Riptide isn’t in the habit of giving away robbery tips, but it’s pretty obvious that once you pull off your heist and get your cash you need to run like hell. Well, a quick-thinking gas station store clerk foiled a robbery attempt by suggesting that they also load up on…
Two Miami-Dade brothers are behind bars on $2 million bail after a botched drug deal left two young men dead in Naples. According to the Naples Daily News, Jacob and Nickolas Mislow allegedly shot Keegan Leon, 21, and Eric Riley Jr., 23, to death Saturday around 9:30 p.m. before taking…
On Saturday night, hours before authorities say 20-year-old Kayla Mendoza pulled her Hyundai Sonata onto the Sawgrass Expressway going the wrong way and crashed into a 2012 Toyota Camry, killing the two passengers inside, she tweeted “2 drunk 2 care,” her Twitter feed shows. Mendoza, of Hallandale Beach, who calls…
In Miami, it seems the difference between clubbing with friends and filming porn is a fake ID and a sleazy dude.
Miami Beach cop Reinaldo Casas really wants his job back. He wants it back so badly he’s willing to admit he was once an aficionado of the most embarrassing product ever. Sexual aid cream. On February 27, the Miami Beach Police Department fired Casas — who’s been reprimanded for making…
How much Red Bull would one need to drink to successfully pull of a heist off half-a-million dollars worth of Red Bull energy? That’s what Medley police are asking after they discovered that about 100 pallets of the wing-giving energy drink were stolen from a warehouse over the Veterans Day…
George Zimmerman certainly hasn’t managed to keep himself on the right side of the law ever since he was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and now he’d heading back to jail. Zimmerman was arrested this afternoon by Seminole County deputies after they received reports of a disturbance…
A few months ago, New Times chronicled the world of Miami’s “sugar babies,” women who date rich older men with the expectation of receiving money and gifts in exchange. And while that’s certainly ethically questionable, at least those women are adults. A Miami man was arrested after he traveled to…
Jason Beckman is currently on trial for the shocking 2009 murder of his father Jay Beckman, a South Miami commissioner. Testimony from one of a Beckman’s fellow inmates provides a bizarre motive for the slaying. The younger Beckman apparently snapped after his father made a joke about actress Megan Fox…
This week, New Times pulls back the spattered porn curtain on one of the most bizarre and brutal stories in South Florida history. It’s the tale of Miami’s biggest male porn performer, his rise to smut-screen stardom, and his descent into murder. But John Snavely — better known as “Champ”…
After years of trial delays and four days of juror deliberation, a verdict has finally been delivered in the Sean Taylor murder case. The jury found Eric Rivera Jr. guilty of the second-degree murder of the late Miami Hurricanes and Washington Redskins star. See also: Redskins Safety Sean Taylor Shot…
Rafael Herman, a man who never fails to run for mayor of Miami Beach while stirring up more controversy than any chance of being elected, is at it again. Yesterday, the perennial candidate was arrested in an incident that started with him yelling at African-American passengers on a Miami Beach…
Just an hour after losing to the New England Patriots, Dolphins center Mike Pouncy was served with a subpoena in the Aaron Hernandez case. The two were teammates at the University of Florida and remained good friends. Pouncy had earlier courted controversy by wearing a hat with the words “Free…
Hialeah Police made a ghastly discovery early this morning: a burned-out car in an industrial area parking lot with human remains inside. Even more disturbing: The fire caused such extensive damage that police couldn’t immediately tell how many bodies were inside the car…
Kevin McKenzie, a 13-year veteran of the Pinecrest Police Department, finds himself behind bars today after being charged with carrying on a sexual relationship with an underaged girl. The charges came to light when the 16-year-old girl told her mother about the affair. She said that she had McKenzie four…
Sweetwater Mayor José M. Díaz sure knows how to pick ’em. On Thursday, hours after he announced Jesús “Jesse” Menocal would be his city’s police chief, CNN Latino Miami reported Díaz’s nominee was implicated in an old Miami Police internal affairs investigation involving a drug trafficker and a plot to…
Oneal Morris, the backstreet unlicensed “doctor” who injected substances like Fix-a-Flat and cement into her patients’ back sides, has plead guilty. In January she’ll surrender and serve 366 days for one count of practicing medicine without a license. Of course, Morris still faces far more serious charges, including one for…
Mark Gold is one of the kings of Miami’s lucrative traffic ticket racket. His Ticket Clinic is ubiquitous and the University of Miami law alum has reaped the benefits with a $1.5 million mansion on Rivo Alto Island. But Gold doesn’t exactly seem like a happy camper. Two years ago…
The last thing anyone wants to do while doing their grocery shopping if suddenly find themselves in the middle of a police shooting, yet that’s exactly what happened last night to shoppers at a Publix in Hialeah. A police officer working security detail at the Publix Sabor at 1290 West…
Here at Riptide, we chew on the fodder of public corruption, despotism, and power-hungry cops gone bad. But today, we’re thrilled to report, this story won’t be another entry into the annals of Miami mayhem. Late last month, 29-year-old Jessica Robles looked at her three children and came to a…
You know how Donald Trump keeps threatning to run for president? Well, Paraguay’s version of Donald Trump, Horacio Cartes, actually did and won. So of course he has a partying son who lives in Miami who gets arrested after a drunken fight after a party at his ritzy condo. Of…
After several delays, Eric Rivera, one of Sean Taylor’s alleged killed finally faces trial starting today. In the opening statements, prosecutors painted Rivera as an incompetent criminal whose plans with four friends to “score some easy cash” by burgling Taylor’s home went awry when they found the former Miami Hurricane…
