Miami-Dade prosecutors formally dropped all charges against Joshua Epstein on Monday.

Local 10 News has learned that Miami-Dade prosecutors are set to drop charges against Surfside activist Joshua Epstein — and that’s not the only significant development in the small Miami-Dade island town that’s seen a significant amount of political drama and intrigue.

Surfside Police Chief Antonio Marciante spoke to Local 10 News on Tuesday about the arrest of Joshua Epstein, the son of former commissioner Eliana Salzhauer.

Former Surfside Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer says her son’s arrest after being accused of battering a current commissioner after a meeting Wednesday was politically motivated.

Surfside politics took a strange turn this week. Commissioner Jeffrey Rose, the town’s vice mayor, accused former Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer’s son Joshua Epstein of battery on Wednesday.

There are concerns in Surfside over what will happen to a memorial near the site of the Champlain Towers South condo collapse.

A parody email making its way around Surfside has become the talk of the town.

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said he didn’t do anything inappropriate when he mentioned he had “a crush” on a female police officer and praised her looks in a video from Sunday.

Rezoning cuts the property size — now just short of two acres — and reduces the number of units. With that, former Champlain Towers South condo residents fear their financial return on the eventual sale of the land may be limited.

Surfside Town Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer said the community is reeling from what happened and “we need to take a look at the bones of our buildings.”

The Champlain Towers South building was making repairs as part of the recertification process mandated after 40 years when it collapsed Thursday.

I would argue that Christians were widely blamed,” Burkett told Local 10. Some residents were confused by his wording, which urges people to come up with contributions to “make” Black Lives Matter. "It says what it says, and we do need to make lives—black lives matter," Burkett told Local 10. The mayor has introduced a new resolution supporting broad national reforms he says are in the names of Black Lives Matter. His critics point out that the Black Lives Matter movement is not even mentioned in the item.

SURFSIDE, Fla. – Surfside Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer showed her two middle fingers during a recent public virtual commission meeting after Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett muted her. Salzhauer interrupted Burkett to say he was misinterpreting her email when Burkett muted her during the Tuesday meeting on the Zoom platform. “First of all, I’m going to finish my comments, and then you’ll get to speak," Burkett said. Salzhauer then flashed her two middle fingers in protest. Burkett wanted to add Christians to the resolution, but commissioners disagreed.