on july 27, 2005, former miami city commissioner arthur teele walked into the main lobby of the "herald"s headquarters and phoned "herald" columnist jim defede (one of several telephone conversations that the two had had during the day) to say that he had a package for defede. he then asked a security officer to tell his (teele's) wife stephanie that he loved her, before pulling out a gun and committing suicide. this happened the day the "miami new times", a weekly newspaper, published salacious details of teele's alleged affairs, including allegations that he had had sex and used cocaine with a transsexual prostitute.