Crime & Police

It’s been a hell of a legal week for former NFL player Chad Johnson. Earlier this week, his divorce from reality TV star Evelyn Lozada became official, and this morning he struck a plea deal on charges that he head-butted her. Johnson has been sentenced to a year of probation…

During Myron Rosner’s tumultuous reign as mayor of North Miami Beach, he weathered accusations that he retaliated against a local blogger, broke ethics rules, bent city regulations to work on his house, and violated campaign finance laws. Now that he’s out of office, Rosner’s luck is up. Prosecutors charged him today…

Leisure City K-8 Center, an elementary and middle school in Homestead, is on lockdown after a police chase ended nearby and a group of suspects ran into the school to escape police. Details on the situation are foggy at the moment, but police have set up a perimeter around the…

Jorge L. Godoy is behind bars today after appearing quite creepily behind a lot of windows. Police say Godoy made a habit of leering at woman through their windows, often while they were in a state of undress, while pleasuring himself. A handful of victims, including young girls, have been…

Fausto Lopez, the Miami police officer who was arrested by a Florida Highway Patrol office after speeding 120 mph on the Florida Turnpike, was fired by the City of Miami Police Department yesterday, according to CBS Miami. The termination comes after an internal probe found that Lopez had a long…

Yesterday, a Miami-Dade judge declared a mistrial in a murder case after a public defender mocked her client’s choice of underwear on her private Facebook page. The family of defendant Fermin Recalde, who stands accused of a 2010 Hialeah murder, dropped off a bag of clothes to wear during trial. Public defender…

This morning former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson pleaded not guilty to charges that he head butted his estranged wife Evelyn Lozada after the two got into an argument when she found a receipt for condoms in his car. The Broward State Attorney’s Office had officially filed the misdemeanor…

David Weber might now be one of the world’s most unlucky petty criminals. He broke into a car parked in a Miami Beach parking lot on Monday night and swiped a credit card. He then walked into the Clevelander to buy a beer, which he tried to pay for with…

The brutal 2010 murder of Matteo Patrick Giovanditto was the first killing in the idyllic, planned community of Celebration.

Soon after Rudy Eugene gnawed off Ronald Poppo’s face near the MacArthur Causeway in May, the media ran wild speculating he was high on “bath salts.” Later, commentators suspected LSD, coke, Ecstasy, or PCP. Eugene’s girlfriend even insisted a voodoo curse was to blame.Yet when Eugene’s autopsy came back last…

Charles William Collins was a career drug dealer and petty thief. Miami-Dade police knew as much when two undercover cops followed him into a bright-yellow pawnshop on NW Seventh Avenue in Liberty City on August 14. They pulled out their badges and asked him for ID. Collins said he left…

It’s been a bad week for Johnny Law in the 305. The day after the FBI accused a Miami-Dade cop of getting his rocks off by pulling over women and asking about their underwear and breasts, a Miami Beach officer is under arrest this morning on eight felony counts, including…

Miami-Dade Police Officer Prabhainjana Dwivedi worked the midnight shift around Key Biscayne, Metrorail stations, and Jackson Memorial Hospital. If what the FBI says is true, woe unto any woman who ran into Dwivedi in the middle of the night. Because the cop had a bad habit of pulling over women…

Read “Hialeah Residents Claim Local Recycling Plant Is Causing Increased Rates Of Cancer”Today, the Miami-Dade County Commission will vote on a resolution on whether to investigate a potential cancer cluster in Hialeah along NW 36th Avenue. Residents have pointed fingers at nearby King Metal Recycling Plant as the reason for…

It was 9:45 a.m. on October 11, 2009, when Juan Carlos Portieles parked his beat-up Toyota Camry on a quiet side street in Cutler Bay. Tall and heavyset, with close-cropped brown hair and traces of stubble on his jaw, the 30-year-old DJ walked several blocks to a cluster of condominiums…

Between 1977 and 1978, John Errol Ferguson led a shocking killing spree through Miami-Dade County. A home invasion gone wrong and a rape-murder of a teenage couple left eight people dead.More than three decades later, Ferguson will die for his crimes. Gov. Rick Scott signed his death warrant this afternoon,…

Also read DJ Seasunz: A Murder Killed a Nightlife Scene.After Juan Carlos Portieles, AKA DJ Seasunz, murdered his teenaged girlfriend, Jaclyn Torrealba, in October 2009, investigators began to comb through the wealth of correspondence the two had amassed in their two-year relationship. Police and prosecutors unearthed dozens of pages of…

Look! In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a flying drone with a camera strapped to it! Odds are you’ve seen the first two in Miami airspace. But so far, the only people to have spied the third in action are the folks in Miami-Dade Police Department…

Tonya Burns, 36, appeared in court yesterday for allegedly using a tire iron to strike her 15-year-old daughter in front of Carol City High School. The incident occurred Tuesday morning, after the teen told Burns that she didn’t want to go to school that day. Burns dropped her off but noticed she…

As Republicans parade through Tampa this week touting their party’s platform, one formerly signature Florida issue — Jeb Bush’s Stand Your Ground law — has been nowhere to be found. That probably has something to do with the ongoing trial just down the road in Orlando of George Zimmerman, who…

Luis Alfonso Lucero, a nurse technician at Kendall Regional Medical Center, was arrested yesterday on charges that he raped an unconscious female patient. Lucero claims that the intercourse was consensual, even though the patient was under his care and was checked into the hospital for serious alcohol intoxication…