Next week, Tony Bosch will be sentenced for his role in running Biogenesis, the Miami clinic that illegally sold performance-enhancing drugs to baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez and scores of other athletes. Instead of enjoying his final days of freedom on a $100,000 bond, though, Bosch will now await his punishment…
Three Hungarian men are behind bars after Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and Homeland Security busted a gay sex ring the trio was running out of Miami. Gabor Acs, 31, Viktor Berki, 28, and Andras Janos Vass, 24, are accused of recruiting three other young gay men also from Hungary and…
In an effort to protect kids from the evils of the internet, hundreds of local families may well have put themselves at much greater risk of identity theft thanks to free software handed out by the Miami-Dade Public Schools Police Department. So says a new report, at least, from the…
Seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot just ten months after the death of Trayvon Martin, and the cases immediately drew comparisons. Both were young, unarmed black teenage boys. Both shootings happened in Florida. Both were killed by older, armed non-black men. However, Davis’s killer, Michael Dunn, has now been found guilty…
Anthony Walker skidded his car to a stop in front of the police cordon. His hands trembled on the wheel. Tears streamed down his cheeks and welled in his eyes, turning the crime scene before him into a blur of color and light. Squad car strobes bathed the corner of…
Well, it’s only Tuesday and there are already quite a few trials coming to an end in Miami courts this week. First there was the international drug lord who got 150 years, then the delusional but smooth con man who was sentenced to five years, and now, naturally, there’s the…
Jimmy Sabatino has spent most of his adult life living in fancy hotels or prison cells. For the next five years, he’ll be in cell mode after spending much of last summer conning various Miami Beach hotels out of nearly $600,000. It’s just the latest in a long line of…
Fast cars. Beautiful women. And more bling than the Tower of London. From the moment he stepped foot in this city, Álvaro López Tardón embodied Miami’s reputation for risky business and mind-boggling rewards. Yesterday he finally paid for that excess with his life — and then some. Already found guilty…
Across the nation, the August 9 shooting of unarmed teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri provoked angry calls for cops to wear body cameras. Here in South Florida, Miami-Dade and Miami Beach cops quickly announced they were on board with the idea. But the Miami Police Department, perhaps the state’s…
Fifteen people were shot at an adult nightclub in Liberty City early Sunday morning, according to Miami police. The injured range in age from age 11 to 25. “At 1 a.m. this morning we received multiple calls for several people who were shot at Northwest Seventh Ave. and 64th Street,”…
Alexander Rousseau, the 31-year-old former Miami firefighter and frequent charity calendar model, has been sentenced to 27 years for downloading child porn to his laptop from firehouses. Rousseau was arrested last April after being accused of downloading hundreds of videos of prepubescent girls engaged in sexual activities on his laptop…
On Wednesday, seven people were seriously injured in what has to be one of the craziest carjackings in Miami history. As valets at downtown’s J.W. Marriott Marquis unloaded bags from a brand new Lexus, a man jumped in and plowed through cars and bystanders to escape. This morning, police have…
Haider Zafar had quite some balls. He defrauded Mike Miller, James Jones, and Rashard Lewis out of a combined $7.5 million in a shady investment scheme, and then turned around to use some of that money to buy season tickets to watch his victims play basketball. Zafar was of course…
Just before 11 a.m. yesterday, a woman pulled up to the JW Marriott Hotel downtown in a sparkling Lexus she’d only recently driven off the dealer’s lot, still decked out with paper license plates. She stepped out of the luxury ride as valets pulled her luggage from the trunk. Suddenly,…
Last month, an arbitration board decided that Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa was wrong to fire one of his officers for shooting and killing an unarmed man named Travis McNeil at a traffic stop. McNeil was the seventh black man killed in an eight month span by Miami police –…
Yesterday we wondered if there was any scam that Miamians don’t excel at? Well, it turns out you can’t even buy a lottery ticket in this town without running the risk of getting massively ripped off by a shady business owner (well, more than the lottery usually rips you off)…
Last summer’s crackdown on allegedly corrupt local mayors has netted prosecutors a two-out-of-three conviction rate. Former Homestead mayor Steve Bateman was found guilty by a jury this afternoon on two corruption charges. The verdict follows a guilty plea from former Sweetwater mayor Manuel Maroño and a not-guilty verdict for suspended…
Veteran 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft visited Miami for a special report that aired this weekend, looking into the booming trend of identity thieves stealing personal data to scam the government out of tax returns. Instead, after hearing about Miami’s oversize role in the fraud, he ended up tackling a…
One day after police found a badly decayed body in the trunk of a missing Miami woman’s car, her family says that the medical examiner has confirmed their worst fears: Dental records from the corpse matched 28-year-old Tanya Gonzalez. The news comes a day after a wild chase in the…
A 24-year-old tourist who took a late-night stroll down the sands off of South Beach ended up running away after fighting off a man who tried to rape her. The woman and her boyfriend were walking in the area of 200 block of Ocean Drive at about 3 a.m. last…
A missing persons case took a turn for the gruesome yesterday when police found a badly decayed body in the disappeared woman’s car. That’s when the case got truly bizarre. Hours later, Miami Police got wind that the woman’s boyfriend had fled to the Florida Keys on a boat with…
Today may not technically be a holiday, but for Miami-Dade residents, it marks one of the treasured moments in the yearly calendar: Another former public official starts their corruption trial! Former Homestead Mayor Steve Bateman is the man on the stand in criminal court this morning, facing down two felony…
