Gerardo Benedit and Victoria Lopez apparently have hearts two sizes too small. They went on a crime spree that can be described only as Grinchian. The pair was arrested for stealing several packages full of Christmas presents from outside homes in Miami-Dade…
“This is absolutely bizarre, I can’t imagine somebody wanting to barter a live four-foot alligator for a 12 pack of beer, it makes no sense to me,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino told NBC Miami. Well, this is Florida. It only makes sense when it doesn’t…
Kira Lee Grossman wants you to know this isn’t news. She wants you to suspend your powers of reasoning for a moment and surmise that her driving record isn’t remarkable. She urges you to ignore her powerful position as policy adviser to the Miami Parking Authority and dismiss the fact…
The Wire is widely considered one of the greatest television series of all time. David Simon’s bleak depiction of Baltimore corruption was based upon his years as a crime reporter in that city. So it’s no surprise that a recent court case provides a near word-for-word, real-life re-enactment of the…
Neighborly feuds aren’t particularly uncommon, but most don’t escalate to the point where they lead to arrests and a feature on Good Morning America. Mitchell Igelko, a Miami man accused of constantly harassing his neighbors in southwest Miami-Dade, killing some of their lawns, throwing eggs at their houses, and allegedly…
Porter Fisher, the former Biogenesis employee who provided documents to Miami New Times to help blow open the massive Major League Basbeball PED scandal, stored boxes of documents related to the case in the trunk of his Toyota Camry. This past March, while Fisher was getting a spray tan in…
Criminality and social media have rarely had a harmonious relationship. There are several obvious reasons, but the most important is this: Cops have Facebook. And Twitter. And — it has surely dawned upon 19-year-old Dupree Johnson — Instagram. Dupree Johnson, who’s evinced an iron dedication to crime, racking up five…
The three Florida International University students arrested late last night in a crackdown on a test-answer-stealing ring have been identified as students Krissy Lamadrid, 21, and Jason Calderon, 23, as well as alum Alex Anaya, 30. The three orchestrated a scheme in which they stole test answers and then sold…
Three Miami-Dade Police officers are recovering this morning and two suspects are dead after a massive county-spanning manhunt. The incident began around 4:30 a.m. when the first officer tried to arrest a subject after gunshots were reported in the 2200 block of NW 27th Avenue. The suspect shot the officer…
Baseball is America’s pastime. But it’s also an international business that sucks in scores of foreign-born players every year. Behind that business are men who secret ballplayers into the United States in exchange for a slice of their future earnings. This side of baseball tends to remain in the shadows…
Despite the fact there’s no argument that Derek Medina pulled the trigger that killed his wife shortly before he posted a photo of her dead body on Facebook, Medina plead not guilty to first-degree murder charges in court this morning. Medina’s case will now head to trial as soon as…
Few things arouse a man’s anger like American football. When the Dolphins lose, a thousand dudes across South Florida launch their remotes in unison at their TV screens. Road rage rises and bar fights break out. But murder? That’s exactly what happened earlier this week in North Miami Beach, however,…
Four Miami Beach buildings were tagged with messages of hate last night, and two of those were associated with the city’s Jewish community. Messages and symbols including “KKK,” the anarchist symbol and bulls’ eyes were scrawled in red paint…
The Florida Keys, haunted dots of green floating in the Atlantic, have long attracted despondent souls plotting violent escapes from reality. In 2011, a prominent and sadistic Wisconsin surgeon named Glen Tucker shot to death his wife, Joan, before turning the gun on himself. His death, as we reported last…
Riptide isn’t in the habit of giving away robbery tips, but it’s pretty obvious that once you pull off your heist and get your cash you need to run like hell. Well, a quick-thinking gas station store clerk foiled a robbery attempt by suggesting that they also load up on…
Two Miami-Dade brothers are behind bars on $2 million bail after a botched drug deal left two young men dead in Naples. According to the Naples Daily News, Jacob and Nickolas Mislow allegedly shot Keegan Leon, 21, and Eric Riley Jr., 23, to death Saturday around 9:30 p.m. before taking…
On Saturday night, hours before authorities say 20-year-old Kayla Mendoza pulled her Hyundai Sonata onto the Sawgrass Expressway going the wrong way and crashed into a 2012 Toyota Camry, killing the two passengers inside, she tweeted “2 drunk 2 care,” her Twitter feed shows. Mendoza, of Hallandale Beach, who calls…
In Miami, it seems the difference between clubbing with friends and filming porn is a fake ID and a sleazy dude.
Miami Beach cop Reinaldo Casas really wants his job back. He wants it back so badly he’s willing to admit he was once an aficionado of the most embarrassing product ever. Sexual aid cream. On February 27, the Miami Beach Police Department fired Casas — who’s been reprimanded for making…
How much Red Bull would one need to drink to successfully pull of a heist off half-a-million dollars worth of Red Bull energy? That’s what Medley police are asking after they discovered that about 100 pallets of the wing-giving energy drink were stolen from a warehouse over the Veterans Day…
George Zimmerman certainly hasn’t managed to keep himself on the right side of the law ever since he was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and now he’d heading back to jail. Zimmerman was arrested this afternoon by Seminole County deputies after they received reports of a disturbance…
A few months ago, New Times chronicled the world of Miami’s “sugar babies,” women who date rich older men with the expectation of receiving money and gifts in exchange. And while that’s certainly ethically questionable, at least those women are adults. A Miami man was arrested after he traveled to…
