This past June, singer Paulina Rubio was involved in a fender-bender in Little Havana and then found herself arrested after she screamed, “All of you Miami cops are abusive,” at police officers who had arrived on the scene. Now a judge has ordered Rubio to face trial on charges of…
Nicaragua-born musician Luis Enrique, hailed as the Prince of Salsa, returned to his Miami home earlier this week after promoting his latest album in Puerto Rico only to find that his home had been ransacked and burglarized. A window had been broken, and furniture in the home had been moved.”It’s…
Poor Miami Edison Senior High. Just a couple weeks ago, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho had to roll into Tally guns blazing just to keep the Little Haiti institution open; despite big gains from an F to a C ranking, the state could have forced Edison to close or become a charter…
According to police, 29-year-old Waleska Velasquez, a teacher at Miami Jackson Senior High, was involved in a yearlong sexual tryst with a 16-year-old male student. Velasquez apparently lavished the boy with cash and gifts. She was arrested today and charged with three counts of unlawful sexual contact with a minor…
If the charges against Kelly Michael Bachmeier are true, Riptide salutes him for hitting for the cycle of Florida crimes: extreme drunkenness, a complete lack of pants, erratic driving and, of course, a good Tasering.Sheriff’s deputies say they caught Bachmeier near Gainesville completely naked in the drivers seat and then…
Last week, 23-year-old Julian Soler and his girlfriend, 24-year-old Kennia Duran, were shot and killed outside a Mobile gas station near Miami Gardens after an attempted car-jacking involving a group of three men. Now police have made an arrest in the case, and they believe one of the perpetrators is…
Four years after Modern Family star Sofia Vergara immigrated to Miami from Colombia, she moved the rest of her family, including her mother, sister, and younger brother Julio, to the country. However, after nearly 30 arrests during his time in the States, Star magazine reports that Julio was deported earlier…
Nineteen-year-old Andy Rodriguez has been found guilty of the second-degree murder of 17-year-old Juan Carlos Rivera. The two teens, then both students at Coral Gables Senior High School, got into a fight at the school in September 2009 that ended with Rodriguez fatally stabbing Rivera with box cutter…
Rescuers pulled the body of a white male out of Biscayne Bay around 8:30 this morning after he was spotted floating just south of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The man was a jet skier, Gabriella Ferraro, a Florida Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman, tells Riptide — but he hasn’t been ID’d…
Daniel Yepez learned a little something about psychedelic mushrooms this weekend. Namely, that too many can make you trip your balls off so badly that walking slowly and determinedly into the ocean while screaming, “It’s time for me to die!” seems like a great idea.Luckily for Yepez, a 21-year-old from…
Attention, modern criminals and/or wayward offspring of public officials: We know that you, like all of us, are pressed for time. And sometimes it’s so much easier to send a text than to meet on a misty loading dock under the cover of night. But we still advise you against…
In an often emotional trial, Andy Rodriguez stands accused of fatally stabbing classmate Juan Carlos Rivera with a box cutter in the halls of Coral Gables Senior High School in 2009. Rodriguez’s defense team is trying to paint his actions as merely in self-defense.Days after jurors viewed surveillance footage of…
A 12-year-old girl was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night after she was shot by her brother. The brother, in his early 20s, was carrying a gun when it accidentally discharged and sent a bullet into the girl’s leg. She’s recovering and in stable condition. Update: The brother has…
A Miami-Dade Police officer is accused of arresting a Guatemalan man on trumped up charges and calling him a “fucking immigrant” after asking where the man was from. Cases like this sure don’t help those in favor of bringing Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida and claim that they wouldn’t lead…
Mustafa Cornelius Lee, 28, and Francisco Henriquez, 35, have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting off-duty New York City Police Department Detective Harold Thomas in South Beach over the weekend. The shooting appears to have stemmed from a robbery attempt…
Brothers Jonathan and Luis Baez have been arrested after seriously beating up a pilot on a plane at Miami International Airport last night. The skirmish started after the flight crew ordered one brother off the flight because he appeared to be drunk or on drugs and ended in the terminal…
Ex-Miami Beach cop Derick Kuilan has hit the fallout trifecta after taking a drunk joyride on an ATV and hitting two citizens: he’s been fired, he’s been arrested, and now he’s being sued.Victim Kitzie Nicanor is still in the hospital with a severe brain injury and may need medical care…
Two masked men drove up to Miami’s West Little River Park yesterday around 6 p.m. and began firing. Four children, one as young as 3 years old, were hit by stray bullets. None of the injuries was life-threatening. …
Damn you Big Government. Always getting in the way of stuff. Like that one time President Barack O’Socialist tried to keep us from getting sick and dying without health care. Whatevs.Well, ol’ Biggie is up to it again, this time by preventing us Floridians from seeking righteous vengeance against the…
A small house party turned deadly Saturday night for 19-year-old Pasco County resident Samuel Smith, an aspiring mixed martial artist who witnesses say was beaten to death by a red-haired partygoer after Smith called him a “ginger” and told him he had “weak knees,” according to the St. Petersburg Times…
Whatever happened to the stoic Eastern European mobster? You know, the Viggo Mortensen type who communicates via grunts, cryptic tattoos, and the bludgeoning end of a fire extinguisher? Meet 22-year-old Sunny Isles Beach luminary Jason Eibinder, arrested in January for his role in a massive Romania-based Internet fraud scheme. Last…
When Adewale Ogunleye walked into his condo in the South Beach Mondrian a few weeks ago, he got a nasty shock — a slammed door and a “large male” hiding in the shower. When he called out, the guy said he was “Roberto, head of housekeeping.” Even worse, Ogunleye says,…
