Tampa homeless advocate G.W. Rolle had a mystery on his hands. For months he’d noticed homeless men wandering around a local park with black eyes, busted lips and bad limps. Finally, he got one man to open up: For $50, he said, a local fetish website had been paying the…
As black Miami simmers over seven fatal shootings in seven months by City of Miami cops, you’d think Chief Miguel Exposito’s priority would be convincing the community he’s serious about investigating the deaths.Yet Exposito quickly lost credibility by getting in a tit-for-tat with State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle over the…
Those prim and proper old folks over in Naples are always worried about those cretins from Miami-Dade traveling over Alligator Alley and coming to take their valuables. But apparently all Miami thieves want from Collier County is their precious, bountiful supply of cardboard. Yes, two Miami men have been charged…
Yet another Miami-Dade Police officer has found himself on the wrong side of the law. Midwest District Officer Joey Ganem, 47, has been arrested after allegedly trying to buy cocaine in Coconut Grove early this morning. Ganem, a 27-year veteran of the force, has been relieved of duty pending the…
A horrific story of an 18-year-old man severely beating his grandmother with a hammer in Texas has ended in Miami as police captured the man after he fled.Friends and family of Orange County, Texas resident Sylvia Vaughns, 51, hadn’t heard from her since the weekend, and police were sent to…
When Fontainebleau valet Sorel Rockefeller got slapped by Gloria James, the mother of LeBron James, instead of seeing stars he must have been seeing dollar signs. He’s quit his job and is now considering a lawsuit against James. He’s also been to a doctor and plans to visit a chiropractor.Oh,…
Ramon Buchanan, the Hurricanes linebacker who was arrested and immediately suspended from the team following an arrest on felony charges in Coconut Grove in March, has been reinstated on the team. According to the arrest report, Buchanan screamed, “I’m a UM football player and I don’t give a fuck what…
It’s really important for parents to encourage their children to pursue their interests and, ideally, even get involved in activities with their kids. Unless those activities are things like fighting.Twenty-six-year-old Gerdine Edouard is accused of driving to her 11-year-old daughter’s elementary school, encouraging her to get into a physical fight…
Usually Miami Beach is a place where professional athletes go to get in trouble, not their mothers. Several reports claim that LeBron James’ mother Gloria James was arrested early this morning at the Fontainebleau resort and could be hit with misdemeanor charges of simple battery. Updated…
At some point, anyone who’s ever gone clubbing on Washington Avenue has felt like the whole thing was an elaborate ripoff. But this? This is insane.The FBI today has busted an Eastern European ring that set up a half dozen fake clubs in South Beach that existed solely to steal…
A 16-year-old girl in Homestead was raped Sunday after accepting a ride home from church with Edwin Carrillo-Garcia, 23, a fellow parishioner. He’s accused of driving her instead to an unknown area and raping her in his car before driving her home…
There are only three acceptable situations in which it is OK to snatch a woman’s weave: (1) Bitch just stole your man, (2) you are on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, or (3) you are a police officer who has reasonable suspicion that a suspect is hiding stolen cash under…
Last night, a 24-year-old named Jamal Singletary pulled an assault rifle and started shooting at an officer in Allapattah. The detective pulled his own weapon and fired back, killing Singletary on the spot, police say.Singletary becomes the eighth suspect killed by police fire in an urban Miami neighborhood since last…
Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Reinaldo Ruiz was arrested Friday by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies at his Southwest Ranches home on domestic violence charges. It seems his rampage stems from the fact that the victim, whom he was dating, refused to hold his hand at a Miami Heat game. The incident that followed…
Happy Anniversary, Wachovia!A year after the bank admitted to handling hundreds of millions in Mexican drug money — and paid $160 million in fines and penalties — the company is now off the hook for further punishment.According to the British paper the Guardian, government documents also show the Magic City played…
Reinaldo Ruiz, a sergeant with the Miami-Dade Police Department who makes more than $100,000 a year, has found himself on the other side of the badge. Few details are available, but Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Ruiz Friday night at his Southwest Ranches home and charged him with domestic violence…
Eighteen-year-old Brian Beaubern, a high school athlete, is at Jackson Memorial Hospital fighting for his life as he recovers from severe injuries. Corina Gonzalez, 32, is sitting behind bars in a Miami jail facing charges of DUI with bodily injuries. The pair’s worlds collided Saturday night in Coconut Grove when…
Sheila McNeil couldn’t believe what she was seeing printed in black-and-white.It was a recent Tuesday night at an Overtown community center, and McNeil had come to hear a presentation by Paul Philip, an ex-FBI chief hired by the City of Miami to investigate the Police Department’s fatal shootings of seven…
When lunatic Gainesville pastor Terry Jones announced his plan to burn Korans at his tiny church, no less an authority than Gen. David Petreaus warned that there would be consequences in places like Afghanistan where fellow religious lunatics look for any such provocation for bloodshed. Jones went ahead with the…
The story of the stand-off at a Homestead reptile farm has more twists and turns than a snake slithering through the jungle. Riptide has learned that Bruce Stephenson was found dead after a stand off with police while he had barricaded himself in a home on the premises. Tom Crutchfield,…
Earlier this week, a 16-year-old girl was waiting for her bus, instead she almost was forcibly dragged into the back of a stranger’s car. City of Miami Police are on the search for a man who tried to abduct the girl. His original attempt was thwarted, but as he drove…
Paul Thorington, 22, Anthony Albano, 23, and Ray Joseph Laranjo, 23, the three men charged in a brutal gang rape at the Fontainebleau following a Miami Music Week pool party, have been granted bond and will be allowed to return to California. If they make bond, they will be placed under house…
