Not to say, ‘we told you so,’ but when a guy’s behavior leads us to write about his similarities to maniac SNL character Bill Brasky, there’s a good chance he’s got some mental issues. Before he ever got arrested for running an $8 billion Ponzi out of a Miami office,…
Running into traffic naked almost never ends well, does it? A man visiting the Florida Keys was tased by a Monroe County Sheriff’s Officer after he stripped down to nothing, took a jog through oncoming cars, and yelled he was “the King of the World.” This apparently came after he…
Miami-Dade Police this morning are looking for two shooters who lit up a front lawn in West Little River just before midnight last night, leaving a 20-year-old woman dead and five men wounded.An argument between the woman and her boyfriend, who was just released after a long stint in federal…
South Beach nightlife king, developer and philanthropist Michael Capponi was arrested on charges of driving under the influence last October after driving himself home from a fancy shindig at W South Beach hot spot Wall. Capponi maintained that he blew under the legal limit both times he was asked to…
Mitchell Burroughs, a Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation manager, might have been spending $12,000 in county money on his own recreation. The manager of the Westwind Lakes Park at 6805 SW 152 Ave. has been arrested and reportedly admitted to embezzling cash and checks…
Last night, a woman returned to her car after making a purchase at a Chevron gas station in Kendall. She got in the drivers seat shortly after midnight and prepared to pull away when she felt a firearm press up against the back of her head. A man had climbed…
Yesterday around 2:45 p.m., 72-year-old Roberto Garcia entered his usual neighborhood shop and ordered a Cuban coffee. Then, while the owner made a cafecito in back, police say Garcia attacked her four-year-old son. He repeatedly touched the boy’s penis, touched himself and eventually licked the boy’s ear before pretending to…
Rumeal Robinson, the onetime University of Michigan hero who spent six seasons in the NBA, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in federal prison Friday for masterminding a bank fraud. Even in the days leading up to his sentencing, the consummate huckster was trying to raise cash from old friends who…
Ever wonder where those razor-clawing, beak-breaking, brutally mistreated roosters who duke it out in illegal cockfighting rings across South Florida come from? Yeah, neither had Riptide, though in hindsight it makes sense that fighting birds don’t just hatch from the egg with a metal spur tied to their leg and…
In front of a dozen television cameras and a packed room of reporters, Police Chief Miguel Exposito blasted Mayor Tomas Regalado this afternoon over Regaldo’s claims that he was being tailed by police officers. Exposito also defended his department’s conduct in the six recent fatal police shootings that have stirred…
Miami Companions had become one of the premier suppliers of high-class prostitutes in the country with a client base that allegedly included celebrities and men with high-up government connections. They were busted in July of last year, and a judge just ruled that a list of the names of clients…
On Saturday, Miami police shot and killed a 27-year-old suspect in Overtown — the sixth black man they’ve killed since last summer. The latest death has left Chief Miguel Exposito fighting for his job and pleading his case to community leaders that cops only use violence when absolutely necessary.It’s hard…
Duran Barfield, 24, has been accused of inflicting at least 28 fractures in the bones of his 4-month-old son. Though Barfield’s family, including his fiancée and the child’s mother, say he’s a great father, and Barfield claims that the injuries are actually a result of the child falling off a…
Police are investigating a bizarre hit-and-run accident that occurred last night on 27th Avenue in northwest Miami-Dade that left a man dead. What makes the incident so strange is that the driver may not have even noticed he or she hit a man and that the victim may have purposefully…
Miami-resident Gregory Carr and his ex-wife Laurie ran what investigators believe to be one to be one of the biggest high-class prostitution rings in the country. Doing business under the name “Miami Companions,” the Carrs reportedly sent prostitutes and porn stars across the country and charged as much as $500…
In November, Riptide introduced the world to the man known by cops as “Half a Head” because he was missing the entire front of his cranium. Yeah, that was a crazy mugshot, perhaps never to be topped. But wait. Let’s all take a long look at this dude’s face…
Nevin Shapiro, the South Beach architect of a $880 million Ponzi scheme, will have to endure another few weeks of Jersey lockup before learning his punishment. His sentencing, which was originally scheduled for this week, has been postponed until Valentine’s Day, says Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s…
Elizabeth Cuesta has plead guilty to manslaughter for events that lead up to the death of her 18-month-old son back in May of 2009. The child was left inside Cuesta’s pickup truck in the parking lot of a PetSmart where Cuesta worked. The plea bargain means that Cuesta will not…
Efraim Diveroli, the young Miami Beach gun runner who stirred national outrage two years ago with a fraudulent a $300 million Pentagon ammunition deal, listened with downcast eyes yesterday as a federal judge read aloud his sentence: four years in prison, a $250,000 fine and $149,000 in restitution.The term came…
Police have arrested a man in connection to a horrific car crash early Sunday morning that killed three people and seriously injured a fourth.Cedric Levon Williams, 48, was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The crash occurred around 4 a.m. Sunday at NE 82nd Street and 2nd…
Have you spent the last week wondering why that plate of cookies went untouched and your stocking was bereft of swag? No, it’s not because Santa found out about your massive Medicare fraud; Ol’ Saint Nick’s just got his own problems with Johnny Law. For Mugshot Friday’s very special holiday…
Update: Francisco’s mother, Lauren Chollet, called Riptide on Monday, January 3. She attested that there was “nothing sexual” about the burglary incident at the University of Central Florida: her son was intoxicated and continually entering the wrong dorm rooms. Also, she accused Francisco’s girlfriend of filing false domestic violence claims…
