The father of a 13-year-old girl who was shot and killed while riding a school bus in Miami last month has committed suicide just over a month after the original tragedy. Armando Guzman’s body was found dead inside a car near Fort Lauderdale on Thursday…
There’s only one person who is supposed to eat your cookies without explicit permission during the Christmas season and that’s Santa. Not Shuwana.Shuwana Horne, a Homestead woman who worked at a UPS warehouse in Islamaroda, has been arrested for opening and eating an undelivered tin of cookies and pocketing an…
Now we know why George Zimmerman started selling his autograph last month. Turns out, back when he was preparing to leave jail on bond over the summer, he and his lawyers had hired a detective agency run by a former SWAT team member to concoct an elaborate disappearing act: Zimmerman…
Revelry turned to tragedy this past Halloween at Taverna Opa in Mary Brickell Village when a man in a red devil mask punched another man so hard it eventually lead to his death. Two months later, Miami police have now arrested Sagy Shachar for the deadly attack…
Oh, girl, hope you’re not getting your hair did soon, because Miami has experienced what we imagine must be one of the biggest hair care heists of all time.Thieves struck a warehouse in West Kendall on Sunday night and wiped the business clean of $80,000 worth of fancy hair products…
As the rest of the nation huddled up to some eggnog, crackling fires and repeat viewings of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Miami baked under tropical skies and celebrated Christmas the best way we knew how: By going bananas with horrific crime sprees.Between Christmas Eve and early Wednesday morning, all these…
More than 14 months after the saga of Fausto Lopez, the City of Miami police officer who was stopped by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper while speeding 120 mph down the Florida Turnpike to an off-duty job, is still causing embarrassment for the department.Now the trooper, Donna “Jane” Watts, has…
Nationwide, the use of the death penalty is in steep decline, with only nine states carrying out any executions at all last year. But in the Sunshine State, sentencing prisoners to die is as in vogue as ever.>In fact, Florida led the country in new death sentences handed down in…
Krishna Maharaj was a powerful local newspaper publisher when he was arrested in 1986 and accused of a grisly crime: the brutal double murder of a father and son in a downtown Miami hotel room. Maharaj was convicted, but as we reported back in 2007, the Trinidadian millionaire insisted he…
There’s no such thing as too much precaution following last week’s shooting in Connecticut.Two Miami-Dade schools were placed on lockdown today after a shooting occurred nearby…
Three defendants involved in the bonkers South Beach scam that involved sending hot Eastern European girls out on the town to lure men to what were basically fake nightclubs only to charge ridiculous sums to their credit cars have been convicted by a jury today. A fourth was acquitted.See also:-…
A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in Wynwood last night. The incident happened at about 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of NW First Avenue and 28th Street, just a block off of the art district’s main drag, and a few blocks from the Midtown shops…
When Henry Bryant and Daniel Mack were caught last year trying to transport a few kilos of cocaine, the arrest sent shock waves well beyond the usual coke bust. That’s because Bryant was a Miami Beach firefighter and Mack was a Miami-Dade cop. Their arrest came in a public corruption…
After a task force appointed by Gov. Rick Scott ultimately decided to make no substantial change to Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law after the Trayvon Martin shooting, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chris Smith has introduced his own changes to the law. The changes would ultimately give law enforcement more…
Steven Bauer, the Cuban-American actor best known for his roles in Scarface and ¿Qué Pasa, USA? was arrested yesterday by Sweetwater police on a 12-year-old outstanding warrant…
Miami-Dade Police have arrested 16-year-old Austin Lee Bowling for making threats to shoot up the Miami Lakes Educational Center on the one-week anniversary of the the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. In addition to threats about shooting fellow students, Bowling also tweeted that he had no sympathy for…
Florida’s Stand Your Ground law has been a catastrophe, a Wild West throwback that’s let killers justify everything from shooting an unarmed teenager for playing loud music to murdering a pizza store customer for complaining about a slice taking too long. So really, if there’s one man we should consult…
Narcy Novack will spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty of hiring men to kill her husband, Ben Novack Jr., and her mother-in-law Bernice Novack. The victims were the son and widow on Ben Novack, the man who built Miami Beach’s famed Fontainebleau resort…
It takes a lot of balls to straight up pack your luggage full of nothing but cocaine. For an unknown drug trafficker that gamble didn’t pay off.Federal customs agents at Miami International Airport uncovered 230 pounds of cocaine packed inside three suitcases yesterday…
You would think that after all the publicity that the arrest of Oneal Ron Morris, the transgendered woman who was caught injecting substance including Fix-a-Flat into people’s butts (and, seemingly, her own), received, people would know not to go shady people to get their butts enhanced.Yet, Samela Hernandez, 53, of…
Troubled anti-virus software guru and murder suspect John McAfee landed in Miami last night after getting deported from Guatemala, where he’d fled from an investigation into his neighbor’s shooting death. McAfee was allowed to go free after landing at MIA, and spent the night at Ocean Drive’s Beacon Hotel.WSVN caught…
It seems that all bizarre news stories somehow wind up finding their way to Florida.The saga of John McAfee, the anti-virus software tycoon who may or may not have murdered his neighbor in Belize, is following that natural trajectory now that he’s been released by Guatemalan police and soon will…
