Just a short 18 months ago, chef Jonathan Eismann was one of the biggest names in Miami’s restaurant scene with acclaimed eateries Pacific Time, Fin, Q, and Pizza Volante under his management. By last April, his enterprises began toppling: The restaurants folded, lawsuits piled up, and his Venetian Islands home…
It just got real for Peter Rosello, son of former Real Housewives of Miami star Alexia Echevarria. He has surrendered to police after he posted a video of himself online in which he assaults a sleeping homeless man by punching him in the groin and then running off…
Bad idea: Cheating on your wife while working overseas for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Worse idea: Telling your new girlfriend you are a divorced, high-ranking diplomat, when in fact you are a married, low-ranking customs grunt. Incredibly awful idea: Forging diplomatic letters to wow your girlfriend and steal thousands…
When Warren Griffith died in March 2001, there was one thing his wife, Janet Griffith, and his daughter, Cynthia Quintana, could be sure of. His body, which had been laid to rest at the Palms Woodlawn Funeral Home and Cemetery, would be buried in a plot that Janet had purchased,…
A Miami man who reportedly set himself on fire started chanting “just let me die” when a family member tried to help. The man had attempted to burn himself and his Toyota Camry in front of his father-in-law’s home…
The random beatdown is a staple of prison life, right up there with the occasional cafeteria riot and your first bad batch of wine made in a toilet. So the fact that Calvin Kingcade got stomped by a group of fellow inmates shouldn’t surprise anyone. Kingcade’s problem, however, was that…
“No matter what a stripper tells you,” Chris Rock once sang, “There’s no sex in the Champagne Room.” Rock had obviously never been to a strip club here in Miami. As this week’s feature on notorious Hialeah strip club Porky’s shows, there is most definitely sex in champagne rooms all…
In January, I wrote about an amazing high-tech submarine race to the bottom of the ocean. In the story, I mentioned how a Hialeah strip club called Porky’s had once been the staging ground for an incredible plot to smuggle Colombian cocaine to California in a Russian sub.Then, at the…
Seven women who work at the Miami International Airport outpost of a local institution have been arrested this morning. The women all worked at Café Versailles in Terminal D at the airport, and all are accused of pocketing cash from the register…
On September 20, former North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner did the perp walk. His crime: allegedly accepting thousands in free campaign ads on bus benches from a company whose owner told prosecutors he had pressured them with promises to renew their contract.Rosner is in big trouble, with three felonies…
While the case of the fake “cement butt” doctor has hopefully reminded South Floridians not to seek back-alley injections, sometimes procedures carried out at seemingly legitimate businesses can be dangerous. Isabel Gonzalez is now sitting in a hospital, recovering from infections she says she received from a Doral beauty salon. …
In May 2011, I wrote a short piece for Riptide about an 80-year-old Keys man who’d shot and killed his wife and his pet cat before ending his own life. I called it the “saddest story of the morning.” Like most of Glen Tucker’s neighbors and the local police, I assumed…
A six-month-old baby girl died yesterday after her father forgot she was in his car, and left her there all day. The unidentified father says he dropped an older sibling off at the Doral Academy Elementary school and then went about his day. He didn’t remember that the baby was…
In 2010, a Miami New Times investigation revealed that more than half the cops in Miami Beach made six figures a year, and some racked up more than $200,000. What’s more, some of the highest-paid officers had some of the worst records.See also:- Miami Beach cops are paid up to…
Millions of dollars in bribes, hired goons, torture, and secret pacts made in Miami: it sounds like the hacky elements of an spy paperback sold in airports. But according to a whistle-blower, it was all part of a very real plot involving Siemens AG and the Argentinean government. In a…
It’s been a hell of a legal week for former NFL player Chad Johnson. Earlier this week, his divorce from reality TV star Evelyn Lozada became official, and this morning he struck a plea deal on charges that he head-butted her. Johnson has been sentenced to a year of probation…
During Myron Rosner’s tumultuous reign as mayor of North Miami Beach, he weathered accusations that he retaliated against a local blogger, broke ethics rules, bent city regulations to work on his house, and violated campaign finance laws. Now that he’s out of office, Rosner’s luck is up. Prosecutors charged him today…
Leisure City K-8 Center, an elementary and middle school in Homestead, is on lockdown after a police chase ended nearby and a group of suspects ran into the school to escape police. Details on the situation are foggy at the moment, but police have set up a perimeter around the…
Jorge L. Godoy is behind bars today after appearing quite creepily behind a lot of windows. Police say Godoy made a habit of leering at woman through their windows, often while they were in a state of undress, while pleasuring himself. A handful of victims, including young girls, have been…
Fausto Lopez, the Miami police officer who was arrested by a Florida Highway Patrol office after speeding 120 mph on the Florida Turnpike, was fired by the City of Miami Police Department yesterday, according to CBS Miami. The termination comes after an internal probe found that Lopez had a long…
Yesterday, a Miami-Dade judge declared a mistrial in a murder case after a public defender mocked her client’s choice of underwear on her private Facebook page. The family of defendant Fermin Recalde, who stands accused of a 2010 Hialeah murder, dropped off a bag of clothes to wear during trial. Public defender…
This morning former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson pleaded not guilty to charges that he head butted his estranged wife Evelyn Lozada after the two got into an argument when she found a receipt for condoms in his car. The Broward State Attorney’s Office had officially filed the misdemeanor…
