On Tuesday South Miami police chief Orlando Martinez de Castro announced that he had taken the first step toward suing the city after a commissioner publicly disclosed that the chief had undergone weight loss surgery. On Wednesday night he was fired…
Miami Fraternal Order of Police President Sgt. Javier Ortiz has come out roaring against those who are criticizing police in the wake of the death of teenager Israel Hernandez. After City of Miami commissioner and mayoral candidate Francis Suarez released a flyer condemning police violence, Ortiz replied with his own…
Last night during an argument in the parking lot of a Hialeah convenience store, a man pulled a machete and slashed his opponent in the face. Police are now searching for the suspect while the victim recovers in the hospital…
Damn, Jeffrey Blanc, let it go dude. Your girl’s moved on. She ain’t coming back, and there’s no sense in lighting her new dude’s car on fire. All that did was land you in jail. According to NBC Miami, Blanc, 32, dated Kristal Brantly for about two years until they…
Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the two killers profiled in Truman Capote’s classic In Cold Blood, have long been suspects in a quadruple murder that killed a Florida couple and their two young sons back in 1959, but DNA evidence carried out more than 50 years later could not make…
Despite calls from all across the globe for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law to be repealed, Florida Sheriffs Association voted unanimously last week to support the law exactly as written…
Either Shaquille O’Neal has forgotten how to use a computer, or he’s grown humble with age. On his July application to become a part-time cop for the Golden Beach Police Department, the former NBA star simply scrawled “none” across the three lines for answering the question about what special equipment…
Following the death of teenager Israel Hernandez, the City of Miami Beach has called for an independent review of the case. Hernandez, 18, was caught tagging an abandoned building by police and then chased down. An officer deployed a Taser which lead to Hernandez’s death. See also: Teenager Israel Hernandez…
In the murder confession he published on Facebook shortly before posting a picture of his wife’s lifeless body, Derek Medina claimed his wife was punching him and he was “not going to stand anymore with the abuse.” This morning, the Miami Herald reported Medina is “likely to claim self-defense.” See…
On Tuesday, Miami Beach Police Officer Jorge Mercado fired a Taser into Israel Hernandez’s chest following a chase that started with the teen getting caught tagging an abandoned McDonald’s. Hernandez died soon after Mercado used the electronic weapon, and MPBD has now put the 13-year veteran on leave while investigating…
Derek Medina, the South Miami man who ended his marriage and his wife’s life this morning and then posted photos of her dead body on Facebook, once wrote an e-book titled How I Saved Someone’s Life and Marriage and Family Problems Thru Communication. Medina was a prolific publisher of self-help…
Derek Medina, 31, fatally shot his wife, Jennifer Alfonso, at their South Miami townhouse this morning and then posted a confession and a picture of her dead, bloody body slumped on their kitchen floor before he went to a police station and admitted to the murder. See also: Derek Medina,…
FBI agents stopped by two city halls of Miami-Dade towns today and left with their mayors in handcuffs. Both Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi and Sweetwater Mayor Manuel “Manny” Maroño were apprehended on bribery-related charges this morning. Update: Former North Bay Village Mayor Jorge Forte and attorney/lobbyist Richard Candia have…
Karlie Tomica, the self-described “party princess” who hit Shore Club executive chef Stefano Riccioletti and then drove home drunk, has reportedly reached a plea deal with prosecutors. She’ll spend just four years in prison, followed by two years of house arrest and 15 years of probation…
A common purse snatcher in Homestead has managed to give purse snatchers an even worse name. The suspect allegedly grabbed a woman’s purse while she was pumping gas at a station in Homestead. When the woman fought back, he pulled out a gun. The woman still somehow got her purse…
While police still don’t know what exactly provoked Pedro Alberto Vargas to set his apartment on fire and fatally shoot six neighbors, new documents released today reveal that Vargas had previously been fired in 2008 for downloading a number of troubling files on his workplace computer. According to Reuters, the…
A man leaving the Swinging Richards strip club in North Miami Beach claims he was beaten savagely by Miami-Dade Police officers and still doesn’t know why. The attack was captured on cell phone video, and the friend who took the footage was also arrested…
Purdy Lounge has one South Beach’s most straightforward door policies. If there’s room, you can come in. If the club is at capacity, you have to wait in line. Yet there are still d-bags out there who think they can pull some line-cutting nonsense. That didn’t work out too well…
Three days after Pedro Antonio Vargas was shot to death by police after killing six neighbors in his Hialeah apartment building, police are still trying to understand why he carried out one of Miami’s worst massacres. The 42-year-old lived with his elderly mother and never showed a violent streak in…
One of South Florida’s worst mass killings played out over eight hours in a Hialeah apartment building last night, as a gunman killed residents and took hostages inside until a police SWAT team stormed in and killed him. Specifics on the shootout are still thin this morning, but it apparently…
Miami-Dade Police are searching for a private yellow school bus that went missing yesterday, but until they recover it, they’re warning parents not to let their children on the bus…
You won’t believe how much insurance against voodoo curses costs nowadays. Apparently your bill can get as high as $800,000 over the course of a decade. (And we thought flood insurance was pricey.) However, it appears the government does not view voodoo protection as a legitimate business, and Peaches T…
