Two Miami Beach cops accused of assaulting a gay tourist in Flamingo Park are getting pink slips — even though prosecutors declined to file charges against them. Officers Elliut Hazzi and Frankly Forte are set to be fired, Commissioner Michael Gongora announced on his Twitter feed this afternoon.The two Beach…
German Guanchez, 57, stood before a judge yesterday with two black eyes and a “Save the Pumpkins” T-Shirt. Guanchez was in court after allegedly making a fake bomb threat that shut down a Kendall gym. Police can’t quite put together a motive, and it does not appear that Guanchez is…
Doctors today are still struggling to save the life of an off-duty New York City cop grievously wounded during an early morning shootout on South Beach on Saturday. Detective Harold Thomas has undergone at least two surgeries after a bullet tore through his femoral artery during the gunfight on Collins…
David Vigil had never met a girl like Candice Cooper Boley in Miami Beach before: a tiny Alabama belle whose quick smile and Southern drawl were as out of place as a snowflake. When they started dating in February, Boley say, she wasn’t interested in marriage or kids. But after…
An off-duty New York City police officer was shot on South Beach outside a ritzy beach resort early this morning, police say. Miami Beach detectives have shut down Collins Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets today while they search for whomever shot the off-duty vacationing cop outside the luxury 1233…
Two men are dead after a tragic situation in North Miami Beach last night. Thirty-seven-year-old Jonathan Woolfson is believed to have possibly killed his friend, Troy Longhurst, then Woolfson himself was shot after a stand off with the SWAT team…
Blame counterfeiting technology and man’s inclination to evil if you’d like, but we’re blaming the extortionist laundry industry for driving prices too high for the average Joe to keep his skivvies clean.Miami 24-year-old Dayan Capestany was arrested after Charlotte County Sheriff deputies say he tried to buy a box of…
An early-morning shooting down the street from Little Haiti’s iconic punk-rock dive bar, Churchill’s Pub, has left one person dead and another recovering in the hospital. The incident happened around 3:30 this morning, and police so far have released few details. Updated. …
In 2003, a man came up to Jeffrey Ricardo Barr outside of his home in North Miami and shot him in the head, leaving Barr dead on the sidewalk. For years, his murder remained a mystery, but now, eight years later, police have arrested his wife, Janet Whisby Barr, claiming…
Ulises Rodriguez, a member of the Miami-Dade Fire Department since 2005, has been arrested when a string of lewd text messages were found on the phone of a 17-year-old boy who was found dead late last month…
A new druggy detail has emerged in the shocking case of Tyler Hadley, the Florida teen who killed his parents with a hammer over the weekend and then threw a party in their house: Hadley’s best friend now tells the media that the teen claimed he was high on ecstasy…
Federal prosecutors this morning charged 16 hackers linked to the Anonymous ring that targeted PayPal last year. Among those charged: Scott Matthew Arciszewski, a 21-year-old computer major at the University of Central Florida, who the feds say hacked into an FBI-linked firm then bragged about it on Twitter under his…
Ten people have been arrested and two others are wanted in a case involving the abduction of a 15-year-old girl from the Universal Studios area in Orlando who was then forced into prostitution in Miami. The girl had run away from a group home with a friend and, after meeting…
In 2009, Miami-Dade Police arrested Randy Jerome Pozdol after they found video of him sexually assaulting a woman and two children who all appeared to have been drugged and unconscious. However, as the investigation continued, police discovered that the woman in the video had died of a drug overdose in…
Two drive-by shootings in Miami this weekend that occurred just block and hours from each other resulted in the death of two people, and the injury of three others. The first critically injured a teenager, while the second claimed two lives and left two others injured…
Trust the Miami Herald at your own peril, at least when it comes to the Miami Beach cop whose ATV critically injured two beachgoers while he was joyriding on duty with a lady friend two weeks ago.In last Friday’s edition, the Herald reported that Derick Kuilan, the 30-year-old at the wheel…
Casey Anthony doesn’t get out of prison until Sunday, but the crazies are already out nationwide.Shireen Nalley was arrested in Oklahoma last Friday after police say Nalley saw a woman who looked like Casey Anthony in a convenience store and then followed the woman and ran her off the road…
Shortly after midnight Sunday, Orlando’s Casey Anthony was released from jail three years and one day after her 2-year-old daughter was reported missing and less than two weeks after Anthony was acquitted of her murder.Anthony’s future is unclear, especially given the amount of public vitriol over what many see as…
Miami Beach Police Department S.W.A.T. Team was called in to handle a stand-off on South Beach tonight.An unidentified white male “barricaded” himself at 1309 Euclid Avenue, according to Det. Vivian Hérnandez. As of 10:15 p.m., both 13th and 14th Streets were blocked off at Euclid. A half-dozen squad cars were…
Cocaine smuggling, personalized leather bomber jackets, $2 million cars, and high-rise penthouses across Miami.No, it’s not 2 Fast 2 Furious — although eerily close — but an indictment unsealed yesterday that charges brothers Álvaro and Artemio López Tardón and three others with international drug money laundering.And for all their allegedly ill-gotten…
After a pedophilia world tour that got him arrested in Thailand in 2006, former Miami gym teacher Charles Todd Stokes has been sentenced in U.S. federal court to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of molesting 70 boys, according to media reports.The Thai town he was arrested in, of…
Homicide detectives had no immediate answers in the mysterious death of 22-month-old Dominicue Andrews yesterday afternoon at a day-care center in Homestead. However, NBC Miami is now reporting the boy likely died after being forgotten in a hot van…
