Twenty-three members of the Latin Kings street gang were dethroned today. United States Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer announced today that they were swept up in five separate indictments, and that all were dangerous or violent offenders. Many were high ranking members of the criminal group. Five other non- members were also…
Delvis Rogers is the band director at Grace Academy, a private Christian school in Opa-locka, but he was arrested this weekend for some particularly un-Christian off-tune crimes. Investigators noticed that more than 400 questionable tax returns, all together totaling $754,000 in refunds, used his Hollywood apartment as an address. A search warrant…
The way Armando Porto tells it, he was arguing with his girlfriend on a steamy September morning in a Miami Beach parking lot when three men approached. Before he knew what was happening, one pushed him to the ground and another handcuffed him. Then the third man — a larger,…
The number one rule of South Beach: Don’t assume anything is real. That was the first of many dumb mistakes Daniel Palmer made last week when he attempted a gold chain snatching. Back on April 30th, Palmer approached a group of friends who were standing near 11th Avenue and Ocean Drive…
Ever parked in a Miami-Dade County-run parking garage? You’d be hard pressed to find a customer who’d call the county’s parking hubs models of efficient business. But a new report from the Miami-Dade Inspector General suggests the department’s problems are far worse than anyone had guessed. Deposits went missing, checks…
This may be the oddst weave snatching in the storied history of weave snatchings. All the weave snatches on Real Housewives, Bad Girls Club and RuPaul’s Drag Race combined probably don’t even add up to the total bizarreness and monetary value of this. Police believe that four minors, with one…
On Friday, the Miami Beach Police Department announced that a detective had been suspended for 160 hours for violating department policies on use of force and handling prisoners in custody. The suspension stemmed from a case where Archer had punched a Good Samaritan in the head, but it turns out…
Andrew Mossberg was walking back to his condo in South Beach when he saw a disturbing scene: A muscular man was grappling with a thin woman, punching her and grabbing items from her purse. Naturally, Mossberg assumed it was a mugging in progress and called 911. That’s when the man…
Miami-Dade police are looking for a dirty criminal who stole a car straight from an auto cleaning line. Yes, in Miami-Dade sometimes your car isn’t safe even when you’ve taking it to the car wash. The incident happened on April 6th at a car wash down at 2701 SW 137th…
Rudy Chamorro, 29, and Elena Hernandez, 31, are under real imprisonment on charges of false imprisonment …and human trafficking and deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution. The duo is suspected of forcing a 17-year-old girl and a 32-year-old women into prostitution. The pair forced both women to have sex for…
Residents in the area of 41st Street and Jefferson Avenue on Miami Beach were awoken early Sunday morning by the sounds of a car crash in the area — but that crash wouldn’t end up being resident’s biggest worry on the night. A woman in her 70s was one of…
Moments after a muscular 23-year-old named Ernesto Hernandez was sucked into his boat’s propellers and killed off Key Biscayne, DJ Laz was interviewed by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer. Although the death occurred during a vodka-sponsored event at a notoriously drunken sandbar, the officer says Mendez showed…
Angela Cameron says she spent days trying to avoid thinking about what had happened after a college party last April. But when the University of Miami junior finally broke down and told her friends about waking up injured and raped by a fellow student she’d been dating, they told her…
As a younger Miamians a few years ago while the city was still in the midst of recession, a friend and I were out a club in a not-quite-gentrified area, as young Miamians were apt to do at the time, when we stopped for water and some food at a…
Just after dawn, a gray van pulled up to Maria’s mustard-yellow house on the western edge of Immokalee, just a few blocks from the acres of tomatoes that draw tens of thousands of migrant workers to this remote town in Southwest Florida.
The head of the city’s police union is accusing the Assistant Chief of Police Anita Najiy of lacking respect for the United States, and he’s circulating a video that he says should lead to disciplinary action against her. Her alleged crime against America? Not holding her hand over her heart…
Miami’s dire record of fatal incidents involving cyclists added another deadly incident last night. A man on a bicycle crossing the Julia Tuttle Causeway was hit by a car, flew off his bike and plunged to his death in Biscayne Bay around 11 p.m. last night. The driver — who…
For decades, some of the most wanted fugitives in American history have found sanctuary on an island just to the south, where the Castro regime has refused to hand over a motley crew of hijackers, cop killers and bomb makers. But that safe haven may be about to end. Congress…
Three people are recovering from being shot after a routine traffic stop turned into a bizarre cop car highjacking and police chase. The incident started around 9 a.m. when a Miami police officer stopped a cab driver for speeding near NE 79th street and 4th avenue. During the stop, the…
In a bloody eight months between 2010 and 2011, City of Miami cops shot and killed seven black men — a streak so egregious that the Department of Justice swooped in. Two years ago, they released their findings: Miami cops had violated civil rights through a pattern of excessive force…
What started as an investigation of a bizarre robbery of two men dressed as fake police officers, lead real police to busting a grow house in Hialeah. Police responded to the armed robbery call at around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday morning. Two men with guns barged into a house in…
Andras Vass, a 25-year-old Hungarian national, faces up to 155 years in prison after being convicted of running a gay sex-slave ring that eventually made its way to Miami-Dade County. Vass was one of three men arrested last October after authorities busted them keeping another three men captive in a…
