Miami-Dade Police announced today that they arrested 58 people during the first weekend of Ultra Music Festival in downtown Miami this weekend. Yep, just 58 out of the estimated 150,000 plus who attended. The exact breakdown of the arrests wasn’t immediately available, but police say drug arrests were minimal…
When police at the University of Central Florida responded to a fire alarm in a dorm early this morning, they found a nightmare scenario: one man dead of a gunshot wound inside a dorm room full of improvised explosives and heavy weaponry.UCF has now canceled classes and evacuated hundreds of…
John Eugene Enabnit may be homeless, but apparently he found a way to match Ivanka Trump’s jet-setter lifestyle.Enabnit was arrested Sunday at the Trump Doral Golf Resort & Spa after trying to contact the Donald’s daughter. He had just been arrested in February for harassing Trump at a perfume launch…
What started as a simple check into a man suspiciously peering into cars on a residential block in southwest Dade turned into a violent showdown when the suspect jumped into a police cruiser and tried to run down the cops.Before he could strike any police, though, an officer shot and…
Ernesto Velazquez did not want to sit outside last night. In fact, the 29-year-old who uses a wheelchair was so insulted when a waitress at Finnegan’s 2 tried to give him a table on Lincoln Road Mall that he pulled out a pistol and fired into the air.Panicked managers called…
Miami police are searching for a butt bandit who made Calle Ocho a real pain in the ass this weekend.Yes, America’s biggest Latin block party was disturbed Sunday after a brawl broke out and a man ended up taking a bullet in the butt cheek…
Nancy Brewer decided to take a page out of the Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes school of couples counseling, by dealing with her relationship problems with a City of Miami police officer by setting his Lauderhill home on fire…
After pleading guilty to possession of child porn, a judge allowed Nelson Carrizo to spend one last holiday season at home before heading to the big house. It’s a pretty common practice for nonviolent criminals who strike plea deals, but Carrizo spent his final months of freedom trolling around on…
In February 2011 near Homestead, a Department of Transportation worker discovered an alligator with a man’s body in its mouth, thrashing him back and forth. It didn’t turn out to be a case of a man going for a swim in the wrong pond. After investigating, authorities determined the man had…
Charles Hurley keeps dropping. The former chief of the Miami-Dade Schools Police was suspended from the position back in May after reports he had sexually harassed female officers. He was officially demoted in January, and now its come to light that a few days later, he turned in his resignation…
It’s not too difficult to imitate the artwork of Damien Hirst. Paint some circles on a canvas, throw some crystal on a skull, or encase a big-ass animal in a tank of formaldehyde and call it a day. But you didn’t think of it first, did you? Which is at…
A mailbox in Miami got an unwelcome delivery this morning. After receiving reports of an explosion, authorities discovered that an “acid bomb” had gone off in a mailbox.At least it wasn’t a bill! Amirite, fellow nonrich people? Bills. Those things just suck, huh?…
Hafiz Khan, the 77-year-old former cleric at Miami’s Flagler Mosque, could be spending the rest of his life in jail. Khan was convicted on four terrorism related charges this morning after a jury agreed that he had been secretly sending funds to help arm the Taliban. Each charges carries a…
Terrence Dwayne Mingo Jr. is behind bars today after allegedly robbing and raping two teenage girls at gunpoint in the streets of Overtown early Sunday morning. The 25-year-old faces two counts of armed sexual battery and two counts of armed robbery…
Less than 24 hours after sounding national alarm bells that a 22-year-old Miami native with ties to the sex trade might be in danger over her connection to the fiery murder of a rapper on the Las Vegas Strip, police have called off the hunt this morning.Tineesha Lashun Howard is…
Last Thursday, a triple homicide worthy of Michael Bay lit up the Las Vegas Strip when a gunman in a black Range Rover peppered bullets into a rapper driving a Maserati, sending the luxury car careening into a taxi, which exploded right in front of Bally’s Hotel. The rapper died,…
Gunplay won’t be headed to prison for life after all. The up-an-coming Miami rapper had been facing charges of armed robbery and assault after video surfaced of him allegedly robbing his own accountant at gunpoint. Despite the video evidence, the case fell apart because the victim refused to cooperate with…
Just months after her untimely death in a plane crash, Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera cleaned up with five trophies at the Premio Lo Nuestro awards last night in Miami. Her son, in town for the award show, wound up behind bars…
Is the long arm of Johnny Law about to pull the classic yawn-and-then-drape-around-the-shoulders-move on South Florida’s shadiest ex-congressman? Maybe. This much is clear: Justin Lamar Sternad, the mysterious candidate who ran against former Rep. David Rivera’s opponent in last year’s Democratic primary, is set to be charged in federal court…
He may be Will Smith’s brother-in-law, but Dee Lawrence Downs did not get a very warm welcome to Miami.Downs, who is married to Smith’s younger sister Ellen, was arrested last month after he fell into a cocaine trafficking sting operation…
Police have located the body of a second suspect involved in last night’s Kendall shootout. The body of 50-year-old Dell Peter DiGiovanni was found hanging from a tree this afternoon…
A crazy scene is playing out in Kendall tonight, with police urging residents to stay indoors as officers battle a suspect with a high-powered rifle near Miller Drive and SW 154th Avenue.Though details are scarce, NBC 6 reports that the confrontation began when police raided a suspected grow house. The…
