Robbery

Slow Service at a Florida Wendy's Foiled Attempted Robbery

Fast food really isn't all that fast. Especially in Miami (we've got a great work ethic in this town, don't you know), but apparently that pops up in other parts of the state. An attempted robbery at a Wendy's in Longwood, Florida, was foiled after the workers took too long complying with the woul ... More >>

Design District Robberies Could Challenge $312 Million Luxury Overhaul

Florida Hotel Thieves Busted After Pocket Dialing Front Desk

Perhaps only the occasional horrors of AutoCorrect top the accidental pocket dial as the greatest nightmare of modern cellphone use. There's nothing worse than calling a person without knowing it. Especially if you happen to be talking about that person at the time.For two thieves in Naples, Florida ... More >>

Two Miami Burger Kings Targeted For Armed Robbery

Two Miami Burger Kings were targeted by an armed robber late last night, using the drive-thru windows as a point of entry. According to CBS Miami, two different Burger Kings within three miles of each other were targeted for robbery. Though the robberies seem identical, Miami police have not yet co ... More >>

Miami-Dade Police Lured Robbers to the Redland, Then Shot Them

Miami, Miami Beach, and Coral Gables Experience Double Digit Increases In Crime Rate

Last week, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported the lowest crime rate across the state since the agency began tracking statistics in 1971. With population growth factored in, the overall crime rate dropped 0.8 percent from 2010 to 2011. In Miami-Dade, the crime rate dropped 0.3 percent ... More >>

Chris Paciello ratted on mob bosses, new documents show

Florida Teen Tries to Rob Porn Store With Gun, Gets Talked Into Filling Out a Job Application Instead

​Cody Conner, 17, walked into an adult novelty store in Debary with a loaded gun and intended to stick-up the cashier. Instead, the employee talked Conner out of the robbery, and actually convinced the kid to fill out a job application.Of course Conner won't be getting the job. The employee turned ... More >>

Gainesville's Elderly Are Being Tied Up, Stabbed, and Beaten at an Alarming Rate

Robbery suspect Michael Lynn Pierce​What in hell is going on in Gainesville? In the past week, two different elderly residents have been tied up and beaten by brazen robbers -- the latest in a spree of such crimes dating to last summer.Today 78-year-old disabled retiree Paul Quant is recovering af ... More >>

Jeffrey Lluis, Tampa Comedian, Joked On Stage About Arrests Then Robbed Bank Twice

via Hillsborough County Sheriff's OfficeJeffrey Lluis​On stage in Tampa, local comedian Jeffrey Lluis told the audience that his relationship with Johnny Law wasn't fantastic: "As you just heard, I'm on probation," he says in a routine uploaded to YouTube. "I lost my job recently ... things got ki ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Man in Freddy Krueger Mask Robs Grocery Stores

​Watch out for Freddy Krueger! He'll kill you in your dreams! Or, apparently, rob your grocery store. Police are on the search for a man in a Freddy Krueger Halloween mask who pulled off an armed robbery at a Food Giant grocery store this weekend.

Mayhem and murder rule at this little strip club

Police Officer Who Shot at Downed Suspect 14 Times Wins Appeal in Excessive Force Case

​You're a suspect in an armed robbery. Your get away car has just crashed after you've lead police on a high speed chase. You get out of the car and pull an "unknown object" that may or may not be a gun on an officer. You're shot. You're down. You're incapacitated. Does the officer then have the r ... More >>

Burglary Foiled By Latino Meat Pies

via Flickr nebbes61​I miss the old News of the Weird column. It always made me feel better to read about the ludicrous situations in other people's lives.A recent event in New Mexico had Chuck Shepard written all over it. A place called Amigo's Mexican Food was robbed by a "slim, masked man" who e ... More >>

High Speed Police Chase in Miami Ends When Driver Collides With Tanker Trunk

via JustNews​An unruly high speed car chase that lead police on a pursuit of one or possibly two armed robbery suspects through out the streets of Miami this morning ended when the driver violently crashed his car into the back of a tanker truck on I-95. The driver survived and was taken into cust ... More >>

