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May 22, 2012
Porn Model Pleads Guilty to Florida Sex Party Murder, Gets 40 Years
Amanda Kaye Logue pleaded guilty Monday to her part in a bizarre 2010 Florida murder, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Logue, who had worked as a porn actress, had been hired as a prostitute to attend a sex party thrown by Dennis "Scooter" Abrahamsen. Though beforehand she conspired with her boyfri ... More >>
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May 15, 2012
FBI Still Mulling Possible Hate Crime Charges Against George Zimmerman
It seems that second-degree murder charges may not be the only legal trouble George Zimmerman faces for shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. An Orlando-area news station reports that the FBI may move forward on charging Zimmerman with a hate crime. Currently the toughest sentence Zimmerman coul ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
Strip Club Company Sues North Bay Village Over Their First Amendment Right to Naked Dancing
Isle of Dreams, a company that hopes to put a strip club in North Bay Village, just wants to pay some girls to shake their tatas, but the city keeps cock-blocking them at every turn. So now the company has filed a lawsuit against North Bay Village, and claims the city is infringing on their First Am ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Michele Traverso, Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Cyclist Aaron Cohen, Won't Face DUI Charge
The facts seem pretty clear: On Feb. 15, Michele Traverso, a 25-year-old with a suspended license, slammed into two cyclists on the Rickenbacker Causeway after he'd spent a long night drinking in Coconut Grove. Cohen then sped away, leaving one of the cyclists, Aaron Cohen, a father of two, dying on ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
Florida Man Arrested for Child Porn and Sex With His Girlfriend's Dog UPDATE
Usually perverts like to keep their kinks to one genre or another, but apparently Eric Antunes's twisted sexual appetite wasn't fulfilled by just one form of deviance. Police busted Antunes, a Clearwater resident, after getting a tip he had child pornography, but then also discovered he'd been cheat ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Mugshots Friday: Blowed-Up Dude and the Ridiculously Photogenic Mugshot
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
A Second Alleged Rape at Fontainebleau During Miami Music Week
Rafael Munga, 26, was arrested Thursday after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman inside her Fontainebleau penthouse suite, Miami Beach Police say.The victim said she woke up to a naked man climbing into her bed, according to a report by CBS Miami. She left the door to her suite open becau ... More >>
News
March 8, 2012
Chris Paciello ratted on mob bosses, new documents show
Rafael Munga, 26, was arrested Thursday after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman inside her Fontainebleau penthouse suite, Miami Beach Police say.The victim said she woke up to a naked man climbing into her bed, according to a report by CBS Miami. She left the door to her suite open becau ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2012
Mothers Against Drunk Driving Sues Miami Lingerie Company For Stealing Its Name
What do a nonprofit hellbent on ending drunk driving and a Miami Gardens shop selling crotchless panties and see-through negligees have in common? Far too much, at least according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. MADD has filed a federal lawsuit against MaddSexy Lingerie claiming it's illegally ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Paul Mira, Teacher Who Had Sex With 12-Year-Old Student, Avoids Jail Time
Paul Michael Mira, the former PE director at a Miami charter school, has admitted to having sex with both a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old student, but because of a plea deal struck with prosecutors, the man will not have to serve any time behind bars. Instead, the sexual predator who has basically a ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Don Bartling of Miami Arrested for Having Possibly Thousands of Child Porn Movies on His Computer
Don Bartling, a 54-year-old Miami resident and a student at Florida International University, has been arrested on charges of downloading and sharing child pornography. Bartling, according to a criminal complaint, told officials that he started downloading child pornography sometime in the past t ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Prison Legal News Sues Florida Department of Corrections for Banning Its Publication
PLN Associate Editor Alex FriedmannA national legal magazine for prisoners has filed suit against the Florida Department of Corrections, claiming it's been censored from distributing in Florida prisons due to a vendetta by the state agency. According to a complaint filed today, the DOC has reje ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2011
Miami-Dade Has the 7th Largest Gang Population in America
While gang activity is nowhere near as prevalent in South Florida as it is in South California, it should come as little surprised that Miami-Dade has one of the highest gang populations in America, the highest in the Southeast, and the second highest on the entire East Coast.
