On July 5 last year, Miami Police Officer Joseph Marin fired a single shot into the head of a 36-year-old, unarmed man named DeCarlos Moore during a traffic stop in Overtown. Moore’s death touched off a firestorm that has escalated in past ten months as MPD officers have killed six…
Saddest story of the morning: An elderly Keys man has shot and killed his wife and his cat before committing suicide.Just after noon yesterday, Monroe County sheriffs got a call from Little Torch Key that gunshots had been fired inside an upscale, two-story house. Another neighbor called in to say…
Jeffrey Brown, a 19-year-old red shirt freshman on the University of Miami Hurricanes football team, has been charged with raping a woman on the school’s Coral Gables campus. Brown has been suspended from the team indefinitely…
Some whiny Celtics fans are complaining that their team got robbed in the first two games of their playoff series against the Heat. Whatever. They’re Boston sports fans. They’re apt to whine. Though, the team did literally get robbed in Miami last month. According to reports, someone had boarded their…
Think you have the world’s worst boss? At least he isn’t accused of shooting you to death. Adolfo Perez, a 61 year-old Hialeah businessman, turned himself into today after he allegedly shot and killed 48-year-old Jesus Torres, a former employee, after the two fought about money…
North Miami Police are on the hunt for Maria Tellez. The 29-year-old woman is suspected of running over another woman with her BMW SUV after a bar fight. The 25-year-old victim was found dead, lying face down on the pavement, when police arrived…
Earlier this week we reported the strange case of Richard Gamble, manager of the Captain’s Seafood & Restaurant in Florida City. Gamble was arrested earlier this month for allegedly threatening to kill his employees. But when his fingerprints were taken, cops discovered that Gamble was actually Ronald Gerald Miranda: a…
Miami Police are investigating the sudden death of a 4-year-old girl this week and believe the child’s mother’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Calvin Morris Lewis, might have beaten him to death. Lewis has been arrested and charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse…
A City of Miami Police officer has shot and wounded a suspect in Little Havana. Ricardo Orta Jr., a 19-year-old, is in stable condition this morning at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The shooting happened outside a dollar store in the strip mall near NW 14th Avenue and West Flagler Street around…
The roads of Miami-Dade are an asphalt hell full of asshole drivers. It’s simply a fact, and sometimes someone might cut us off. Sometimes such an incident might even devolve into a roadside confrontation, but it really& is not a good idea to bring guns into the equation.A man has…
Ana V. Ramirez’s 25-year-old son, Christian Pagan, has Down syndrome. In April 2010, Pagan flew into a violent rage, and Ramirez had little choice but to call 911. She specifically asked officers not to use a Taser because Pagan has a heart condition. Well, they zapped him anyway, and now…
An argument between two students yesterday afternoon at Miami Norland Senior Senior High School turned violent when one student pulled out a gun and shot the other in his rear end. The 17-year-old victim is recovering, and his injuries are not life-threatening. However, the student who shot him has so…
Sports dads are the worst. They’re boorish creatures who stalk the sidelines of youth athletic fields, yelling at their kid’s coach, cursing the referee, and heckling the other team. They know no shame, and sometimes they get violent.Robert Rodriguez is charged with punching Miami Springs High School baseball coach Jason…
Lawyers for RK Netmedia, owner of RealityKings.com, claim that a hardcore film featuring actress Bieyanka Moore was pulled off the porn site immediately upon being tipped that she may have been a 15-year-old runaway. But on the internet, it’s nearly impossible to put such a genie back in the bottle…
If you’re going to rip off your own mom for ten grand, you might as well get your money’s worth, right? So goes the tale of Miriam Garmas, a 34-year-old from Stock Island who police say committed the perfectly stereotypical South Florida crime by defrauding her mother out of more…
In this week’s New Times, we unravel the mysterious double life of Ronald Miranda AKA Richard Gamble.Back on November 15, 1980, Miranda allegedly mowed down the man he found sleeping with his wife in the small town of Los Banos, California. Thirty-one years later, Miranda — with a new name and…
Late Friday night, talented but troubled Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall wound up at Broward General Medical Center, while his wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall, was held in jail for allegedly stabbing the superstar in the gut. Today the Broward Sheriff’s Office released the 911 call Nogami-Marhsall made from their Southwest Ranches home…
Thursday brought the strange and tragic news that a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy might have fatally shot his mother while playing with a handgun in Miramar. Now, as the investigation continues, some friends and relatives of the victim, 33-year-old Julia Bennett, aren’t buying the original story and believe that the boy’s father,…
Charlie Ely says she took part in the crime only because others threatened to kill her if she didn’t go along with the plan.
Thieves in Miami will steal anything that’s not nailed down if the opportunity arises. Unfortunately, you can’t nail down your pet parrot, because that’s just animal cruelty. So keep a watchful eye on your feathered friends, because one was recently stolen from a Miami Beach apartment. Thankfully, a vigilant policeman…
You can accuse Joel Paul Williams of setting fire to several abandoned buildings in the Collins Park area of South Beach, but you can’t accuse him of being a liar. When police arrested the 33-year-old homeless man in February, the only explanation offered was: “I’m insane.” Well, now a court…
A 33-year-old woman was shot in the back last night at her home in Miramar, Florida, and police believe that her 3-year-old son was the gunman. The boy might have been playing with the gun when it accidentally fired and sent a bullet through his mother…
