Allen Stanford — the massive Ponzi-schemer and full-time nutter who put his billions in illicit profits into a Coral Gables castle and cricket tournaments in the Caribbean — was sentenced to more than a century of jail time for his crimes today. A federal judge in Texas sentenced the financier,…
What can $7.3 million buy you nowadays? How about 459 pounds of cocaine?That was the amount seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on May 29 at the Miami Seaport. CBP officers discovered 169 bricks of coke in eight cardboard boxes in a shipping container. The container came off a…
Billy Corben, Miami’s master documentarian, has found himself innocent on charges of being a “Tweeting twit.” Corben, director of films like The U and Cocaine Cowboys, pulled jury duty earlier this year and updated his Twitter and Facebook followers about the inanities of sitting on a jury, but never mentioned…
Mark Gold, the lawyer who founded and owns the Ticket Clinic firm, found himself so drunk at the Goldrush strip club in downtown Miami back in 2010 that he wound up charging nearly $19,000 to his credit card. He ended up suing Goldrush, and claimed they never should have accepted his money…
Luis Davilo was just livin’ the dream — drinking some beers, cruising his A-Team van around suburban Orlando, pityin’ fools — when the Man unwisely intervened. An Orlando cop pulled Davilo over for not having his lights on. That’s when Davilo sprang into Mr. T-worthy action, repeatedly ramming the cop…
Among the many stark questions at the heart of the Trayvon Martin case is one simple query with huge implications: Does Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law encourage guys like George Zimmerman to take justice into their own hands? Or, as Florida Republicans argue, does it deter crime by ensuring anyone…
George Zimmerman’s wife, Shellie Zimmerman, now finds herself behind bars in the same facility where her husband is being held on second-degree murder charges. Seminole County Sheriff’s deputies arrested her this afternoon on a single perjury charge. The charge stems from accusations that the Zimmermans lied to the court during…
Back in August 2010, Luka Rocco Magnotta joined Miami Beach 411 and posted a new thread to the popular discussion board: “I just moved to Miami and love it,” he announced over a self portrait in Moscow. Later that day, he posted photos of himself in a Lotus, supposedly parked…
Two months after five Miami Beach code inspectors and two members of the Miami Beach Fire Department were arrested on charges of shaking down a Miami Beach nightclub, Chai Footman, a fire inspector, has plead guilty to charges of corruption…
During last year’s string of questionable fatal shootings by Miami police, Officer Reinaldo Goyo shot and killed Travis McNeill, a 28-year-old unarmed black man during a traffic stop. The controversy stemming from the death was, in part, the reason that former police chief Miguel Exposito was fired, but prosecutors have…
Which is the single most corrupt state in our glorious union? Is it Illinois with its Rod Blagojevich bribery bonanza? Louisiana with its freezer-stuffing yet always reelected congressmen? California with its small-town, $700,000-salaried officials?None of the above, according to a new study out this morning. Florida tops them all –…
Federal prosecutors announced today the arrest of 13 men and women for their involvement in a massive network of marijuana grow houses in Miami.Feds say that the network was run by baby-faced con Gilberto Santiesteban Jr. and three of his brothers. According to several indictments, the family operated grow houses…
Despite all the hubbub floating around about bath salts, so far a preliminary toxicology report has only found marijuana in Rudy Eugene’s system. That doesn’t mean that Eugene, who ate a man’s face near the MacArthur Causeway over Memorial Day weekend, hadn’t used other substances. The full toxicology report will…
Dude, you know you can get your parking validated at the Barnes & Noble, right?Juan Felipe Rodriguez, 19, turned himself into police late last night, after allegedly stabbing Sunset Place parking attendant Jimmy Richard Womble, 23, after arguing over an $8 parking fee…
Republicans are fond of saying that unions are corrupt, opaque, and lazy. It’s a mantra of theirs, right up there with de-funding Planned Parenthood and telling liberals to get their god-damned, latte-drinking hands off of their firearms.But not even in their wildest labor-bashing wet dreams could they have imagined the…
Another week, another local man on synthetic drugs showing bizarre behavior with a penchant for biting others. Brandon DeLeon, a North Miami Beach man, is under arrest for walking into a Boston Market and trying to get into a fight with two police officers who were dining at the restaurant…
You know the deal in Miami: When your daughter turns 15, you throw her a giant shindig. It’s the Latina’s mitzvah. No expense is spared. Everything is perfect — until you find the hidden cameras in the girls’ bathroom. That’s what Elizabeth De Angeles Gazo says happened to her April…
When Carolyn Modeste earned 30 months in prison a few weeks ago for stealing more than $200,000 from Miami Shores taxpayers, she nabbed a few hundred words in the Miami Herald and a quick mention on the afternoon news. But no one bothered to answer the real question: Why did…
George Zimmerman is headed back to jail. The man who killed Trayvon Martin has had his bond revoked after prosecutors alleged he lied during testimony during his bond hearing. Zimmerman and his wife failed to disclose that they had raised $200,000 from supporters online and that Zimmerman had two passports…
Woah, woah, woah, buddy, who do you think you are? A TSA agent? Sorry, but airport U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Officers have no right to touch passengers against their will.Officer Paulo Morales, 47, was arrested today after being indicted yesterday on charges related to groping female passengers…
Miami likes to pride itself as a trendsetting metro, but this is ridiculous.In the wake of the now infamous “Miami Zombie” face-eating attack, several other stories about mentally disturbed people either eating or doing other horrifically bizarre things to body parts have popped up in the media. Which either means…
Riptide used to get a sick kick out of driving over the Julia Tuttle Causeway and informing our visiting friends we were now directly above America’s most infamous sex offender colony. Of course, that’s no longer there, so instead we’ll just take the MacArthur Causeway to the Beach and casually…
