Crime & Police

A confrontation early this morning in Hialeah between a tenant with a baseball bat and a landlord with a gun ended with the tenant shot through the chest and left dead…

Nearly two years to the date of his death, the family of Raymond Herisse has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against both the Miami Beach and Hialeah police departments. Back in 2011, during Miami Beach’s Urban Beach Weekend, Herisse was shot at more than 100 times and struck with 16…

After a warrant was issued for his arrest last week, a judge has ordered that troubled former NFL player Chad Johnson head back to jail for violating the terms of his probation. After domestic violence charges ended his marriage to reality TV star Evelyn Lozada, Johnson was sentenced to a…

Last time we checked in with Chad Johnson, he was hanging out with a homeless guy in South Beach. Next time we check in he could be hanging out with prisoners behind bars. The Broward Sheriff’s Office has issued a warrant for Johnson’s arrest stemming from a possible violation of…

Health nuts at Miami Beach’s fancy David Barton Gym were just trying to relax and wash off after a tough workout when a group of armed bounty hunters stormed the locker rooms and searched the showers for two men. Apparently that’s totally legal, too…

Dr. Orlando Llorente, the plastic surgeon accused of holding his girlfriend captive and waterboarding her in a Brickell apartment over a Facebook posting, just keeps getting stranger. For one thing, the victim wasn’t really a girlfriend but an ex-mistress. Yes, Llorente is married, and his wife is standing by his…

A 12-year-old boy in Miami Beach might have been the happiest person ever to spot Jehovah’s Witnesses. They found him tied to a pole after his dad decided to try out some unorthodox parenting techniques and left him there while he went shopping…

It didn’t take a Bolivian cocaine kingpin’s army to bring this Scarface down. Just six canisters of tear gas. After a six-hour standoff, police arrested a man dressed as Tony Montana after he was wielding a machete and threatening to kill his neighbors. Oddly, this did not happen in Miami,…

Orlando Llorente, a Kendall-based plastic surgeon, faces charges of kidnapping and attempted murder for allegedly torturing his girlfriend for nearly 16 hours after he read a message she’d posted on Facebook…

Across the nation, Americans have been gripped by the amazing escape of three young women kidnapped and imprisoned inside a house in Cleveland for a decade. Here in Miami, the horrific tale happens to bear an eery resemblance to this week’s cover story, in which two sisters suffer unspeakable horrors…

The authorities are onto your old cocaine-stuffed-into-coconuts routine. Your drug subs have been getting busted by the Coast Guard at an alarming rate. Even disguising pounds of cocaine as a replica World Cup trophy didn’t work out so well last time you tried. So if you’re a Colombian cartel boss,…

An innocent childhood game turned nearly fatal on Saturday after a 13-year-old boy shot his six-year-old sister during a game of hide-and-go-seek. The incident happened Saturday night around 7 p.m. at the family’s home in Oakland Park…

Residents of the Opera Tower, a 55-story bayfront condo, awoke Sunday morning to a scene straight out of Scarface: Blood pooled in an elevator and splattered around a lobby, three men seriously wounded, and police swarming a crime scene that stretched 30 floors. This morning, police are still searching for…

There are a lot of reasons Kiera Wilmot’s story has exploded online this week. First, there’s the sheer weirdness of a 16-year-old getting in huge trouble for a science experiment gone wrong. Then there’s the racial aspect: A black girl — exactly the type of kid underrepresented in the scientific…

Apparently regular old dog fighting isn’t inhumane and horrible enough for some people. Miami-Dade County Animal Services say they have rescued a group of dogs from the Goulds area used in a form of dog fighting called “trunking.”…

Hialeah Police Sgt. Tomas Muñoz wants you to know he’s not some sort of coke fiend. He’s merely an innocent public servant who happens to be dating a prostitute with an evil pimp. Muñoz was arrested over the weekend on charges of possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia after drugs and…

In August 2010, three Miami police officers fired at least 130 rounds into 21-year-old Gibson Belizaire, who died from his wounds behind a Little Haiti shop. Belizaire was the sixth young black man killed that year by MPD under then-Chief Miguel Exposito. Belizaire’s mother then sued the city, the officers involved, and…

For Miami power couple Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, wealth has begotten cultural influence. The Cuban immigrants have built a business empire and used the profits to assemble one of the best private art collections in the country.Last week, however, the De la Cruzes’ wealth became a liability when…

A week after Rick Scott signed into law legislation outlawing video gambling machines, Miami Police raided gas stations, cafes, and bars around the city, arresting six men and confiscating ten maquinitas. Unsurprisingly, the operation occurred just as politicians attended the public crushing of 48 such machines.The publicity stunt wasn’t without…

Twenty immigrants who were trying to pretend they had dry feet were caught red-handed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounded up the suspects yesterday for posing as Cuban immigrants in order to take advantage of the U.S. amnesty policy. The arrests are part of a growing trend in which immigrants…

A thermos-size “suspicious device” caused panic on Key Biscayne this morning. The device was discovered unattended near the shoreline on the sands behind the Sonesta Hotel on 350 Ocean Dr. earlier today…

After finding a woman with burns covering 60 percent of her body, Miami-Dade police are investigating the incident as a possible attack on a homeless person.The Miami-Dade Police Department received a call last night about a small brush fire. When officers arrived, they discovered the woman in the Busway near…