A suspected car thief fleeing a traffic stop was shot and killed last night in Liberty City by a Miami Beach cop working on a county anti-robbery team.Details are still sparse — with a Miami-Dade police spokeswoman this morning declining to name the cop or the victim to Riptide –…
Police across Florida are looking for a 19-year-old accused of killing his own grandma as brutally as possible: By stabbing her more than 100 times, beating her in the face with a wrench and even shooting her in the head with a crossbow.Jason Aristotle Smiddie has been on the run…
What makes a house a home? Probably not cocaine, a shotgun, marijuana, grenades, a pig, and lack of ownership.Police arrested a couple last night who they found squatting in a Miami home with all of those strange items and more. A bomb squad had to be called to remove the…
Details are few and far between at the moment, but a student at Barbara Goleman Senior High School in Miami Lakes has been stabbed and seriously injured. WSVN reports that the student was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital. County police and fire rescue are on the scene investigating. Updated…
Bertram Clark, 42, is alleged to have shot his 25-year-old girlfriend and left her for dead in a pool of her own blood in front of her children. Clark remains on the run, and Miami Police are trying to track him down.The incident occurred shortly after midnight on Monday morning…
In a gruesome act that certainly can’t be attributed to a dog, Miami Beach found four dead cats shoved into a bag last night. One cat was found alive. The feline was taken to a local animal hospital, but it too later died.Update: The cats may have been poisoned. And…
Wilfredo Ruiz, you lying liar. Miami resident Ruiz has been charged with dousing his wife with gasoline and trying to set her on fire — on Christmas morning, with their kids in the house. But when we last spoke to him, he told us that he was innocently fueling a…
Imagine you’re the teller working the front window at a quiet bank in the Keys, when 43-year-old Eli Escalera walks up and hands you a note: “Give me what are 20s and 50s.””Is this a robbery?” you wonder, staring at the bizarrely worded demand. “And why the hell is this…
Two women are in critical condition at the Ryder Trauma Center after being shot during a bizarre incident that started with hair pulling at the Molino Rojo Bar in Little Havana last night. Meanwhile, 35-year-old Fidencio Membrano now sits in jail and faces charged of attempted murder and battery…
A four-month-old baby boy was on life support at Jackson Memorial Hospital this morning while his father appeared in court on charges of putting him there. Yosi Mahlab, 30 of North Miami, stands accused of beating his own son on January 21. The child lost brain activity as a result…
It’s a not a true Miami saga unless it includes a full out brawl on a Spanish language talk show, so it’s really no surprise that during a taping of Cristina Saralegui’s Telemundo show yesterday Corey Eubanks, the man who was arrested as an accomplice in the case of accused…
Tyree Lincoln Smith, a Florida man, has been arrested in Lynn Haven, Florida, for allegedly beating a Connecticut man to death with an axe and then eating his eyeball and part of his brain in a nearby cemetery.According to warrant application obtained by The Connecticut Post, Smith told his cousin…
If you’re going to take the risk of setting up an illegal marijuana growhouse, it’s best to take just the littlest bit of caution and make sure that growhouse isn’t directly next door to a school where kids as young as kindergarteners study.Three Miami men weren’t so smart and set…
Whenever the world reads a bizarre headline, the first question is always: “Did it happen in Florida or Texas?” Scientists, after all, have proven that 98.7 percent of truly messed up crimes originate the two Southern states. But that begs the question: Which is truly the most WTF state in…
Quentin Wyche, the man accused of murdering FIU running back Kendall Berry during an on-campus confrontation in March 2010, could walk free without a trial thanks to Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law that was championed by former governor Jeb Bush. At least that’s what his attorneys hope. Wyche’s lawyers claim…
Four more FAMU band members found themselves under arrest for taking part in hazing rituals. The arrests were not related to the November death of drum major Robert Champion, but instead for a separate incidents. …
Hours after being released from jail on charges he impersonated a Miami Beach police officer, Matthew Scheidt was arrested yet again on theft charges in Homestead. Police arrested the little Scheidt for stealing items he may have used to help him impersonate a police officer in the first place. …
Maybe when Matthew Scheidt heard “you can be anything you want to be when your grow up” as a child, he took it the wrong way, because the Florida teen has a strange habit of pretending to be, well, just about anything he wants to be. Scheidt was arrested by Miami Beach…
Apparently, at Orchard Villa Elementary near Liberty City, if you see a student wearing something fancy you’d like to get your hands on, you can just go to the front office, pretend to be the child’s relative, check them out of class, and then grab whatever it is you want…
Starting this past April, Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators began looking into a half dozen allegations lodged against Doral Police Chief Ricardo Gomez, from charges of bid fixing to shady hires to illegally spending city cash on a lavish swearing-in ceremony. By this fall, the FDLE was sure enough…
Don Bartling, a 54-year-old Miami resident and a student at Florida International University, has been arrested on charges of downloading and sharing child pornography. Bartling, according to a criminal complaint, told officials that he started downloading child pornography sometime in the past three to five years, and said that he…
Ulises Rodriguez, a 36-year-old former Miami-Dade firefighter, will avoid jail time for allegedly sending sexually explicit text messages and pictures to a 17-year-old boy. The boy later turned up dead, though his cause of death has not yet been made known, and Rodriguez played no part in the death. Rodriguez…
