Dealing with other people’s crying kids is just a part of life. In the scheme of things, it’s really nothing to get overly annoyed at. Well, a man in a Surfside Publix crossed the line.The man was in an elevator with a mother and her two young daughters. The woman’s…
To hear University of Miami music school dean Shelton Berg tell it, jazz piano professor Doug Bickel was pulling stunts that would make John Coltrane blanch. The 41-year-old jazz pianist, says Berg, smoked pot in his office, tried to barbecue inside a classroom, mooned his students, and sexually harassed them…
The FBI is investigating at least one member of the Miami Police Department’s undercover squad. One or more members is alleged to have stolen money and drugs from dealers. Mayor Tomés Regalado is aware of the investigation but doesn’t have details. Police Chief Miguel Exposito says the department is conducting…
Two young boys, believed to be only 3 and 7-years-old, were the victims of random AK-47 gunfire this afternoon. Both kids were transported to a hospital, and neither appeared to have life threatening injuries. The shooting happened today around 58th Terrace and NW 12th Avenue. Police are searching for four black men wearing…
Yesterday, Gayle Kelson purposefully seemed to leave her 2-year-old daughter on a city bus and faces a charge of child neglect. The girl was taken into protective custody, but her father showed up to get her. The only problem: He was drunk.Ronald Devers showed up to court slurring his words…
In yet another of our occasional reminders that Floridians outside of Miami-Dade are crazy, horrible people here’s the lead from a newstory from Central Florida news station WFTV: “The Brevard County doctor who was arrested for groping a woman while dressed as Captain America with a burrito in his pants…
If Johnnie Cochran was still alive and defending cat killer suspect Tyler Weinman, we’d imagine he’d be saying something like “If the pussy hairs aren’t the same, you can’t place blame.”WSVN reports that the DNA of cat hairs found in the room, clothing and backpack of defendant Tyler Weinman does…
The ad on Craigslist Miami shows a photo of two large black snakes slithering on white carpet. “Ball Pythons for Cheap,” the headline reads. “They are very tame and eat one mouse a week.” Scroll down a bit and find a “dwarf pastel Colombian redtail boa” for $160. A bit…
Police have arrested a mother who is believed to have put her two-year-old daughter on a county bus and then left her. Gayle Kelson walked away while the bus driver yelled at her for forgetting her child, but she continued off the bus. The driver called police, and she was…
When Samer Shehada read the news this morning, he started shaking with anger: The former Miami Beach cop who shot and killed his brother last summer had just been arrested for running a marijuana grow house. Samer was with his brother, Husien, that night, walking down Washington Ave., just after…
Lisa Caridad Garcia turned herself in last night for hitting Doral police officer Carlos Alvarez. The accident happened around Southeast 35th Terrace near 102nd Avenue on Saturday night, when Garcia hit Alvarez’s motorcycle head on, and kept going.Garcia’s motorcycle was demolished, but luckily he survived. He’s forced to get around…
The standoff over Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who has turned a Kingston slum into his own personal bunker to avoid extradition to the U.S, has forced his country into a state of emergency. To local law-enforcement officials, the situation is all too familiar. Coke’s ultra-violent cartel, called “The…
Maybe Riptide has been watching too much Animal Planet, but we can’t help thinking Miami’s crop of critter smugglers deserves its own special mini-series. Like cocaine and hookers, there’s a booming market for exotic animals in this classy city, and just imagine the drama: There will be suitcases full of…
The United Methodist Church Outreach Ministry in Florida City went up in flames over the weekend, and the building was mostly destroyed. Even the church’s playground, which was built a year ago, was melted to the ground.Parishioners say that they hope to rebuild the building, and are accepting donations, but…
It’s been nearly a year since Tyler Weinman was arrested and charged with a string of cat killings in the Palmetto and Cutler Bay neighborhoods. His trial isn’t even set to begin until October 25, but the Miami-Dade justice system trudges on. Weinman made an appearance in court today, during…
Philipe and Sherrine Mathieu have been arrested and charged with 860 counts of child neglect after forcing their own daughter to live outside for eight years. The child, now 16, was forbidden from eating, sleeping, or even using the restroom in the family home, and was forced to do it…
One-year-old Kianna Meus was found dead in the North Miami home of her grandmother on Monday. Originally reports and quotes from the family indicated that the death was an accident, but now police have charged Timothy Bodden, 23, with second degree murder for the death.Bodden is the boyfriend of the…
Twenty-five-year-old Vladimir Santos has been with his wife, Maria, since they were 13. Together the couple already had three sons under the age of five, with their first little girl on the way. The young family was renting a house in North Miami Beach, but Santos was told the house…
We’re not really sure what it is that drives people to expose themselves to teenagers in public. Psychologically at least. In this case we know the man was driving in a dark-colored, older- model, four-door car when he pulled up to a bus stop yesterday morning at NW 87th Avenue…
Miami-Dade Police officer John Villar has been arrested by his own force after he was charged with stealing $131,000 in a roadway robbery. Villar and two accomplices, including his cousin, targeted a man who had just won the money by betting on the NBA playoffs.Villar pulled the man over in…
Fourty-three-year-old Hernan Lazaro Concepcion has been charged with kidnapping and lewd and lascivious exhibition after allegations that he attempted to rape a four-year-old girl Sunday afternoon.The victim and her mother were attending a barbecue at their apartment complex, where Concepcion was also present. The mother realized her daughter had gone…
Florida Highway Patrol Patrick Ambroise was parked on the shoulder of the Florida Turnpike, most likely running a radar on traffic, when his patrol car was hit from behind by a Lexus. The collision sparked a fire in the patrol car, and the officer died on the scene. The accident…
