Lavont Flanders Jr., a 40-year-old former Miami Beach police officer, and 45-year-old Emerson Callum were convicted yesterday by a jury for drugging women, videotaping sex with them, and then selling those videos as pornography. The two could now face life in prison…
Shatevia Rice, an 18-year-old mother who went missing on Sunday has been found alive, but says she was kidnapped by a pimp who forced her into prostitution.Rice and her 6-month-old daughter Tamia were returned home safely this morning. Rice says she was kidnapped by a pimp who goes by the…
Like a whimsical Dr. Frankenstein, Miami artist Enrique Gomez De Molina created stunning sculptures made up of a mix of taxidermied parts from different animals. Problem was he was illegally importing parts from endangered species and was arrested on the charges in late November. This morning De Molina plead guilty…
In 2007, Antoine Walker was a key part of the Miami Heat’s championship roster. Today, he’s perhaps most notable for being the ex-fiance of Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada, last played for a D-League team and has now been sentenced to five years probation for failing to repay hundreds of…
Jeffrey Brown, a 19-year-old former redshirt freshman defensive lineman with the Miami Hurricanes, has accepted a plea deal in a case involving his alleged rape of a female University of Miami student in a dorm room. As part of the deal Brown will face no prison time and will not…
Parents, how much is your kid worth to you? For Kenia Bosque the answer is a cool seven grand, according to Monroe County Sheriffs agents.The now-front runner for the Hialeah mother of the year award had arranged to meet a man from Monroe County to trade her 8-month-old son for…
Samuel Beckett once said: “Fail again. Fail better.”Waiting for Godot must be a best seller among county cops. Just a week after the Broward Sheriffs announced that they were scrapping a much-touted $500,000 gunshot detection system because… um, it didn’t really work, Miami-Dade police say they are currently installing a…
How do you smooth over a cop-on-trooper feud that’s escalated from high speed chases to retaliatory arrests to dumping five tons of human feces onto an official police vehicle?If you’re the Miami Police Department and the Florida Highway Patrol, you settle the simmering beef the old fashioned way: a good…
Not a good legal week for Miami Dolphins wide receivers of both past and present. Former Dolphins player David Boston, who played with the team in 2004 and ’05, was arrested last night for allegedly punching a woman so hard twice in the head he left a gash that required ten stitches to…
Oneal Ron Morris, the transgendered woman accused of performing back alley surgeries and injecting substances like Fix-a-Flat tire sealant and cement into a woman’s butt, gave her first, and she says last, interview to Entertainment Tonight last night, and wants you to know “I really am innocent or whatever.”…
North Miami Beach has fired two police department employees after they allegedly were caught in the office trying to cast a Santeria curse on the city manager shortly before mass layoffs were planned. Veteran officer Elizabeth Torres and office manager Yvonne Rodriguez were canned last week over the ceremony, says…
After being convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing a classmate during school at Coral Gables High School, Andy Rodriguez, 19, has avoided life in prison, but was sentenced to 40 years in jail this morning. Following his release, at the age of 59 if he serves his full term, he…
Oneal Ron Morris, the amateur plastic surgeon who’s alleged to have performed bizarre procedures on numerous patients, including injecting a mixture including fix-a-flat tire repair material in the behind of one victim, bonded out of jail yesterday on the same day that one of her alleged victims went public. Rajee…
Stripteases, sexual favors, booze, porn mags, and fat stacks of cash would be run-of-the-mill in many Miami strip clubs. But at downtown’s maximum security Federal Detention Center?Multiple attorneys interviewed by Riptide say the FDC visitor rooms have been taken over by South American pole dancers posing as paralegals for wealthy…
Enrique Gomez de Molina’s sculptures are to die for. Literally.The Miami-based artist was charged today with illegally smuggling exotic animal parts — including birds of paradise and the world’s cutest animal, a slow loris — into Florida from Indonesia. Then he stitched, glued, and stuffed the parts together into Frankenstein’s…
Just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Dade Police have taken Jorge Gonzalez, an alleged art thief, out of the galleries and into the slammer. Police believe more of Gonzalez’s victims may be out there, however, and that the total amount of his fraud and theft could have…
Miami Gardens police were following a stolen car last night when one of the suspects pulled out a gun and began firing at a police cruiser. Police are now searching for the gunman, but have not released a description…
Yesterday, while most of us were busy making our asses fat the traditional way — with lots and lots of delicious stuffing and turkey — police were still busy dealing with the saga of Oneal Ron Morris, the fake doctor accused of injecting patients’ butts with a mix of cement…
A Carnival Cruises employee finds himself in hot water after being accused of engaging in sexual acts with a 14-year-old girl earlier this month. Kert Clyde Jordan, a 35-year-old ship employee, now faces federal charges after he allegedly lured the young passenger into a bathroom and engaged in statutory rape…
A couple of years ago, I went to the Hollywood home of former mega-smuggler Jon Roberts– featured in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys– hoping to do a profile on the quiet life of a retired criminal lifer in the ‘burbs. It didn’t turn out that way. After a couple of interviews,…
Elias Garcia Garcia and Maria Angela Plancarte, both 53-year-old residents of La Feria, Texas, have plead guilty to selling jaguar skins throughout South Florida. Jaguars are of course protected by the Endangered Species Act, and the sale of their pelts is explicitly outlawed…
Since the arrest of Oneal Ron Morris on Friday made headlines across the country, several other victims of the fake doctor have now come forward. Morris, who identifies as a transgendered woman, was accused of injecting a patient looking for butt implants with a mixture of super glue, cement and…
