Some animals urinate on things to mark their terrority. Despite what a certain human nature photography blog would have you think, the organisms that shop at Wal-Mart are not animals. Though in some cases we’d forgive you for getting confused. Christina Cifaldi, 22, was arrested for suspicion of urinating on clothing at a…
Jack Barouh, a 65-year-old Golden Beach man, pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges related to the probe of Swiss bank UBS. His attorney blames it on the Holocaust. Barouh’s parents apparently evaded the Holocaust, and Barouh claims that because of this, he had a compulsion to hide his money in case…
Let’s call it the Week of the Floaters: Since Monday, three mysterious corpses have bobbed to the surface in waterways around the metro area.Saddled with three new homicide investigations, Miami detectives have made progress in at least one case this morning.Last night, police arrested a man suspected of fatally stabbing…
Miami cops are dealing with a rash of floating corpses this week, after two dead bodies washed up today — one in Peacock Park this morning, and another this afternoon in Tamiami Canal. Detectives were already trying to solve the case of Ernesto Puentes, a 45-year-old found floating beneath the…
The 11 students who got high off of Coricidin while at Hialeah Middle School might have already faced the consequences of vomiting, collapsing, and in one case having a seizure in school, but they could face charges. The students, all between ages 13 and 14, will be suspended, according to the school board, and…
“Will that be paper or plastic?” Despite the fact Nevin K. Shapiro ran a grocery diverting business, when he was asking that he was most likely wondering how victims of his alleged $900 million ponzi scheme wanted to pay up. The SEC has charged Shapiro with running the scheme since 2005. The…
Sherry Marks, the 19-year-old driver whose Ford Mustang struck and killed Miami firefighter Leslie Luma two weeks ago, admitted she had taken drugs at the time of the crash. Marks admitted to taking Xanax and Lexapro, which she may have been prescribed, but she was also high on nitrous oxide,…
A South Florida helicopter pilot found himself under attack by a laser. No, we do not live in some Star Wars age where helicopters can be brought down by laser blasters. But as anyone who attended Ultra Music Festival knows, we have harnessed the power of lasers for ultimate distraction, annoyance,…
Three years ago, former Miami Northwestern Senior High principal Dwight Bernard was indicted for allegedly covering up sex that happened in a school bathroom between an 18-year-old football star and a 14-year-old girl. Now he’s headed to trial. Antwain Easterling, the player in question, went on to help the school win…
Not far from Miami International Airport, there’s a little pink house where one man lives with 24 pigeons. Adrian Acosta-Gonzalez is a 37-year-old, Cuban-born landscaper with bronze skin and good bone structure. He slides open a birdcage in his back yard and snaps his fingers twice.Out hops a plump pigeon…
What is the deal with all this baby-related violence down in Homestead lately? Now a women is behind bars after she tried to snatch a one-month-old from its mother outside a medical center.Twenty-five-year-old Shalese Nicole Mostiller is behind bars after attempting to abduct the child. She sprayed an unknown substance…
Responding to reports of “foul odors” at a small ranch house on NW 41st Street just north of the Airport Expressway, Miami police made a gruesome discovery this morning. Inside the home, at 1860 NW 41st Street, cops stumbled on three “badly decomposed” bodies, says Officer Jeffrey Giordano, Miami PD…
View Larger Map Just before 10 p.m. last night, Miami-Dade cops discovered the body of a 23-year-old Hialeah woman in a vacant lot across from a $800,000 waterfront home in Biscayne Gardens. Officers don’t know much about Nazelene Khan, the young woman, but court records show she was charged with…
Last week we took up the very pressing issue of female toplessness on Miami Beach streets, but today we realize the flaw in any sort of non-beach public nudity: the traffic concerns.Local 10 reports that a completely nude man was spotted walking down Biscayne Boulevard right in front of the…
If there are any great truths in this crazy world of ours, things that most of humanity can agree upon, one of them is that babies are for hugging and kissing, not beating. Sadly a mother in Homestead has been arrested for severely beating her 7-month-old child.The incident happened last…
Speaking to a jam-packed room of reporters, cops, and politicians yesterday, Mayor Tomas Regalado trumpeted eight corruption arrests as proof of his commitment to cleaning up city government. “For the first time ever in the City of Miami, we have an anti corruption department,” Regalado crowed. “Today we’re seeing some of…
You have to be pretty cold-hearted to hit a pedestrian with a vehicle and speed off, but to hit a little girl and not stay at the scene? Wow. Two-year-old Natalie Garcia was walking with her teenage sister on a sidewalk in Southwest Miami-Dade when an SUV jumped the curb…
Eight City of Miami officials and members of local charities were arrested today on corruption charges.The busts involved an array of unrelated scams — and come as the city’s finances are under intense scrutiny by federal officials. Mayor Tomas Regalado portrayed the arrests as the culmination of his promises to…
Twenty-three-year-old Diana Demayo, a recent graduate of the University of Miami, was beaten to death in Michigan last month. Twenty-four-year-old Peter Dabish, whose father co-founded the nationwide Powerhouse Gyms chain, turned himself in Wednesday for the murder (Dabish himself may own 20 percent of the company).Dabish allegedly beat Demayo to…
Miami-Dade saw not one but two cases of people impersonating our men in uniform in the past day. One was using the powers of the badge for evil, while another just really, really seems to enjoy the idea of being a firefighter.In the first incident, a man posing as a…
Our cover story this week is on murders in club land, and unfortunately a shooting last night claimed the life of one man and injured two others. The shooting took place around 4 a.m. at Mint Lounge, at Northwest 187th Street and 25th Avenue in Miami Gardens.According to police, an…
Acting on a tip, Miami Police recently raided a squat ranch house on a quiet side street a few blocks south of Bird Avenue in Coconut Grove. Inside the house, at 3152 Elizabeth St., police found a mother lode of goods stolen in a spate of car break-ins around the…
