Yesterday afternoon, students from South Miami High School were making their way home on the school bus when a motorcyclist slammed into the back of the bus. The incident occurred near Southwest Second Terrace and 57th Avenue.The driver, believed to be in his 20s, instantly died on collision. No students…
The Murda Grove Boys are not, as their name would suggest, a horror-core boy band but actually one of Miami-Dade’s most violent criminal gangs. CBS4 reports that Miami Gardens police, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have arrested 15 suspected members of the gang today. Four other members and…
In early April, Mayor Tomas Regalado stood before a packed room of reporters and politicos at the Miami Police Department to praise the results of a sweeping corruption probe. “This is not another black eye for the city,” Regalado promised. “This is something we promised the people of Miami to…
Police are searching for a man involved in two robberies in the Kendall area who got his hands on more than stolen items. In the two robberies, a man ambushed women as they arrived home. Threatening his victims with a knife he stole their purses, and then proceeded to fondle…
Luis Felipe Perez is just the latest South Florida man to see his Ponzi Scheme toppled. The SEC has charged Perez with running a $40 million Ponzi scheme that targeted the local Hispanic community since 2006. Havana-born Perez ran a jewelery and pawn shop business, and promised investors returns of anywhere…
A two-year-old boy was found with second and third degree bodies on his neck and torso. Now police suspect child abuse.Police received an anonymous call to check on his well-being early this morning, and went to the home of his 17-year-old mother. The mother and her boyfriend said that the…
Dealing with other people’s crying kids is just a part of life. In the scheme of things, it’s really nothing to get overly annoyed at. Well, a man in a Surfside Publix crossed the line.The man was in an elevator with a mother and her two young daughters. The woman’s…
To hear University of Miami music school dean Shelton Berg tell it, jazz piano professor Doug Bickel was pulling stunts that would make John Coltrane blanch. The 41-year-old jazz pianist, says Berg, smoked pot in his office, tried to barbecue inside a classroom, mooned his students, and sexually harassed them…
The FBI is investigating at least one member of the Miami Police Department’s undercover squad. One or more members is alleged to have stolen money and drugs from dealers. Mayor Tomés Regalado is aware of the investigation but doesn’t have details. Police Chief Miguel Exposito says the department is conducting…
Two young boys, believed to be only 3 and 7-years-old, were the victims of random AK-47 gunfire this afternoon. Both kids were transported to a hospital, and neither appeared to have life threatening injuries. The shooting happened today around 58th Terrace and NW 12th Avenue. Police are searching for four black men wearing…
Yesterday, Gayle Kelson purposefully seemed to leave her 2-year-old daughter on a city bus and faces a charge of child neglect. The girl was taken into protective custody, but her father showed up to get her. The only problem: He was drunk.Ronald Devers showed up to court slurring his words…
In yet another of our occasional reminders that Floridians outside of Miami-Dade are crazy, horrible people here’s the lead from a newstory from Central Florida news station WFTV: “The Brevard County doctor who was arrested for groping a woman while dressed as Captain America with a burrito in his pants…
If Johnnie Cochran was still alive and defending cat killer suspect Tyler Weinman, we’d imagine he’d be saying something like “If the pussy hairs aren’t the same, you can’t place blame.”WSVN reports that the DNA of cat hairs found in the room, clothing and backpack of defendant Tyler Weinman does…
The ad on Craigslist Miami shows a photo of two large black snakes slithering on white carpet. “Ball Pythons for Cheap,” the headline reads. “They are very tame and eat one mouse a week.” Scroll down a bit and find a “dwarf pastel Colombian redtail boa” for $160. A bit…
Police have arrested a mother who is believed to have put her two-year-old daughter on a county bus and then left her. Gayle Kelson walked away while the bus driver yelled at her for forgetting her child, but she continued off the bus. The driver called police, and she was…
When Samer Shehada read the news this morning, he started shaking with anger: The former Miami Beach cop who shot and killed his brother last summer had just been arrested for running a marijuana grow house. Samer was with his brother, Husien, that night, walking down Washington Ave., just after…
Lisa Caridad Garcia turned herself in last night for hitting Doral police officer Carlos Alvarez. The accident happened around Southeast 35th Terrace near 102nd Avenue on Saturday night, when Garcia hit Alvarez’s motorcycle head on, and kept going.Garcia’s motorcycle was demolished, but luckily he survived. He’s forced to get around…
The standoff over Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who has turned a Kingston slum into his own personal bunker to avoid extradition to the U.S, has forced his country into a state of emergency. To local law-enforcement officials, the situation is all too familiar. Coke’s ultra-violent cartel, called “The…
Maybe Riptide has been watching too much Animal Planet, but we can’t help thinking Miami’s crop of critter smugglers deserves its own special mini-series. Like cocaine and hookers, there’s a booming market for exotic animals in this classy city, and just imagine the drama: There will be suitcases full of…
The United Methodist Church Outreach Ministry in Florida City went up in flames over the weekend, and the building was mostly destroyed. Even the church’s playground, which was built a year ago, was melted to the ground.Parishioners say that they hope to rebuild the building, and are accepting donations, but…
It’s been nearly a year since Tyler Weinman was arrested and charged with a string of cat killings in the Palmetto and Cutler Bay neighborhoods. His trial isn’t even set to begin until October 25, but the Miami-Dade justice system trudges on. Weinman made an appearance in court today, during…
Philipe and Sherrine Mathieu have been arrested and charged with 860 counts of child neglect after forcing their own daughter to live outside for eight years. The child, now 16, was forbidden from eating, sleeping, or even using the restroom in the family home, and was forced to do it…
