Gianni Versace’s 1997 murder on the steps of his Ocean Drive mansion remains one of the most high-profile and bizarre killings in Miami Beach history. While the death was always believed to be the strange end to the spree of killings by Andrew Cunanan, an ex-mobster believes Versace’s killing wasn’t…
In a feature last month, New Times explored skater culture in Miami, a city that’s never quite warmed to thrashers even though its warm environs and concrete jungles could easily make the Magic City a skateboard mecca. Last night brought another tragic blow to the scene when a 14-year-old riding…
In places such as Kabul, Gaza, and Baghdad, unmanned aerial vehicles hovering over homes, following suspects, and tracking enemies of the state are a daily reality. So where are the high-tech drones buzzing to next? Miami-Dade County, naturally!The Miami-Dade Police Department is poised to become the first large metro force…
Hundreds of protesters have surrounded a QuickStop in Perrine where two co-owners beat a man to death with a crowbar last week after an argument over a few cents and an exchange of racial slurs. Although the owners — Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman — have been charged in the death…
Gilberto Matamoros, the 21-year-old man who’s brutal beating at the hands of out-of-control City of Miami police officers on Halloween night in Coconut Grove was caught on YouTube, is being charged with resisting arrest. There’s still no clear explanation given for what exactly caused officers to repeatedly punch Matamoros in…
Willie Walden was co-director of North Miami’s Police Athletic League and a school resources officer who patrolled the campuses of North Miami High School, North Miami Middle School and several elementary schools. His job was to keep kids safe, but now the 48-year-old officer has been relieved of duties following…
In today’s senseless murder news, a maintenance worker was shot dead while helping police evict a tenant from an Ocean Drive apartment in South Beach this morning. The shooter and a police officer were also injured, though neither seriously…
Miami-Dade County and most of its cities have dropped in the rankings on CQ Press’s “Most Dangerous Cities” list, which is considerably good news. Last year, Miami-Dade was ranked the fourth most dangerous metro area in America. This year, it’s only number 16, and no it’s not just because other cities…
Twenty-three-year-old Diana Demayo had just graduated from the University of Miami with honors and had a bright future in front of her when she returned to her native Detroit and got involved with 24-year-old Peter Dabish. The privileged son of a cofounder of the national chain Powerhouse Gym, Dabish was…
One of Miami’s classic condo towers, The Grand at 17th and Bayshore Drive, was rocked by a shooting on its 28th floor on Wednesday that left two men riddled with bullets. Now police have released their report: the violence started when a man tried to turn a pot deal into…
Two store clerks allegedly killed a man who entered their store and began verbally assaulting them with racial slurs late yesterday afternoon. The verbal argument soon escalated into physical violence, and eventually four employees began attacking the man as an off-duty corrections officer and other patrons tried to defuse the…
Welcome to our first-ever Mugshots Friday — a collection of the craziest Miami-Dade County booking photos from the previous week. We’re going back two weeks just this time. And whoo, boy do we have a strong inaugural class…
Halloween night in Coconut Grove is a well-known annual mad house, and police are out in full force. Though, this year it seems that City of Miami police officers may have gotten out of hand with their use of force on partying patrons. A YouTube video has been making the…
For nearly five years, Telmo Ricardo Hurtado lived a quiet life in sleepy Surfside, moving between low-rent apartments just off Collins Avenue with his mom and his younger brother. Neighbors knew him as a quiet, middle-aged Peruvian who kept to himself. No one saw the day coming in 2007 when…
An unruly high speed car chase that lead police on a pursuit of one or possibly two armed robbery suspects through out the streets of Miami this morning ended when the driver violently crashed his car into the back of a tanker truck on I-95. The driver survived and was…
If the Dolphins’ Phillip Merling did violently assault his pregnant fiancée it seems he won’t be facing any formal consequences for it. The Broward State Attorney’s office has announced that they’re dropping all charges after the victim in the case refused to continue cooperating. The Dolphins meanwhile never punished Merling. Even following his arrest…
Stephanie Peterson, age 22, was babysitting a young child in the apartment of Kizzy Williams, 31, when her boyfriend showed up ready for an argument. Tavaris Fair, 25, fired several shots in the North Miami apartment before ending his own life after a long standoff with police…
A bit of free legal advice from the offices of Riptide and Riptide, LLC: If you’ve just finished drunkenly swerving your car into a school bus full of children and someone thrusts a TV camera in your face, plead the fifth. Or walk away. Or act like you only speak…
Last May, we brought you the story of Albert Gonzalez, Jonathan James, and their Miami-based band of hackers who engineered the largest online credit card theft ever before it all fell apart. The story, even six months later, is still incredible.Now the New York Times Magazine has weighed in, devoting…
Miami-Dade police didn’t hear the gunshots, but they did hear the phone ring. If it wasn’t for an anonymous phone call they may not have found the body of a dead man in a Northwest Miami-Dade apartment. Now, with little clues and few apparent witnesses police must solve the mysterious…
Reggae star Buju Banton, who faces a February retrial on a criminal charge of conspiring to buy cocaine from an undercover police officer, could soon be released from Tampa jail. He has been locked up for the past 11 months. On November 4, Federal Judge James S. Moody Jr. denied…
If you’re going to use part of your place of residence as a make-shift marijuana grow house, South Beach probably isn’t the best neighborhood to do it. For one thing, rent is expensive. Sure maybe your “side business” helps off set that, but you’re also dealing with thin walls, small…
