Kids these days! You’d think what with their Tweetering and Facespaces and such they could knock their heads together to come up with an original way to prank the Man. Or at least a fun way that doesn’t involve costing their school thousands of dollars to clean up — who…
Jackson Health System has enough money problems at the moment. The last thing it needs is its own surgeons stealing medical equipment from the financially strapped public hospital system. Yet Nir Hus, a surgeon and postgraduate fellow at Jackson Memorial Hospital, has been arrested on charges of repeatedly snatching equipment…
Flo Rida, the Sunshine State’s favorite boots-wit-da-fur spokesman, is headed to Dade County lockup after an early morning DUI bust on South Beach a few hours ago, Miami Beach police officials tell Riptide.We’re guessing this might put a crimp in Flo’s plans to host a celebrity golf tournament with DJ…
Narces Benoit claims that Miami Beach Police smashed his cellphone and threatened him at gunpoint after they noticed he had captured video of the shooting on Memorial Day Weekend. However, the police department has released a statement today claiming that they did not smash Benoit’s phone, and that the officers…
A tense standoff between a SWAT team and a man who fatally stabbed his wife came to an end after police successfully apprehended the suspect.Lazaro Bernabeu, 49, is believed to have stabbed his common-law wife, Eileen Lozano, 32, multiple times following a dispute this morning. The man has a long…
Hopefully you haven’t found a new barber named Rocky you like recently. Hopefully you don’t have an appointment with him this week, because “Rocky” isn’t going to be able to keep it. Those same hands that have been clipping your hair are accused of pulling the trigger that ultimately ended…
The Department of Justice has indicted four foreign nationals for stealing more than $1.5 million from bank accounts by using “skimming” technology to help themselves to the bank accounts of customers who used ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York City. Mihail Dragici and Ionel Dedlescu, both Romanian citizens, were…
A second graphic video of Miami Beach and Hialeah police officers firing over 100 bullets into Raymond Herrise’s car has been released, and it’s one the officers really didn’t want you to see. When they noticed 35-year-old Narces Benoit had filmed the incident on his phone they threatened him at…
About 200 residents gathered in front of Miami Beach City Hall Friday night to demand an end to the city’s Urban Beach Weekend, which this year saw 431 arrests and two police shootings that left one man dead and four bystanders shot.Protestors held signs with messages like “It’s not about…
While the shooting involving Raymond Herisse is dominating headlines, police have released details in the second police-involved shooting that happened on Monday morning in Miami Beach during Urban Beach Weekend. Though the suspect in the second shooting appears to be a bit surprising. He’s a 45-year-old fire captain from South…
Questions surrounding police conduct in two Memorial Day shootings are growing by the day, most recently fueled by a report in the Miami Herald that Miami Beach police captured a couple at gunpoint and smashed the man’s cell phone after he was spotted using it to film police killing 22-year-old…
Oscar Varela García is a bad dude.The high-level coordinator of a murderous Colombian cocaine-smuggling organization was convicted in Miami last Friday of murder, obstruction of justice and five counts of conspiracy to do all sorts of illegal things, including launder money and distribute cocaine.Garcia oversaw a “large group of enforcers…
Yet another City of Miami police officer has been arrested on charges related to cocaine, but this case seems far more serious than when officer Joey Ganem was popped buying coke in Coconut Grove in April.Thirty-one-year-old officer Roberto Asanza has been arrested by the FBI after allegedly stealing large amounts…
Raymond Herisse, the 22-year-old who was shot and killed by Miami Beach and Hialeah police officers over the Memorial Day weekend in Miami Beach, has been identified by police in Boynton Beach as a suspect in a shooting back in November. According to the Pulp, police identified Herisse as the suspect…
You’ve got to give Allen Stanford credit for thinking big — instead of sinking his $8 billion Ponzi scheme profits into the usual uber-rich guy stuff, he bought himself the entire Caribbean nation of Antigua, sponsored giant cricket tourneys (despite being from Texas) and gave his mistress a moat-surrounded Coral…
Miami Beach Police say they have found a gun in the blue Hyundai that Raymond Herisse was driving when he was shot and killed by cops early Monday morning during Urban Beach Week.According to police Chief Carlos Noriega, officers discovered a black Beretta 92-F semiautomatic pistol hidden somewhere in Herisse’s…
Twenty-two-year-old Raymond Herisse has been identified as the man shot and killed by police during an early morning Memorial Day weekend incident in the streets of Miami Beach, according to CBS4’s Jim DeFede. Herisse had a long criminal history and had been arrested numerous times before in Palm Beach and…
Miami Beach is largely helpless to stop Memorial Day partiers from coming to town for Urban Beach Weekend, which saw seven injured and one killed in police-related shootings this year, city Mayor Matti Herrera Bower said Tuesday afternoon. According to police, more than 400 were arrested.”There is no organizer, no…
As the story surrounding the two early-morning Memorial Day police shootings evolves, numerous questions have been raised about the circumstances under which one person was killed and seven people injured.Two separate shootings happened early Monday — in one, a man was reportedly driving recklessly and shooting from his car; in…
Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin says a curfew imposed for next year’s South Beach Memorial Day festivities may be in order.Libbin, in response to two police shootings that left seven injured and one dead early Monday, wrote on his Facebook page that the “mayhem on the streets of Miami Beach”…
A woman cried out: “Why God? Why did you have to take Will? He was a good man!” Her friends embraced her and wept along with her. A light sun shower sprinkled them, as if Will Da Real One was sending a message from up on high to them and…
Before at least seven people were injured or killed in multiple early-morning shootouts Monday, many were saying Sunday night that the scene at South Beach’s Urban Beach Weekend didn’t seem as bad as it had in the past.The long weekend was expected to draw 300,000 visitors to South Beach this…
