Police & Law Enforcement

The death of an 18-month-old boy is being investigated by Miami-Dade homicide detectives after his body was found in an alleyway outside a Homestead day-care center yesterday afternoon around 3:30…

Did you pay Tomeka Wimberly at Wizard Tax Services Inc. to fill out your return this year? Did she claim Doritos and Mountain Dew on your work expenses? How about the little known “new underwear credit”?And did you get a nice refund of roughly $4,000?If so, we hope you haven’t…

ast time rapper and former co-owner of The Source magazine Benzino was arrested in Miami Beach in 2001, he threatened to boycott the city. Of course, he didn’t, and Benzino (AKA Raymond Scott) was back in SoBe last week and was arrested for erratic driving. Police also found in his…

It was trying to buy some Gucci shades that did him in.Thirty-year-old Ricardo Fleurant was arrested at the Coastland Center Mall in Naples late last week after running out of a Sunglass Hut with what a clerk suspected was a stolen debit card, according to the Naples News. Police say…

British Alexander Mitchell, better known as rapper Brisco, turned himself in to North Miami police last night to face a charge of aggravated battery. Police say he savagely beat an 18-year-old last week after — yes, really — heatedly arguing with the teen’s mom.Brisco’s mug shot, meanwhile, may not rise…

Three California men accused of the brutal gang rape of a visiting college student at the Fontainebleau resort on Miami Beach will be allowed to walk free without facing trial. The state attorney’s office has dropped all charges, reportedly due to lack of evidence…

In another astonishing chapter of staggering ineptitude surrounding the Miami Beach Police Department, the officer fired last week for running over a couple on the beach during an on-duty ATV joyride was one of the officers involved in the Memorial Day shooting death of Raymond Herisse…

Somehow all crazy things in Miami-Dade County are connected. Rolando Gutierrez, the second Miami Beach cop fired today for this weekend’s bizarre ATV crash, is married to Marisleysis Gonzalez. She’s better known as the woman who was Elian Gonzalez’s “foster mom” while he was in Miami…

Rapper Brisco is wanted for knocking a teenager unconscious and then fleeing in his white Range Rover last Thursday. North Miami Police though say they have no idea where the man born British Alexander Mitchell is. Right now he’s more elusive than his debut album. …

A trial date has finally been set for the 2009 murder of Juan Rivera at Coral Gables High. Beginning July 19, 19-year-old Andy Rodriguez will face a judge and jury for second-degree murder charges. …

If fans of the Casey Anthony trial were outraged by Tuesday’s verdict, they’re probably steaming after this morning’s sentencing. She will be a free woman by next Wednesday. That means Anthony, 25 and in excellent shape, can attend Splashion at LIV next week and shop for a bikini for the…

Derick Kuilan, the cop fired for slamming his ATV into two beachgoers last Sunday — allegedly while drunkenly joyriding on duty — didn’t make the list we published last year of Miami Beach cops who earned six figures. But it turns out he came pretty damn close.Kuilan hauled in $91,032.51 in salary…

Casey Anthony may walk away with little punishment stemming from the strange death of her daughter Caylee after yesterday’s stunning verdict, but the case may still have legal repercussions in Florida.  State Representative Bill Hager, a Republican from Boca Raton, has announced that he will file a bill dubbed “Caylee’s Law” during…

According to stereotypical romantic comedies and sitcoms, one of the worst crimes a straight man can commit is not noticing that his lady friend did something new with her hair. However, a far greater crime seems to be noticing the hair modifications and making fun of them. A man in the…

A man and a woman traveling in a black Nissan Maxima were pulled over early this morning in Opa-Locka near 140th Street and Northwest 26th Avenue. Instead of complying with the officer, though, they tried to run him over with the car. The incident lead to a police chase that…

Welp, turns out she didn’t do it.Or, at least she won’t be going to jail for it — Orlando’s Casey Anthony was acquitted of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter yesterday, and, depending on how the legal wranglings go, will probably get to go home before the weekend, which should…

Derick Kuilan, the Miami Beach police officer involved in a bizarre ATV accident that sent three citizens to the hospital, will be fired. Rolando Gutierrez, another officer who was not directly involved in the accident, will also be fired following a swift investigation…

When a royal brouhaha erupted last week over Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito’s allegations that city officials offered him a “bribe” to resign, Riptide filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy the infamous $200,000 check.Well, the check just landed in our inbox. It shows that Mayor Tomas…

A 3-year-old Shih Tzu survived a brutal attack on Saturday by a gang of teenage boys thanks to a vigilant passerby. According to WSVN, Carlos Torres witnessed a group of boys trying to drown the dog in a canal in Miami Lakes when he jumped in to save it. The…

Miami Beach Police have identified the officer who plowed his ATV into two beachgoers early Sunday morning as 30-year-old Officer Derick Kuilan, as investigators continue looking into whether he was drunk and joyriding with a woman he’d met at the Clevelander.Victim Luis Almonte tells Channel 7 that Kuilan didn’t have…

Manny Fernandez was defending an insurance company in Miami-Dade court when a witness, speaking in a halting, Ecuadorian accent, got emotional when he recalled seeing his roommate mauled in a construction accident. “He was amazing,” Fernandez says. “I was really blown away.”The testimony was especially impressive because the real witness…

​Three people are recovering in local hospitals this afternoon, and police are looking into whether an on-duty Miami Beach cop put them there by getting blitzed at the Clevelander, picking up a girl, and then joyriding on an ATV early this morning.Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega says investigators are…