Students at the University of Miami were taking their final exams for the Summer A term today when a shooting disrupted the campus. Not much is known, but apparently a disgruntled girlfriend shot her boyfriend in a School of Communications building…
A brazen bandit snatched a handbag from a bikini-clad guest at 3 p.m. Friday, June 13, as she lay poolside at the swank Delano hotel, and made off with $41,000 in jewelry. The victim, 30-year-old Staci Gabrielson from Orangeburg, New York, “began to yell” and then chased the man, who…
Around 2:30 this morning, gunfire strafed the courtyard of a Liberty City apartment building, wounding up to ten and killing two in the worst instance of mass violence in Miami this year. Police are still sorting through the chaos to determine what happened. “We have no motive at this time,”…
Lieutenant Edward Law found himself of the wrong end of, well, the law. The Opa-locka police officer was arrested on Friday night while driving his unmarked police cruiser after rear ending another car on the Golden Glades interchange. Police say he was intoxicated…
Police have made a third arrest in the case in which three underage girls were filmed in explicit sex acts and then the footage was posted online earlier this week. Bianca Byndloss, age 19, was arrested last night following the arrests of Christian Hernandez and Bryan Yanes. All three were…
The Opa-locka sergeant was convicted of felony false imprisonment and witness tampering for assaulting a youth counselor.
Two 18-year-old Miami men could face time behind bars for putting underage girls in front of the camera. On Wednesday, police say, Christian Hernandez held what turned out to be a teenage sex party at his home in Southwest Miami-Dade, according to NBC Miami. Bryan Yanes, also 18, was present,…
At 1:35 this morning two North Miami men, 22-year-old Kenson Pierre and 31-year-old Justin McAdam, were killed in a double shooting in front of a home on NE 133rd Street, according to North Miami police. Pierre was an emerging local rapper known as Short Kidd; McAdam was a photographer, known…
On his MySpace and Youtube pages, Ronnie Candelaria is an odd presence, obsessed with kung fu master Bruce Lee and enamored of remixing videos of violent fight scenes with heavy metal tracks. In real life, the 21-year-old Kendall man was into guns and could be intimidating, acquaintances say. But no…
Derick Kuilan, the former Miami Beach cop who ran over two people while joyriding on South Beach on his police ATV, was convicted of reckless driving charges yesterday but was acquitted of DUI charges. This despite the fact a blood test showed he had a blood alcohol level over the…
Chances are good that Alvaro Lopez Tardon will be found guilty of money laundering today or tomorrow. If he is, there probably won’t be anyone in the federal court room to shed a tear: Tardon’s associates have all turned on him, including his wife. Here at Riptide, however, we will…
Nothing is scarier than a city commission that’s all smiles. Politicians are preternaturally disposed to disagreement, so voters should be skeptical whenever commissioners suddenly go full kumbaya. On the scale of suspicious love-fests, this past April 10 was a doozy. City of Miami commissioners lined up to laud a so-called…
Glenn Thor “Roach” Larsen is behind bars today after getting a little too medieval on his stepson after the young boy didn’t do his homework. 36-year-old Larsen allegedly beat and bit the 10-year-old boy after he admitted to not finishing his homework. Larsen now stands charged with two counts of…
Stephanie Hird and Sara Zamora will not be prosecuted for taking part in a sexual fetish film in which they violently tortured animals. Prosecutors involved in the case have not officially offered a reason why the charges have been dropped, but the women told the Miami Herald that the videos…
Here are some quick guidelines on masturbation etiquette: Don’t masturbate at work. Don’t masturbate at school. Especially don’t masturbate at work if you work at a school. Don’t masturbate in your work uniform. If you don’t want anyone to know of your dirty masturbation habits, don’t record it. Above all,…
The pain bit Jose Maldonado below the right ear, hot and searing. When the lanky, dark-haired Florida State University student snapped his eyes open, he was in the same Tallahassee motel room where he’d drifted to sleep earlier. But then, in the lead-colored hour before dawn this past December 3,…
Swarms of rowdy beachgoers erupted into violent brawls. Police were overwhelmed as they tried to quell the chaos. Dozens ended up arrested while worried business owners looked on. Just another Memorial Day weekend in South Beach, right? Actually, not so much. That chaotic scene, in fact, went down yesterday in…
Last summer, Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi was arrested on the same day the feds nabbed another local mayor, Sweetwater’s Manuel Maroño. Both mayors were suspended form office by the governor and charged with taking bribes in exchange for bogus grants. While Maroño and two others, lobbyists Jorge Forte and…
It’s not North Miami if the mayor isn’t involved in some sort of scandal. According to the Miami Herald, North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau is set to be charged by the FBI with mortgage fraud. Tondreau had previously been investigated for connections to alleged absentee-ballot fraud but had so far…
A Miramar teen with almost as much time on his hands as he has growing up to do is in hot water after posting multiple tweets to the Miami Police Department claiming he would rape children. Of course, police responded, apparently to his surprise, and the 15-year-old now claims the…
Former NFL star Darren Sharper will not be charged for allegedly raping a woman in Miami Beach. Prosecutors announced today that they’d drop the charges, in part because the victim did not file charges until three months after the alleged incident. Sharper however still faces similar charges in Arizona and…
Is nothing sacred in this town? Do not even the lowest of the low have some respect for a man’s right to eat pizza in peace? What is this world coming to? Pablo Suescun, 21, was waiting for a pizza to be delivered to his Edgewater apartment. When he opened…
