When 13-year-old Lourdes Guzman-DeJesus was shot and killed on a school bus in Homestead yesterday by a classmate, the central question for police was whether another student had deliberately killed her or whether a kid sneaking a gun into school shot her accidentally.This morning, police say it’s the latter. Jordyn…
Cartels come and go. Capos are caught and killed. Coke pits, meth labs, and pot fields are destroyed across the Americas. But the drug trade remains intact.Take the trial of Ramon Quintero Sanclemente. Once a top lieutenant in Colombia’s infamous North Valley Cartel, “La Máquina” was sentenced to 17 years…
Jose L. Alberto, Miami Beach’s former top code compliance officer, has been sentence to 51 months behind bars after pleading guilty to charges related to a scam in which he shook down South Beach club owners…
A 13-year-old girl is in the Miami Children’s Hospital after being shot on the school bus on her way to school this morning. Update: The girl has now been pronounced dead.Meanwhile, a male student is currently in police custody in relation to the shooting…
Nine months ago, Rosita Hidalgo, a transgender Cuban woman living in South Beach, was found murdered in her apartment, the victim of 23 stab wounds. There were no initial suspects or leads, and friends worried that her death would go unsolved.Early Monday morning, however, the Miami Beach Police Department announced…
Attention, computer-buying public of Florida: If a man approaches you in the parking lot of a Best Buy with a convoluted tale about needing money to get home and a strangely discounted iPad for sale, it’s almost certainly too good to be true.A woman in Daytona Beach learned this the…
A tanning salon owner in Key West who increasingly blamed his personal struggles on President Obama warned his partner that “I’m not going to be around long” if the president won reelection last week.Two days after the president’s victory over Mitt Romney, Keys police found Henry Hamilton dead of a…
For two years now, William Britt has been subbing in classrooms around the Florida Keys, including inside a handful of local elementary schools. At home, Britt was stockpiling hundreds of images of child pornography.After a landlord spotted the illegal porn and called the police, Britt admitted he was “sick” and…
When a man in Sarasota repeatedly took Obama signs off his neighbor’s lawn, he wanted to let her know it wasn’t just vandalism. See, he was looking out for everyone’s safety by not letting burglars know that weak-kneed, Second Amendment-hating liberals lived there. He even sent her a postcard helpfully…
When Aaron Todd returned to his sports medicine office at the University of Miami Hospital in July, his laptop bag — which held his social security card, keys, and Veterans Affairs card — was gone. So began his maddening descent into the lax security at the giant hospital, which made…
Earlier this month, Carlos Bertonatti finally left his Key Biscayne house arrest and headed down to the Gerstein Justice Building to face charges that he drunkenly killed a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway in January 2010. His criminal trial, after nine delays, was at last scheduled to start last Monday.It…
With crisp autumn weather and no rain in sight, thousands of costumed revelers packed the street party on CocoWalk in Coconut Grove last night. Amidst all the drunken, blood-soaked zombies, though, a very real bloodbath broke out around 3 a.m. last night.After a fight erupted among partiers leaving CocoWalk, four…
Craig Mitchell is wanted by Miami Police in connection to the murder of Miami rapper Bizzle. The department issued a warrant for the 39-year-old’s arrest today, and investigators believe he is the man who killed Robert “Bizzle” Labranche at a Liberty City car wash earlier this month.See also:- Miami Rapper…
The Miami church headed by former City of Miami commissioner Rev. Richard Dunn II was robbed and ransacked by thieves last night. The robbers cut the wires to the alarm system, took tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics, and left the place of worship in a mess. …
The Transportation Security Administration was created in 2001 to keep us safe, but it turns out a handful of their employees are no better than common crooks. Since the TSA’s creation nearly 400 employees have been fired after being accused of stealing from passengers, and Miami International Airport leads the…
If you’ve ever tuned into 880 The Biz, you might have heard conservative radio host Edward Woodson railing against President Obama. If you’ve ever smoked weed, it might have been grown in Woodson’s home.Yes, according to GossipExtra.com, Woodson recently pleaded guilty to running a grow house and was sentenced to…
For more than a decade, Gus Lopez ran Miami Beach’s procurement department, directing bids for multimillion projects. It’s a vital job in a development hub like South Beach — and a job rife with opportunities for collusion and corruption. Earlier this year, Lopez was investigated for allegedly giving in to…
We know that if you threaten the safety of a local police officer, they will probably shoot you. If you instruct your dog to attack them, they will probably shoot the dog. So it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise by now that a bizarre traffic stop that…
For two decades, Boy Scouts of America leaders kept exhaustive, secret lists of men banned from volunteering, mostly because they’d been caught molesting boys. Many of the thousands of men in the so-called “Perversion Files” were never charged with a crime, as the Scouts fought to keep the records private…
U.S. Marshals are holding an auction out in Opa-locka today of cars seized from various convicted drug dealers through out South Florida. About 50 vehicles are up for grabs, including antiques, muscles cars, and Italian sports cars. Riptide has browsed through the inventory and picked our 10 favorites. Update: Sorry,…
No one denies that John Errol Ferguson is insane. Ferguson’s been having psychotic visions for more than four decades, and for years has firmly believed that he’s the “Prince of God” who will ascend directly to the right hand of God when he dies. The last judge to consider his…
Attention Miami residents: Next time you’re out and about, having a perhaps animated discussion near some cops, be careful. You might find yourself on the receiving end of a surprise flying tackle.That’s what Elsa and Gustavo Martinez say happened to them two years ago outside a Kendall lounge. The siblings…
