Mexican Navy Finds Sharks Stuffed to the Gills with Cocaine

This story doesn’t really have a local hook per se, but I know you all love sharks, and I know you all love cocaine. So what if somehow, some way, sharks and cocaine came together in one slightly amusing but ultimately troublesome incident? Well, thanks to the ingenuity of Mexican drug…

Kendall District Police Officer Dies in Car Crash

Giovanni Gonzalez, a 23-year-old Miami-Dade Police officer in Kendall, died this morning when his marked patrol car collided with a dump truck while traveling southbound on Florida’s Turnpike near SW 152nd Street. The vehicles collided at 4:07 a.m. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived at the scene shortly thereafter. Firefighters cut through…

Cat Killer Brings out Miami’s Feline-Lovin’ Sadists

Watch more Comedy Central videos on AOL Video So on Sunday, cops arrested the alleged cat killer, a clean-cut kid who likes to blow shit up and has friends that call him “niggercake” but otherwise seems nice enough. The exposure of Tyler Weinman has simply given a face to the…

Facebook and MySpace Postings Gave Cat Killer Away, Police Say

As New Times über-blogger Kyle Munzenrieder pointed out yesterday, the fact that accused cat killer Tyler Weinman joined the “Catch the Cat Killer!” group on Facebook suggests he was certainly aware of all the media hoopla over his alleged crimes — and perhaps enjoying it.Today, unidentified police officials told the Miami…

Murder Miami Style: Earlington Heights Metrorail Station

View Larger MapFifty-year-old security guard Chevor Wint was shot dead just after 10:10 Sunday night in the parking garage at the Earlington Heights Metrorail Station. Two suspects — either in their teens or early 20s — fled on foot and on a bicycle. One wore a white shirt and the other dark clothing. The…

Police Seek Three Robbers Who Shot Man at Car Wash

Police are searching for three men who robbed and shot at two men seated at a car wash east of Hialeah on Tuesday afternoon. Charlemagne Benjamin, 24, and Trinard L. Snell, 24, were surrounded by the men and asked to give up their valuables around 3:05 p.m. at NW 27th Avenue and…

Man’s Body Found Floating in Residential Lake

A man’s body was found dead and floating in King’s Lake in West Kendall this morning. Police said, someone called 911 at 7:12 a.m. when they spotted the dead body in the water located at 8530 Southwest 149th Avenue, just north of Kendall Drive. The man is Caucasian and approximately 40-years old,…

Man Fatally Stabbed in Domestic Dispute

View Larger Map A man was stabbed to death during a domestic dispute that occurred early this morning in Northwest Miami-Dade. The subject is detained by Miami-Dade Police and charges are pending. Detectives are investigating the scene and the relation of the two Latin males, whose names have not yet…

Two Years Later: Lilly Aramburo Remains Missing

It has been close to a year since I wrote my cover story about Lilly Aramburo, a 24-year-old single mother and drug addict who disappeared from her boyfriend’s apartment June 1, 2007. Today, there is still no trace of her, but friend Janet Forte presses on with her social media crusade to find…

A Toy Crime Story

If you’ve gone to a toy store in recent months hoping to get your kid that lego set he’s had his eye on only to find it sold out, then went home and searched online to find it at a much cheaper price, well you might have Max Rodriguez to conversely blame…

Joe Cool Mystery Solved

As the Coast Guard officers approached the Joe Cool, they should have heard voices. Instead they were greeted with silence.

The G-man and the Snitch

John Connolly didn’t look dangerous sitting there in Room 7-3 of the Miami-Dade County Courthouse alongside the carjackers, rapists, and robbers. No, Connolly looked exactly like what he was: a short, stocky 66-year-old guy in handcuffs. His wide face was puffy and red, as if his blood pressure were a…

Death of a Warrior

Something, or someone, failed Jarvis. Maybe it was the social worker assigned to visit the family, or maybe it was his mother who couldn’t keep him off the street. Or maybe it was Jarvis himself, a headstrong boy who tried to become a man too quickly.

Trip to the Big House

West Palm Beach-based Prison Connection transports relatives and friends of inmates to many of Florida’s state prisons.