If you’re a fan of firsthand accounts, Michael O. Munday is something of a local treasure. Almost every one of his colleagues is dead, in prison, or underground. But 65-year-old Mickey Munday — as the served-his-time cocaine megasmuggler is known — just won’t shut up. Now the gregarious native Miamian…
Nobody’s saying Miami-Dade is particularly well-behaved, but GOOD LORD, Palm Beach, you kicked our ass on this one. What a mug shot. Such emotion, such conflict. And a faint suggestion of artful composition too.Oh — and this isn’t his first arrest…
As Miami continues to emerge as a serious art center, the city’s infatuation with the colorful yet shallow work of pop artist Romero Britto continues to be a source of embarrassment and frustration for some. Usually that frustration emerges in derogatory jokes or blog comments, but an unknown vandal has taken…
Seven people have been arrested by the Miami-Dade Police Department for running a ring of brothels in Homestead that possibly exploited human trafficking victims. 53-year-old Daysi Jaques, known around the neighborhood as “Mami,” is believed to be one of the heads of the ring and explained to neighbors that men…
South Florida gangs are a ruthless and bloody bunch, whose names strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. Lately, however, those names have gone bilingual. And redundant.Six members of the Lake Worth-based gang Krazy Locos — not to be confused with the formerly caffeinated brand of booze-in-a-can Four Loko…
Health care fraud is the hot ticket among Miami’s white collar criminals these days, and prosecutors today say they’ve busted a ring that was recruiting school bus drivers to bilk the Miami-Dade Public School’s insurance fund to the tune of at least $1 million. The owner of a fake clinic…
Just as news came yesterday that Florida was the grow house capital of America, a suspected hydroponics lab in Opa-locka has caught fire. Fire fighters haven’t completely confirmed that the warehouse is indeed a grow house, but they’re taking turns trying to put out the fire from the inside. You…
Some communities debate over police levels, school funding and the mayor’s race — you know, real issues.Coral Gables burdens itself with pickup trucks.Starting August 8, the city will once again enforce a ban on parking a pickup truck on the street or in a driveway between 7 p.m. and 7…
The New Orleans Saints won their first Super Bowl rings in Miami back in 2009, and one member of the team almost lost his here, too.Saints linebacker Stanley Arnoux left his 2008 championship ring in his vehicle when he valeted his car at the Fontainebleau resort in Miami Beach on…
A sizable crowd was hanging outside a grocery market in the heart of Liberty City a little before 1:30 this morning when police say a white Nissan Maxima rolled up and someone in the car started blasting indiscriminately.When the smoke cleared, four bystanders had been hit with bullets and two…
Dallas Maverick and all-around shitty person DeShawn Stevenson done got himself arrested. What a pity.Stevenson, who called the Miami Heat “classless” after game 6 and then showed up in Dallas the next day wearing a T-shirt that said “Hey LeBron! How’s my Dirk taste,” was arrested last night after he…
One of the strangest chapters from Miami’s pot-smuggling glory days came to an end in federal court today, when a judge sentenced Mark Steven Phillips — a long-lost associate of the Black Tuna ring — to five years in prison. Phillips fled during the gang’s infamous 1979 trial and hid…
America’s pawnshop and jewelry store owners can rest a little easier tonight, because authorities have arrested eight South Florida men accused of running a burglary ring that stole $6 million worth of jewelry from stores in six states over the past two years. All eight have been charged with racketeering…
LeBron James might be the most hated man in basketball, but at least he’s not involved in a bizarre scandal involving gang members, robbery, kidnapping, and a sex tape. Can’t say the same for Shaquille O’Neal. Los Angeles prosecutors are investigating a weird case allegedly centered on a tape showing the…
Extortion. Beatings. Stabbings.When Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail first aired on May 22, the BBC documentary made it look like inmates — not guards — were really in charge of the Miami-Dade Pre-Trial Detention Center downtown.Corrections officials say the documentary is misleading, but the scenes were disturbing enough for county…
Danna Bogdanoff, the 19-year-old daughter of Republican state Sen. Ellyn Bogdandoff, was arrested in Miami on Friday and charged with four felonies. Though the police report has not been released yet, it appears that the younger Bogdanoff was arrested for an incident involving a burglary and drug possession…
Well, at least he managed to keep out of trouble while he was with the ‘Canes.Indianapolis Colts running back Javarris James was arrested last night by police in Fort Myers, Fl and charged with misdemeanor charges of marijuana possession. James, the cousin of former ‘Canes and Colts legend Edgerrin James,…
The Miami mother convicted of murdering her three-year-old child Lazaro “Baby Lollipops” Figueroa in 1990 was sentenced to death by a Miami-Dade judge Friday. Judge Reemberto Diaz’s sentencing puts 50-year-old Ana Maria Cardona back on death row, where he had been placed after being convicted and sentenced to die in…
Kids these days! You’d think what with their Tweetering and Facespaces and such they could knock their heads together to come up with an original way to prank the Man. Or at least a fun way that doesn’t involve costing their school thousands of dollars to clean up — who…
Jackson Health System has enough money problems at the moment. The last thing it needs is its own surgeons stealing medical equipment from the financially strapped public hospital system. Yet Nir Hus, a surgeon and postgraduate fellow at Jackson Memorial Hospital, has been arrested on charges of repeatedly snatching equipment…
Flo Rida, the Sunshine State’s favorite boots-wit-da-fur spokesman, is headed to Dade County lockup after an early morning DUI bust on South Beach a few hours ago, Miami Beach police officials tell Riptide.We’re guessing this might put a crimp in Flo’s plans to host a celebrity golf tournament with DJ…
Narces Benoit claims that Miami Beach Police smashed his cellphone and threatened him at gunpoint after they noticed he had captured video of the shooting on Memorial Day Weekend. However, the police department has released a statement today claiming that they did not smash Benoit’s phone, and that the officers…
