North Miami Beach mom Vivianne Perpignan remembers Rudy Eugene as just another good kid from the football team, who’d stop by her house while hanging out with her son Teddy. The Perpignans live on a residential street a five minute drive from North Miami Beach High, and the neighborhood feels…
Despite disputed reports of a 2,000-person arrest quota, Miami Beach Police only cuffed 321 people during the three-day Memorial Day weekend. That’s slightly down from 332 arrests last year, and the vast majority of those arrests were for misdemeanors. Crowd numbers too seemed to have been down as well. We…
So a naked a man was shot and killed by City of Miami police yesterday after he was caught literally chewing off the face of another man on a sidewalk near the MacArthur Causeway. That’s really all you need to know to send your head off into a tizzy, but…
The first high-profile arrest of Miami Beach police’s pumped-up presence heading into Memorial Day weekend or just a coincidence?New Yorks Knicks player J.R. Smith was arrested on South Beach on a warrant for not having a valid driver’s license last night around 9…
Kyle Morrison, 22, has been arrested for trying to storm the American Airlines Arena court without pants during the Miami Heat’s win against the Indiana Pacers Tuesday night. He now faces charges of disorderly conduct, resisting an officer with violence, battery on an officer, trespassing, and indecent exposure. Apparently the guy…
Remember last Memorial Day weekend on South Beach? Yes, that was the one when Miami Beach cops unloaded more than a hundred rounds into the car of Raymond Herisse, a Palm Beach resident police say tried to run them over on Collins Avenue. Not all those bullets hit Herisse, though. At…
Are Miami Beach Police planning to arrest 2,000 people during the notorious Memorial Day weekend parties on South Beach? As in they’ve actually set a quota regardless of whether or not 2,000 deserve to be arrested. To put that in prospective, the record number of arrests over Memorial Day weekend…
Ten days after the City of Miami evicted the Occupy Miami camp from the Government Center downtown, reporter Michael Miller and I visited “Fort Peace,” the inner city apartment complex opened as a safehouse to the movement by Rodrigo “Señor Paz” Duque.One of the first photos I shot, of seven…
Somewhere in Miami there’s a masseur named Jeff. If you run into him, buy the poor bastard a drink or an appetizer or something — he’s been through enough already. Jeff was just trying to give John Travolta a massage at the Eden Roc when Mr. Saturday Night Fever grabbed…
Frank Cairo is used to being on camera. He currently works for TV Azteca, but has had hosting stints on Univision, Telemundo and Mega TV. Though, his latest on-camera work shows him stealing two lawn chairs and a rug from his neighbors apartment in Doral. Cairo, whose real name is…
Prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case released a stash of evidence to a mouth-watering press horde yesterday evening, making public hundreds of pages of witness testimony, medical reports and photos. The headline takeaways: Zimmerman was hurt (his nose broken and head bloodied) and a few neighbors told police he was…
Joaquin Serrapio Jr., the 20-year-old Miami college student who threatened to kill President Barack Obama in messages posted on Facebook and Twitter, will now plead guilty in the case. Serrapio, a local bar band musician who also went by the name of Jay Valor, wrote on Facebook back in February…
Insurance fraud is a really tough crime to prove, especially when scammers deliberately set fires. To show it’s arson, all kinds of experts have to do painstaking analysis on burn patterns and chemical traces. It’s incredibly time consuming and difficult.That’s assuming, of course, that the crooks aren’t total morons who…
Photo by Eric BartonPhillips served as his own attorney for years while A trying to prove his innocence.A federal judge declined today to release a man from prison where he is serving a 24-year term on drug charges, despite the fact that prosecutors have agreed to drop the charges against…
Ronald Miranda, one of the FBI’s most wanted men who disappeared for 31 years only to resurface in Florida City, will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. The 65-year-old was convicted last month of the 1980 murder of Mitch Arambel in Los Banos, California. Yesterday a judge…
Last Thursday, a 31-year-old named Brian J. Weiss was holding a meeting in a Hilton hotel near Kennedy International Airport when a man pulled out a .380 Baretta and shot him five times in the head. That man, Gary Zalevsky, then killed himself as four others in the room dove…
Stephanie Kienzle, a North Miami Beach resident who blogs about her town at votersopinion.com, noticed something curious while reviewing voter registration rolls: nine different voters were all listed at an address on NE 171st Street. Even more curiously: That house belongs to a city councilman, Frantz Pierre. Suspicious, Kienzle filed…
Last week, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported the lowest crime rate across the state since the agency began tracking statistics in 1971. With population growth factored in, the overall crime rate dropped 0.8 percent from 2010 to 2011. In Miami-Dade, the crime rate dropped 0.3 percent last year.But…
A 15-foot boat carrying roughly 600 pounds of marijuana and hashish was oh so close to smuggling the product into Miami on Sunday. The boat was cruising westbound toward our coast when it was spotted by a Coast Guard Air Station Miami helicopter crew…
Jonathan Davis, a retired chiropractor, was caught in a Hialeah Burlington Coat Factory stalking young girls. Davis recorded images of the girls, touched himself inappropriately, and got the attention of the young girls to say things like, “You can’t have a butt that nice when you’re 8.” Hialeah police are…
Photo by Eric BartonPhillips has spent 11 years in federal prison. A federal inmate who has served 11 years on drug charges he says he didn’t commit has convinced prosecutors to let him out of prison. Elroy Phillips refused to accept his fate after being sentenced to 30 years on…
Lorenzo Green, a man who identified himself as a independent youth basketball coach, has been arrested for luring boys to his home and offering prize money for “masturbation contests.” The Miami Police Department’s Special Victims Unit is looking for more potential victims…
