On July 16, Edward “Butch” Foster III walked to the M&M Meat Market a few blocks away from his Homestead home to pick up some items. The 32-year-old father of six never came home. At 4 p.m., two Homestead police officers, responding to a 911 call about a gun-wielding man,…
After five students at the Homestead Job Corps campus took part in the brutal murder of 17-year-old Jose Amaya Guardado, two stayed behind to have sex in the wood according to new details released after the arrest of the fourth suspect in the case. Arbelo, 20, Jonathan Lucas, 18, and Christian Colon,…
All a Miami woman wanted to do was stop at the Big Lots so she could buy some feminine products. All her husband, Rafael Chacon, 24, wanted to do apparently was act insane. Chacon, enraged by the idea of his wife wanting to buy her lady products, allegedly dragged out the…
Jose Cartaya Reyes and Robel Rosendo Morales were shepherd to jail after the armed robbery and ensuring slaughtering of three Barbados blackbelly sheep in Hialeah Gardens. The flock of two now face charges of animal cruelty, armed burglary and possession of burglary tools. According to NBC Miami, the two were caught…
Earlier this month, Gov. Rick Scott agreed to pay upwards of $1.3 million in legal fees for repeatedly breaking Florida’s open records laws. Of course, he’s paying for those mistakes with taxpayer money, so voters get to pay for his crimes. Even for Scott, that’s a tough act to…
After video surfaced last night of a Miami police officer beating a man in handcuffs, the Miami Order of the Fraternal Police trying to smear the woman who originally posted the video on her Facebook page. Union President Javier Ortiz blasted out a press release picking images from Smith’s Facebook…
The 47-second video opens with a group of Miami police officers calmly placing a young man in a black T-shirt into handcuffs. One of the officers then leads the man toward a squad car and sits him in the back seat. Then, suddenly, the officer leaps toward the suspect, seemingly…
A Doral strip club has been temporarily closed down by authorities after a Hialeah man tried some unconventional father-daughter bonding on site. Hialeah police say Jose Manuel Arguelles, 59, took his 16-year-old daughter and her teenage friend to the Pink Pony gentlemen’s club and allowed the two girls to drink, smoke…
Real estate is a game of bravado, especially in Miami Beach where multi-million dollar penthouse suites fly off the market every week to a dizzying swarm of overseas investors. Kevin Tomlinson, a 48-year-old with One Sotheby’s International Realty, knew how to play that game as well as anyone, bragging on…
This past March, Killian High School was rocked by a shocking attack — a 17-year-old female student stabbed 15-year-old star football player DeAndre Johnson in the chest, leaving him clinging to life. Then news emerged of an alleged crime that had sparked that assault. Months earlier, the female student had…
Jeisa Chiminazzo and Oliver Ripley are a couple out of a modern day fairy tail. She’s a transfixing Brazilian supermodel, discovered at the age of 13, who has appeared on the cover of at least 5 international editions of Vogue, modeled for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and starred in campaigns…
Police received reports that a three-year-old child had been shot in the head inside of his Little River home. Though police have not confirmed the details surrounding the incident, his mother tells The Herald that the child was crawling around, found a loaded gun in a drawer, and accidentally shot…
The body bobbed to the surface of Biscayne Bay right along a seawall behind Mount Sinai Medical Center February 6. Judging by her blond hair and small frame, passersby at first told the media that a teenager had been pulled from the cool water. But five days later, police announced…
Efrain Veiga was perhaps one of the hottest restauranteurs in Miami back in the ’90s. His Yuca restaurants (one of which, under different ownership, still operates on Lincoln Road) helped to put Cuban fusion cuisine on the map, and Veiga also had a celebrity boyfriend in Billy Bean, the former…
Miamians are known for being hot headed and a bit rude, but come to think of it, the entire state of New Jersey isn’t exactly known for their even tempers or mild manners. One would think that a Miamian’s stereotypical attitude might actually fit in fine there actually, but apparently…
Like so many others, Yovaris Pardo fled Havana and seemed to have found a happy new life in South Florida. In 2004, Pardo and her husband Rogelio built a four-bedroom house in Homestead; eventually, the couple had three boys, who loved laughing and dancing with their parents by the pool…
“I had just came in from out of town,” Yathomas Riley tells a Lee County, Georgia 911 dispatcher. “And my wife — I don’t know what’s going on, but she’s in a room, and she got blood coming out of her.” A young child screams in the background. It’s 8:30…
It’s been a busy day for U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office, and a (thankfully) bummer of a day for South Florida ISIS-sympathizers. On the same day Ferrer and Piro took part…
Harlem Suarez wanted to bring terror to the Conch Republic, according to the FBI. The 23-year-old, also known as Almlak Benitez, was arrested after Feds claims the uncovered a plot in which planned to build a bomb and then plant it under the sands of a Key West beach. Suarez…
Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer’s awkward but emotional accidental reunion with a former middle school classmate who stood before her as a defendant in bond court went viral earlier this month. Well, Glazer just took a vacation on the Carnival Breeze and when she got back to work on Monday she…
An 80-year-old man suffering from advances Alzheimer’s disease stabbed his to death on Sunday afternoon at their home in Southwest Miami-Dade and then drove to Publix to report it. According to police, Abner Peckman Lawton stabbed his wife multiple times at their home near Southwest 90th Street and 103rd Avenue. Then, with…
Smart Amanda Wiz was three years old, with reddish brown fur, pointy ears, and a distinctive white mark above her nose. The Western Reining horse was beloved by her owners and had recently competed in her first show. Early Thursday morning she was found dead in the Hialeah field near…
