Hialeah Police made a ghastly discovery early this morning: a burned-out car in an industrial area parking lot with human remains inside. Even more disturbing: The fire caused such extensive damage that police couldn’t immediately tell how many bodies were inside the car…
Kevin McKenzie, a 13-year veteran of the Pinecrest Police Department, finds himself behind bars today after being charged with carrying on a sexual relationship with an underaged girl. The charges came to light when the 16-year-old girl told her mother about the affair. She said that she had McKenzie four…
Sweetwater Mayor José M. Díaz sure knows how to pick ’em. On Thursday, hours after he announced Jesús “Jesse” Menocal would be his city’s police chief, CNN Latino Miami reported Díaz’s nominee was implicated in an old Miami Police internal affairs investigation involving a drug trafficker and a plot to…
Oneal Morris, the backstreet unlicensed “doctor” who injected substances like Fix-a-Flat and cement into her patients’ back sides, has plead guilty. In January she’ll surrender and serve 366 days for one count of practicing medicine without a license. Of course, Morris still faces far more serious charges, including one for…
Mark Gold is one of the kings of Miami’s lucrative traffic ticket racket. His Ticket Clinic is ubiquitous and the University of Miami law alum has reaped the benefits with a $1.5 million mansion on Rivo Alto Island. But Gold doesn’t exactly seem like a happy camper. Two years ago…
The last thing anyone wants to do while doing their grocery shopping if suddenly find themselves in the middle of a police shooting, yet that’s exactly what happened last night to shoppers at a Publix in Hialeah. A police officer working security detail at the Publix Sabor at 1290 West…
Here at Riptide, we chew on the fodder of public corruption, despotism, and power-hungry cops gone bad. But today, we’re thrilled to report, this story won’t be another entry into the annals of Miami mayhem. Late last month, 29-year-old Jessica Robles looked at her three children and came to a…
You know how Donald Trump keeps threatning to run for president? Well, Paraguay’s version of Donald Trump, Horacio Cartes, actually did and won. So of course he has a partying son who lives in Miami who gets arrested after a drunken fight after a party at his ritzy condo. Of…
After several delays, Eric Rivera, one of Sean Taylor’s alleged killed finally faces trial starting today. In the opening statements, prosecutors painted Rivera as an incompetent criminal whose plans with four friends to “score some easy cash” by burgling Taylor’s home went awry when they found the former Miami Hurricane…
On a rural block facing fields of crops a few blocks from the edge of the Everglades in South Dade, a gunfight broke out around 7:45 last night. By the time a swarm of Miami-Dade Police officers reached the remote scene, at least two people were dead and several more…
Today, Ernesto Perez is the president of for-profit Dade Medical College, but back in the early ’90s Perez was known as “Rhett O’Neil,” an almost-rock star. Perez has twice been appointed by governors to serve on the Commission on Independent Education, but in both cases failed to disclose his conviction…
A naked man running around a Miami neighborhood ended up impaling himself on a gate while trying to escape cops earlier this morning. The incident happened around 2 a.m. Police received a call from a screaming woman who claimed she had been assaulted. When they arrived at the scene, the…
Five months ago, Holly Jacobs made the brave decision to become the international face of revenge porn victims. The pretty FIU grad student told New Times that her ex-boyfriend had posted sexually explicit photos and videos of her on the internet, nearly ruining her life. Braver still, Jacobs began a…
More details are coming out in the chilling case of Derek Medina, who shot his wife and posted a picture of her lifeless body and a confession on Facebook. Police have released the 26-page transcript of the statement Medina made to police after he turned himself in after killing Jennifer…
The family of a woman who hijacked a jail golf cart and drove it into a barricade is worried sick that’s she’s not receiving the proper mental health help she needs in jail. They say her rambling and bizarre appearance in bond court, in which she said things like, “I…
Well, this certainly is a whole new way to get stuck on the Palmetto. Earlier this morning a man was found walking along the busy Palmetto Expressway with his feet bare and his hands bound behind his back. When police questioned the man he claimed that he had been abducted…
Miami-Dade Police are on the hunt for a man they believe lured a woman into a sexual assault by offering her a job. The incident happened August 1, when the suspect met his 20-year-old victim at a bus stop at SW 137th Avenue and 26th Street. The man offered the…
There’s really no doubt that Florida leads the nation — if not Planet Earth — in insane crimes. In the past month, we’ve had an elderly guy showing up pants-less and masturbating at a McDonald’s drive-thru, a woman twerking obscenely in front of a school bus full of kids, and…
Yudenia Rodriguez stands accused of stabbing her elderly mother to death over a fight about housing and carrying out the gruesome crime in front of her own 15-year-old daughter. The incident happened yesterday afternoon at a home on the 17300 block of SW 232nd Street. Rodriguez lived there with her…
If you’re planning on stealing an Aston Martin you might want to Google “how to start an Aston Martin” before you barge into the owner’s home, tie them up and try to make off with the car. Zuhdi Musa, 47, and Rosa Maria Musa, 45, were arrested today in connection…
Jeremy Justin Julien couldn’t keep his junk behind his zipper so now the 23-year-old is behind bars. He was arrested earlier this week for twice exposing himself to a young girl under the age of 16…
Facebook continues to shed light on a murder that made headlines when the perpetrator posted photos of his wife’s body and a confession on his public profile page. NBC 6 has obtained messages that Jennifer Alfonso, the wife and victim of Derek Medina, sent to a friend just hours before…
