Talk about a hostile witness. Armando Codina, the developer at the heart of a criminal case against ex-Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, repeatedly criticized prosecutor Richard Scruggs on the stand today for “misleading” him. Prosecutors say the $12,500 that Codina gave a charity at Spence-Jones’s urging amounted to a bribe, but the developer denied…
Four women have come forward and claimed they were sexually assaulted by employees at the spa at Doral Golf Resort & Spa. Two woman came forward with their allegations in early February, and now, according to NBCMiami, two other women plan to sue the resort for sexual assault by spa workers…
Cheese smuggling sounds like some sort of weird euphemism, but in this case we really mean that two people in Miami have been arrested for smuggling contaminated cheese into the country. Yuri Izurieta, 41, and Anneri Izurieta, 46, husband and wife, and their company, Naver Trading Corp., have been indicted…
Vincent Paul Collins, 25, and Savanah Lynn Sholter, 21, have been arrested after authorities found their two-year-old son abandoned in a Hialeah motel room surrounded by his own filth and a dead animal, and weighing only 15 pounds. The pair is charged with one count each of child neglect and…
Robin Greinke and Steven Neil do not deserve to enjoy the simple pleasure of pizza. All they seemingly deserve is a lifetime of jail. Greinke, 26, confessed to beating her 3-year-old son to death with Neil, her 33-year-old boyfriend, before the pair ate pizza and watched a movie in Orlando…
Miami Police arrested eight business owners and confiscated 32 gaming machines this afternoon in an operation that seems certain to escalate the ugly feud between Chief Miguel Exposito and Mayor Tomás Regalado.In January, the embattled chief accused the mayor of interfering with a similar sting days after Regalado had helped…
Eighteen-year-old Jay Stubbs is behind bars and facing charges that he fatally shot his 16-year-old girlfriend, Tracy Gabriel, in the face. Police booked Stubbs just a little more than 24 hours after the early Tuesday-morning murder…
Police Chief Miguel Exposito has described his officers as “predators,” and now there are calls for his department to be investigated after a string of police-involved shootings. Andrea Castillo claims that even when guns aren’t involved, City of Miami Police officers are too quick to jump to undue violence. She claims…
Watch out for Freddy Krueger! He’ll kill you in your dreams! Or, apparently, rob your grocery store. Police are on the lookout for a man in a Freddy Krueger Halloween mask who pulled off an armed robbery at a Food Giant grocery store this past weekend…
“I’ll wear a flower in my hair or something,” Karen Raley says chirpily, “because you’ll never recognize me from my mug shot!” She sits in a back booth at Roasters’ n Toasters in Aventura. It’s her favorite diner, a low-key joint where the bagels are cheap. She doesn’t seem to…
In an effort dubbed “Operation Pill Nation,” federal and local authorities executed the largest crack down on pill mills in South Florida to date. South Florida has become a hotbed of shady pain clinics dolling out prescriptions for powerful and addictive pain killers, and while most of these clinics are…
All Urania Lot wanted was for her 18-year-old son to eat his sandwich in the dining room. When he refused to quit chomping in the living room, the 60-year-old Stock Island mom grabbed a hammer. And when threats of smashing the TV to bits didn’t work either, Lot wailed on…
Despite a triumphant concert in Miami and a Grammy win within the last few months, Buju Banton’s dark days are not behind him. After an initial trial on drug charges was declared a mistrial, Banton has been found guilty of conspiring to set up a Florida cocaine deal back in…
Joel Paul Williams is the fire starter, allegedly. The 33-year-old homeless man has been charged in connection with two of the four fires that have struck abandoned buildings in the Collins Park area of Miami Beach in the past few days. Though, investigators believe he may be behind as many…
Organized crime is still alive in Miami, but after a crack down today not so well. Thirteen people throughout South Florida have been arrested and charged with ties to an organized crime syndicate. The arrests were part of a larger crackdown on a group called the Armenian Power gang. 100…
Former North Miami Beach public services director Martin King was arrested today and charged with 41 felony counts of money laundering for stealing millions in taxpayer dollars with fake work orders for sewer projects. After investigators looked into how $2.2 million in projects were unaccounted for, King admitted that he…
A truly strange murder case sprouted along I-95 yesterday when rescuers — who had just saved a man and a boy suffering from chemical fume exposure in a pesticide truck — found a corpse in a bag stuffed between containers of hazardous chemicals in the back.The truck belongs to a…
Bob “Kooch” Kuechenberg, a Miami Dolphins legend who played for the unbeaten ’72 team and racked up six Pro Bowl selections, has been busted for a DUI. The arrest comes after he side swiped another vehicle while trying to make a lane change on a stretch of I-95 in Broward…
For those of you all alone today, just remember it could always be worse. Your Valentine could be a psycho who threatens to cut off your head after strangling you with a belt. That’s basically what happened in Key Largo yesterday, and now 33-year-old Nathan Hemby sits behind bars…
City of Miami police officers have shot and killed another suspect — the seventh killed by MPD cops since last summer. The latest shooting happened last night around 11 p.m. at North Miami Avenue and 75th Street, police sources tell Riptide, and left another man in critical condition.Police are declining…
Juan Carlos Rodriguez, the Miami-Dade police officer accused of fondling two teenage girls during a traffic stop, will have to rustle up a little less cash to head home for house arrest before his trial. A judge has reduced Rodriguez’s bond from $150,000 to $80,000…
Thirty-two-year-old Carlos Usatorres, a former full-time gym teacher at Miami Springs Middle School, was arrested last December on charges that he was having repeated sexual encounters in his office with a 13-year-old female student. The arrest has been kept quiet until now, but the attorney for the girl’s family is…
