Rescuers pulled the body of a white male out of Biscayne Bay around 8:30 this morning after he was spotted floating just south of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The man was a jet skier, Gabriella Ferraro, a Florida Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman, tells Riptide — but he hasn’t been ID’d…
Daniel Yepez learned a little something about psychedelic mushrooms this weekend. Namely, that too many can make you trip your balls off so badly that walking slowly and determinedly into the ocean while screaming, “It’s time for me to die!” seems like a great idea.Luckily for Yepez, a 21-year-old from…
Attention, modern criminals and/or wayward offspring of public officials: We know that you, like all of us, are pressed for time. And sometimes it’s so much easier to send a text than to meet on a misty loading dock under the cover of night. But we still advise you against…
In an often emotional trial, Andy Rodriguez stands accused of fatally stabbing classmate Juan Carlos Rivera with a box cutter in the halls of Coral Gables Senior High School in 2009. Rodriguez’s defense team is trying to paint his actions as merely in self-defense.Days after jurors viewed surveillance footage of…
A 12-year-old girl was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night after she was shot by her brother. The brother, in his early 20s, was carrying a gun when it accidentally discharged and sent a bullet into the girl’s leg. She’s recovering and in stable condition. Update: The brother has…
A Miami-Dade Police officer is accused of arresting a Guatemalan man on trumped up charges and calling him a “fucking immigrant” after asking where the man was from. Cases like this sure don’t help those in favor of bringing Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida and claim that they wouldn’t lead…
Mustafa Cornelius Lee, 28, and Francisco Henriquez, 35, have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting off-duty New York City Police Department Detective Harold Thomas in South Beach over the weekend. The shooting appears to have stemmed from a robbery attempt…
Brothers Jonathan and Luis Baez have been arrested after seriously beating up a pilot on a plane at Miami International Airport last night. The skirmish started after the flight crew ordered one brother off the flight because he appeared to be drunk or on drugs and ended in the terminal…
Ex-Miami Beach cop Derick Kuilan has hit the fallout trifecta after taking a drunk joyride on an ATV and hitting two citizens: he’s been fired, he’s been arrested, and now he’s being sued.Victim Kitzie Nicanor is still in the hospital with a severe brain injury and may need medical care…
Two masked men drove up to Miami’s West Little River Park yesterday around 6 p.m. and began firing. Four children, one as young as 3 years old, were hit by stray bullets. None of the injuries was life-threatening. …
Damn you Big Government. Always getting in the way of stuff. Like that one time President Barack O’Socialist tried to keep us from getting sick and dying without health care. Whatevs.Well, ol’ Biggie is up to it again, this time by preventing us Floridians from seeking righteous vengeance against the…
A small house party turned deadly Saturday night for 19-year-old Pasco County resident Samuel Smith, an aspiring mixed martial artist who witnesses say was beaten to death by a red-haired partygoer after Smith called him a “ginger” and told him he had “weak knees,” according to the St. Petersburg Times…
Whatever happened to the stoic Eastern European mobster? You know, the Viggo Mortensen type who communicates via grunts, cryptic tattoos, and the bludgeoning end of a fire extinguisher? Meet 22-year-old Sunny Isles Beach luminary Jason Eibinder, arrested in January for his role in a massive Romania-based Internet fraud scheme. Last…
When Adewale Ogunleye walked into his condo in the South Beach Mondrian a few weeks ago, he got a nasty shock — a slammed door and a “large male” hiding in the shower. When he called out, the guy said he was “Roberto, head of housekeeping.” Even worse, Ogunleye says,…
Two Miami Beach cops accused of assaulting a gay tourist in Flamingo Park are getting pink slips — even though prosecutors declined to file charges against them. Officers Elliut Hazzi and Frankly Forte are set to be fired, Commissioner Michael Gongora announced on his Twitter feed this afternoon.The two Beach…
German Guanchez, 57, stood before a judge yesterday with two black eyes and a “Save the Pumpkins” T-Shirt. Guanchez was in court after allegedly making a fake bomb threat that shut down a Kendall gym. Police can’t quite put together a motive, and it does not appear that Guanchez is…
Doctors today are still struggling to save the life of an off-duty New York City cop grievously wounded during an early morning shootout on South Beach on Saturday. Detective Harold Thomas has undergone at least two surgeries after a bullet tore through his femoral artery during the gunfight on Collins…
David Vigil had never met a girl like Candice Cooper Boley in Miami Beach before: a tiny Alabama belle whose quick smile and Southern drawl were as out of place as a snowflake. When they started dating in February, Boley say, she wasn’t interested in marriage or kids. But after…
An off-duty New York City police officer was shot on South Beach outside a ritzy beach resort early this morning, police say. Miami Beach detectives have shut down Collins Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets today while they search for whomever shot the off-duty vacationing cop outside the luxury 1233…
Two men are dead after a tragic situation in North Miami Beach last night. Thirty-seven-year-old Jonathan Woolfson is believed to have possibly killed his friend, Troy Longhurst, then Woolfson himself was shot after a stand off with the SWAT team…
Blame counterfeiting technology and man’s inclination to evil if you’d like, but we’re blaming the extortionist laundry industry for driving prices too high for the average Joe to keep his skivvies clean.Miami 24-year-old Dayan Capestany was arrested after Charlotte County Sheriff deputies say he tried to buy a box of…
An early-morning shooting down the street from Little Haiti’s iconic punk-rock dive bar, Churchill’s Pub, has left one person dead and another recovering in the hospital. The incident happened around 3:30 this morning, and police so far have released few details. Updated. …
