Police routinely use Tasers as a (usually) non-lethal alternative to guns, but they can occasionally lead to potential lethal problems like heart attacks and cardiac arrest. People with pre-existing health problems may be more at risk. Well, sitting before the City of Miami Commission today, Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa…
Disgraced former Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito is none too pleased that the Department of Justice found that his former department engaged in routine excessive force and violated the constitution under his watch. The man who was once caught on tape calling his own officers “predators,” now calls the DOJ…
A 19-year-old man from Sunrise has been arrested for catfishing local men, luring them to his apartment and relieving them of valuables. Police charged Glenford Williams with three felony counts of armed robbery on Tuesday. Using the name “Diana,” Williams allegedly used the social site Moco Space to entice his…
“I inhale propane gas to get high, but I am not the least bit nutty,” Reid Welch once told New Times. Today a jury found differently. Welch has a had a number bizarre run-ins with the high-profile City of Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff. The court found him guilty of 21…
The South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SFSPCA) and Miami-Dade County Animal Services rescued two horses and a dog last week in animal cruelty cases that rescuers refer to as “as bad as it gets.” The horses, found on the 15800 block of NW 57th Avenue,…
Yesterday, the Department of Justice delivered a 14-page public smackdown to the City of Miami Police Department that shows a pattern of excessive, deadly force, lack of supervision, and suspiciously drawn-out investigations. The feds’ findings mean not only a headache for the city’s top cops but also possible settlements in…
Following a spree in which City of Miami Police shot and killed seven black men, many of them unarmed, in a span of eight months between 2010 and 2011, the Department of Justice has found that the department’s pattern of using excessive force was in violation of the Fourth Amendment…
A man was left stripped of his clothes with a bullet in his stomach early this morning in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood after being approached by two unknown men. His girlfriend, who was with him at the time, was able to escape and get help…
Former University of Florida star and current accused murderer Aaron Hernandez is suddenly getting a lot of sympathy. First, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson was quoted as saying the deposed Patriot was a “model inmate” who didn’t show signs of nervousness. And now, the American Civil Liberties Union is using…
Miami is chock full of more cocaine than a Mexican narco-piñata. And yet, the city’s most dangerous drug may just be imaginary. According to an investigation by USA Today, Miami is the main staging ground for controversial ATF sting operations in which undercover agents trick suspects into plotting robberies of…
In a brazen crime that should send shivers down the spines of bottle-service-loving bros and depressed, rich housewives everywhere, $1.1 million worth of premium vodka was stolen last month from a warehouse in northwest Miami-Dade…
Last month, Brazilian tourists Apareceda Pata and Denieze Ferreira were stunned to return from breakfast at the Miami Beach Hotel & Spa to find everything they’d taken on their trip to Miami stolen, including $20,000 in designer goods. They were even more shocked when the hotel told them how it…
Earlier this week, Richard “Kudo” Couto’s Animal Rescue Mission busted its latest illegal slaughterhouse. Four men connected to VIP Animal Sales have been arrested and charged with selling horse meat and abusing dozens of animals. But Couto says there’s more to the story. His investigations into the Homestead farm also…
Chances are, if you’re in a fast food restaurant around midnight on a weekday then you’re probably not having the best day already. So masked men with guns barging into the restaurant and demanding your money and cell phone just seems like karmic cruelty. Yet, that’s exactly what’s happened three…
When Jesus Navarro was arrested for selling $1,350 horsemeat to undercover cops, it didn’t seem to make much of an impact. Other men might have taken pause after a 2010 police report described their work environment as full of “rotting food and putrid water” and co-workers as “three dead goats…
One teen is in custody while another is still on the run after allegedly killing a man last night over his cell phone. Police say the two teens were riding around Little Haiti on their bicycles with the intent of robbing someone when they spotted 54-year-old Jerry Wayne Sherrell near…
Miami Beach’s version of Robin Hood has come to an end, at least partially. Subhanna Beyah, the 25-year-old woman wanted by sheriff’s detectives in Broward County for allegedly taking from the rich and oblivious and giving to herself and her friends, was arrested in Queens on Saturday by New York…
Let’s just start this off with a quandary about the occasional oddness of the English language. There are so few suitable synonyms for “fishing” that immediately bring to mind the actual act of using a rod and line to try to catch something on a hook, but in instances where…
Waking up after a night of partying at YOLO the club and realizing you’ve been conned out of $100,000 is a great way to feel serious shame and regret, unless you are actually Drake. (In which case, YOLO!) Sheriff’s detectives in Broward County are currently searching for a group of…
The man charged with the murder of South Beach drag queen Wanda pleaded not-guilty in Tampa circuit court yesterday. Deandre Breshaun Tolliver, who appeared before Judge Kimberly K. Fernandez, was also charged with armed robbery in the first degree and armed burglary of a dwelling with battery. Although police believe…
Anyone check the stock price of Stark Industries lately? Because it seems Iron Man has gotten a little desperate. A man dressed in an Iron Man mask is wanted in a Florida bank robbery…
Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been questioned by police in Massachusetts about his potential ties to the murder of a 27-year-old man, but those aren’t the only legal problems Hernandez faces. According to TMZ, Alexander S. Bradley claims that Hernandez shot him in the face after a fight at…
