Veronica Johnson is Riptide’s kind of mail carrier. Mixed in with all the glossy fliers from pizza-by-the-slice places and the gas company bills, Johnson’s mailbag often included some more intriguing packages. Police say they caught her on her route on Tuesday in Marathon with a 10-pound package of weed addressed…
Much has been made of the pictures of a younger Trayvon Martin released to the media by his family’s lawyers, but until now, the only image seen in the media of shooter George Zimmerman has been a years-old mug shot. ABC News has now obtained police surveillance video of Zimmerman at…
Two Transportation Security Administration officers are under arrest after trashing a South Beach hotel room last night and then shooting off guns into the air. The shots first rang out at about 11:15 last night near a hotel on the 800 block of Collins Avenue…
In the midst of the Trayvon Martin controversy, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Beth Bloom has cited Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law to drop charges against Greyston Garcia after he fatally stabbed a car radio thief in Little Havana on January 25th. Though, Garcia apparently initiated the violence, never called police,…
Welcome to the job, Ray Martinez! Less than a year after an on-duty Miami Beach cop drunkenly plowed into beachgoers on his ATV after partying with bachelorettes at the Clevelander — an action that blackened the end of previous chief Carlos Noriega’s career — new jefe Martinez is investigating claims…
Miami Beach police have done the world a great service by putting Amadou Balde behind bars. His most grievous crime: stealing other people’s drinks off a bar. We think we speak for all decent Miami Beach drinkers when say that when we pay for overpriced swill on the Beach, we…
Whether they popped too many pills, knocked back too many Buds, or maybe even found a little “Molly” with Madonna, it was inevitable: A small portion of the blissed-out masses that packed Bayfront for Ultra Music Festival ended their weekend in a paddy wagon. Riptide has tracked down the arrest…
Earlier this month, New Times revealed the staggering number of serious felonies committed by mob turncoat Chris Paciello. The secret FBI interviews with Paciello unearthed by author Frank Owen exposed the former SoBe club king as the very model of the multi-tasking Mafioso, a virtual one man crime wave. But he…
It’s been almost a month since George Zimmerman tracked down and fatally shot 17-year-old Miami native Trayvon Martin in a Stanford, Florida, gated community, and Zimmerman remains a free man with no charges filed. Today, the state attorney for Brevard and Seminole counties announced that a grand jury will look…
Harry Agustin Duncan Maslivar, the winner of the male beauty pageant title of Mr. Panama 2004, looks pretty good in black and white stripped swim trunks. He probably won’t looks quite as good in black and white stripped prison garb though. That’s what he’s facing after being popped for trying…
Someday, Carlos Bertonatti will have to face a jury to explain what happened in the early morning of Jan. 17, 2010 — the day police say he drunkenly killed a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway, then sped away into Key Biscayne with the victim’s bike still wedged underneath his car…
Ivanna Villanueva, the 19-year-old who struck and killed a 68-year-old woman last October while allegedly under the influence, wants to do community service. The hitch: She wants to do it at Ultra Music Festival next weekend, and the family members of her victim are none too pleased…
It’s been almost three weeks now since Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old from Miami, was shot to death by a neighborhood watchman in his father’s Orlando-area suburb. Yet by George Zimmerman, the self proclaimed watchman, remains free. He claims he acted in self defense, a position bolstered by the state’s Stand…
Before he moved to Florida, David Young was an American hero: A Green Beret, a Gulf War vet and a Bronze Star recipient. The vet was once among the nation’s youngest state legislators after winning a seat in his native New Hampshire’s state House at the age of 21. Two…
As the great Goddess Aaliyah once said, “If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself off and try again.” And that’s exactly what a bank robber did this morning in record time. After failing to rob one bank in downtown Miami, he just walked down the street and hit up…
You thought your last first date was bad? At least it wasn’t with Anthony Maldanado.The 18-year-old Miami Gardens resident met a Coral Springs woman at a party and agreed to take her out on a date. However, while he chatted her up at a restaurant, he had an accomplice break…
Brandon Marshall is no longer a Miami Dolphin as of about 4 p.m. yesterday, and perhaps this is part of the reason why: Marshall is accused of punching a woman in the face this weekend after getting into a scuffle at a New York City nightclub…
Oneal Ron Morris, the unlicensed “doctor” arrested last year after allegedly injecting substances like caulk and fix-a-flat tire sealant into the rear end of a patient, has been arrested again. Morris turned herself into to Broward Sheriff’s Deputies yesterday on new charges of practicing medicine without a license after three…
Two young children under four years old were left alone in Hialeah after their babysitter was abducted. The woman, whose name has not been released, was watching her niece and nephew when her ex-husband showed up to the house and forced her into his car…
Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr., the Miami 20-year-old who was arrested after making Facebook and Twitter posts threatening to kill President Obama, wants to say he’s sorry. Serrapio appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded not guilty…
A North Miami Beach man was beaten and robbed of just about everything he had on him: his cash, his jewelry, his rental cars, and even his pants. Yep, to add insult to injury the attackers left him standing in a parking lot in his underwear…
Despite the six years he spent in the federal pen, Chris Paciello has returned to reclaim his crown.
