This week’s feature tells the story of a photographer-turned-pimp, a “mansion” full of prostitutes, and a big (albeit accidental) bust by Miami-Dade police officers.While reporting the story, New Times inherited some unusual files. They included pimp Hugo Gonzalez’s “business” documents, which were as tidy as they were pornographic. (Think naked hooker…
View Larger MapWelcome to the hot seat, Miguel Exposito.Just a few hours after Tomas Regalado named his choice for new chief of the City of Miami PD, the first murder of the not-yet-official Exposito era crackled across the police radio. The details are still sketchy, but sometime before 8:15 p.m…
This past May, the New York Times quoted the property manager of Parkview Point Condo in Miami Beach. Rosa M. Rodriguez, age 60, told a sad story about being broke. The units around her were foreclosing, Rosa said, and she had to pay for the damages. She explained to the…
U.S. District Court Judge Joan Leonard handed out the first sentence to a member of the Liberty City Seven. Burson Augustin will serve six years in prison. Significantly less than the 30 years prosecutors wanted. Leonard believed he played only a minor role. Augustin was arrested in 2006, with six…
Neighbors near Westview Country Club awoke to the sound of gunshots at 3:20 this morning. According to Miami-Dade police, cops responded to a domestic dispute at the small home of a 24-year-old convict named Yves “Carl Love” Guerrier. He was choking his sister and carring a wooden bat. While cops…
On October 19, a near-riot erupted at the student center at Miami Gardens’ Florida Memorial University. As captured in amateur video filmed by junior Jeffrey Y. Martin, security guards barricaded another student, 19-year old Emory Mitchell, in a bathroom. After students slammed through the door, an Allied Barton security guard…
The photo of Calvin Kingcade, inmate 09-9975, shows a fit 25-year-old with a black eye, a broken jaw, and a mouth fastened shut with silver wires. He drools while he talks to his mom at Ward D of Jackson Memorial Hospital. After getting jumped at Miami-Dade Pretrial Detention Center, one-fourth…
Carrying just one ounce of pot in Florida could get you 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. That’s by far the harshest penalty on the books in any state in America. Arizona, which has the second toughest sentencing guidelines for being found with an ounce of marijuana will…
Just one day after his friends, family members and teammates gathered in Miami for the funeral of murdered University of Connecticut football star Jasper Howard, police have made an arrest reports The Hartford Courant. 21-year-old John Lomax is being held by police on $2 million bail and charged with the murder…
Mary, a straight-talking senior citizen, is the kind of woman who would jump in front of a car to save a family of ducklings. So you can imagine the sense of horror when — lying in bed one night — she heard the sound of a mother duck in pain…
The lengths men will go to get it hard knows few limits, yet thousands of guys don’t have the balls to tell their doctors they can’t get it up. So enter the booming illegal Viagra trade, and like so many drugs sold illicitly, you never know if what you’re getting is authentic.Today, U.S…
The story of Jasper Howard wasn’t supposed to end in murder. A gifted football player from Miami Edison Senior High, a troubled inner-city school, was recruited by University of Connecticut. He had dreams of supporting his mother, and also had a son on the way. But on Saturday, after helping his team…
Miami Police are on the lookout for a naked burglar.Sometime after midnight early this morning, a white Hispanic man crawled through a window of an apartment on the 1200 block of SW Sixth Street, says Det. William Moreno, a Miami PD spokesman.A woman sleeping inside with her two young children…
Juan Carlos Portieles, AKA DJ Seasunz, was denied bond this morning. He’s being charged with the second-degree murder of his girlfriend, 18-year-old Jaclyn Elisse Torrealba.Meanwhile, CBS news blog Crimesider talked to Jaclyn’s cousin Daniela Torrealba, who said the family found the couple’s two-year relationship, which began when Jaclyn was 16, “disturbing”…
Well-known Miami DJ Juan Carlos Portieles, known professionally as DJ Seasunz, turned himself in to police yesterday after driving around with the dead body of his 18-year-old girlfriend, Jaclyn Torrealba. The 30-year-old Portieles is charged with second-degree murder. Read the arrest affidavit here. Police say the couple became involved in a “heated verbal altercation”…
Miami Police are looking for a rapist after a brazen sexual assault on a girl on her way to school this morning. Just after 8 a.m., a 14-year-old girl was walking through Little Haiti along NW First Avenue. As she waited for traffic to slow at NW 57th Street, a…
Miami-Dade cops are on the hunt for thieves with a taste for Chanel No. 5. Last week, two men allegedly broke into a commercial warehouse at 320 NE 187th Street. They stuffed $100,000 worth of expensive perfume into a white Ford Van. (Riptide likes to imagine the crooks have a…
You can bet there’ll be plenty of riled up, sign-waving pro-lifers outside the Miami-Dade courthouse Friday. One of the country’s most gripping abortion trials will begin at 9 a.m. And Riptide has some new info to add to an old case. Back in 2006, an 18-year-old mother named Scyloria Williams…
OK, so you’re a thieving former prostitute breaking into a few cars. You smash some windows with your elbows and look for goodies you can flip quickly on the street — a cell phone, a GPS, whatever. Question: What get-away vehicle do you choose if you want to create the…
Two armed unidentified males held up the 18th Ave Market at 6600 NW 18 Ave. last Thursday but were temporarily distracted by one of the victim’s dogs.Azmi Mustafa and Evelyn D’Souza were working at the store while the suspects walked in wearing face masks, brandishing pistols, and demanding money. One suspect…
Sounds like Miami-Dade Police killed two birds with one stone yesterday morning. While searching for a robbery suspect, they came across a grow house.Cops were responding to a home break-in around the University Park area. Two armed suspects entered the home and pistol-whipped a male victim. Police officers quickly caught…
See that charming woman pictured below? She may have just orchestrated the cruelest crime yet tied to the Great Recession of 2009.Miami police say that Illeana Pillarte, a 35-year-old, scammed more than 70 unemployed people into believing she represented Jackson Memorial Hospital and had jobs available. Last week, Pillarte, who…
