Update: Francisco’s mother, Lauren Chollet, called Riptide on Monday, January 3. She attested that there was “nothing sexual” about the burglary incident at the University of Central Florida: her son was intoxicated and continually entering the wrong dorm rooms. Also, she accused Francisco’s girlfriend of filing false domestic violence claims…
Riptide is the first outlet to get its hands on the Davie Police arrest report of Reynaldo Rodriguez, the driver charged with vehicular homicide in the death of prolific graffiti and tattoo artist Jonathan “Ynot” Corso. The document finally sheds some light on the events of that night, the identities…
Police have arrested a Miami Gardens man with a long record of felony charges in the brutal late-night shooting earlier this month that killed 24-year-old corrections officer Ciara Lee and her two-year-old son as they slept in their bedroom in Liberty City.Henry A. Ferguson, a 22-year-old who was free on…
Yesterday’s bizarre mini-explosion on the tarmac of Miami International Airport was not connected to terrorism, the FBI has confirmed. A piece of luggage exploded when workers were unloading it from the plane. Originally, the explosions was though to be caused by an aerosol can but was actually caused by hundreds…
Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman, the Perrine convenience store clerks accused to beating a customer to death last month in an argument over pocket change, will have to wait another couple weeks for their first day in court. Their arraignment, which was scheduled this morning, has been bumped back until January…
Most people’s idea of a white Christmas does not involve candy Easter eggs. Then again, Esteban Galtes wasn’t planning to celebrate with wholesome, Vermont-style snow.The 23-year-old Miami resident was caught trying to smuggle approximately $100,000 worth of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport. He had tried to disguise most of…
Charlie Garcia, 30 an 11-year employee at Paul W. Bell Middle School, located in west Miami-Dade, was all set to play Santa Claus for the school’s holiday festivities. Then Broward Sheriff’s Officers knocked on his door. They arrested him for the very un-Santa like crime of possessing child pornography…
Garrett Wittels, the Florida International University baseball star who made national headlines last year with a DiMaggio-esque hitting streak, is about to be all over the interwebs for much less savory reasons. Wittels and two friends have been charged in the rape of two 17-year-old girls in the Bahamas…
Let’s start this list with a caveat: In the 305, the vast majority of police officers are decent men and women risking their lives to protect America’s craziest county. It’s not a job most of us could do, and we salute them for it. Really.But it’s also true that when…
Rosa Marie Pou, 44 of Miami, was arrested yesterday after allegedly abandoning her severely disabled son at the SeaWorld amusement park in Orlando and then laughing about it. Her son has severe mental and developmental disabilities, and police originally thought he was about 8-years-old when they found him alone in…
Last we heard from Carlos Bertonatti — the handsome, would-be pop singer accused of killing a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway while drunkenly speeding home from Club Space — his bond had been revoked after prosecutors said he was a flight risk who had lied about owning multiple passports.Well, Bertonatti…
City of Miami police have shot a suspect armed with a shotgun in Liberty City, leaving the man seriously wounded — and giving Chief Miguel Exposito a new round of questions to answer about violence in the neighborhood.Update: The suspect, who died overnight, has been identified as 22-year-old Brandon Foster…
Yesterday, a WSVN report on a Miramar man who was shot to death in front of his three young children and wife included a quote from a neighbor claiming the man was “best friends” with Miami rapper Rick Ross. Though no one could confirm the relationship this set off a…
First there was the human stew discovered in a bucket behind the Egg and U diner in Fort Lauderdale. Then there was the head found in another bucket a few days later in Dania Beach and the male torso spotted inside a storage container near the Country Club of Miami.Now…
Ciara Lee, 24, and her two-year-old son were the victims of an all-out assault by high-powered rifle. Police say their home in the Victory Homes housing project in Model City was riddled with bullets shortly after 1 a.m. Lee had worked as a corrections officer at the South Florida Reception…
You’ve got a steamrolling Ponzi scheme churning out cash so fast that you can’t spend it all. You’ve already leased the $4,700-per-month Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG with rims fatter than Fat Joe and dropped $1.5 million on a Riviera yacht. But where do you hang your (gold-plated) hat after a long…
Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman — the Perrine clerks who sparked a national furor and a local boycott after allegedly beating a customer to death ago over an argument about a few cents change — will have to wait another few weeks for their first day in court. The Sulaimans’ arraignment…
At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison’s pardon — which should be made official at 9 a.m. — closes a sordid footnote in rock history, some…
Miami police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a live-in boyfriend and girlfriend couple that happened sometime in the last 24 hours, reports The Miami Herald. Police believe the girlfriend shot and killed her boyfriend before shooting herself…
The wayward ways of former Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolaños’ troublesome son Rolando Bolaños Jr. have finally caught up to him. Bolaños Jr. has plead guilty to strong armed robbery of a bank stemming from an incident last year in which he made off with $2,389 from a Bank Atlantic…
Just after 7 p.m. last Tuesday inside Miami Beach City Hall, two high level bureaucrats settled a heated argument the old school way: With some good ol’ fashioned fisticuffs.Police broke up the brouhaha after Charles Carreño, the Capital Improvement Projects director, allegedly grabbed assistant to the city manager Emanuel Mayer…
Shatarka Nuby already had breast implants, but they weren’t big enough. And her arms! They needed liposuction, stat! The only problem: Nuby didn’t have $9,000 to pay for all that work.So that’s when the 29-year-old lifted a college application out of a mailbox, opened a fraudulent credit card, and went…
