Miami Driver Gets a $13,500 SunPass Bill
Miami Driver Gets a $13,500 SunPass Bill
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Local Pastor: Ex-North Miami Mayor’s “Homosexual Network” Out To Get Me
The gay mafia is after Jack Hakimian. The head of North Miami’s Impact Miami church has made a name for himself by fighting a proposed strip club in the neighborhood — a fight that found him allied with PBS affiliate WPBT. That alliance got WPBT in trouble with North Miami…
SunPass Billing Error Leads To $13,500 In Fines For Miami Driver
In May 2009, Edgar Martinez, a 37-year-old who had just moved from Miami to California, received a letter from SunPass saying he owed $25 for a toll violation. Martinez paid the citation and closed his SunPass account, thinking that would be the last he heard from the traffic agency. Unfortunately…
Mugshots Friday: You’ve Got A Little Something On Your Face
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…
Employees At Las Culebrinas In Coconut Grove Went Weeks Without Pay, Lawsuit Claims
Cuban chain restaurant Las Culebrinas is the latest Miami eatery to face charges of withholding employee salaries. According to a lawsuit filed on September 17 in District Court, the franchise’s Coconut Grove outlet didn’t pay one employee for close to five years, and also kept other workers in the dark…
Argentinean Government, Siemens Hired Goons To Rough Up Whistle-Blower, Miami Lawsuit Claims
Millions of dollars in bribes, hired goons, torture, and secret pacts made in Miami: it sounds like the hacky elements of an spy paperback sold in airports. But according to a whistle-blower, it was all part of a very real plot involving Siemens AG and the Argentinean government. In a…
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Mugshots Friday: Ben Franklin and Big Bad Bearded Guys
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…
Carnival Let Drunk Man Fall Overboard, Falsely Called It Suicide, Lawsuit Claims
A Texas woman claims in a lawsuit that Carnival Cruise Lines was not only responsible for the death of her husband after he fell overboard last September, but also slandered her family by telling the media that he had committed suicide. Clint Markham, who died after falling off a Carnival…
Should Dangerously Busy Miami Roads Have Bike Lanes? Advocates, Commission Clash Over Policy
When Commissioner Rebeca Sosa introduced a resolution last month asking FDOT consult with Miami-Dade before it installs new bike lanes, cyclists reacted with fury. Sosa was deluged with calls and emails from advocates convinced the resolution was a sneak-attack to prevent new bike lanes in a town already sorely lacking…
Mugshots Friday: The 305 Is Stuck On Band-Aids
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…
Shady Owners of a Hialeah Recycling Plant Made a Neighborhood Sick, Residents Say
Shady Owners of a Hialeah Recycling Plant Made a Neighborhood Sick, Residents Say
Hialeah Recycling Plant King Metal Cancer Sickness
David’s Cafe Allegedly Owes $80,000 In Wages To Former Employees
Fans of longtime South Beach Cuban fixture David’s Cafe were saddened when, in July, its Lincoln Road establishment closed its doors for good. For the restaurant’s newly out-of-work employees, though, the closing wasn’t a bittersweet moment or an unexpected blow. For them, David’s could have closed half a year ago…
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North Miami Fined $154,000 After Councilwoman’s Mom Gets Grant Money
For the last few years, the City of North Miami has maintained a Neighborhood Stabilization Program, designed to purchase foreclosed homes and help first-time homebuyers get a place to live. In 2011, Marie Charles-Brutus received some of that NSP money, then used it to buy and refurbish a house on…
Mugshots Friday: The Canes Fan, the Dolphins Fan, and Future Guy Fieri
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…
Owners of Allegedly Cancer-Causing Recycling Plant Were Charged in a Million-Dollar Racketeering Scheme
Read “Hialeah Residents Claim Local Recycling Plant Is Causing Increased Rates Of Cancer”Today, the Miami-Dade County Commission will vote on a resolution on whether to investigate a potential cancer cluster in Hialeah along NW 36th Avenue. Residents have pointed fingers at nearby King Metal Recycling Plant as the reason for…
Miami-Dade Police Drones Go Unused, but the Department Isn’t Ready to Throw in the Towel
Miami-Dade Police Drones Go Unused, but the Department Isn’t Ready to Throw in the Towel
DJ Seasunz: A Murder Kills a Nightlife Scene
It was 9:45 a.m. on October 11, 2009, when Juan Carlos Portieles parked his beat-up Toyota Camry on a quiet side street in Cutler Bay. Tall and heavyset, with close-cropped brown hair and traces of stubble on his jaw, the 30-year-old DJ walked several blocks to a cluster of condominiums…
DJ Seasunz to Murder Victim: “Good and Evil… Have Chosen Me to Be Their Leader”
Also read DJ Seasunz: A Murder Killed a Nightlife Scene.After Juan Carlos Portieles, AKA DJ Seasunz, murdered his teenaged girlfriend, Jaclyn Torrealba, in October 2009, investigators began to comb through the wealth of correspondence the two had amassed in their two-year relationship. Police and prosecutors unearthed dozens of pages of…
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Hialeah Residents Claim Local Recycling Plant Is Causing Increased Rates Of Cancer
Vanessa Shelton knew something was wrong in her neighborhood. All along NW 36th Avenue in Hialeah, people were getting sick. In the last year alone, eight people had died of cancer, and a ninth was expected to pass any day. Asthma had become a major problem. To Shelton and other…
Miami-Dade Police Ask FAA To Renew Drone License For Another Year
Look! In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a flying drone with a camera strapped to it! Odds are you’ve seen the first two in Miami airspace. But so far, the only people to have spied the third in action are the folks in Miami-Dade Police Department…
Mugshots Friday: Everyday We Hussalin’
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…
Carnival Cruise Hairy-Body Contest Goes Awry for Orlando’s Kurt Gies
Carnival Cruise Hairy-Body Contest Goes Awry for Orlando’s Kurt Gies