For a world-class con man, James Sabatino has a habit of burning out in blazes of self-inflicted pain. As a teenager, he pulled off an incredible run of schemes, including getting close to Julio Iglasias by posing as a Sony Music executive and wrangling more than 200 Super Bowl tickets…
George Zimmerman may have avoided jail time for killing Trayvon Martin, but the man can not seem to stay out of legal trouble ever since. Now his soon-to-be-ex-Motherin-in-Law has filed a police report claiming that Zimmerman stole furniture and a television from a home they own…
Police have made an arrest this morning in the murder of 18-year-old Tiffan Cabreja. Fernando Granados, who is 20, is in custody and charged with second degree murder. Police believe that the man may have been high on crack when he killed Cabreja and then decided to dump her body…
A Coral Gables woman was the victim of a shocking home invasion last night. A man broke into her home, tied her up, and then used her own Aston Martin as the get-away car…
The number one rule of social media and the number one rule of crime should be the same: Don’t post your crimes on social media, and make sure no one else does either. Two Miami-Dade teens ignored that golden rule and wound up behind bars today after a video of…
Florida’s strange legal code means you can kill a kid armed only with a bag of Skittles, claim self defense, and get off scot-free, but if you fire what you claim is a warning shot during a dispute with your abusive husband you get 20 years in jail. Marissa Alexander,…
The Armed Citizens Project does exactly what its name implies: It hands out guns for free. Now the Texas-based nonprofit is turning its bullet-blasting beneficence on the Sunshine State. Promising to “deter crime by empowering neighborhoods,” the ACP has already begun distributing shotguns in Orlando’s Sunshine Gardens neighborhood. Two fun…
Tyrell Johnson was only on the Dolphin’s preseason roster for a couple of months before the 2012 season, but apparently he liked Miami so much he still sticks around here to pee on the street. Johnson was arrested this weekend on Miami Beach for doing just that…
A child who fell out of a second story window of a Hialeah motel has died. On September 13, 23-month-old Luis Rodriguez was staying at the Paraiso Motel at 1615 W. Okeechobee Road with his parents and younger brother when he fell out of the window. The motel’s website bills…
The tragic trail that Antonio J. Feliu left behind yesterday already involved the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her daughter; a high-speed, cross-county car chase that ended when he struck and killed a mother of two; a roadside SWAT standoff; and his own suicide. Now police have uncovered another…
Guayaberas Etc. is a store in downtown Coral Gables that specializes in Cuban clothing and memorabilia. The shop is located right across from city hall. Last Friday, it was the victim of a blatant smash-and-grab robbery. On September 13, just after midnight, a man and woman smashed through the store’s…
Last year, Miami Beach police popped just 492 people for driving under the influence. This year, they’re on track to arrest 442, with only 221 in the first six months. In 2009, they arrested just fewer than 1,300 people for DUI. The plunge comes not because people in Miami Beach…
A 34-year-old Florida Keys man is recovering at Ryder Trauma Center after being attacked by a teenager with a golf club during a spat about Facebook. According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the incident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. on Fat Deer Key. Deputies responded to a call that…
Turns out one of the biggest threats to cruise ship passengers at the Port of Miami were security guards hired to protect them. Jean Russell Thomas, 30, and Sherece Nelson, 25, were arrested after police uncovered their practice of stealing iPads and other electronics from passengers and then selling the…
Carlos Bertonatti today was handed a 12-year sentence for the DUI manslaughter of Christophe Le Canne in 2010, finally bringing justice for the cyclist more than three and a half years later. On an early morning in January 2010, Bertonatti, an aspiring pop star, was driving his Volkswagen back to…
A man who used a pair of scissors to fatally stab a popular Florida International University football player was found guilty of second-degree murder yesterday. Six jurors convicted Quentin Wyche. According to CBS4, Wyche’s mother sang a hymn as he was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom. Wyche had…
Eighty-one-year-old Hialeah resident Evardo Busnego must have been really mad at that crossing guard. Yesterday afternoon, Busnego allegedly fired a BB gun at a crossing guard, hitting her in the buttocks. When police arrived around 5 p.m. to question him about the incident, Busnego responded by firing shots at the…
Miami Beach police are on the lookout for a man who followed an unsuspecting woman into her Ocean Drive hotel room, overpowered her, and then raped her. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday, September 6. The victim, a Swiss tourist, was walking into the Hotel Breakwater at…
A crime ring operating in Miami-Dade is believed to be following women, waiting for them to park their cars, and breaking into the vehicles to steal banking and identification information that is then used to defraud victims of thousands of dollars. “Literally, a female will park her car, go for…
George Zimmerman is back in police custody after police responded to a gun-related incident at the Lake Mary, Florida, home of the parents of his wife Shellie Zimmerman. Mrs. Zimmerman had just filed for divorce last week…
Eighty-three-year-old Marian Hill is recovering in the hospital after her grandson, 23-year-old Kenneth Smith, Jr., accidentally shot her in the leg yesterday. The incident happened after Smith argued with his brother, Robert Hill, 28, over his cell phone and decided to pull out a gun in the family residence…
Officer Eric Guzman’s highlights over his nine years on the Miami Police Department include 30 use-of-force complaints, two dead suspects, and one self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot. Sgt. Juan Mendez, meanwhile, has killed four suspects and racked up nearly 100 complaints in his 28-year career. Like a recurring migraine,…
