While police still don’t know what exactly provoked Pedro Alberto Vargas to set his apartment on fire and fatally shoot six neighbors, new documents released today reveal that Vargas had previously been fired in 2008 for downloading a number of troubling files on his workplace computer. According to Reuters, the…
A man leaving the Swinging Richards strip club in North Miami Beach claims he was beaten savagely by Miami-Dade Police officers and still doesn’t know why. The attack was captured on cell phone video, and the friend who took the footage was also arrested…
Purdy Lounge has one South Beach’s most straightforward door policies. If there’s room, you can come in. If the club is at capacity, you have to wait in line. Yet there are still d-bags out there who think they can pull some line-cutting nonsense. That didn’t work out too well…
Three days after Pedro Antonio Vargas was shot to death by police after killing six neighbors in his Hialeah apartment building, police are still trying to understand why he carried out one of Miami’s worst massacres. The 42-year-old lived with his elderly mother and never showed a violent streak in…
One of South Florida’s worst mass killings played out over eight hours in a Hialeah apartment building last night, as a gunman killed residents and took hostages inside until a police SWAT team stormed in and killed him. Specifics on the shootout are still thin this morning, but it apparently…
Miami-Dade Police are searching for a private yellow school bus that went missing yesterday, but until they recover it, they’re warning parents not to let their children on the bus…
You won’t believe how much insurance against voodoo curses costs nowadays. Apparently your bill can get as high as $800,000 over the course of a decade. (And we thought flood insurance was pricey.) However, it appears the government does not view voodoo protection as a legitimate business, and Peaches T…
Miami-Dade Police started investigating a break-in and robbery last night at a home in Kendall, but it turns out the home the burglars were targeting was actually a grow house. Police found 21 marijuana plants valued at around $50,000 inside…
Two Swedish tourists got more than they bargained for when their antsy cab driver honked at a car in front of him. The drivers of the other car got out, pretended to be cops, patted the tourists and the driver down, and made off with their luggage…
Police in Collier County say that the Hollywood woman tried to run over her ex-boyfriend near a casino but instead hit a tree.
After 20 years of escaping justice, a Miami doctor who allegedly sexually abused his vulnerable HIV-positive patients has finally been convicted. Homer L. Kirkpatrick, Jr., whose brand of bad medicine earned him the moniker “Doctor Scumbag” in South Beach during the mid 1990s, pleaded guilty earlier this month to forcible…
After Trayvon Martin’s supporters mourned Saturday’s not-guilty verdict, hundreds of thousands have turned to the Department of Justice to urge the feds to make a second attempt to convict George Zimmerman of civil rights violations. The DOJ has confirmed that its inquiry into the case remains open, but mass public…
Corey Eubanks, the man who was alleged to have assisted Oneal Ron Morris, the unlicensed transgendered woman accused of injecting all sorts of unholy substances into the rear ends of patients seeking a bigger booty, has taken a plea deal. He’ll get off with just a year of probation…
Police routinely use Tasers as a (usually) non-lethal alternative to guns, but they can occasionally lead to potential lethal problems like heart attacks and cardiac arrest. People with pre-existing health problems may be more at risk. Well, sitting before the City of Miami Commission today, Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa…
Disgraced former Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito is none too pleased that the Department of Justice found that his former department engaged in routine excessive force and violated the constitution under his watch. The man who was once caught on tape calling his own officers “predators,” now calls the DOJ…
A 19-year-old man from Sunrise has been arrested for catfishing local men, luring them to his apartment and relieving them of valuables. Police charged Glenford Williams with three felony counts of armed robbery on Tuesday. Using the name “Diana,” Williams allegedly used the social site Moco Space to entice his…
“I inhale propane gas to get high, but I am not the least bit nutty,” Reid Welch once told New Times. Today a jury found differently. Welch has a had a number bizarre run-ins with the high-profile City of Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff. The court found him guilty of 21…
The South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SFSPCA) and Miami-Dade County Animal Services rescued two horses and a dog last week in animal cruelty cases that rescuers refer to as “as bad as it gets.” The horses, found on the 15800 block of NW 57th Avenue,…
Yesterday, the Department of Justice delivered a 14-page public smackdown to the City of Miami Police Department that shows a pattern of excessive, deadly force, lack of supervision, and suspiciously drawn-out investigations. The feds’ findings mean not only a headache for the city’s top cops but also possible settlements in…
Following a spree in which City of Miami Police shot and killed seven black men, many of them unarmed, in a span of eight months between 2010 and 2011, the Department of Justice has found that the department’s pattern of using excessive force was in violation of the Fourth Amendment…
A man was left stripped of his clothes with a bullet in his stomach early this morning in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood after being approached by two unknown men. His girlfriend, who was with him at the time, was able to escape and get help…
Former University of Florida star and current accused murderer Aaron Hernandez is suddenly getting a lot of sympathy. First, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson was quoted as saying the deposed Patriot was a “model inmate” who didn’t show signs of nervousness. And now, the American Civil Liberties Union is using…
