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Crime

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Julia Tuttle Sex Offender Charged in New Sexual Battery Case

    Experts have said it all along: Sex offenders in transient environments are far more likely to repeat-offend. To say that's the only reason for an alleged sexual battery that occurred Monday is a stretch -- but it certainly didn't help. Miami police charged Julia Tuttle Causeway resident and r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    Report: Stallworth's Legal Team Hopes to Get off with Only a DUI

    This morning, NFL player Donte' Stallworth was booked on DUI manslaughter charges and shortly after released on $200,000 bond. Mike Florio, a respected football blogger at Pro Football Talk, claims Stallworth's legal team is hoping persecutors drop the DUI manslaughter charges and let him off with o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Allen Stanford Will Punch You in the Mouth If You Ask About His Ponzi Scheme

    In a state still reeling from Bernie Madoff and staggering toward 10 percent unemployment, it's tough to think of many adjectives less likely to endear you to the commoners than accused billionaire Ponzi schemer.via mediaimran's flickrStanford, at left, sponsored $20 million cricket matches in the g ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2009

    The Fall of a Titan

    A downtown Miami firm allegedly helped build an $8 billion Ponzi scheme. It could have been stopped.

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    Unequal Justice

    At federal prisons across the country, guards are preying on inmates. FDC Miami is no different.

  • News

    January 22, 2009

    Madoff's Man

    South Florida multimillionaire Michael Bienes never cut ties with Bernie Madoff, even after the SEC shut him down.

  • News

    August 28, 2008

    Violent Jewelry Thieves Prowl South Florida

    They give new meaning to the term blood diamond.

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Cops Bust More People For Drugs at Urban Beach Week

    Memorial Day weekend in Miami Beach is wild. In the past seven years, cops have made thousands of arrests. The craziness included: A double homicide outside David's Café II, a mini riot on Washington Avenue, and smatterings of pro sports players who enjoy drinking too much and manhandling officers. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Thirty-Six Charged in Huge North Miami Beach Gang Bust

    In the early morning hours of Jan. 8, 2008, in a dark alley off South Glades Drive, a gang member named Andrew James Rolle walked up to a white Ford Taurus and blasted the man inside to death.​The driver was an off-duty Miami detective named James Walker, and his murder helped fuel a joint local a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Two Florida Men Face Five Years in Jail for Posting Gang Signs on MySpace

    Do I get five years in the slammer for posting this? ​Thanks to a law championed by a former Miami-Dade Police officer, two Florida men face up to five years in prison for photos allegedly showing gang signs posted to their MySpace accounts. The whole thing is ridiculous. Taxpa ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2009

    South Florida Store Clerks Go Vigilante

    Sometimes they shoot, and sometimes they kill.

  • News

    October 29, 2009
  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Herald Blogger Calls New Times Article Baloney, Forgets to Read Past the Second Section

    ​This morning, Miami Herald columnist  Steve Rothaus criticized New Times' cover story "Escape from South Beach." The blogger, who focuses on gay issues, cites one statistic, writing: "It's a bit over the top."The article -- if you haven't seen it -- takes a look at three things. 1) The fact ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Juan Manuel Oliva and Sheila Mora Identified As Couple in Miami Beach Murder-Suicide

    Police have released the identity of the couple involved in yesterday's apparent murder-suicide in Miami Beach.Thirty-five-year-old Sheila Mora was found stabbed to death in the couple's apartment, Unit 3707 in the beachfront Akoya building on 6365 Collins Avenue. Police discovered her body aft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Venezuela Murder Rate Has Quadrupled Under Hugo Chávez

    One person is murdered every two hours in Venezuela, according to new statistics released by the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Violence.The murder rate in the South American country has more than quadrupled since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1999. There were 54 homicides per 100,000 people ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    California Governor Candidate Wants to Put Pedophiles on an Island, Sounds Oddly Familiar

    via CurbedLA​A minor candidate in California's governor race has proposed an oddly familiar idea for dealing with convicted sex offenders and pedophiles: he wants to put them all on an island. No, Ron Book has not moved to the Golden State.Douglas Hughes, a dark horse Republican candidate, has mad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Miami Beach Resort Shooting Was Over Drugs, Not Hookers

    ​Turns out the shooting at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa Saturday had nothing to do with hookers, but drugs. At least that's what the Miami Beach Police Department is saying. Oh, and that weird smell? It was pepper spray.

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Man Found Shot to Death in Truck

    via CBS4​In today's news roundup: A dead body is found in a truck, a teacher drives while under the influence of booze and Xanax, and those huge LCD billboards in downtown Miami have a long way to go before they're erected.

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Hialeah McDonald's Robbed by Employee Dressed as Ninja

    ​A McDonald's in Hialeah was robbed not once, but twice by a man dressed like a ninja, in head-to-toe black. Turned out the robberies were perpetrated by Michel Quiroz, an 18-year-old employee at the restaurant. He even continued to show up for work after the robberies, but eventually his co-worke ... More >>

  • News

    August 12, 2010

    Phoenix, Arizona: America's kidnapping capital is brutal

    ​A McDonald's in Hialeah was robbed not once, but twice by a man dressed like a ninja, in head-to-toe black. Turned out the robberies were perpetrated by Michel Quiroz, an 18-year-old employee at the restaurant. He even continued to show up for work after the robberies, but eventually his co-worke ... More >>

  • News

    August 26, 2010

    Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum

    ​A McDonald's in Hialeah was robbed not once, but twice by a man dressed like a ninja, in head-to-toe black. Turned out the robberies were perpetrated by Michel Quiroz, an 18-year-old employee at the restaurant. He even continued to show up for work after the robberies, but eventually his co-worke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Today In Cocaine: Ten Busted in Juarez-to-Miami Ring, Colombian Coke Lord Due In Federal Court

    ​It's already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami -- or at least for the feds' perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then came word that a muc ... More >>

  • News

    September 23, 2010

    Arizona cop's tale of a Latino drug smuggler shooting him doesn't add up

    ​It's already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami -- or at least for the feds' perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then came word that a muc ... More >>

  • 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 >>

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Gambling back in Miami Beach?

    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 >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Deadly Miami cabs

    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 >>

  • 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 robberies​Miami 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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

    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 >>

  • 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 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 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.

  • News

    February 10, 2011

    Andres Lopez exposes the Colombian cartels

    ​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

    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 >>

  • Film

    March 10, 2011

    The Interrupters: Gang-bangers interrupted

    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 >>

  • 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 >>

  • 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

    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 14, 2011

    Reality Kings sued for casting a 15-year-old runaway in a porn

    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

    May 12, 2011

    Teen porn star Bieyanka Moore's disaster

    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

    June 9, 2011

    Five Rappers Dumb Enough to Get DUIs in Honor of Flo Rida's Drunk-Driving Arrest

    via Miami-Dade Corrections​Crossfade 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

    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 >>

  • 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 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 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 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 >>

  • Film

    November 3, 2011

    Tower Heist: Brett Ratner's latest is fleet and funny

    ​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 >>

  • 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 >>

  • 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

    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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