Marcelo Cicuta said he recently turned down a $30,000 offer for his award-winning French bulldog. But when Cicuta returned to his home, he found the dog and 15 of its newborn puppies gone…
Miami-Dade Police are still trying to figure out what happened yesterday afternoon that sent two members of a family to the hospital and another two to their graves. Police arrived to the scene at 5940 SW 103rd Place at about 4 p.m. yesterday to find a man and a woman…
On November 14, 2009, two officers pulled over a 38-year-old man at the corner of Northwest 22nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the middle of the day. At some point over the next several minutes, a tussle occurred, and Corey McNeal withdrew a box cutter. Police then shot him 27…
Jermaine Dupri was cruising South Beach with his boys when cops noticed the black Lincoln Navigator’s tint was so dark that they couldn’t identify the race, sex, or number of passengers inside the SUV. Police pulled over the party to see who was headed north on Washington Avenue at 3:24…
It’s tough to grow up in Florida. Things seems alright until you hit 16 and realize that shuttling between stucco strip malls leaves a little to be desired. But for Tyler Hadley, living in Port St. Lucie was so boring that he would do anything for a good time. At…
Dwaynesha White was not about to give her goodies away for free during the holidays. The 22-year-old set up an appointment with 19-year-old David Roberts of Miami at her Hollywood apartment to exchange sex for money. But after the deed was done, White went to the bathroom to clean up…
Police say the two had been arguing since September but that a particularly heated argument caused a Florida teen to murder his mother Christmas Eve. Brandon and Sharon Aydelott had apparently spent several hours in a war of words before the stabbing occurred. Brandon Aydelott loved baseball. He was a…
We don’t mean to impugn the authority of the Miami Beach Police Department, but about an hour-and-a-half ago they told one news station that they were “pretty much 100 percent” certain they had found a live grenade in a man’s garage, and then a little more than an hour later…
Gerardo Benedit and Victoria Lopez apparently have hearts two sizes too small. They went on a crime spree that can be described only as Grinchian. The pair was arrested for stealing several packages full of Christmas presents from outside homes in Miami-Dade…
“This is absolutely bizarre, I can’t imagine somebody wanting to barter a live four-foot alligator for a 12 pack of beer, it makes no sense to me,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino told NBC Miami. Well, this is Florida. It only makes sense when it doesn’t…
Kira Lee Grossman wants you to know this isn’t news. She wants you to suspend your powers of reasoning for a moment and surmise that her driving record isn’t remarkable. She urges you to ignore her powerful position as policy adviser to the Miami Parking Authority and dismiss the fact…
The Wire is widely considered one of the greatest television series of all time. David Simon’s bleak depiction of Baltimore corruption was based upon his years as a crime reporter in that city. So it’s no surprise that a recent court case provides a near word-for-word, real-life re-enactment of the…
Neighborly feuds aren’t particularly uncommon, but most don’t escalate to the point where they lead to arrests and a feature on Good Morning America. Mitchell Igelko, a Miami man accused of constantly harassing his neighbors in southwest Miami-Dade, killing some of their lawns, throwing eggs at their houses, and allegedly…
Porter Fisher, the former Biogenesis employee who provided documents to Miami New Times to help blow open the massive Major League Basbeball PED scandal, stored boxes of documents related to the case in the trunk of his Toyota Camry. This past March, while Fisher was getting a spray tan in…
Criminality and social media have rarely had a harmonious relationship. There are several obvious reasons, but the most important is this: Cops have Facebook. And Twitter. And — it has surely dawned upon 19-year-old Dupree Johnson — Instagram. Dupree Johnson, who’s evinced an iron dedication to crime, racking up five…
The three Florida International University students arrested late last night in a crackdown on a test-answer-stealing ring have been identified as students Krissy Lamadrid, 21, and Jason Calderon, 23, as well as alum Alex Anaya, 30. The three orchestrated a scheme in which they stole test answers and then sold…
Three Miami-Dade Police officers are recovering this morning and two suspects are dead after a massive county-spanning manhunt. The incident began around 4:30 a.m. when the first officer tried to arrest a subject after gunshots were reported in the 2200 block of NW 27th Avenue. The suspect shot the officer…
Baseball is America’s pastime. But it’s also an international business that sucks in scores of foreign-born players every year. Behind that business are men who secret ballplayers into the United States in exchange for a slice of their future earnings. This side of baseball tends to remain in the shadows…
Despite the fact there’s no argument that Derek Medina pulled the trigger that killed his wife shortly before he posted a photo of her dead body on Facebook, Medina plead not guilty to first-degree murder charges in court this morning. Medina’s case will now head to trial as soon as…
Few things arouse a man’s anger like American football. When the Dolphins lose, a thousand dudes across South Florida launch their remotes in unison at their TV screens. Road rage rises and bar fights break out. But murder? That’s exactly what happened earlier this week in North Miami Beach, however,…
Four Miami Beach buildings were tagged with messages of hate last night, and two of those were associated with the city’s Jewish community. Messages and symbols including “KKK,” the anarchist symbol and bulls’ eyes were scrawled in red paint…
The Florida Keys, haunted dots of green floating in the Atlantic, have long attracted despondent souls plotting violent escapes from reality. In 2011, a prominent and sadistic Wisconsin surgeon named Glen Tucker shot to death his wife, Joan, before turning the gun on himself. His death, as we reported last…
