A federal judge in Boston is set to sentence Miami’s own superhacker, Albert Gonzalez, tomorrow for leading what prosecutors call the largest identity theft ring ever busted. Gonzalez, who pleaded guilty in September to 19 counts, faces 15 to 25 years for stealing millions of credit card numbers from national…
Lost luggage? Overpriced beers? Another canceled flight back to Pittsburgh? It’s not clear what exactly set off Michael John Jones at Miami International Airport yesterday, but damn if the Pennsylvania native wasn’t angry about something. A little after 2 a.m., the 44-year-old went nuts on two MIA employees in Concourse…
Two men have been arrested in connection with a large South Florida shoplifting scheme, possibly putting an end to a streak that spanned three counties. Hector Collazo and Carlos Ramirez Martinez were caught after allegedly putting their sticky fingers to action in multiple stores at Aventura Mall this past weekend. Boca Raton…
Nineteen-year-old Rodgrick Girtman has been arrested in the murder of Corneshia Miller, also 19, after confessing to police.Girtman shot Miller in front of their two children, a toddler and an infant. She was found with gunshot wound on Thursday afternoon in her home around Northwest 68th Street and 14th Avenue…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy There have been few breaks in the case of Paula Sladewski, the aspiring model who turned up dead in a North Miami dumpster after visiting Miami for New Year’s with her boyfriend. The story has already been featured…
Danny Perez, the man who was mysteriously shot and killed while riding his bicycle Friday night, was also a Special Olympic athlete who was named Miami-Dade County’s Inspirational Athlete of the Year in 2008.Perez was riding west on NW 79th Street between NW 17th and NW 22nd after getting off…
Wachovia bank executives have admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008, prosecutors announced in Miami this afternoon. The bank has promised to pay $160 million in fines and penalties and to set up new safeguards within a year to prevent…
Shedrick James Copeland, a 29-year-old social studies teacher at Robert Morgan Educational Center, was booked into jail this morning on two charges of sex crimes involving a child. The incident was reported by one of Copeland’s students.He’s accused of engaging in oral sex with a 17-year-old female student.Copeland is charged…
U.S. Marshals Captured two men wanted for the murder of a Maryland woman late last year after they were tipped off the pair was in Miami.Joel Milburn, 20 and Seth Jedlicka, only 17, were arrested today at the Motel Blanco at 5255 Biscayne Blvd.They are two of four men believed…
Danny Perez, decked out in a University of Miami jersey and cap, was riding his bike west on NW 79th Street between NW 17th and NW 22nd avenues when he was shot dead. The mysterious murder happened last Friday night at 11:30.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel pronounced the 35-year-old dead on…
Juan Fonseca may be the worst mailman in the world. He’s charged with snorting cocaine while on the job, driving his truck with his feet, stealing money out of Christmas cards, swiping Netflix rentals, and, oh yeah, delivering drugs along his route.The Kissimmee, Florida, postal worker first raised suspicion by…
The University of Miami is investigating four separate incidents in the past two weeks of school property being defaced by swastikas.President Donna Shalala sent an email to students and staff today notifying them of incidents taking place March 2, 10, and 11 in the Hecht Residential College, one of the…
Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much news in the mysterious murder of 26-year-old aspiring model Paula Sladewski. Club Space hopes to change all of that by offering a $15,000 reward for information related to the case.Space is the last place Sladewski was seen alive New Year’s Eve weekend before being found…
In a case custom-built for Internet pun headlines, a woman crashed her car in the Keys last week while shaving her bikini line in traffic. Here at Riptide, our high-paid team of tabloid-producing nickname writers spent literally minutes considering the case of Megan Mariah Barnes before deciding to endorse “Pubic…
José “Pepe” Fanjul might be sly when it comes to sugar, but he apparently isn’t so smart when someone tries to steal his sweets. Fanjul, co-owner of sugar corporation Florida Crystals, and his wife Emilia were visiting Los Angeles to attend the Oscars when they were robbed.While staying at the Beverly…
Phil Busch has always been one angry dude. In 2006, the musclebound motivational speaker and born-again Christian fueled worldwide headlines when he sued über-evangelist Pat Robertson for using the bodybuilder’s well-greased, vein-popping physique to sell a mass-marketed protein shake without permission — and damn was Busch pissed about it. “Look in…
Just when we were starting to worry that Miami was losing cachet as ground zero for all crimes cocaine-fueled — maybe that study about coke making your heart explode in the Miami heat really freaked everyone out? — the DEA swoops in to remind us that we’re still number one,…
Prominent Miami businessman Gaston E. Cantens and his wife Teresita have been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for running a $135 million ponzi scheme that defrauded elderly Cuban-Americans. Gaston Cantens served as an advisory board member for Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, and the two are parents of former…
We don’t know about you, but whenever Riptide dreams of robbing a bakery, it’s usually for the baked goods.”Okay, put all the muffins and raisin bread in the bag and nobody gets hurt. This bad boy’s breaking his no-carb diet tonight.”Not that we’d ever actually rob a bakery. Unfortunately Vicky Bakery…
The string of cat killings that rocked Palmetto and Cutler Bay last summer may have ended when police arrested 18-year-old suspect Tyler Weinman, but investigators haven’t been able to link Weinman’s DNA to the case.Eleven of the 19 cats’ bodies were tested for human DNA and none was found. They…
Edgar Giovanni Castillo, how dumb — and disturbed — you are. Let us count the ways. First, police say, you molest children and film it. Then you keep said films and videos on your cell phone’s smart chip, of all places. And then, for a coup de grace, you try…
Pablo Guzman ran away from a Super Bowl week shooting outside a downtown club, evaded an off-duty cop’s barrage of bullets, and successfully made his escape to Cancun, Mexico. But his luck ran out when he tried to catch a flight from Cancun to Panama City over the weekend. Guzman,…