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Wilson Ramos Kidnapping Scares Marlins' Anibal Sánchez From Returning to Venezuela
Anibal Sanchez, left, cancelled his trip home to Venezuela after Wilson Ramos's kidnappingToday is supposed to be the big day for the newly re-named Miami Marlins. Tonight the team unveils its new uniforms and, perhaps, a new blockbuster signing.But at least five players on the 40-man roster probabl ... More >>
Film
November 3, 2011
Tower Heist: Brett Ratner's latest is fleet and funny
Anibal Sanchez, left, cancelled his trip home to Venezuela after Wilson Ramos's kidnappingToday is supposed to be the big day for the newly re-named Miami Marlins. Tonight the team unveils its new uniforms and, perhaps, a new blockbuster signing.But at least five players on the 40-man roster probabl ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Three Teens Arrested in Robbery and Beatings of Mail Carriers
A strange string of robberies stared occurring earlier this month in two North Miami-Dade cities. On October 5, a female mail carrier was beaten and robbed in Miami Gardens. A similar incident occurred involving another female mail carrier in North Miami on the 14th, and on the 17th yet another m ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
$7.6 Million Worth of Pot Seized at Port of Miami
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they haven't made a huge pot bust at the Port of Miami for months, but sometimes you just have to wait. Authorities report they discovered 3,837 pounds of marijuana, nearly two tons, stuffed inside shipping containers at the port last Friday.
Blogs
October 17, 2011
Three Mail Carriers Robbed, Two Beaten This Month in North Miami-Dade
Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night would deter Postal Service workers from their appointed rounds, but thugs will. Three times in the past two weeks, mail carriers have been robbed with two incidents in North Miami, and a third in Miami Gardens. Two of the incidents involved beatings, while ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
SpongeBob SquarePants AK-47 Robbery Spree Ends With Arrests
Surveillance footage of a SpongeBob robbery at a 7-11 three months ago.In the end, the police found SpongeBob SquarePants not in a pineapple under the sea, but hunkered down in an apartment complex off the Turnpike with three of his convenience store robbing cohorts.Last night, Orlando cops final ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2011
Execution by Firing Squad Could Be Coming Back to Florida
A conversation in a Panhandle Waffle House may lead to a barbaric change in Florida's death penalty policy. After meeting with constituents, Rep. Brad Drake, a Republican from Eucheeanna, has introduced a bill that would do away with using lethal injections for the death penalty. Instead he'd lik ... More >>
News
September 29, 2011
Rhett Fuller spent 21 years running from murder charges; now he's coming home
A conversation in a Panhandle Waffle House may lead to a barbaric change in Florida's death penalty policy. After meeting with constituents, Rep. Brad Drake, a Republican from Eucheeanna, has introduced a bill that would do away with using lethal injections for the death penalty. Instead he'd lik ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2011
Florida Court Rules Pasting Kids' Faces on Naked Adult Bodies is Not Child Porn
Danny Parker, a Sunday school teacher from Lakeland, Florida, was arrested and eventually convicted on child porn charges in 2009 after he was found to have cut out the faces of children from photos he'd taken and then pasted them on the bodies of explicit photos of adults. Now, a Florida appeals ... More >>
News
September 22, 2011
Shaquille O'Neal wages war against a Miami computer geek
Danny Parker, a Sunday school teacher from Lakeland, Florida, was arrested and eventually convicted on child porn charges in 2009 after he was found to have cut out the faces of children from photos he'd taken and then pasted them on the bodies of explicit photos of adults. Now, a Florida appeals ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2011
Five Rappers Dumb Enough to Get DUIs in Honor of Flo Rida's Drunk-Driving Arrest
via Miami-Dade CorrectionsCrossfade is a firm believer in designated drivers. Drunk driving can not only kill you, but it can kill someone else and ruin the lives of their friends and family. We also believe rappers have a lot of money. We believe this because we watch MTV Cribs. But in the mi ... More >>
News
May 12, 2011
Teen porn star Bieyanka Moore's disaster
via Miami-Dade CorrectionsCrossfade is a firm believer in designated drivers. Drunk driving can not only kill you, but it can kill someone else and ruin the lives of their friends and family. We also believe rappers have a lot of money. We believe this because we watch MTV Cribs. But in the mi ... More >>
News
April 14, 2011
Reality Kings sued for casting a 15-year-old runaway in a porn
via Miami-Dade CorrectionsCrossfade is a firm believer in designated drivers. Drunk driving can not only kill you, but it can kill someone else and ruin the lives of their friends and family. We also believe rappers have a lot of money. We believe this because we watch MTV Cribs. But in the mi ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Bieyanka Moore, Reality Kings' 15-Year-Old Porn Star?
