Anthony Mangione, the chief of the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s South Florida department, was arrested today on charges related to child pornography. Mangione had been suspended in April after federal investigators found images of child porn on his computer in his Broward County home. A summer-long investigation led…
Power 96 morning host and Miami bass legend DJ Laz finds himself connected to a bizarre murder-suicide that occurred in Miramar this past weekend.Marcus Trotman, 25, shot his wife, 30-year-old Danielle Lorenzo, and his mother-in-law, Linda Scudera, before turning the gun on himself. All three died. According to Local 10’s sources,…
In March 2010, 21-year-old Julia Sumnicht, a Wisconsin college student and aspiring model, died in Miami Beach after overdosing on a date rape drug. Now the New York Post reports that her death has been linked to Jason Itlzer, the self-proclaimed “King of All Pimps” who formerly ran a high-class escort service…
This past Sunday afternoon in Liberty City, suspects began shooting at two men inside a silver Nissan. The bullets left DeRon Woody dead and Greg Roberts injured. The suspects then fled in a black Buick sedan…
Det. Ed Hill of North Miami Beach has already broken one giant police no-no: sleeping with the Russian mail-order bride of a man he’d just arrested for murder. Just for good measure, he went ahead and took over the jailed man’s driveway-paving business, too.Now Hill is accused of forging a…
An armed man made off with an undisclosed amount of cash this morning after robbing a Miami Beach branch of Wells Fargo. The incident occurred at 1901 Alton Rd. around 7:45 a.m. The man fired shots at employees, though no one was hurt…
For the second time this month, gunmen have opened fire outside Secrets Strip Club at 11340 Biscayne Blvd. in North Miami. The latest incident happened early this morning and resulted in the death of one man. Another man was injured…
From rubber penises to fiberglass cocks, the wacky news in the wang-shaped state never ends.One of those 70-pound fiberglass rooster sculptures that dot Calle Ocho in Little Havana has been stolen, according to the Miami Herald. The rooster once stood guard proudly outside El Pub, at 1548 SW Eighth Street, but…
Nelson Walker might be the Dolphins number one fan. He actually wears a Dolphins jersey in public without an accompanying paper bag over his head. Walker was even donning the aqua jersey when he showed up in court on charges that he and a friend stuffed two Dolphins jerseys and…
Guenther Floerchinger, a 78-year-old man, is alleged to have shot his 21-year-old wife before setting his Port St. Lucie home on fire and then killing himself. Floerchinger made two phone calls before his suicide — one asking a neighbor to take his wife’s 4-year-old daughter from the home, and the…
If at first you don’t succeed, just set a few more fires and hope that this time the firefighters can’t get there quick enough. That was the mindset of an arsonist in Wynwood last night who tried to burn down a warehouse near North Miami Avenue and 29th Street, only…
As Biannela Susana’s 2-year-old son was lying on the floor unconscious after being badly beaten by his 12-year-old half-brother, Susana was more interested in news about David and Victoria Beckham’s sons than in the serious situation involving her sons. Investigators say Susana waited four hours to look up information about…
For nine years, LEO Affairs has been a rowdy online meeting spot for anyone in search of the inside scoop on local police, a place where off-duty cops banter about crappy shift supervisors, overzealous internal affairs snoops, and incompetent chiefs (ahem, Exposito!).That banter has gotten a bit too loose for…
Steven Martonffy, a member of the Miami Beach Fire Department, sits behind bars today after allegedly driving a city vehicle while drunk and then crashing it into a parked car early this morning…
A South Florida man sentenced to decades in prison for a minor drug charge will finally get his chance in court to prove he didn’t commit the crime.U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard issued a ruling September 8 that grants Elroy Phillips a hearing to present his evidence. Phillips…
Meet Jesus Rodolfo Hernandez. During his short tenure with the Miami-Dade Police Department, he racked up enough controversy to qualify as one of the worst people to wear the department’s badge. After being thrown off the force in disgrace, the 26-year-old apparently turned to the illegal sale of monkeys and…
A woman in her 60s was found dead on an Opa-locka street early this morning. Police believe she was shot through the back, but have released few other details…
Controversial former All-Star slugger Manny Ramirez was arrested in Broward County earlier tonight on charges of domestic battery. Ramirez, 39, allegedly slapped his wife so hard she fell back and hit her head on the headboard in the bedroom of their Weston home. Updated…
Miami freight shipper Robert Matson Conyers was charged with animal cruelty yesterday after a tri-continental shipment of monkeys turned into a cannibalistic simian catastrophe.Guyanese animal supplier Akhtar Hussain hired Conyers to help ship 25 monkeys — 14 marmosets, five white-fronted capuchins, and six squirrel monkeys — to a buyer in…
It is important not only to know your rights when a cop shows up at your door so that you avoid extra trouble, but also to know proper procedure so that you can spot when four crooks pretending to be cops show up at your door with the intent to…
It seems Nevin Shapiro, the scrawny, debauched Ponzi schemer currently trying to dynamite University of Miami athletics, is even slimier than we thought. A woman now claims that Shapiro, along with his convicted felon stepdad, once helped launder drug profits for the PKK, a notorious Turkish terrorist group. The claims…
South Florida can add another feather to its fraud cap: scummiest Medicare scammers in the U.S.SoFla has long been the anus epicenter of health care fraud (see Rick Scott and Columbia/HCA). So it’s no surprise that when prosecutors announced charges today against 91 people in a massive, months-long national investigation into…
