On October 10, 2010, off the coast of Israel, a 40-year-old South African woman working on a Celebrity cruise ship blacked out while having a drink with a male co-worker in his cabin. She awoke hours later to find the man, a Costa Rican, raping her.The sexual assault at sea…
Two separate murder-suicides in Miami-Dade County last night left two husbands and wives dead. The first incident involved 69-year-old Luis Yrigoyen who shot his wife before shooting himself while the couple’s adult children were in their home downstairs watching a football game. The second incident involved 43-year-old Apolinar Piedra, who shot is…
Even in death, Carlos Andres Perez managed to ruffle his nemesis Hugo Chavez’s feathers. After the ex-president passed away in Miami last Christmas, his body was caught in a tug-of-war between Chavez loyalists and the Magic City’s anti-regime exiles as two sides of his family battled over whether to bury him…
South Florida, where Ponzi scheme convictions are as common as jaywalking tickets. The latest Miami man at the center of a collapsed phony empire is Oscar Hernandez. While relatively small compared to other cases, Hernandez’s $3 million scheme operated in classic Ponzi scheme…
Back in 2007 University of Miami School of Law professor Donald Marvin Jones got popped for allegedly pulling over in his Mercedes Benz and offering an undercover cop $20 for some sex. Jones ended up suiting law blog, Above the Law, for making a few jokes about the thing. Well,…
Peter William Munoz, a 24-year-old member of the Coral Springs Police Department, has been arrested and charged with DUI manslaughter after hitting another car in Coral Gables over the summer. The other driver, Jennifer Gutierrez, 23, died of her injuries…
On Tuesday, like most days, 88-year-old Felix Espinosa was waiting for a bus to take him to a senior center where he frequently eats lunch and plays dominoes. Instead he wound up at Jackson Memorial Hospital after being brutally beaten by a thug who tried to rob him of cash…
Anthony Mangione, the chief of the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s South Florida department, was arrested today on charges related to child pornography. Mangione had been suspended in April after federal investigators found images of child porn on his computer in his Broward County home. A summer-long investigation led…
Power 96 morning host and Miami bass legend DJ Laz finds himself connected to a bizarre murder-suicide that occurred in Miramar this past weekend.Marcus Trotman, 25, shot his wife, 30-year-old Danielle Lorenzo, and his mother-in-law, Linda Scudera, before turning the gun on himself. All three died. According to Local 10’s sources,…
In March 2010, 21-year-old Julia Sumnicht, a Wisconsin college student and aspiring model, died in Miami Beach after overdosing on a date rape drug. Now the New York Post reports that her death has been linked to Jason Itlzer, the self-proclaimed “King of All Pimps” who formerly ran a high-class escort service…
This past Sunday afternoon in Liberty City, suspects began shooting at two men inside a silver Nissan. The bullets left DeRon Woody dead and Greg Roberts injured. The suspects then fled in a black Buick sedan…
Det. Ed Hill of North Miami Beach has already broken one giant police no-no: sleeping with the Russian mail-order bride of a man he’d just arrested for murder. Just for good measure, he went ahead and took over the jailed man’s driveway-paving business, too.Now Hill is accused of forging a…
An armed man made off with an undisclosed amount of cash this morning after robbing a Miami Beach branch of Wells Fargo. The incident occurred at 1901 Alton Rd. around 7:45 a.m. The man fired shots at employees, though no one was hurt…
For the second time this month, gunmen have opened fire outside Secrets Strip Club at 11340 Biscayne Blvd. in North Miami. The latest incident happened early this morning and resulted in the death of one man. Another man was injured…
From rubber penises to fiberglass cocks, the wacky news in the wang-shaped state never ends.One of those 70-pound fiberglass rooster sculptures that dot Calle Ocho in Little Havana has been stolen, according to the Miami Herald. The rooster once stood guard proudly outside El Pub, at 1548 SW Eighth Street, but…
Nelson Walker might be the Dolphins number one fan. He actually wears a Dolphins jersey in public without an accompanying paper bag over his head. Walker was even donning the aqua jersey when he showed up in court on charges that he and a friend stuffed two Dolphins jerseys and…
Guenther Floerchinger, a 78-year-old man, is alleged to have shot his 21-year-old wife before setting his Port St. Lucie home on fire and then killing himself. Floerchinger made two phone calls before his suicide — one asking a neighbor to take his wife’s 4-year-old daughter from the home, and the…
If at first you don’t succeed, just set a few more fires and hope that this time the firefighters can’t get there quick enough. That was the mindset of an arsonist in Wynwood last night who tried to burn down a warehouse near North Miami Avenue and 29th Street, only…
As Biannela Susana’s 2-year-old son was lying on the floor unconscious after being badly beaten by his 12-year-old half-brother, Susana was more interested in news about David and Victoria Beckham’s sons than in the serious situation involving her sons. Investigators say Susana waited four hours to look up information about…
For nine years, LEO Affairs has been a rowdy online meeting spot for anyone in search of the inside scoop on local police, a place where off-duty cops banter about crappy shift supervisors, overzealous internal affairs snoops, and incompetent chiefs (ahem, Exposito!).That banter has gotten a bit too loose for…
Steven Martonffy, a member of the Miami Beach Fire Department, sits behind bars today after allegedly driving a city vehicle while drunk and then crashing it into a parked car early this morning…
A South Florida man sentenced to decades in prison for a minor drug charge will finally get his chance in court to prove he didn’t commit the crime.U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard issued a ruling September 8 that grants Elroy Phillips a hearing to present his evidence. Phillips…