Right: photo from Bieyanka Moore's Myspace; Left: C.S.'s missing child photo.In January 2010, a 15-year-old girl from Palm Beach Shores -- though her name has already been broadcasted on the internet, we'll call her C.S. -- ran away from home. Eight months later, porn site Reality Kings, owned ... More >>
News
April 7, 2011
Kids claim abuse and violence at juvenile lockup Thompson Academy
Right: photo from Bieyanka Moore's Myspace; Left: C.S.'s missing child photo.In January 2010, a 15-year-old girl from Palm Beach Shores -- though her name has already been broadcasted on the internet, we'll call her C.S. -- ran away from home. Eight months later, porn site Reality Kings, owned ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2011
Wachovia Now Off the Hook for Laundering Mexican Drug Money
Off the hook for millions in money laundering.Happy Anniversary, Wachovia!A year after the bank admitted to laundering hundreds of millions in Mexican drug money -- and paying $160 million in fines and penalties -- the company is now off the hook for further punishment.According to the British pa ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2011
ICE Agent Charged with Molesting 16-Year-Old
Neil Julien, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, has been arrested on charges that he molested a 16-year-old girl back in 2005. According to NBC Miami, he allegedly molested the girl multiple time during the summer of 2005 while dating the girl's mother. The charges surfaced af ... More >>
News
March 17, 2011
Rick Scott's racist clemency rules
Neil Julien, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, has been arrested on charges that he molested a 16-year-old girl back in 2005. According to NBC Miami, he allegedly molested the girl multiple time during the summer of 2005 while dating the girl's mother. The charges surfaced af ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2011
No Clemency For Felons Means Southern Racism Is Back
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains why Rick Scott is helping the criminal justice system keep African-Americans down. Last week, Florida Gov. ... More >>
Film
March 10, 2011
The Interrupters: Gang-bangers interrupted
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains why Rick Scott is helping the criminal justice system keep African-Americans down. Last week, Florida Gov. ... More >>
Dining
March 10, 2011
Miami waiter Eddie Santana is a restaurant rebel
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains why Rick Scott is helping the criminal justice system keep African-Americans down. Last week, Florida Gov. ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
Rene Sanabria, Bolivia's Former Top Drug Cop, Accused of Smuggling Cocaine to Miami
via PlusBoliviaRene Sanabria helped smuggle 220 lbs of cocaine into Miami.From top drug cop to accused cocaine smuggler. That's the story of Retired Gen. Rene Sanabria. From 2007 to 2008 he ran Bolivia's anti-narcotics police, and since 2009 has been a top adviser to Evo Morales' Interior Minist ... More >>
News
February 10, 2011
Andres Lopez exposes the Colombian cartels
via PlusBoliviaRene Sanabria helped smuggle 220 lbs of cocaine into Miami.From top drug cop to accused cocaine smuggler. That's the story of Retired Gen. Rene Sanabria. From 2007 to 2008 he ran Bolivia's anti-narcotics police, and since 2009 has been a top adviser to Evo Morales' Interior Minist ... More >>
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January 15, 2011
ACLU Chief Howard Simon Recalls MLK and Bloody Sunday
Photo by Jacob KatelHoward SimonAmerican Civil Liberties executive director Howard Simon took part in the last century's most significant freedom march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then he was part of lawsuits that indicated our own government might have played a role in one of the civil rights m ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Trailer Park Resident Sues WikiLeaks, Julian Assange for $150M in Miami Court
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are currently knee deep in a heap of legal concerns. And their latest, and most ridiculous, comes from a Florida man named David Pitchford who has sued the organization and its figurehead for emotional distress. Pitchford, who lists a Key West trailer park as his addr ... More >>
News
December 16, 2010
Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are currently knee deep in a heap of legal concerns. And their latest, and most ridiculous, comes from a Florida man named David Pitchford who has sued the organization and its figurehead for emotional distress. Pitchford, who lists a Key West trailer park as his addr ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2010
Maintenance Worker Shot on Ocean Drive While Evicting Tenant
In today's senseless murder news, a maintenance worker was shot dead while helping police evict a tenant from an Ocean Drive apartment in South Beach this morning. The shooter and a police officer were also injured, though neither seriously.
