Danny Perez, the man who was mysteriously shot and killed while riding his bicycle Friday night, was also a Special Olympic athlete who was named Miami-Dade County’s Inspirational Athlete of the Year in 2008.Perez was riding west on NW 79th Street between NW 17th and NW 22nd after getting off…
Wachovia bank executives have admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008, prosecutors announced in Miami this afternoon. The bank has promised to pay $160 million in fines and penalties and to set up new safeguards within a year to prevent…
Shedrick James Copeland, a 29-year-old social studies teacher at Robert Morgan Educational Center, was booked into jail this morning on two charges of sex crimes involving a child. The incident was reported by one of Copeland’s students.He’s accused of engaging in oral sex with a 17-year-old female student.Copeland is charged…
U.S. Marshals Captured two men wanted for the murder of a Maryland woman late last year after they were tipped off the pair was in Miami.Joel Milburn, 20 and Seth Jedlicka, only 17, were arrested today at the Motel Blanco at 5255 Biscayne Blvd.They are two of four men believed…
Danny Perez, decked out in a University of Miami jersey and cap, was riding his bike west on NW 79th Street between NW 17th and NW 22nd avenues when he was shot dead. The mysterious murder happened last Friday night at 11:30.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel pronounced the 35-year-old dead on…
Juan Fonseca may be the worst mailman in the world. He’s charged with snorting cocaine while on the job, driving his truck with his feet, stealing money out of Christmas cards, swiping Netflix rentals, and, oh yeah, delivering drugs along his route.The Kissimmee, Florida, postal worker first raised suspicion by…
The University of Miami is investigating four separate incidents in the past two weeks of school property being defaced by swastikas.President Donna Shalala sent an email to students and staff today notifying them of incidents taking place March 2, 10, and 11 in the Hecht Residential College, one of the…
Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much news in the mysterious murder of 26-year-old aspiring model Paula Sladewski. Club Space hopes to change all of that by offering a $15,000 reward for information related to the case.Space is the last place Sladewski was seen alive New Year’s Eve weekend before being found…
In a case custom-built for Internet pun headlines, a woman crashed her car in the Keys last week while shaving her bikini line in traffic. Here at Riptide, our high-paid team of tabloid-producing nickname writers spent literally minutes considering the case of Megan Mariah Barnes before deciding to endorse “Pubic…
José “Pepe” Fanjul might be sly when it comes to sugar, but he apparently isn’t so smart when someone tries to steal his sweets. Fanjul, co-owner of sugar corporation Florida Crystals, and his wife Emilia were visiting Los Angeles to attend the Oscars when they were robbed.While staying at the Beverly…
Phil Busch has always been one angry dude. In 2006, the musclebound motivational speaker and born-again Christian fueled worldwide headlines when he sued über-evangelist Pat Robertson for using the bodybuilder’s well-greased, vein-popping physique to sell a mass-marketed protein shake without permission — and damn was Busch pissed about it. “Look in…
Just when we were starting to worry that Miami was losing cachet as ground zero for all crimes cocaine-fueled — maybe that study about coke making your heart explode in the Miami heat really freaked everyone out? — the DEA swoops in to remind us that we’re still number one,…
Prominent Miami businessman Gaston E. Cantens and his wife Teresita have been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for running a $135 million ponzi scheme that defrauded elderly Cuban-Americans. Gaston Cantens served as an advisory board member for Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, and the two are parents of former…
We don’t know about you, but whenever Riptide dreams of robbing a bakery, it’s usually for the baked goods.”Okay, put all the muffins and raisin bread in the bag and nobody gets hurt. This bad boy’s breaking his no-carb diet tonight.”Not that we’d ever actually rob a bakery. Unfortunately Vicky Bakery…
The string of cat killings that rocked Palmetto and Cutler Bay last summer may have ended when police arrested 18-year-old suspect Tyler Weinman, but investigators haven’t been able to link Weinman’s DNA to the case.Eleven of the 19 cats’ bodies were tested for human DNA and none was found. They…
Edgar Giovanni Castillo, how dumb — and disturbed — you are. Let us count the ways. First, police say, you molest children and film it. Then you keep said films and videos on your cell phone’s smart chip, of all places. And then, for a coup de grace, you try…
Pablo Guzman ran away from a Super Bowl week shooting outside a downtown club, evaded an off-duty cop’s barrage of bullets, and successfully made his escape to Cancun, Mexico. But his luck ran out when he tried to catch a flight from Cancun to Panama City over the weekend. Guzman,…
Who executed a career criminal wanted in connection with a February slaying in Miami? That’s what the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Department is trying to piece together this morning after a 21-year-old Miami native named Travis John Lattimore was found dead behind an a abandoned house outside Fort Pierce. Lattimore’s…
John Walsh and his America’s Most Wanted crew aired an episode about the murder of aspiring model Paula Sladewski, who wound up dead in a burning dumpster early last month after being seen alive at Club Space.In the above video, Space owner Luis Puig explains the club’s policy when it…
We haven’t seen a fight over tomatoes this heated since Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers argued about the fruit’s correct pronunciation in Shall We Dance. Luckily, they decided to call the whole thing off before anyone’s neck got broken.Lerner Rodriguez wasn’t so lucky.The Miami Beach resident was driving through the…
Yesterday, a little after 2 p.m., a woman went to visit her friend in her new home, a squat, pastel-painted ranch on a quiet block of SW 5th Terrace just off SW 8th Street in West Miami. When she walked inside, she found her friend on the floor, dead in…
Kevin Klym, the boyfriend of aspiring-model Paula Sladewski who turned up dead inside a burning trashcan on New Years Eve weekend, went on The Today Show last week and placed blame on Club Space. That was the last place Paula was seen alive. Klym also claimed that the suspect sketch…
