Miami Beach Police were called this morning to Akoya, the luxury high-rise condo with the familiar crown-like structure on top in Mid-Beach, to face the possibility of a jumper. When they arrived at 7 a.m., they found the dead body of a man on the south side of the building.Inside…
What kind of person drunkenly slams into a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway and then speeds away while the biker bleeds to death on the road?In the case of this Sunday’s horrific crash, according to police, it’s the same kind of person who can rack up more than 40 traffic…
Including an unprecedented surge of text message donations, people have now contributed more than $150 million to earthquake relief in Haiti, according to figures released yesterday by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. That’s five times the amount donated in the days immediately after the 2004 Asian tsunamis, and more than the…
An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne yesterday. Carlos Bertonatti, a 28-year-old who lives on Key Biscayne, was arrested yesterday near his battered Volkswagen after a short police chase. Officers…
On December 29 around 11 p.m., the call came in: A woman was being assaulted near NE 70th Street and North Miami Avenue.A few minutes later, a squad car pulled into an alley behind 45 NE 70th St. Cops found Regina Renee Crawford on the ground, unconscious and with bruises…
Your pride at making the varsity squad notwithstanding, if you’re the type of person who might conceivably bust a cap in some fool’s ass over a dispute at the corner store, you should probably leave your high school letter jacket in the closet. You really can’t go wrong with a…
In 2008, a New Times investigation brought you the story of the growing problem of South American gangs targeting local jewelers in violent robberies. “Highly organized South American theft gangs” are targeting local merchants, we wrote, employing “sophisticated surveillance and commando-style assault tactics.” The gangs struck again two weeks ago,…
Police are searching for a new person of interest in the murder of Paula Sladewski, the aspiring model who was found burned to death in a dumpster in North Miami-Dade after traveling to Miami for a Lady Gaga concert New Year’s Eve.Surveillance video from that weekend shows Sladewski leaving Club Space alone…
Last Wednesday, the early contender for young 2010’s most senseless murder of the year went down at the People’s Self-Storage on NW 79th Street. Just after 12:30 in the afternoon, a 55-year-old Haitian-American woman named Joslin Augustin visited the center to pick up some blankets and warm clothes she’d stored…
Paula Sladewski regularly sent text messages to a former boyfriend that boyfriend Kevin Klym was trying to kill him, according to her Stepfather. Richard Watkins, the stepfather, spoke to FoxNews.com and says that since her body was found burned in a dumpster in north Miami-Dade, he’s been in contact with…
Mansor Mohammad Asad sure picked the wrong month to have a crazy-guy episode on a Detroit-bound airplane. As you’ve surely heard by now, Asad was arrested on the tarmac at MIA last night after disrupting a Delta flight scheduled to head for Detroit by screaming “I’m Palestinian and I want to kill…
A pretty young girl winds up burned to death in a dumpster and all anyone can focus on is the fact that she once appeared in a Playboy video.
Police have identified a body found in a burning trash can as 26-year-old tourist Paula Sladewski.
Editor’s note: Photographer Bill Cooke rode with City of Miami Police to capture the chaos that comes with New Year’s celebrations. Click here to view the entire slide show from that night.At 11:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, David Carpenter, a senior officer with the Miami Police Department, is already…
Albert Gonzalez, the Miami mega-hacker who stole information from tens of millions of credit and debit cards in possibly the biggest case of identity fraud in history, has plead guilty to two county of conspiracy and another charge of wire fraud. Previously, Gonzelez plead guilty to two other related charges…
The case of Carlos Miller started in 2007 while he was on assignment as a photojournalist for a now-defunct website. He took some photos of police, refused their order that he stop, then found himself in succession with his head against concrete, in the back of a police car, a…
Twenty-one-year-old Geraldo Pagano of Orlando was driving his scooter over the wet and rainy 79th Street Causeway just before midnight yesterday when he lost control. He fell to the ground but managed to pick himself up. Then a gray four-door Kia hit him, sending Pagano and the scooter flying into…
Miami resident Albert Gonzalez shocked the world when he was indicted for the largest case of identity fraud in history. Using colorful aliases such as “Soupnazi,” he hacked into the databases of several retail chains and stole information from more than 130 million credit and debit cards. Gonzalez made a plea deal…
For at least the second time this year in Miami, a baby has died after the caregiver left the child in a locked car. Police found a baby in a locked car at 6832 NW Fifth Ave. shortly after noon today. The infant was dead. Police believe the grandmother dropped the child’s…
Ok, so you’re cruising north on the Florida Turnpike. The cops pull you over and you’re freaking out, man, because you’re holding some seriously illicit shit: A cooler full of 232 lobster tails — 167 of which are undersized. Undersized! Alberto Varea, age 54, of Hialeah isn’t the coolest arrestee…
How unalienable is a man’s right to enjoy a delicious Frosty© without getting flattened by two and a half tons of AmericaMobile©? Apparently, pretty freakin’ alienable. This week, Riptide brought you the story of the French professor who claimed he was walking across a Miami Wendy’s parking lot when he…