Blogs
November 16, 2010
Suicidal Gunman Shoots Two Women and a Toddler in North Miami
via FacebookTavaris FairStephanie Peterson, age 22, was babysitting a young child in the apartment of Kizzy Williams, 31, when her boyfriend showed up ready for an argument. Tavaris Fair, 25, fired several shots in the North Miami apartment before ending his own life after a long standoff with polic ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2010
Anonymous Phone Call Leads Police to Murder Mystery in NW Dade
Miami-Dade police didn't hear the gunshots, but they did hear the phone ring. If it wasn't for an anonymous phone call they may not have found the body of a dead man in a Northwest Miami-Dade apartment. Now, with little clues and few apparent witnesses police must solve the mysterious murder.
Blogs
November 4, 2010
Partridge Family Star David Cassidy Charged with DUI in South Florida
I think a lot of people love David Cassidy, so what are they so afraid of? Maybe that he'll swerve into them in his white Mercedes while allegedly driving drunk. Yes, the former teen idol and Partridge Family star, now 60, was arrested in South Florida for driving drunk. When a Florida Highway Pa ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Police Search for Gunmen: Man Killed Near Barry University, Woman Shot in Miami Gardens
Police are searching for suspects in two separate firearm attacks that occurred overnight in North Miami-Dade. One was fatal; the other victim is not expected to survive. A 25-year-old man was found shot to death near his black SUV near Barry University in Miami Shores. In the other shooting, a w ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
Suspected Taxi Cab Robber Caught. You're Welcome, Miami Police
Christopher Albert Debanos, charged in connection to a recent string of taxi cab robberiesMiami Police have arrested a suspect in a recent rash of taxi cab robberies.Christopher Albert Debanos, 21, was arrested yesterday on robbery, burglary, and gun charges in connection to as many as seven stic ... More >>
News
October 21, 2010
Deadly Miami cabs
Christopher Albert Debanos, charged in connection to a recent string of taxi cab robberiesMiami Police have arrested a suspect in a recent rash of taxi cab robberies.Christopher Albert Debanos, 21, was arrested yesterday on robbery, burglary, and gun charges in connection to as many as seven stic ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Operation Streamline treats migrants like cattle
Christopher Albert Debanos, charged in connection to a recent string of taxi cab robberiesMiami Police have arrested a suspect in a recent rash of taxi cab robberies.Christopher Albert Debanos, 21, was arrested yesterday on robbery, burglary, and gun charges in connection to as many as seven stic ... More >>
News
October 14, 2010
Babies left in hot cars: Accident or crime?
Some parents are never prosecuted. Antonio Balta got 20 years.
News
October 7, 2010
Gambling back in Miami Beach?
Some parents are never prosecuted. Antonio Balta got 20 years.
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Police Investigating Brazen Dinner-Time Robbery and Shootout At Homestead Wendy's
Photo via dave_mcmt's flickr and wikimedia commons.What's gotten into Miami robbers this week? Just a few days after the made-for-Hollywood heist of a Coral Gables Bank of America -- complete with a kidnapped teller with a bomb strapped to his chest -- another gang of bandits knocked over a Wendy ... More >>
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