Not many people have heard of the band Lights Over Paris, but that didn’t stop frontman Robert Mawhinney from trying to live like an A-list rockstar.Unfortunately, he was arrested at Miami International Airport earlier this month on fraud charges…
A nightmare scenario played out in front of a Liberty City restaurant yesterday when an armed mugger confronted a mother with two young kids in tow and demanded her purse. The mom, identified by her family as Evelyn Matamoro, handed over her purse without a struggle — but then the…
Manuel Cruz, a teacher Hialeah Senior High, has been arrested after allegedly hitting a 17-year-old girl who refused to have sex with him. Cruz did not meet the girl through school, but rather met her at his apartment complex on December 9…
“Pay for a lap dance, end up getting fucked,” Danny Garcia says.Most of the time, this T&A truism translates to a sticky ending in the back of one of Miami’s seedy strip clubs. But Garcia alleges that for customers at Twist, one of South Beach’s oldest and most beloved gay…
Carlos Miller, the photographer and activist behind the “Photography is Not A Crime” blog, feels pretty damn strongly that there’s nothing illegal about shooting photos or video on a taxpayer-funded Metrorail platform. He believes so strongly that he’s already sued the County’s security company over two previous incidents where they…
In January 2011, Renan Rico bought a home for $25,000 and moved his family in. Then, after completing tens of thousands of dollars of renovations, he started receiving notices that the home was owned by a bank and under foreclosure. Turns out the realtor they bought it from, Ricardo Ribas,…
Choose your own terrible crime adventure: Ricardo Davis was driving his girlfriend to work at Taco Bell this week just up the coast in Palm Bay when the couple started to argue. The girlfriend pushed Davis’ head, so he responded by a) Calmly telling her to cool off; b) Singing…
It’s been a terrible week for Miami’s bicycle activists. First, a judge sentenced Michele Traverso — who killed cyclist Aaron Cohen last year on the Rickenbacker Causeway in a brutal hit-and-run — to less than a year in jail, even though he’d been driving on a suspended license. Then, this…
How do you know when your immigration system is truly messed up? When people pay $16,000 to be smuggled more than 10,000 miles just to end up in jail and on the wrong side of an STD joke in South Florida.That’s exactly what happened to some poor Brazilian bastards who…
When the Miami-Dade Police Department acquired two drones in 2010 and then got FAA clearance to fly them, civil rights advocates warned the move was a harbinger of the Blade Runner police state to come when unmanned aircraft would hover outside every window. That privacy nightmare could still come to…
Oksana Gerzon was running late and missed her flight at Miami International Airport last Thursday. Instead of accepting she’d be booked on a later flight, she decided she needed her already checked baggage right then and there. So she did the sensible thing, obviously. She made a bomb threat…
When Miami Beach cop Derick Kuilan ditched his police ATV for some drinks at The Clevelander, his superiors were none the wiser (although maybe they should have been). As a result, Kuilan drunkenly jumped back on his ride with a bride-to-be and nearly killed a couple of beachgoers.Now cops are…
On Friday afternoon, two small-time criminals entered a CVS pharmacy in Kendall and allegedly began pocketing some of the goods. By the time Miami-Dade Police officers arrived, Yolanda Thomas and Xavier Johnson were already pulling out of the parking lot and making their getaway.Cops pursued the shoplifting suspects for 20…
Violence once again erupted in Liberty City last night as a pregnant woman was gunned down in the streets at 10 p.m. last night. The incident happened in the 1200 block of Northwest 53rd Street.It’s unknown if the woman was an innocent bystander or the intended target of the attack…
When Barack Obama visited the University of Miami a few weeks before the big presidential election, one of the agents in his Secret Service detail decided to go a little buck wild in Brickell. In fact, that agent, Aaron Francis Engler, had so much fun he passed out drunk on…
Here’s the truth about the war on drugs: You can pass new laws. You can carry out police stings. You can put people behind bars. You can squash one growing probably, like Florida did with pill mills. And, yet, even after all of that people are still going to find…
Up until now, the true dangers of bath salts were a bit hazy. The synthetic drug was blamed for everything from the Miami zombie to the guy in West Virginia who dressed in panties and slaughtered his neighbor’s goat, but the science was much less certain. After all, face-eating killer…
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.Despite almost embarrassing amounts of public outreach to remind Miamians not to shoot their guns off into the air every time they see fireworks, a man was struck by a falling bullet on New Year’s Eve…
Nothing rings in the new year like a suspicious death in Miami Beach.According to city police spokeswoman Det. Vivian Hernandez, homicide detectives are investigating a dispute between a couple who were staying at the Marseilles Hotel at 1741 Collins Ave.Police found the man dead in his room early on New…
When Gus Lopez was arrested in October on 63 charges ranging from money laundering to bribery, even the most jaded Miami Beach residents were amazed at the extent of his alleged corruption. For five years, the city’s procurement director had run a contract racket out of his office at city…
Twice a year, during the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve, the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County have to constantly reminding everyone in town NOT to shoot their guns off in celebration. Actually, a news conference held last week highlighted the Rickia Issac Foundation’s 14th annual No More Stray Bullets event…
The father of a 13-year-old girl who was shot and killed while riding a school bus in Miami last month has committed suicide just over a month after the original tragedy. Armando Guzman’s body was found dead inside a car near Fort Lauderdale on Thursday…
