At some point, anyone who’s ever gone clubbing on Washington Avenue has felt like the whole thing was an elaborate ripoff. But this? This is insane.The FBI today has busted an Eastern European ring that set up a half dozen fake clubs in South Beach that existed solely to steal…
A 16-year-old girl in Homestead was raped Sunday after accepting a ride home from church with Edwin Carrillo-Garcia, 23, a fellow parishioner. He’s accused of driving her instead to an unknown area and raping her in his car before driving her home…
There are only three acceptable situations in which it is OK to snatch a woman’s weave: (1) Bitch just stole your man, (2) you are on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, or (3) you are a police officer who has reasonable suspicion that a suspect is hiding stolen cash under…
Last night, a 24-year-old named Jamal Singletary pulled an assault rifle and started shooting at an officer in Allapattah. The detective pulled his own weapon and fired back, killing Singletary on the spot, police say.Singletary becomes the eighth suspect killed by police fire in an urban Miami neighborhood since last…
Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Reinaldo Ruiz was arrested Friday by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies at his Southwest Ranches home on domestic violence charges. It seems his rampage stems from the fact that the victim, whom he was dating, refused to hold his hand at a Miami Heat game. The incident that followed…
Happy Anniversary, Wachovia!A year after the bank admitted to handling hundreds of millions in Mexican drug money — and paid $160 million in fines and penalties — the company is now off the hook for further punishment.According to the British paper the Guardian, government documents also show the Magic City played…
Reinaldo Ruiz, a sergeant with the Miami-Dade Police Department who makes more than $100,000 a year, has found himself on the other side of the badge. Few details are available, but Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Ruiz Friday night at his Southwest Ranches home and charged him with domestic violence…
Eighteen-year-old Brian Beaubern, a high school athlete, is at Jackson Memorial Hospital fighting for his life as he recovers from severe injuries. Corina Gonzalez, 32, is sitting behind bars in a Miami jail facing charges of DUI with bodily injuries. The pair’s worlds collided Saturday night in Coconut Grove when…
Sheila McNeil couldn’t believe what she was seeing printed in black-and-white.It was a recent Tuesday night at an Overtown community center, and McNeil had come to hear a presentation by Paul Philip, an ex-FBI chief hired by the City of Miami to investigate the Police Department’s fatal shootings of seven…
When lunatic Gainesville pastor Terry Jones announced his plan to burn Korans at his tiny church, no less an authority than Gen. David Petreaus warned that there would be consequences in places like Afghanistan where fellow religious lunatics look for any such provocation for bloodshed. Jones went ahead with the…
The story of the stand-off at a Homestead reptile farm has more twists and turns than a snake slithering through the jungle. Riptide has learned that Bruce Stephenson was found dead after a stand off with police while he had barricaded himself in a home on the premises. Tom Crutchfield,…
Earlier this week, a 16-year-old girl was waiting for her bus, instead she almost was forcibly dragged into the back of a stranger’s car. City of Miami Police are on the search for a man who tried to abduct the girl. His original attempt was thwarted, but as he drove…
Paul Thorington, 22, Anthony Albano, 23, and Ray Joseph Laranjo, 23, the three men charged in a brutal gang rape at the Fontainebleau following a Miami Music Week pool party, have been granted bond and will be allowed to return to California. If they make bond, they will be placed under house…
At Tom Crutchfield’s Reptile Farm in Homestead, you can find deadly creatures such as Chinese bamboo vipers, Mojave rattlesnakes, black Pakistan cobras, and, apparently, right now, a man with a gun. Yes, according to reports, a man has barricaded himself inside a building on the property after shooting another man…
As expected former conman turned pastor turned corporate whistle-blower Barry Minkow has pleaded guilty to commit securities fraud. He was accused of purposefully trying to harm the business of Lennar, a home builder that is one of the largest companies head-quartered in Miami-Dade, by reporting that were operating “like a…
The online uproar over a clash between Miami Beach cops and Swedish House Mafia fans all started when thousands of ticket-holders were denied entrance to the group’s show. Tensions skyrocketed as at least two thousand people who’d paid stood in the sun for hours, until they eventually stormed the place.We’ve…
The Miami Beach Police Department offered a swift reaction to videos that surfaced online after this weekend’s on-the-beach melee between angry partygoers at Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel event and cops, who claim they acted appropriately. The videos show officers struggling with various people surrounded by an unruly crowd. At…
Coral Gables jewelry store owner Eddie Snow might be celebrating his 67th birthday this Friday before undergoing open-heart surgery Monday, but you don’t want to mess with him. A would-be robber attempted a brazen smash-and-grab on Snow’s Miracle Mile shop, but the store owner caught up to him and delivered…
Police are investigating a double shooting this morning in Kendall that left a couple dead inside their home. While the investigation is on-going, detectives believe that the incident may have been a double shooting. Two children resided with the couple in the home, but had left for school earlier that…
Lee Willie DeJesus, a 25-year-old father from Homestead, was put behind bars last August after allegedly killing his two-year-old son during “boxing lessons”. He spent the rest of his life there. On Saturday DeJesus was found hanging from his own bed sheets at the Miami-Dade jail…
Along with an alleged gang rape at the Fontainebleau and an intoxicated drowning death at the Clevelander, Ultra Weekend also brought us a scary near riot on South Beach as a drunken crowd surrounded and taunted two cops trying to arrest an unruly couple outside a Swedish House Mafia show. Videos…
North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre’s campaign manager, Ricardo Brutus, took an envelope stuffed with $4,000 in cash in exchange for asking “his people” to take an item off the city council’s agenda earlier this year, prosecutors say. A police report obtained by New Times detailing Brutus’ arrest is sure to…
