughter and another young girl to join him in line and chaos ensued, accord- ing to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office police report. “The slimmer man ignored the man yell- ing at him and did not respond,” the police re- port reads. “Without provocation, the large, bald man struck the slimmer man on the head with a dinner plate. From thereon, a melee began between a large number of the wed- ding guests.” An employee at the southwest Palm Beach County country club told police that Roher walked up to the man and hit him on the head with a plate after he ignored him. “[She] con- firmed that the plate had shattered and that [Roher] pushed the victim and was holding him by the collar,” the report states. During his police interview, Roher con- firmed that he was upset that he was cut in line and got into an argument before pushing the victim. However, he denied that he hit the man on the head with a plate. He also re- vealed that event was a “dry party,” meaning no alcohol was served and he had not had anything to drink. In other words, Roher was hangry and simply wanted his meat. “[Roher] also informed me that had sev- eral injuries of where he was grabbed and es- corted away,” the officer wrote in the report. “He mentioned that he was hit in the face, underarm, and shin.” While the police report does not specify the cuisine Roher had queued up for, witnesses told BocaNewsNow.com that the fight occurred in the prime rib line. Roher was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He is an attorney at his own boutique law firm specializing in bankruptcy, commercial litigation, business disputes, and collections. In the meantime, Roher won’t be standing in line for prime rib from the Boca Lago carv- ing station anytime soon. He and his wife both received trespassing warnings and can- not return to the country club for a year. [email protected] | RIPTIDE | Not funny. Photo by Ronald van der Graaf/Flickr (cropped) ▼ MIAMI HOMECOMING PARDONED PROUD BOY ENRIQUE TARRIO RETURNS TO MIAMI. BY ALEX DELUCA I t was around 2:30 p.m. at Miami International Airport, and people were confused. As more and more Miami-Dade police of- ficers and TV reporters with bulky equipment gathered near MIA’s Southwest Airlines arrivals area, some spilling into the nearby Chili’s Too restaurant, passersby wanted to know: Who is everyone waiting for? “Are you waiting for Bad Bunny?” one woman asked several reporters. Two young girls nervously approached a cameraman to ask what was going on. A Spirit Airlines employee nosily asked around hoping to find out the same. But it wasn’t a world-famous reggaeton art- ist, or any other pop-culture icon that had drawn this crowd. It was onetime Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. Within hours of his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, President Donald Trump pardoned the more than 1,500 people who’d been charged in connection to insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The president extended his clemency and pardoning pen to members and leaders of far-right groups, including Tarrio. After serving 16 months of a 22-year sentence for seditious conspiracy and other charges — the longest sentence imposed on any January 6 defendant — Tarrio was freed from prison on January 21. Later that day, in his first post-release inter- view, Tarrio told right-wing commentator Alex Jones that while the president might be “focus- ing not on retribution and focusing on success,” he does not intend to “play by those rules. “The people who did this — they need to feel the heat,” Tarrio elaborated. “They need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted!” The Proud Boys organization, he said, will remain “what it has always been,” suggesting that mem- bers of the media cease referring to him a as the “former” leader of the group, because he aims to “get back in the fight as soon as possible.” Now, toting a Louis Vuitton duffel bag and sporting Lululemon joggers, a Motley Crüe T- shirt, and a black “Make America Great Again” hat with “Never Surrender” appended on the side, Tarrio exited onto the main concourse, where he was greeted by cheers, and at least one critic who hollered, “Traitor!” His friends, family, and two men hoisting a Proud Boys ban- ner were there to welcome him back to his na- tive Miami. Them, and the media circus. “Welcome home! Welcome home!” a man in the crowd hol- lered to Tarrio. Tarrio tightly embraced his mother, who sighed deeply and held her hands as if in a prayer. Then he passionately embraced and kissed an unidentified woman on the lips and and hugged her tight. As he exited the airport, he was swarmed by TV reporters, who at one point led him into a gift shop that sells travel bags. He was then whisked away in a large SUV. In a brief interview with Local 10, Tarrio praised Trump for the pardon and reiterated his desire that people not refer to as an “ex” Proud Boy, characterizing the group as “our organization.” [email protected] Tarrio barely slowed down to acknowledge members of the media on his way out of MIA. Photo by Michele Eve Sandberg
