Coral Gables Police have identified and charged armed robbery suspect Kenneth Maurice Smith, 20, who attempted an escape that led police on a two-hour chase that close U.S. 1 Sunday night.Smith is charged with armed robbery, attempted burglary to a residence, and resisting police without violence.The northbound lanes of South Dixie Highway…
A Miami-Dade Transit supervisor was struck and killed by the Metro Mover late Friday night while inspecting the rails, said Miami-Dade police.Joseph Bryant, 54, was on the tracks of the station at 100 Northeast 5th Street when he was hit at 11:49 p.m. Miami-Dade police are still investigating the cause of the accident…
Four days after being cleared of any wrongdoing in shooting an unarmed tourist, Miami Beach Police Officer Adam Tavss has been involved in another shooting death. The incident reports have not been made public because the fatal shootings are “still under investigation,” police say. Facts though have started to creep…
A Palm Coast man was arrested and charged with first degree murder of a Miami man, on Thursday. Antoin Lennard Eleby, 31, was apprehended by Daytona Beach police at a bus station without incident, Miami-Dade police said. He is charged with fatally shooting Eckerd Pugh, 25, outside of Pugh’s residence at Northwest…
This is almost too much to believe. Just months after news broke that Vince Shlomi, better known as the ShamWow guy, got into a tongue-biting fight with a hooker he met at Louis, comes a report that he was involved in the crash that shut down traffic on the MacArthur Causeway. An…
It’s safe to say: When there’s a big black bag of cash, a decent story almost always follows. Just ask airport novelists. Or Robert De Niro, back when he was in good movies. But as 18-year-old teller Michael Rodriguez learned a couple of rainy Saturdays ago, that stuff’s best saved…
That Horatio Cain has it so easy. All he has to do is connect the dots and run some lab tests on human DNA, but in the case of the Cat Killer, the real life Miami-area police might have to adapt their forensic techniques normally used on humans to animals. While the official…
The Westchester Parishioner busted for a tax fraud scheme struggled with drug abuse, his lawyer Luis Fernandez tells Riptide. Pablo Gehr, 32, of St. Brendan’s Catholic Church, conned over $200,000 from low-income and elderly individuals and members of his church. A judge sentenced him to three years in federal prison…
The Miami-based church parishioner caught swindling thousands from low-income and elderly people — including one blind widow — was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison yesterday. Pablo Gehr, 32, of St. Brendan’s Catholic Church, plead guilty to tax return fraud this past February. He conned over $200,000. His scheme:…
This story doesn’t really have a local hook per se, but I know you all love sharks, and I know you all love cocaine. So what if somehow, some way, sharks and cocaine came together in one slightly amusing but ultimately troublesome incident? Well, thanks to the ingenuity of Mexican drug…
Giovanni Gonzalez, a 23-year-old Miami-Dade Police officer in Kendall, died this morning when his marked patrol car collided with a dump truck while traveling southbound on Florida’s Turnpike near SW 152nd Street. The vehicles collided at 4:07 a.m. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived at the scene shortly thereafter. Firefighters cut through…
Watch more Comedy Central videos on AOL Video So on Sunday, cops arrested the alleged cat killer, a clean-cut kid who likes to blow shit up and has friends that call him “niggercake” but otherwise seems nice enough. The exposure of Tyler Weinman has simply given a face to the…
Tyler Hayes Weinman, the suspect in the cat killing spree, will not get bail his bail set at a hefty $250,000. He’s also being forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. ”I can say the investigation is being led by a lynch-mob mentality, steam-rolling Mr. Weinman’s constitutional rights,” his attorney David Macey…
As New Times über-blogger Kyle Munzenrieder pointed out yesterday, the fact that accused cat killer Tyler Weinman joined the “Catch the Cat Killer!” group on Facebook suggests he was certainly aware of all the media hoopla over his alleged crimes — and perhaps enjoying it.Today, unidentified police officials told the Miami…
View Larger MapFifty-year-old security guard Chevor Wint was shot dead just after 10:10 Sunday night in the parking garage at the Earlington Heights Metrorail Station. Two suspects — either in their teens or early 20s — fled on foot and on a bicycle. One wore a white shirt and the other dark clothing. The…
Sometime after midnight this morning, police arrested 18-year-old Tyler Weinman at a party in Coral Gables for the recent string of horrific cat killings that have plagued Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay. Weinman, who attended Miami Palmetto Senior High, is being charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, four counts…
Police are searching for three men who robbed and shot at two men seated at a car wash east of Hialeah on Tuesday afternoon. Charlemagne Benjamin, 24, and Trinard L. Snell, 24, were surrounded by the men and asked to give up their valuables around 3:05 p.m. at NW 27th Avenue and…
A man’s body was found dead and floating in King’s Lake in West Kendall this morning. Police said, someone called 911 at 7:12 a.m. when they spotted the dead body in the water located at 8530 Southwest 149th Avenue, just north of Kendall Drive. The man is Caucasian and approximately 40-years old,…
Hitting up Boston Market, Arby’s and Burger King all in a row is a typical dinner routine for me, but for Miami man Yonly Cabrera Alvarez it was part of a counterfeit bill scheme. Alvarez, 21, wound up in Vero Beach on Saturday with his friend Xandi Garcia, 20, and hit up…
View Larger Map A man was stabbed to death during a domestic dispute that occurred early this morning in Northwest Miami-Dade. The subject is detained by Miami-Dade Police and charges are pending. Detectives are investigating the scene and the relation of the two Latin males, whose names have not yet…
It has been close to a year since I wrote my cover story about Lilly Aramburo, a 24-year-old single mother and drug addict who disappeared from her boyfriend’s apartment June 1, 2007. Today, there is still no trace of her, but friend Janet Forte presses on with her social media crusade to find…
If you’ve gone to a toy store in recent months hoping to get your kid that lego set he’s had his eye on only to find it sold out, then went home and searched online to find it at a much cheaper price, well you might have Max Rodriguez to conversely blame…
