Crime & Police

Tyler Hayes Weinman, the suspect in the cat killing spree, will not get bail his bail set at a hefty $250,000. He’s also being forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. ”I can say the investigation is being led by a lynch-mob mentality, steam-rolling Mr. Weinman’s constitutional rights,” his attorney David Macey…

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…

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…

Sometime after midnight this morning, police arrested 18-year-old Tyler Weinman at a party in Coral Gables for the recent string of horrific cat killings that have plagued Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay.  Weinman, who attended Miami Palmetto Senior High, is being charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, four counts…

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…

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,…

Hitting up Boston Market, Arby’s and Burger King all in a row is a typical dinner routine for me, but for Miami man Yonly Cabrera Alvarez it was part of a counterfeit bill scheme. Alvarez, 21, wound up in Vero Beach on Saturday with his friend Xandi Garcia, 20, and hit up…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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.