On his MySpace and Youtube pages, Ronnie Candelaria is an odd presence, obsessed with kung fu master Bruce Lee and enamored of remixing videos of violent fight scenes with heavy metal tracks. In real life, the 21-year-old Kendall man was into guns and could be intimidating, acquaintances say. But no…
Derick Kuilan, the former Miami Beach cop who ran over two people while joyriding on South Beach on his police ATV, was convicted of reckless driving charges yesterday but was acquitted of DUI charges. This despite the fact a blood test showed he had a blood alcohol level over the…
Chances are good that Alvaro Lopez Tardon will be found guilty of money laundering today or tomorrow. If he is, there probably won’t be anyone in the federal court room to shed a tear: Tardon’s associates have all turned on him, including his wife. Here at Riptide, however, we will…
Nothing is scarier than a city commission that’s all smiles. Politicians are preternaturally disposed to disagreement, so voters should be skeptical whenever commissioners suddenly go full kumbaya. On the scale of suspicious love-fests, this past April 10 was a doozy. City of Miami commissioners lined up to laud a so-called…
Glenn Thor “Roach” Larsen is behind bars today after getting a little too medieval on his stepson after the young boy didn’t do his homework. 36-year-old Larsen allegedly beat and bit the 10-year-old boy after he admitted to not finishing his homework. Larsen now stands charged with two counts of…
Stephanie Hird and Sara Zamora will not be prosecuted for taking part in a sexual fetish film in which they violently tortured animals. Prosecutors involved in the case have not officially offered a reason why the charges have been dropped, but the women told the Miami Herald that the videos…
Here are some quick guidelines on masturbation etiquette: Don’t masturbate at work. Don’t masturbate at school. Especially don’t masturbate at work if you work at a school. Don’t masturbate in your work uniform. If you don’t want anyone to know of your dirty masturbation habits, don’t record it. Above all,…
The pain bit Jose Maldonado below the right ear, hot and searing. When the lanky, dark-haired Florida State University student snapped his eyes open, he was in the same Tallahassee motel room where he’d drifted to sleep earlier. But then, in the lead-colored hour before dawn this past December 3,…
Swarms of rowdy beachgoers erupted into violent brawls. Police were overwhelmed as they tried to quell the chaos. Dozens ended up arrested while worried business owners looked on. Just another Memorial Day weekend in South Beach, right? Actually, not so much. That chaotic scene, in fact, went down yesterday in…
Last summer, Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi was arrested on the same day the feds nabbed another local mayor, Sweetwater’s Manuel Maroño. Both mayors were suspended form office by the governor and charged with taking bribes in exchange for bogus grants. While Maroño and two others, lobbyists Jorge Forte and…
It’s not North Miami if the mayor isn’t involved in some sort of scandal. According to the Miami Herald, North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau is set to be charged by the FBI with mortgage fraud. Tondreau had previously been investigated for connections to alleged absentee-ballot fraud but had so far…
A Miramar teen with almost as much time on his hands as he has growing up to do is in hot water after posting multiple tweets to the Miami Police Department claiming he would rape children. Of course, police responded, apparently to his surprise, and the 15-year-old now claims the…
Former NFL star Darren Sharper will not be charged for allegedly raping a woman in Miami Beach. Prosecutors announced today that they’d drop the charges, in part because the victim did not file charges until three months after the alleged incident. Sharper however still faces similar charges in Arizona and…
Is nothing sacred in this town? Do not even the lowest of the low have some respect for a man’s right to eat pizza in peace? What is this world coming to? Pablo Suescun, 21, was waiting for a pizza to be delivered to his Edgewater apartment. When he opened…
Well, here it is, your front runner for “most Miami news story of the year.” It involves a telenovela starlet, a fancy South Beach nightclub, a bouncer, people not being on the list, and a champagne glass. The only way it could get more stereotypical is if it involved cocaine,…
Don’t park too close to Reynaldo Miranda’s car. The City of Miami firefighter doesn’t appreciate it. In fact, the firefighter wound up behind bars after allegedly going berserk on a 71-year-old man who parked a little too close at Southland Mall. See also: Miami Firefighter (and Calendar Model) Arrested for…
The doctor and the lawyer showed up at Opa-locka Executive Airport ready for a fight. As they rolled down the tarmac toward the yawning hangars, the pair was well past the boiling point. For months, they’d dealt with evasions and lies, and now — after weeks of detailed forensic accounting…
Let’s play trivia. Today’s topic: laughably inept local governments. Can you name the Miami-Dade village that mysteriously suspended its top three cops March 27? No, not Sweetwater. That was then-mayor Manny Maroño, who was busted for taking bribes. No, not Homestead. There, it was Mayor Steve Bateman arrested for unlawful…
Jose Bautisa, an 18-year-old student at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, wanted to boost his GPA. Instead of improving his resumé, though, he ended up adding to his rap sheet. The teen now faces eight felonies and has been placed under house arrest after hacking into a school website…
On a recent Friday afternoon, Orvil Delisson sat on a crate in front of his family’s small ranch house in Little River. He looked relaxed in an unbuttoned Hawaiian-style shirt, white shorts, and sandals; a few feet away, a pink-and-purple girls’ bicycle lay toppled on its side. Then Delisson lifted…
Miami-Dade County is the NBA for corrupt politicians: With a deep talent pool, incredibly rich history, and always blossoming crop of new stars, it’s the top of the game for shady politicos. And David Rivera is the Derrick Rose of the league, a multitalented scandal machine who’s been sidelined the…
It ended with a boom: a 40-year relationship and two lives — one dead and gone, the other alive and alone. Jorge Arrojas and his partner, Miguel Larrieu, were heading home, fresh from a dinner party in Bal Harbour around midnight last August 10 on I-75 when a red 2009…
