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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIn honor of 4\/20, New Times went on a mission to track down the nun who was caught in the middle of a Miami smoke shop raid last month. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
New Times artist conception\/Photos by @volvoshine <\/a>via X (nun), Marketeering Group <\/a>(prerolls), Andy Carloff <\/a>(marijuana leaf), and SparkFun Electronics<\/a> (sunglasses) via Flickr<\/p>\n Picture this: you\u2019re at your local smoke shop, restocking your beloved Blue Razz Ice disposable vape, when a SWAT team suddenly busts through the doors<\/a>. Chaos erupts, customers scatter, and police officers clad in tactical gear flood the room.<\/p>\n And then, as your brain tries to process what the hell is going on, you spot her: a nun.<\/p>\n Last month, we (and evidently the rest of Miami) went looking for answers after a sister mysteriously appeared on the scene of a raid at a Biscayne Boulevard smoke shop. Clips posted online showed her sitting amid the bust in a bright blue veil, navy tunic, and rosary in hand, looking like something out of an AI prompt or a low-budget movie set. <\/p>\n The Miami police department quickly assured us she had nothing to do with the raid<\/a> and was \u201cjust at the wrong place at the wrong time,\u201d but the explanation only raised more questions: Who is she? Where did she come from? And, perhaps most urgently, what exactly was she doing there?<\/p>\n In honor of 4\/20<\/a>, New Times went on a mission to track her down. Hold onto your rosaries! <\/p>\n On March 12, not long after our original story went live (complete with a public plea for tips), a message slid into our DMs.<\/p>\n \u201cRead your story about the nun and the vape shop bust. Using Google lens it appears she\u2019s a part of this group,\u201d the message read.<\/p>\n The message shared a link to a website for the Apostoles of Infinite Love <\/a>(also known as the Order of the Magnificat of the Mother of God), a traditionalist independent Catholic\u00a0religious group based primarily in Quebec, Canada. The group, which has been described as a cult<\/a>, has faced allegations <\/a>of child abuse, kidnapping, and sexual abuse.<\/p>\n Before we could fully process All Of That\u2122, another tip arrived the very next day \u2014 this time via email. <\/p>\n \u201cYes I have known the nun in your article for many years. She was passing out religious calenders for donations,\u201d the generous tipster wrote. \u201cSeems like it was wrong time wrong place.\u201d<\/p>\n The source provided a possible name for the sister(!) and said she was part of a mission that periodically travels to Miami.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has actually gone back to New York where she belongs to the Apostle of Infinite Love\u00a0Mission,\u201d the source wrote. \u201cThey come here for a few months and then go back to New York.\u201d<\/p>\n Naturally, we did what any other nun-seeking reporters would do: we tried calling the convent in New York.<\/p>\n No one picked up, so we tried again. And again. We left a voicemail explaining, as professionally as possible, that we were trying to track down a nun spotted during a SWAT raid at a vape shop. <\/p>\n Alas, no response. <\/p>\n For now, until she returns to Miami \u2014 or this writer\u2019s employer agrees to expense a trip to New York for some boots-on-the-ground journalism (ahem) \u2014 the trail appears to end here.<\/p>\n Was the sister just a figment of our collective imagination? Did we all get too stoned and dream her up?<\/p>\n Or maybe, just maybe, the real nun was the friends we made along the way.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t