Trains, forklifts, planes, and automobiles. Today’s News Roundup has it all. In terms of stealing major amounts of cash from a bank, just straight jacking the ATM always seems like the dumbest, the messiest, and, consequently, usually the most hilarious. A Bank of America branch at 9890 Bird Rd. in…
North Miami Beach Police Officer John Baker was conducting a routine search for a burglary suspect at an apartment building and decided to knock on neighbors’ doors to see if they had any information. When he knocked on the door of apartment number 9 he didn’t get any new information…
The Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services Center provides emergency food, shelter and consoling for troubled youth and their families. Now, two teen girls disappeared from the center on the same day, and police are asking for the public’s help in finding them. Sixteen-year-old Amanda Nazario suffers from bi-polar disorder,…
Daniel Zajac really hates sex offenders — but not for the usual reasons. No, he loathes the gropey pervs because they foiled his swell digs: “They totally ruined everything.” Zajac is a shelter-averse homeless man who started living in a tent on the Julia Tuttle Causeway, a few hundred feet…
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…
