Hopefully you haven’t found a new barber named Rocky you like recently. Hopefully you don’t have an appointment with him this week, because “Rocky” isn’t going to be able to keep it. Those same hands that have been clipping your hair are accused of pulling the trigger that ultimately ended…
The Department of Justice has indicted four foreign nationals for stealing more than $1.5 million from bank accounts by using “skimming” technology to help themselves to the bank accounts of customers who used ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York City. Mihail Dragici and Ionel Dedlescu, both Romanian citizens, were…
A second graphic video of Miami Beach and Hialeah police officers firing over 100 bullets into Raymond Herrise’s car has been released, and it’s one the officers really didn’t want you to see. When they noticed 35-year-old Narces Benoit had filmed the incident on his phone they threatened him at…
About 200 residents gathered in front of Miami Beach City Hall Friday night to demand an end to the city’s Urban Beach Weekend, which this year saw 431 arrests and two police shootings that left one man dead and four bystanders shot.Protestors held signs with messages like “It’s not about…
While the shooting involving Raymond Herisse is dominating headlines, police have released details in the second police-involved shooting that happened on Monday morning in Miami Beach during Urban Beach Weekend. Though the suspect in the second shooting appears to be a bit surprising. He’s a 45-year-old fire captain from South…
Questions surrounding police conduct in two Memorial Day shootings are growing by the day, most recently fueled by a report in the Miami Herald that Miami Beach police captured a couple at gunpoint and smashed the man’s cell phone after he was spotted using it to film police killing 22-year-old…
Oscar Varela García is a bad dude.The high-level coordinator of a murderous Colombian cocaine-smuggling organization was convicted in Miami last Friday of murder, obstruction of justice and five counts of conspiracy to do all sorts of illegal things, including launder money and distribute cocaine.Garcia oversaw a “large group of enforcers…
Yet another City of Miami police officer has been arrested on charges related to cocaine, but this case seems far more serious than when officer Joey Ganem was popped buying coke in Coconut Grove in April.Thirty-one-year-old officer Roberto Asanza has been arrested by the FBI after allegedly stealing large amounts…
Raymond Herisse, the 22-year-old who was shot and killed by Miami Beach and Hialeah police officers over the Memorial Day weekend in Miami Beach, has been identified by police in Boynton Beach as a suspect in a shooting back in November. According to the Pulp, police identified Herisse as the suspect…
You’ve got to give Allen Stanford credit for thinking big — instead of sinking his $8 billion Ponzi scheme profits into the usual uber-rich guy stuff, he bought himself the entire Caribbean nation of Antigua, sponsored giant cricket tourneys (despite being from Texas) and gave his mistress a moat-surrounded Coral…
Miami Beach Police say they have found a gun in the blue Hyundai that Raymond Herisse was driving when he was shot and killed by cops early Monday morning during Urban Beach Week.According to police Chief Carlos Noriega, officers discovered a black Beretta 92-F semiautomatic pistol hidden somewhere in Herisse’s…
Twenty-two-year-old Raymond Herisse has been identified as the man shot and killed by police during an early morning Memorial Day weekend incident in the streets of Miami Beach, according to CBS4’s Jim DeFede. Herisse had a long criminal history and had been arrested numerous times before in Palm Beach and…
Miami Beach is largely helpless to stop Memorial Day partiers from coming to town for Urban Beach Weekend, which saw seven injured and one killed in police-related shootings this year, city Mayor Matti Herrera Bower said Tuesday afternoon. According to police, more than 400 were arrested.”There is no organizer, no…
As the story surrounding the two early-morning Memorial Day police shootings evolves, numerous questions have been raised about the circumstances under which one person was killed and seven people injured.Two separate shootings happened early Monday — in one, a man was reportedly driving recklessly and shooting from his car; in…
Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin says a curfew imposed for next year’s South Beach Memorial Day festivities may be in order.Libbin, in response to two police shootings that left seven injured and one dead early Monday, wrote on his Facebook page that the “mayhem on the streets of Miami Beach”…
A woman cried out: “Why God? Why did you have to take Will? He was a good man!” Her friends embraced her and wept along with her. A light sun shower sprinkled them, as if Will Da Real One was sending a message from up on high to them and…
Before at least seven people were injured or killed in multiple early-morning shootouts Monday, many were saying Sunday night that the scene at South Beach’s Urban Beach Weekend didn’t seem as bad as it had in the past.The long weekend was expected to draw 300,000 visitors to South Beach this…
South Beach’s annual Urban Beach Weekend ended on a bloody note early this morning when two different police-involved shootings broke out near Collins and Washington Avenues, shattering the night with multiple rounds and leaving one dead and at least six — including three police officers — in the hospital.Click through…
A couple of weeks ago, 21-year-old Juan Rivera was listening to his favorite station, New York’s 97.9 La Mega, when an excited voice announced a contest: “Answer this trivia question first, and you’ll win a four-day trip to Orlando!”Rivera was engaged to marry in July and on the hunt for…
Just days after announcing that state authorities were investigating massive police corruption in his city, Opa-locka city manager Clarance Patterson has abruptly announced his resignation. Patterson, who held the post for only 16 months, made the announcement Tuesday, one day after Channel 7 news followed a New Times story posted…
We know times are tough, but we don’t know how many times we have to tell you all: do not try and save a few bucks when it comes to having potentially dangerous chemicals injected in to your face. You want Botox, that’s fine, but for the love of God…
Liz Marie Perez Chaparro was celebrating her quinceañera on a Carnival cruise with her parents last summer when an employee convinced the family to join an excursion in St. Thomas. What he didn’t mention, Chaparro’s family says, is that a heated gang war was raging in the area.Chaparro died on a tour…
