The U.S. Coast Guard seized $17 million worth of cocaine in the southwest Caribbean on January 24. Today, that 1,400 pounds of cocaine was offloaded at the Coast Guard station in Miami Beach…
What happens in the family, used to stay in the family. No longer.The Santiesteban drug clan — which made millions by running grow houses all over South Florida and smuggling pot up the coast to New York City — now appears to be falling apart. Earlier today, one of the…
Sunset Place, the South Miami open air shopping mall where teenage cliches go to die, was riled up today because a man was carrying an umbrella.Dozens of police and a SWAT team swarmed the mall because they thought the umbrella-carrying man was in fact holding a rifle…
It’s official: Karlie Tomica will be charged with DUI manslaughter for the hit-and-run death of Shore Club executive chef Stefano Riccioletti. The self-described South Beach “Party Princess” will be in court today where she’ll officially be hit with the charges…
It’s taken three full years, but Carlos Bertonatti is finally set to admit in court that he killed cyclist Christophe LeCanne in a drunken, early-morning hit-and-run on the Rickenbacker Causeway. Bertonatti told a Miami-Dade judge today that he’ll plead guilty next Tuesday.The aspiring singer-songwriter sped away from the January 2010…
Karlie Tomica, the self described Miami Beach “party princess” who hit and killed a man with her car and then drove off, had three time the legal limit of alcohol in her blood, according to just released toxicology reports…
Miami-Dade police were charged with extraditing Alberto Morales to Las Vegas, but the convict managed to escape by stabbing a detective with his eyeglasses in a Walmart parking lot in Grapevine, Texas.The detective, Jaime Pardinas, is still in serious but stable condition. Morales, however, remains at large…
The Miami Police Department is facing a police brutality lawsuit after allegedly beating up a man at Ultra Music Festival in 2011 all because his girlfriend tried to bring a glow stick into the notoriously neon-tinged fest. That’s at least the story of plaintiff Jesse Campodonico, a 27-year-old fitness trainer…
It was one of the bloodiest moments in Miami-Dade police history: a drug sting in which four robbers were mowed down by cops in a mango grove in the Redland. The controversial June 30, 2011 operation was the subject of a New Times investigation last summer. Now it’s also the subject of a lawsuit.The…
The row of ranch houses sits along a canal in Miami Gardens, dwarfed by the structure just across the water: Sun Life Stadium, home to scores of Super Bowls. As neighbors gathered last night to watch this year’s big game in New Orleans, tragedy struck the block.A gunman blasted more…
It has not been a good two days for Miami police officers. Just yesterday, officer Reynaldo Goyos was fired for killing an unarmed man during a traffic stop while officer Luis Hernandez was arrested on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery.Now, yet another officer for the department finds himself in…
Nearly eight months after being placed on suspension, Charles Hurley, the chief of the Miami-Dade Public Schools police force, has officially been demoted. Now the hunt is on for his replacement…
Not exactly a good day for the Miami Police Department. Hours after announcing that they’ve fired a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man, another officer has now found himself in trouble.Twenty-seven-year-old officer Luis Hernandez has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery. Hernandez is a seven-year…
Officer Reinaldo Goyo, a City of Miami police officer who shot and killed Travis McNeill, a 28-year-old unarmed black man during a traffic stop, has been officially terminated from his position. Goyo had previously avoided criminal manslaughter charges after prosecutors declined to pursuit the case, however the City of Miami…
Bartolo Gelsomino, a 78-year-old Kendall resident, is facing second-degree murder charges after allegedly stabbing his 71-year-old wife to death after she refused to make him a burger. The elderly culprit then tried to cover up the crime by staging a break-in…
Karlie Tomica was booked into jail yesterday after the car she was driving struck and killed a man outside the Shelborne South Beach on Collins Avenue. She might not have been found so quickly if a Good Samaritan hadn’t followed her to an apartment building in Mid-Beach. Now, the witness’s…
This much, at least, is clear: Around 5 a.m. this morning, someone opened fire on a Rolls -Royce on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. More than a dozen shots were fired, and the Rolls ended up careening into the front of a restaurant.Now for the real question: Was Rick…
Not many people have heard of the band Lights Over Paris, but that didn’t stop frontman Robert Mawhinney from trying to live like an A-list rockstar.Unfortunately, he was arrested at Miami International Airport earlier this month on fraud charges…
A nightmare scenario played out in front of a Liberty City restaurant yesterday when an armed mugger confronted a mother with two young kids in tow and demanded her purse. The mom, identified by her family as Evelyn Matamoro, handed over her purse without a struggle — but then the…
Manuel Cruz, a teacher Hialeah Senior High, has been arrested after allegedly hitting a 17-year-old girl who refused to have sex with him. Cruz did not meet the girl through school, but rather met her at his apartment complex on December 9…
“Pay for a lap dance, end up getting fucked,” Danny Garcia says.Most of the time, this T&A truism translates to a sticky ending in the back of one of Miami’s seedy strip clubs. But Garcia alleges that for customers at Twist, one of South Beach’s oldest and most beloved gay…
Carlos Miller, the photographer and activist behind the “Photography is Not A Crime” blog, feels pretty damn strongly that there’s nothing illegal about shooting photos or video on a taxpayer-funded Metrorail platform. He believes so strongly that he’s already sued the County’s security company over two previous incidents where they…
