U.S. Marshals are holding an auction out in Opa-locka today of cars seized from various convicted drug dealers through out South Florida. About 50 vehicles are up for grabs, including antiques, muscles cars, and Italian sports cars. Riptide has browsed through the inventory and picked our 10 favorites. Update: Sorry,…
No one denies that John Errol Ferguson is insane. Ferguson’s been having psychotic visions for more than four decades, and for years has firmly believed that he’s the “Prince of God” who will ascend directly to the right hand of God when he dies. The last judge to consider his…
Attention Miami residents: Next time you’re out and about, having a perhaps animated discussion near some cops, be careful. You might find yourself on the receiving end of a surprise flying tackle.That’s what Elsa and Gustavo Martinez say happened to them two years ago outside a Kendall lounge. The siblings…
Last night, Labranche got into an argument at a car wash that ended with a hail of gunshots, killing the musician on the spot.See also: – Bizzle, Murdered Miami Rapper, Was A Strip Club Star and a Family Man -Hip-Hop Fame at South Florida Strip Clubs-Top Ten Stripper Songs of the Moment…
Sean Dugas used to work the crime beat at the Pensacola News Journal, and sadly his death might be just as bizarre as the crimes he covered. Dugas had been missing since late August. His body was uncovered this weekend, buried in a Georgia back yard in a plastic container encased…
Jeremy Kaiser attacked an off-duty police officer who was working security at the Whole Foods in Aventura. Both Kaiser and the officer are recovering from their wounds, with Kaiser appearing in his mugshot with lacerations on his face and a turban of gauze around his head. Kaiser is being held…
Barack Obama may have left shortly after his address at the University of Miami yesterday, but not all of his Secret Service agents jetted off with him.Miami Police found one of those agents, Aaron Francis Engler, passed out drunk this morning along Brickell Avenue and 7th Street…
Just a short 18 months ago, chef Jonathan Eismann was one of the biggest names in Miami’s restaurant scene with acclaimed eateries Pacific Time, Fin, Q, and Pizza Volante under his management. By last April, his enterprises began toppling: The restaurants folded, lawsuits piled up, and his Venetian Islands home…
It just got real for Peter Rosello, son of former Real Housewives of Miami star Alexia Echevarria. He has surrendered to police after he posted a video of himself online in which he assaults a sleeping homeless man by punching him in the groin and then running off…
Bad idea: Cheating on your wife while working overseas for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Worse idea: Telling your new girlfriend you are a divorced, high-ranking diplomat, when in fact you are a married, low-ranking customs grunt. Incredibly awful idea: Forging diplomatic letters to wow your girlfriend and steal thousands…
When Warren Griffith died in March 2001, there was one thing his wife, Janet Griffith, and his daughter, Cynthia Quintana, could be sure of. His body, which had been laid to rest at the Palms Woodlawn Funeral Home and Cemetery, would be buried in a plot that Janet had purchased,…
A Miami man who reportedly set himself on fire started chanting “just let me die” when a family member tried to help. The man had attempted to burn himself and his Toyota Camry in front of his father-in-law’s home…
The random beatdown is a staple of prison life, right up there with the occasional cafeteria riot and your first bad batch of wine made in a toilet. So the fact that Calvin Kingcade got stomped by a group of fellow inmates shouldn’t surprise anyone. Kingcade’s problem, however, was that…
“No matter what a stripper tells you,” Chris Rock once sang, “There’s no sex in the Champagne Room.” Rock had obviously never been to a strip club here in Miami. As this week’s feature on notorious Hialeah strip club Porky’s shows, there is most definitely sex in champagne rooms all…
In January, I wrote about an amazing high-tech submarine race to the bottom of the ocean. In the story, I mentioned how a Hialeah strip club called Porky’s had once been the staging ground for an incredible plot to smuggle Colombian cocaine to California in a Russian sub.Then, at the…
Seven women who work at the Miami International Airport outpost of a local institution have been arrested this morning. The women all worked at Café Versailles in Terminal D at the airport, and all are accused of pocketing cash from the register…
On September 20, former North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner did the perp walk. His crime: allegedly accepting thousands in free campaign ads on bus benches from a company whose owner told prosecutors he had pressured them with promises to renew their contract.Rosner is in big trouble, with three felonies…
While the case of the fake “cement butt” doctor has hopefully reminded South Floridians not to seek back-alley injections, sometimes procedures carried out at seemingly legitimate businesses can be dangerous. Isabel Gonzalez is now sitting in a hospital, recovering from infections she says she received from a Doral beauty salon. …
In May 2011, I wrote a short piece for Riptide about an 80-year-old Keys man who’d shot and killed his wife and his pet cat before ending his own life. I called it the “saddest story of the morning.” Like most of Glen Tucker’s neighbors and the local police, I assumed…
A six-month-old baby girl died yesterday after her father forgot she was in his car, and left her there all day. The unidentified father says he dropped an older sibling off at the Doral Academy Elementary school and then went about his day. He didn’t remember that the baby was…
In 2010, a Miami New Times investigation revealed that more than half the cops in Miami Beach made six figures a year, and some racked up more than $200,000. What’s more, some of the highest-paid officers had some of the worst records.See also:- Miami Beach cops are paid up to…
Millions of dollars in bribes, hired goons, torture, and secret pacts made in Miami: it sounds like the hacky elements of an spy paperback sold in airports. But according to a whistle-blower, it was all part of a very real plot involving Siemens AG and the Argentinean government. In a…
