A bill that would criminalize undercover footage of animal farms and slaughter facilities is on the floor of the State Senate, and has a good chance of being passed into law. Which means it would be up to only licensed law enforcement officials to discover abuses on local farms. Which…
Your regular Mugshots Friday programming is cancelled because we simply cannot continue when one of the mugshots is of a guy covered in mysterious powder. It wouldn’t be fair to the other mugshots. Travis Williams (click photo to enlarge) was arrested on Wednesday for disorderly conduct/breach of the peace, which…
A Floridian convicted of drunk driving already had his penis amputated during a three-year prison stay. Now the state wants him to pay more than $50,000 for the experience. Last week, we brought you the sorry saga of a man we named Hank, who endured several allegedly botched surgeries while…
If you have any dregs of holiday spirit sloshing around in your tired soul, this story should evaporate it. According to police, sometime around 10 on Christmas morning, 46-year-old Wilfredo Ruiz got into an argument with his wife Ana in their home on the 14400 block of SW 22nd Terrace…
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…
Dr. Paul Perito has responded to our story which detailed another lawsuit stemming from allegedly destroying a patient’s penis, the second time he’s been hit with such a suit. We also chronicled past criminal charges against the urologist in which he was accused of selling counterfeit pills out of a…
Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro has a bad attendance record
Florida National College’s Manuel Mares traded child porn, FBI says
Coral Gables urologist Paul Perito sued after amputating a patient’s penis
The next time you’re thinking about driving drunk, consider the plight of a man we’ll call Hank. In 2006, a police officer found him passed out behind the wheel of his pick-up truck in a Florida trailer park. Roused from his slumber, he blew a .081– just over the legal…
Manuel Mares was one of the more popular faculty members at the Hialeah-based Florida National College. During graduation speeches, students made sure to thank the 56-year-old academic adviser and former business professor for his mentoring. He worked in the criminal justice department and in September appeared on a Miami-Dade police…
If we showed up late or not at all for one of every three workdays, we’d be writing for the Winn-Dixie coupon book by next week. But Bruno Barreiro — one of the 13 Miami-Dade commissioners charged with keeping this rickety skiff of a county afloat — has somehow held…
Our esteemed music editor S. Pajot has already made his feelings clear about the over-the-top 2011-12 season intro video by the Miami Heat: “Apparently, James, Wade, and Bosh thought that prancing and preening like pretty-boy pop stars for a really expensive YouTube vid was the best way to shake off…
Jon Pernell Roberts, the megasmuggler featured in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, has died at the age of 63. Film company Rakontur’s Billy Corben tweeted yesterday: “Just got word that Jon Roberts from Cocaine Cowboys passed away. Thankful he gave us the opportunity to tell his story.” And the singer Akon,…
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…
Between the Santería sacrifices, the illegal slaughterhouses, and the general dumbfuck cruelty exhibited by our local human populace, it might be fair to declare South Florida the worst place in the nation to be an animal. And 2011 had some especially bizarre and horrible cases of mistreatment of local furry…
Dogs abandoned in Everglades pose problems for rescuers
Miami news highlights 2011 Chris Bosh hangover
Pobre Fidelito. Being a dying dictator was his idea. But now Hugo Chavez has fat cancer, and Kim Jong Il went to ride his giant rabbits in the sky. Nobody’s paying attention to the totally dead antics of Fidel Castro. He’s like the fourth-grade girl who wore Silly Bandz before…
The past four months have been a horror show for local animal rescuer Amy Restucci. Along with a group of volunteers, she has spent every weekend in rural South Dade rounding up dogs — all of them former pets abandoned on the edge of the Everglades by feckless owners. When…
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…
Pitchfork just declared “I’m On One”– DJ Khaled’s melancholy baller anthem featuring Drake, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross — one of the ten best tracks of 2011. That’s fine. But how could they not mention the video? As Miamians, when we watched this vid, we felt as if our very…
