The police officers of the sleepy hamlet of Surfside usually spend their days hiding in bushes trying to trap drivers going 37 mph. But for the past year, they’ve had a real whodunit on their hands. More specifically, a who-jacked-it…
Michael Lyons, also known as Mohan Singh, led a bizarre spiritual cult; lived a lavish, globetrotting lifestyle; and claimed to know Hollywood stars. He is also accused of raping many of his female devotees, telling them he was trying to feel their “energy pulse” while touching them inappropriately and could…
In today’s roundup of the sins of South Florida: When rent money runs out for sex offenders, where will they all go? Another sex offender camp? A yacht sinks off Haulover Beach, a toddler goes for a tumble and ends up in the hospital, and a medical building is evacuated…
At 6’8″ and 280 pounds, Trevor Mbakwe was a formidable presence on Miami Dade College’s basketball team. He was also allegedly a startling presence late one night in the parking lot of a Miami apartment complex. A 22-year-old FIU student has accused Mbakwe of assaulting her and sending her to…
In today’s news roundup: the son of everyone’s favorite anti-Obama, ex-cultist Michael the Black Man, is charged with shooting at two swimmers with an AK47, the Metromover re-opens, Miami-Dade may start charging for parking at parks, and neighbors fight over a dog attack.>…
On January 16, an aspiring musician named Carlos Bertonatti spent hours inside downtown megaclub Club Space until hopping into his silver 2007 Volkswagon and speeding off into the early morning sunlight. A few minutes later, police say, the handsome 28-year-old slammed into a cyclist near Key Biscayne and then roared off,…
In today’s roundup of crime and assorted horrible things: Thieves in South Miami-Dade slash your tires and then snatch your cash, a mysterious ocean bacteria can kill you, seven men hold up an Office Depot, and giant ad towers are probably coming to downtown. …
[jump] A hearing- and speech-impaired woman was sexually assaulted near a Metrorail station. Police say the attack happened around 2 a.m. in a parking garage stairwell at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza Metrorail station at 6205 NW 27th Ave.Police used sign language to communicate with the woman, in her…
In today’s roundup of the shame of South Florida: The caretaker of Jimmy Johnson’s Keys mansion has a five-hour standoff with police, a man is shot for his necklace outside a day-care center, the house of a soldier serving in the Middle East is burglarized, and, oh yeah, the Metromover…
In today’s roundup of troubling things: A Dolphins player is formally charged for hitting his pregnant girlfriend, city leaders claim Miami’s teen curfew is reducing crime, a Hialeah bank robber is on the run, and the Biltmore has finally reached an agreement with Coral Gables…
In today’s roundup of horrible things and other news: a tourist couple is robbed at gunpoint, a 15-year-old is fatally shot in Overtown, an 11-year-old is accidentally shot by his own mother, and two people are found hanging in a South Florida park. …
In today’s roundup of horrible things: a pet parrot that could order pizza was stolen in Hialeah, “baby sperm dies,” the Miami-Dade man infected with dengue fever is doing just fine, and 36 people were arrested in a Medicare fraud sweep…
In today’s news roundup: A beloved pet dog is eaten by a crocodile, six people are arrested for mortgage fraud, a cat burglar terrorizes homestead, and apparently a dog bite is news. …
Colton Harris-Moore stole five airplanes, hot-wired boats and cars, flew a plane from Indiana to the Bahamas with no formal training, won almost 30,000 friends on Facebook, and had his life’s movie rights optioned before he turned 20. The Barefoot Bandit, in short, is much cooler than you.But Harris-Moore’s epic life…
Bernice Novack, second wife of the Fontainebleau Hotel’s original owner, Ben Novack, was found dead, lying in a pool of her own blood, in her Fort Lauderdale home in April 2009. Police later ruled it an accidental death and attributed it to a series of falls. Her son, Ben Novack…
In today’s news roundup: a man who thinks he has the biggest penis in the world gets busted for showing it to kids, an arrest is made in the Heathrow Lounge shooting, an accident at the Red Bull Flugtag left a woman with a broken back, and a rare virus…
In this morning’s roundup of crime: A man punched a baby in an attempt to kidnap it and left it with fractured bones; a security guard runs over a “suspicious” man with a golf cart; another baby thought to have been kidnapped in Tennessee is found in Miami-Dade; and Cuban…
A thief suspected of targeting the University of Miami is apparently stealing for two. Surveillance videos have connected the woman, who appears visibly pregnant, to thefts from various buildings on the university’s Coral Gable campus. However, each time she seems to be wearing a different wig. …
In your Monday-morning wrapup of crime, horrors, and the occasional glimmer of hope: A man is charged with fatablly stabbing his wife in front of his daughter, a young girl was accidentally shot during a two-man gunfight, a bicyclist and a pedestrian were hit by vehicles in separate incidents, manatees…
Other things happened in Miami yesterday besides the arrival of LeBron James. Horrible things such as a bizarre car crash that killed five, a fatal shooting in Hialeah, and a plan to bring more red-light cameras to Miami Beach…
The bizarre saga of Ben Novack Jr. — the amputee-porn-lovin’ Fontainebleau heir found murdered in a New York hotel room last summer — is finally closer to a conclusion. His wife, Narcy Novack, and three other accomplices were indicted in New York today and charged with tying him to a chair, beating him,…
In today’s roundup of crimes and various horrible things: a delivery man is held hostage in his own truck, two men hold up a 7-Eleven (no Slurpees were harmed), pipes burst, moms cry, and water is contaminated…
