Miami Metrozoo workers were cutting branches to feed to giraffes when they found the body of a woman near the entrance of the zoo April 19. Police have now identified the body as that of 60-year-old Gloria Marinckovic of Kendall. Marinckovic suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and had gone missing from her…
A former Miami Beach cop has pleaded guilty to charges that he kidnapped and tortured a Russian man in an attempt to extort more than $100,000 from him, bringing to an end one of the strangest crimes connected to the troubled police department.Richard Anastasi, a 47-year-old with almost 14 years…
Late last month, 65-year-old Laurinda Mae Hughes was found dead in the crawl space of her Tacoma, Washington home. Her body was wrapped in a sheet with a bullet hole in it. The following day, police issued a warrant for the arrest of her son and his wife, Thomas Al…
35-year-old Sosthene Louis has been arrested and charged in the killing of 26-year-old Lisney Oliveira a day after police identified him as the suspect.Louis is alleged to have asked Oliveira and his friends for a cigarette. No one in the group had one, and continued walking. That’s when Louis attacked Oliveira from…
Just one day after gunmen opened fire in a public park during a game of women’s flag football in southwest Miami-Dade, shots rang out over a basketball court in Liberty City. Two men walked up to the court and unloaded about 30 rounds on a man in his late teens…
Thirty-five-year-old Sosthene Louis has been identified as the man alleged to have killed 26-year-old Lisney Oliveira outside Club Mekka after Oliveira didn’t give him a cigarette. Louis is still on the loose and believed to be dangerous. He’s described as being between five-foot-nine and five-foot-eleven, around 200 pounds, with two…
Rolando Negrin was Miami International Airport’s guinea pig during an employee training session on full-body scanning equipment last year. The machines have the unintended side effect of giving a rough determination of the size of things underneath your clothes. Apparently, Negrin didn’t measure up (hey, maybe he’s a grower, not a…
Gunfire broke out last night during a women’s flag football game at West Perrine Park, at SW 168th Street and 104th Avenue. Three assailants opened fire on the crowd. Four men were shot, and a woman broke her arm while trying to escape. Three of the men were hit in the leg, and the other…
Author Mara Shalhoup discusses BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family.
As Comptroller of Miami Shores 44-year-old Carolyn Modeste was in charge of the village’s bank accounts. Now the public servent has been arrested from stealing $203,293.70 between September 2007 and September 2008.According to Miami Shore Police, instead of placing cash fees paid by citizizens in the banks, she’d instead put…
To the person or people who lost their sacrificial goat — don’t worry, we found it. You can reclaim it at the end of NE 25th Street, just over the sea wall.Unless someone calls in the team from CSI: Miami, there’s no way of knowing if this poor animal was…
For the second time in less than a year, the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus was put on a brief lockdown after police suspected an armed man was on the loose. The latest incident occurred today, according to CBS4, and just like last time, the man was caught and…
Manuel Diaz, 60, of Hialeah, has been caught in a weird wine scam. The con artist suggested to several elderly people that a case of wine might be the perfect present for the birthdays of friends, loved ones, and even, apparently, their doctors. He told his victims that he’d deliver…
A clubber in downtown Miami died early this morning after a man punched him in the head, apparently in retaliation for not bumming him a cigarette. Around 5:30 this morning, 26-year-old Lisney Oliveira and a friend were walking outside Club Mekka downtown when a man approached and asked for a…
Hialeah police got a call that a Farm Store at West 6th Avenue and 29th Street had been robbed.The police tracked down the suspect to a nearby residential neighborhood where a confrontation occurred. A police officer then shot at the suspect, riddling his green Nissan Altima with bullets.Police will not…
H. Wayne Huizenga built his billions from the ground up and eventually owned the Marlins, the Dolphins, and the Panthers. His son, Robert Ray Huizenga, didn’t seem to inherit much of Daddy’s ambition and was content to do things such as get drunk and boat all day. Now the younger…
The trial of former Northwestern High principal Dwight Bernard for alleging covering up an on-campus statutory rape committed by a football player continues, and the Hurricanes star quarterback Jacory Harris was brought in to testify. Harris attended Northwestern and played with Antwain Easterling, the player Bernard was covering up for…
Dr. Kirk Gastrich, a researcher at Florida International University, was out diving in the Everglades yesterday studying the ecological impact of sharks. What he got instead was a firsthand account of a different type of shark impact.A six-foot-long lemon shark attacked Gastrich and bit into his elbow as he was…
Two armed robbers entered the home of several migrant workers on SW 141st Avenue at 282nd Street last night. They demanded cash and valuables, but one man decided to fight back. They subdued him and held him at gunpoint, eventually shooting him the mouth.The man’s son went inside, retrieved a…
Car collisions are a dime a dozen, but boat accidents? Not so much. Especially in the open blue sea. Three boaters were out off the Haulover Beach area when their vessel was hit by another boat. It began taking on water, and eventually completely capsized. Rescue teams begin searching for the boaters shortly…
Shots rang out last night near 95th Street and NW 29th Avenue, as two unidentified men shot at four others. Police were called a little after 9:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found the four victims, all males between the ages of 30 and 40. They were taken to Ryder…
Some animals urinate on things to mark their terrority. Despite what a certain human nature photography blog would have you think, the organisms that shop at Wal-Mart are not animals. Though in some cases we’d forgive you for getting confused. Christina Cifaldi, 22, was arrested for suspicion of urinating on clothing at a…
