Miami-Dade Police started investigating a break-in and robbery last night at a home in Kendall, but it turns out the home the burglars were targeting was actually a grow house. Police found 21 marijuana plants valued at around $50,000 inside…
Two Swedish tourists got more than they bargained for when their antsy cab driver honked at a car in front of him. The drivers of the other car got out, pretended to be cops, patted the tourists and the driver down, and made off with their luggage…
Police in Collier County say that the Hollywood woman tried to run over her ex-boyfriend near a casino but instead hit a tree.
After 20 years of escaping justice, a Miami doctor who allegedly sexually abused his vulnerable HIV-positive patients has finally been convicted. Homer L. Kirkpatrick, Jr., whose brand of bad medicine earned him the moniker “Doctor Scumbag” in South Beach during the mid 1990s, pleaded guilty earlier this month to forcible…
After Trayvon Martin’s supporters mourned Saturday’s not-guilty verdict, hundreds of thousands have turned to the Department of Justice to urge the feds to make a second attempt to convict George Zimmerman of civil rights violations. The DOJ has confirmed that its inquiry into the case remains open, but mass public…
Corey Eubanks, the man who was alleged to have assisted Oneal Ron Morris, the unlicensed transgendered woman accused of injecting all sorts of unholy substances into the rear ends of patients seeking a bigger booty, has taken a plea deal. He’ll get off with just a year of probation…
Police routinely use Tasers as a (usually) non-lethal alternative to guns, but they can occasionally lead to potential lethal problems like heart attacks and cardiac arrest. People with pre-existing health problems may be more at risk. Well, sitting before the City of Miami Commission today, Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa…
Disgraced former Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito is none too pleased that the Department of Justice found that his former department engaged in routine excessive force and violated the constitution under his watch. The man who was once caught on tape calling his own officers “predators,” now calls the DOJ…
A 19-year-old man from Sunrise has been arrested for catfishing local men, luring them to his apartment and relieving them of valuables. Police charged Glenford Williams with three felony counts of armed robbery on Tuesday. Using the name “Diana,” Williams allegedly used the social site Moco Space to entice his…
“I inhale propane gas to get high, but I am not the least bit nutty,” Reid Welch once told New Times. Today a jury found differently. Welch has a had a number bizarre run-ins with the high-profile City of Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff. The court found him guilty of 21…
The South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SFSPCA) and Miami-Dade County Animal Services rescued two horses and a dog last week in animal cruelty cases that rescuers refer to as “as bad as it gets.” The horses, found on the 15800 block of NW 57th Avenue,…
Yesterday, the Department of Justice delivered a 14-page public smackdown to the City of Miami Police Department that shows a pattern of excessive, deadly force, lack of supervision, and suspiciously drawn-out investigations. The feds’ findings mean not only a headache for the city’s top cops but also possible settlements in…
Following a spree in which City of Miami Police shot and killed seven black men, many of them unarmed, in a span of eight months between 2010 and 2011, the Department of Justice has found that the department’s pattern of using excessive force was in violation of the Fourth Amendment…
A man was left stripped of his clothes with a bullet in his stomach early this morning in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood after being approached by two unknown men. His girlfriend, who was with him at the time, was able to escape and get help…
Former University of Florida star and current accused murderer Aaron Hernandez is suddenly getting a lot of sympathy. First, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson was quoted as saying the deposed Patriot was a “model inmate” who didn’t show signs of nervousness. And now, the American Civil Liberties Union is using…
Miami is chock full of more cocaine than a Mexican narco-piñata. And yet, the city’s most dangerous drug may just be imaginary. According to an investigation by USA Today, Miami is the main staging ground for controversial ATF sting operations in which undercover agents trick suspects into plotting robberies of…
In a brazen crime that should send shivers down the spines of bottle-service-loving bros and depressed, rich housewives everywhere, $1.1 million worth of premium vodka was stolen last month from a warehouse in northwest Miami-Dade…
Last month, Brazilian tourists Apareceda Pata and Denieze Ferreira were stunned to return from breakfast at the Miami Beach Hotel & Spa to find everything they’d taken on their trip to Miami stolen, including $20,000 in designer goods. They were even more shocked when the hotel told them how it…
Earlier this week, Richard “Kudo” Couto’s Animal Rescue Mission busted its latest illegal slaughterhouse. Four men connected to VIP Animal Sales have been arrested and charged with selling horse meat and abusing dozens of animals. But Couto says there’s more to the story. His investigations into the Homestead farm also…
Chances are, if you’re in a fast food restaurant around midnight on a weekday then you’re probably not having the best day already. So masked men with guns barging into the restaurant and demanding your money and cell phone just seems like karmic cruelty. Yet, that’s exactly what’s happened three…
When Jesus Navarro was arrested for selling $1,350 horsemeat to undercover cops, it didn’t seem to make much of an impact. Other men might have taken pause after a 2010 police report described their work environment as full of “rotting food and putrid water” and co-workers as “three dead goats…
One teen is in custody while another is still on the run after allegedly killing a man last night over his cell phone. Police say the two teens were riding around Little Haiti on their bicycles with the intent of robbing someone when they spotted 54-year-old Jerry Wayne Sherrell near…
