When lunatic Gainesville pastor Terry Jones announced his plan to burn Korans at his tiny church, no less an authority than Gen. David Petreaus warned that there would be consequences in places like Afghanistan where fellow religious lunatics look for any such provocation for bloodshed. Jones went ahead with the…
The story of the stand-off at a Homestead reptile farm has more twists and turns than a snake slithering through the jungle. Riptide has learned that Bruce Stephenson was found dead after a stand off with police while he had barricaded himself in a home on the premises. Tom Crutchfield,…
Earlier this week, a 16-year-old girl was waiting for her bus, instead she almost was forcibly dragged into the back of a stranger’s car. City of Miami Police are on the search for a man who tried to abduct the girl. His original attempt was thwarted, but as he drove…
Paul Thorington, 22, Anthony Albano, 23, and Ray Joseph Laranjo, 23, the three men charged in a brutal gang rape at the Fontainebleau following a Miami Music Week pool party, have been granted bond and will be allowed to return to California. If they make bond, they will be placed under house…
At Tom Crutchfield’s Reptile Farm in Homestead, you can find deadly creatures such as Chinese bamboo vipers, Mojave rattlesnakes, black Pakistan cobras, and, apparently, right now, a man with a gun. Yes, according to reports, a man has barricaded himself inside a building on the property after shooting another man…
As expected former conman turned pastor turned corporate whistle-blower Barry Minkow has pleaded guilty to commit securities fraud. He was accused of purposefully trying to harm the business of Lennar, a home builder that is one of the largest companies head-quartered in Miami-Dade, by reporting that were operating “like a…
The online uproar over a clash between Miami Beach cops and Swedish House Mafia fans all started when thousands of ticket-holders were denied entrance to the group’s show. Tensions skyrocketed as at least two thousand people who’d paid stood in the sun for hours, until they eventually stormed the place.We’ve…
The Miami Beach Police Department offered a swift reaction to videos that surfaced online after this weekend’s on-the-beach melee between angry partygoers at Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel event and cops, who claim they acted appropriately. The videos show officers struggling with various people surrounded by an unruly crowd. At…
Coral Gables jewelry store owner Eddie Snow might be celebrating his 67th birthday this Friday before undergoing open-heart surgery Monday, but you don’t want to mess with him. A would-be robber attempted a brazen smash-and-grab on Snow’s Miracle Mile shop, but the store owner caught up to him and delivered…
Police are investigating a double shooting this morning in Kendall that left a couple dead inside their home. While the investigation is on-going, detectives believe that the incident may have been a double shooting. Two children resided with the couple in the home, but had left for school earlier that…
Lee Willie DeJesus, a 25-year-old father from Homestead, was put behind bars last August after allegedly killing his two-year-old son during “boxing lessons”. He spent the rest of his life there. On Saturday DeJesus was found hanging from his own bed sheets at the Miami-Dade jail…
Along with an alleged gang rape at the Fontainebleau and an intoxicated drowning death at the Clevelander, Ultra Weekend also brought us a scary near riot on South Beach as a drunken crowd surrounded and taunted two cops trying to arrest an unruly couple outside a Swedish House Mafia show. Videos…
North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre’s campaign manager, Ricardo Brutus, took an envelope stuffed with $4,000 in cash in exchange for asking “his people” to take an item off the city council’s agenda earlier this year, prosecutors say. A police report obtained by New Times detailing Brutus’ arrest is sure to…
Three men in town for Spring Break and the festivities surrounding Miami Music Week were arrested after allegedly brutally gang raping a college student in their room at the Fontainebleau. The young woman met the men at a pool party at the Shelborne Hotel…
Eddie Santana, the litigious restaurant rebel New Times profiled earlier this month, has been convicted of misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct. Judge Andrea Wolfson sentenced Santana to 120 days in Miami-Dade County jail and a year of probation on Friday.Santana has sued at least 30 businesses in Miami-Dade in the…
We don’t want to say that all strippers are bad mothers. Some of them are just trying to put food on the table for their kids, but we’re not all that surprised that a Hialeah exotic dancer has been arrested after her toddler was found roaming the streets while she sat…
Police Chief Miguel Exposito slumped silently against a wall, his hands clasped tight behind his back, as a parade of family members of men killed by his department petitioned the City Commission last night for one thing: Exposito’s head.”I have two sons myself and I’m asking you for their sake…
Willa Mae Reed cries when she remembers the last time she saw her grandson, Tarnorris Tyrell Gaye. “He said he was getting a haircut, and he kissed me goodbye,” Reed tells Riptide. “I still got a lot of questions about what happened next.”Gaye was shot and killed by Miami police…
Neil Julien, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, has been arrested on charges that he molested a 16-year-old girl back in 2005. According to NBC Miami, he allegedly molested the girl multiple time during the summer of 2005 while dating the girl’s mother. The charges surfaced after Julien was…
Adilenia Martinez worried that something was wrong when her mouth wouldn’t stop bleeding after a dental operation. When her husband pushed the dentist, Angel Nolasco, for a receipt in case she needed follow-up work, he uttered the words that haunt the nightmares of so many dental-phobes: Well, I’m not exactly…
When City Manager Tony Crapp Jr. hired Paul Philip to “audit” the Miami Police Department, we assumed the ex-G-man’s job was to write a bad report so Crapp could fire embattled Chief Miguel Exposito. So what the hell is Philip doing in the New York Times today justifying the string…
With Randy Shannon at the helm, the University of Miami’s football team may not have won any titles — but it did keep its nose clean, with zero player arrests since 2007. That’s one record that new coach Al Golden’s regime has already shattered.Ramon Buchanan, a senior linebacker from Melbourne,…
