Officer Miguel Romain was just a few months into his new job as a full-fledged Miami Beach cop when the routine call came in on Sunday: A burglar alarm was going off in a building near 51st Street and Alton Road. The former public service specialist hopped in a patrol…
In order to protect South Florida’s citizens, local police officers have a lot of tools at their disposal. One of them is a software program called DAVID — for Driver and Vehicle Information Database — that officers can use to look up anyone’s car and license plate info. For privacy…
Johnny Lubin, Jr, a 15-year-old Miami Northwestern student, was walking home Wednesday afternoon in Liberty City when a car drove up near him. Someone inside fired shots. Lubin, an outgoing kid and former prom king, was hit twice, once in the head and once in the abdomen. Hours later, he…
It was one of the most brazen shootings in Miami’s recent memory: Last September 27, while a crowd of young men and women danced and partied inside a small nightclub on Seventh Avenue called The Spot, dozens of bullets suddenly rained upon the club, igniting instant chaos. No one was…
Earlier this month, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement — the state agency that investigates fatal police-involved shootings — pleaded for more funding. Florida cops are killing so many suspects they simply can’t keep up with the cases. That dire backlog is only going to grow after this week. It’s…
Were you hoping to get to work this morning? Or perhaps you had a busy day at school ahead of you that you planned to attend? Maybe a flight to catch at MIA? Sorry, folks. It’s probably not going to happen today. Details are still scarce, but an early-morning shooting…
On a hot July afternoon, Steve Murphy was sweating inside a yellow, one-story house in West Little River. It was 1989, the height of the Cocaine Cowboy era, and Murphy and his partner, Kevin Stephens, were Drug Enforcement Administration agents working a sting deal on 17 kilos of coke. An…
Just after 9:30 p.m. October 28, at least three masked intruders barged into a home in Keystone Point, an exclusive waterfront enclave in North Miami. The house’s owner, Naim (who declined to provide his last name for fear of retribution) was brushing his teeth when he was led with a…
As the price of oil has spiraled to record lows this year, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has struggled to hang on to power. Shortages of everything from toilet paper to McDonald’s french fries have rocked Caracas as the official currency has tanked with the country’s most abundant natural resource. But…
Just over a year ago, Miami Beach Police Chief Dan Oates banned his officers from all off-duty work at SoBe nightclubs after a string of embarrassments, including a sergeant who got wasted while working at Mango’s Tropical Cafe. Today, Beach cops are not only back on the job — they’re…
Michelle Coleman had her baby daughter in her arms when the men materialized out of the darkness. Coleman, a 25-year-old mother of four with a pretty, roundish face and thick, straightened hair, was walking home to the apartment in Liberty Square where she’d lived for five years, a spartan place…
When the corpse emerged from the grave, a hole the size of a dime marred the skull. A femur and a finger were snapped like twigs, a clavicle was cracked, and lead lay in the chest. “Body was smoked and hosed after death,” the coroner wrote. Then came the conclusion:…
Cuando el cadáver emergió de la tumba, un hueco del tamaño de una moneda de diez centavos perforaba el cráneo. El fémur y un dedo estaban partidos como ramitas, la clavícula cascada y había plomo en el pecho. “El cuerpo fue quemado y rociado con agua luego de la muerte”,…
A video of a woman facing off against numerous workers at the Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurant on South Beach’s Washington Avenue has gone viral with little information about what actually lead up to the brawl. The video open with an employee throwing what appears to be a stack…
On October 9, Angelic Valle strutted into the Johnny Rockets on Ocean Drive topless and laughing. Video uploaded on World Star Hip Hop show a group of men huddling around the 22-year-old from Kendall, egging her on and dousing her in water and ketchup. In the month since, the video…
As King Tides rose in Miami Beach this week, brackish water spilled over sidewalks and drowned docks. There were at least two low-lying spots that stayed remarkably dry, though — the shopping plaza at Sunset Harbor, and the area near 10th and Alton. Both were saved by Miami Beach’s multi-million…
On October 9, Angelica Valle strutted into the Johnny Rockets on Ocean Drive topless and laughing. A man then created a barrier from management using chairs and tables. That’s when things really got crazy. As witnesses filmed, Valle then united her bikini bottom and “placed the steel chair leg into…
We’d say Pedro Dayan Millan is an unlikely YouTube star, but then really it doesn’t take much more than luck to become a viral sensation. Under the nickname Peter La Anguila (“Peter the Eel” to us gringos), Millan became a sensation in 2012 thanks to a music video produced with the group…
Wow! It’s hasn’t been this good of a time for fans of the ’90s since the actual ’90s themselves! Netflix is rebooting Full House, Gwen Stefani’s best breakup single since “Don’t Speak” is tearing up the iTunes charts, and Nickelodeon is playing all your favorite OG Nicktoons again! Now another…
Storage Wars: Miami has only aired two episodes so far, and already the show has produced off-screen tragedy. Hashim Saeed Pew, the 23-year-old son of cast member Kevin Pew, is behind bars for murdering a 19-year-old woman at this father’s home during a viewing party last week. The murder was originally…
Neikole Hunt, an assertive mother of three who lives in Little Haiti, on NW 50th Street, had just gotten home from her youngest son’s PeeWee football practice when someone knocked urgently on her front door. Just a few blocks away, the visitor said, something had happened to Hunt’s older son,…
Hundreds of zombies ran screaming through downtown Fort Myers late on Saturday night, fleeing in terror as gunshots rang out in the night. When police forced their way through the panicked costumed crowd, they found six attendees at that night’s packed “ZombiCon” bleeding in the street. One may, wearing a…
