Today, Ernesto Perez is the president of for-profit Dade Medical College, but back in the early ’90s Perez was known as “Rhett O’Neil,” an almost-rock star. Perez has twice been appointed by governors to serve on the Commission on Independent Education, but in both cases failed to disclose his conviction…
A naked man running around a Miami neighborhood ended up impaling himself on a gate while trying to escape cops earlier this morning. The incident happened around 2 a.m. Police received a call from a screaming woman who claimed she had been assaulted. When they arrived at the scene, the…
Five months ago, Holly Jacobs made the brave decision to become the international face of revenge porn victims. The pretty FIU grad student told New Times that her ex-boyfriend had posted sexually explicit photos and videos of her on the internet, nearly ruining her life. Braver still, Jacobs began a…
More details are coming out in the chilling case of Derek Medina, who shot his wife and posted a picture of her lifeless body and a confession on Facebook. Police have released the 26-page transcript of the statement Medina made to police after he turned himself in after killing Jennifer…
The family of a woman who hijacked a jail golf cart and drove it into a barricade is worried sick that’s she’s not receiving the proper mental health help she needs in jail. They say her rambling and bizarre appearance in bond court, in which she said things like, “I…
Well, this certainly is a whole new way to get stuck on the Palmetto. Earlier this morning a man was found walking along the busy Palmetto Expressway with his feet bare and his hands bound behind his back. When police questioned the man he claimed that he had been abducted…
Miami-Dade Police are on the hunt for a man they believe lured a woman into a sexual assault by offering her a job. The incident happened August 1, when the suspect met his 20-year-old victim at a bus stop at SW 137th Avenue and 26th Street. The man offered the…
There’s really no doubt that Florida leads the nation — if not Planet Earth — in insane crimes. In the past month, we’ve had an elderly guy showing up pants-less and masturbating at a McDonald’s drive-thru, a woman twerking obscenely in front of a school bus full of kids, and…
Yudenia Rodriguez stands accused of stabbing her elderly mother to death over a fight about housing and carrying out the gruesome crime in front of her own 15-year-old daughter. The incident happened yesterday afternoon at a home on the 17300 block of SW 232nd Street. Rodriguez lived there with her…
If you’re planning on stealing an Aston Martin you might want to Google “how to start an Aston Martin” before you barge into the owner’s home, tie them up and try to make off with the car. Zuhdi Musa, 47, and Rosa Maria Musa, 45, were arrested today in connection…
Jeremy Justin Julien couldn’t keep his junk behind his zipper so now the 23-year-old is behind bars. He was arrested earlier this week for twice exposing himself to a young girl under the age of 16…
Facebook continues to shed light on a murder that made headlines when the perpetrator posted photos of his wife’s body and a confession on his public profile page. NBC 6 has obtained messages that Jennifer Alfonso, the wife and victim of Derek Medina, sent to a friend just hours before…
For a world-class con man, James Sabatino has a habit of burning out in blazes of self-inflicted pain. As a teenager, he pulled off an incredible run of schemes, including getting close to Julio Iglasias by posing as a Sony Music executive and wrangling more than 200 Super Bowl tickets…
George Zimmerman may have avoided jail time for killing Trayvon Martin, but the man can not seem to stay out of legal trouble ever since. Now his soon-to-be-ex-Motherin-in-Law has filed a police report claiming that Zimmerman stole furniture and a television from a home they own…
Police have made an arrest this morning in the murder of 18-year-old Tiffan Cabreja. Fernando Granados, who is 20, is in custody and charged with second degree murder. Police believe that the man may have been high on crack when he killed Cabreja and then decided to dump her body…
A Coral Gables woman was the victim of a shocking home invasion last night. A man broke into her home, tied her up, and then used her own Aston Martin as the get-away car…
The number one rule of social media and the number one rule of crime should be the same: Don’t post your crimes on social media, and make sure no one else does either. Two Miami-Dade teens ignored that golden rule and wound up behind bars today after a video of…
Florida’s strange legal code means you can kill a kid armed only with a bag of Skittles, claim self defense, and get off scot-free, but if you fire what you claim is a warning shot during a dispute with your abusive husband you get 20 years in jail. Marissa Alexander,…
The Armed Citizens Project does exactly what its name implies: It hands out guns for free. Now the Texas-based nonprofit is turning its bullet-blasting beneficence on the Sunshine State. Promising to “deter crime by empowering neighborhoods,” the ACP has already begun distributing shotguns in Orlando’s Sunshine Gardens neighborhood. Two fun…
Tyrell Johnson was only on the Dolphin’s preseason roster for a couple of months before the 2012 season, but apparently he liked Miami so much he still sticks around here to pee on the street. Johnson was arrested this weekend on Miami Beach for doing just that…
A child who fell out of a second story window of a Hialeah motel has died. On September 13, 23-month-old Luis Rodriguez was staying at the Paraiso Motel at 1615 W. Okeechobee Road with his parents and younger brother when he fell out of the window. The motel’s website bills…
The tragic trail that Antonio J. Feliu left behind yesterday already involved the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her daughter; a high-speed, cross-county car chase that ended when he struck and killed a mother of two; a roadside SWAT standoff; and his own suicide. Now police have uncovered another…
