Police & Law Enforcement

Rolling Stone details the quick rise and tragic personal fall of the teenage Internet queen.

Eugene Roman may never see the errors of his own ways. Or much of anything in fact. He gouged out his own eyes with his finger back in 2005 while serving time for beating his wife. Shortly after the incident he was released, and his wife accepted him back into…

Seventh Day Adventist? More like Seventh Day A-hole.According to investigators, Marguerite Martial Jean ran a $3.4 million Ponzi scheme targeting nearly 300 of her fellow Haitian-Americans. As if that wasn’t cynical enough, her former pastor says Jean scammed at least 25 fellow members of the Eden Seventh Day Adventist Church…

Last Friday, a Miami-Dade police officer was lucky to be alive after Durall Jessie Miller fired at him, leaving him with a wounded foot and a bullet-hole in his hat. Late last night, when police tracked the fugitive down to a Miami Gardens house, Miller wasn’t so lucky.Police shot and…

Percy Palomino walked into his home in Southwest Miami-Dade at about 1 a.m. on Sunday only to find his wife, Elizabeth Palomino, dead laying in a pool of her own blood. Police are investigating the brutal murder, but so far have released no information on possible suspects of motives…

Miami Hurricanes linebacker Ramon Buchanon’s arrest on felony charges in Coconut Grove last month may have put a dent on the team’s recent clean image, but the felony charges against him will be dropped assuming he completes a pre-trial diversion program. Buchanon had previously been reinstated to the team…

Child porn is a cut-and-dry legal situation, but rare cases where an underage performer deceives otherwise legitimate producers of adult pornography by producing forged legal documents has a much more murky legal history.RK Netmedia, producers of the popular Reality Kings network of sites, finds themselves in hot legal water for…

Police are searching for a man who possibly drugged and abducted a woman from the popular Mansion nightclub in South Beach in March and then drove her to a motel in Westchester to rape her. The man also stole his victim’s credit cards but was caught on video when he…

​Economic reports are clear that South Florida’s third largest industry — after fabricating massive housing bubbles and churning out “I’m In Miami Bitch” t-shirts — is marijuana grow houses. One in every three homes in Kendall, in fact, is actually an empty shell full of sophisticated pot-farming equipment.*So South Florida’s…

Poor Sorel Rockfeller. The Fontainebleau parking attendant who got bitch-slapped by a drunk 42-year-old woman has apparently lost his ability to enjoy life. TMZ has obtained Sorel’s lawsuit against Gloria James, LeBron’s mom, after she slapped him following an early-morning disagreement at the Miami Beach hotel. He’s seeking $15,000 (which,…

Gossip website TMZ has obtained surveillance footage from the Fontainebleau the night Gloria James, LeBron James’s Mother, was arrested for public intoxication after slapping a parking attendant. The attendant, Sorel Rockefeller, has openly talked to the media about filing a lawsuit and claims he had to visit a physician and chiropractor…

Jorge Guzman-Zubiaur of Homestead has been arrested after his two pet dogs were spotted hanging from a tree. One of the dogs, a Doberman pinsher, died due to the abuse, while the other, a Dalmatian, survived. The incident was spotted by a neighbor, and Guzman-Zubiaur, 49, has been arrested and…

Tampa homeless advocate G.W. Rolle had a mystery on his hands. For months he’d noticed homeless men wandering around a local park with black eyes, busted lips and bad limps. Finally, he got one man to open up: For $50, he said, a local fetish website had been paying the…

​As black Miami simmers over seven fatal shootings in seven months by City of Miami cops, you’d think Chief Miguel Exposito’s priority would be convincing the community he’s serious about investigating the deaths.Yet Exposito quickly lost credibility by getting in a tit-for-tat with State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle over the…

Those prim and proper old folks over in Naples are always worried about those cretins from Miami-Dade traveling over Alligator Alley and coming to take their valuables. But apparently all Miami thieves want from Collier County is their precious, bountiful supply of cardboard. Yes, two Miami men have been charged…

Yet another Miami-Dade Police officer has found himself on the wrong side of the law. Midwest District Officer Joey Ganem, 47, has been arrested after allegedly trying to buy cocaine in Coconut Grove early this morning. Ganem, a 27-year veteran of the force, has been relieved of duty pending the…

A horrific story of an 18-year-old man severely beating his grandmother with a hammer in Texas has ended in Miami as police captured the man after he fled.Friends and family of Orange County, Texas resident Sylvia Vaughns, 51, hadn’t heard from her since the weekend, and police were sent to…

When Fontainebleau valet Sorel Rockefeller got slapped by Gloria James, the mother of LeBron James, instead of seeing stars he must have been seeing dollar signs. He’s quit his job and is now considering a lawsuit against James. He’s also been to a doctor and plans to visit a chiropractor.Oh,…

Ramon Buchanan, the Hurricanes linebacker who was arrested and immediately suspended from the team following an arrest on felony charges in Coconut Grove in March, has been reinstated on the team. According to the arrest report, Buchanan screamed, “I’m a UM football player and I don’t give a fuck what…

It’s really important for parents to encourage their children to pursue their interests and, ideally, even get involved in activities with their kids. Unless those activities are things like fighting.Twenty-six-year-old Gerdine Edouard is accused of driving to her 11-year-old daughter’s elementary school, encouraging her to get into a physical fight…

Usually Miami Beach is a place where professional athletes go to get in trouble, not their mothers. Several reports claim that LeBron James’ mother Gloria James was arrested early this morning at the Fontainebleau resort and could be hit with misdemeanor charges of simple battery. Updated…

At some point, anyone who’s ever gone clubbing on Washington Avenue has felt like the whole thing was an elaborate ripoff. But this? This is insane.The FBI today has busted an Eastern European ring that set up a half dozen fake clubs in South Beach that existed solely to steal…