Just ask Tupac, Lil Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You might as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting…
Bank robbery is not a dumb man’s game. With high-tech security and cunning police, there’s little room for amateurish. Even if you do manage to make off with some loot, you better have a good get away plan. That usually involves making sure your getaway driver isn’t asleep, and if…
Nail salon employee is not a job usually associated with danger, but a worker at the Nails 4 U salon on Biscayne Boulevard and 155th Street was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night for surgery after being shot in the chest on the job…
A bizarre incident this morning involving a Florida Department of Environmental Protection officer and an apparently naked suspect ended up with the officer taking bullets to his hand while the au natural suspect was Tasered…
A week or so ago, Riptide braved the overhyped media maelstrom that was the grand opening of the new 5th Street Gym. A sanitized version of the South Beach boxing den where Muhammad Ali trained, it’s now helmed by a Chicago-based ownership group. Ali trainer Angelo Dundee’s own share feels…
P. Leonardo Mascheroni had a simple dream: earning billions of dollars in government funding to build a gigantic laser beam that would create stable nuclear fusion and limitless, free energy for the world. So simple! But the government wouldn’t listen.So the Los Alamos-based nuclear physicist took his plans to a…
Reggae star Buju Banton’s trial on cocaine charges has ended in a mistrial after the 12-person jury sent a second notice to the judge saying they couldn’t reach a decision. The jury had been deliberating since Thursday following a four-day trial…
Miami federal prosecutor Sean Cronin, 35, was arrested yesterday after deciding to take an impromptu dip in nothing but his boxer shorts at a bar’s pool while watching the New England Patriots game. A young girl and her mother claimed to have seen Cronin’s little federal prosecutor as he exited…
What’s gotten into Miami robbers this week? Just a few days after the made-for-Hollywood heist of a Coral Gables Bank of America — complete with a kidnapped teller with a bomb strapped to his chest — another gang of bandits knocked over a Wendy’s in Homestead last night in the…
A Miami PD SWAT team has surrounded a Bank of America near the University of Miami and shut down nearby Coral Gables streets as negotiators try to talk down an armed robber holding at least one hostage inside.UM sent students an alert about an hour ago warning them to stay…
Buju Banton, it seems, has a gaping, cavernous mineshaft of a hole to dig out of in federal court in Tampa: the feds have hours of taped conversations with the reggae star talking about cocaine, quoting detailed worldwide prices for cocaine, and even visiting a warehouse and sampling a few…
The rules of burger chain Checkers are simple. Customers can go through the drive-through. Customer can go up to the order window. But under no circumstances are customers actually allowed inside the building. When that happens, like it did last night at the Checkers LeJeune Road between Fourth and Fifth…
It’s a story as old as time. Boy cop meets girl cop. Boy cop and girl cop date for a while. Girl cop dumps boy cop. Boy cop stages a fake crime in hopes that girl cop will show up at the scene so he can propose to her and…
Why is it that parrots can’t avoid running with the wrong crowd? First there was their storied relationship with blood-thirsty pirates. Now, apparently, they’re getting involved in the Colombian drug trade. Colombian prosecutors are accusing Lorenzo the Parrot of being trained to scream a warning in Spanish– “Run, run, the…
It’s already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami — or at least for the feds’ perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then…
When the Miami Heat’s Udonis Haslem was charged by the Florida Highway Patrol with a third degree felony of possessing more than 20 grams of marijuana things seemed shady. We went as far as to call it a “miscarriage of justice.” Now, the State Attorney’s Office has dropped all charges…
Yesterday, news broke of a bizarre lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade court that alleged amongst other wrongdoings Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal hatched a plan to plant child porn on a former employee’s computer and use his law enforcement connections to have the man arrested. Today Shaq’s representatives have released a statement about…
Robert Barker, a 41-year-old from Leesburg, was apparently none to pleased when his teenage stepson had to bow out of a youth football game over the weekend due to the blistering heat. His solution? Set up cones in the front yard and make the kid run some sprints — while…
A Florida Road Ranger, one of those helpful services that give free assistance to highway motorists with car troubles, stopped to offer help last night to a driver who had pulled over near the median of the Palmetto Expressway. He found the driver asleep at the wheel, and oh yeah,…
Last Friday, we had few details about the bizarre murder that left an 84-year-old woman dead at the hands of an 87-year-old who had also shot himself. Now, Juan Adolfo Gonzalez has been identified as the gunman. He told police he had been plotting the murder of Celina Hernandez, his ex-girlfriend,…
Dexter Morgan, the fictional anti-hero of local author Jeff Lindsay’s book series and Showtime’s hit drama, trades in on Miami’s violent image as a crime scene analyst by day and a serial killer of other serial killers by night. Though, the violence, as Miami’s tourism boards might want to let…
A bizarre murder-suicide attempt today has left one octogenarian dead, and another injured. Police are investigation and incident in which an 87-year-old man pulled a gun on an 84-year-old woman and then apparently turned it toward himself…