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 >>

Deadly Miami cabs

Coral Gables Bank, Scene of Last Month's Hostage Situation, Robbed Again

via FBIThe suspect in this mornings heist was caught on tape​The Bank of America in Coral Gables that just weeks ago was the scene of a bizarre hostage crisis, has been robbed yet again. The latest robbery went down around 10 a.m., when a man entered with what appeared to be a gun a gave a teller ... More >>

South Beach's Dumbest Bank Robbers Foiled by Sleeping Getaway Driver

You've been hit by, you've been struck by a dumb criminal​Bank robbery is not a dumb man's game. With high-tech security and cunning police, there's little room for amateurish. Even if you do manage to make off with some loot, you better have a good get away plan. That usually involves making sure ... More >>

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 >>

Congressional Candidate Marleine Bastien Robbed at Gunpoint

In today's roundup of the sins of South Florida: A congressional candidate has her purse snatched after a man points a gun at her head outside a church; some students will spend their first month of class in a fancy hotel; a traffic accident claims one life; and another storm gets a name.

Mayor Regalado Shows Up After Police Shoot Pizza Robber

​In today's news roundup: The city's big brass shows up at the scene of a police-involved shooting, Miracle Mile goes up in flames, the future president of Earth visits, and a Miami Beach serial robber comes clean.

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 >>

Tourist Couple Walks In On Burglary in South Beach Hotel Room

via Flickr​In today's roundup of horrible things and other news: a tourist couple is robbed at gunpoint, a 15-year-old is fatally shot in Overtown, an 11-year-old is accidentally shot by his own mother, and two people are found hanging in a South Florida park. 

Man Shot at Miami Lakes Home, Body Discovered by His Brother

A man, identified by a neighbor as "Enrique" and possibly in his 40s, was shot to death by robbers in Miami Lakes last night. The murder took place around 7 p.m. near the Palmetto Expressway and NW 67th Avenue.When the man arrived home, two men were waiting near his house and demanded something. The ... More >>

South American Jewelry Thieves Terrorize Miami; Feds Offer $20K for Help

In 2008, a New Times investigation brought you the story of the growing problem of South American gangs targeting local jewelers in violent robberies. Illustration for New Times Broward-Palm Beach by Kyle T. Webster​"Highly organized South American theft gangs" are targeting local merchants, ... More >>

South Florida Store Clerks Go Vigilante

Sometimes they shoot, and sometimes they kill.

Man Winds Up Dead After Trying to Rob Armored Truck

Three men tried to rob a Brinks armed truck this afternoon, and one of the suspects was fatally shot according to CBS4. The robbery attempt occurred near SW 216th St and SW 103rd Court a little before 2 pm. Police put the area on lockdown while they searched for the suspects.  Police are ... More >>

Text-Messaged Proof that Miami is Alive and Bleeding

Violent Jewelry Thieves Prowl South Florida

They give new meaning to the term blood diamond.

Burglars Busted!

Orange Man Found Guilty

Robbers on High Street

Tree City New Line

You Ho Who You Are

Robberies and prostitution turn a street into a boulevard of broken dreams

Copping to the Truth

Greg Poyser wanted to be a policeman so bad, he couldn't even lie about his crimes

Big Daddy Denial

The truth is all relative to Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolaños

News of the Weird

The Imperfect Murder

Stanley Cohen's wife went to prison for arranging to have him killed. Years later a Miami journalist reveals a secret. Now the entire case may be unraveling.

News of the Weird

Good Fences, Bad Neighbors

Sly Stallone is just a family man who wants some peace and quiet, and he intends to get it

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Life Sentences

Forget Hiaasen, Balmaseda, and Steinback -- the Herald's weird, wacky "Police Report" is the prose by the pros

News of the Weird

Mosaic of a Murder

Raul Rodriguez said he killed a man during a 1991 holdup at Malaga restaurant. At his trial this spring, the jury didn't see it that way.

Reflections from County Jail

The Cower of Pizza

The pizza giant promises a pie in 30 minutes or less...as long as you live on the right side of the tracks