A woman who attempted to snatch a purse this weekend at the ritzy Bal Harbour Shops ended up falling from the mall’s second story while trying to escape. The victim, who had $20,000 in cash in the purse, had attempted to chase after the would-be burglar…
Jose L. Alberto, the former lead code compliance inspector for Miami Beach, was scheduled to be honored by the city on April 11. Instead, that same day he found himself behind bars on charges that he had extorted a South Beach nightclub. Now, according to the Miami Herald, Alberto will…
David Martin Escamillo, the man arrested this week for causing a panic during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises at the Regal cinema in South Beach, says he never intended to scare his fellow movie goers and was just angry at a man who was texting too much during…
Three girlfriends from New Jersey flew to Miami for the Fourth of July weekend. Somehow two of them ended up being charged with the beating and bizarre kidnapping of the other. Unfortunately, for them, what happens in Miami doesn’t necessarily stay in Miami…
One suspect is dead and a Miami-Dade detective is recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital this morning after an undercover raid on a suspected grow house on Coral Way erupted into a fierce gunfight last night.A narcotics unit that included FBI agents in plainclothes was investigating the house near 60th Avenue…
Juan Carlos Portieles used to sit behind the decks of Miami nightclubs like Space as DJ Seasunz. Now, for the rest of his life, he’ll sit behind bars.A jury sentenced Portieles today to life in prison for the 2009 murder of his 18-year-old girlfriend, Jaclyn Torrealba…
Andre Martinez, a teacher at a charter school in Homestead, was arrested yesterday on allegations that he carried on long-term sexual relationships with two former underage students. Martinez taught cinematography at Keys Gate Charter School, and the abuse is believed to have started back in 2010…
Also read: “The Curse: Six students in Carol City’s tragic class of 2006 were murdered. Hope survives.”For most people, the death of 18-year-old Carol City resident Paul Royal is simply a tragedy. A bright young man, one month away from starting college, gunned down by unknown assailants, leading his family…
Following her arrest yesterday on manslaughter charges related to the death of a former patient, Fix-A-Flat Butt “doc,” Oneal Morris, had her bond set at $150,000 by a Broward County judge this morning.If she posts bail, she will have to forfeit her passport and wear a GPS-monitoring device to ensure…
Also read “Eastern European B-Girls in SoBe Scam.”It was perhaps the perfect South Beach scam. A ring of Eastern European men set up private “night clubs” and sent beautiful girls out on the town to bring in unsuspecting male tourists. Once inside, the victim’s credit cards were charged exorbitant prices…
Oneal Morris, the back-alley “doctor” who has been arrested several times on charges related to illegally injecting silicone concoctions cut with substances including cement and Fix-A-Flat, was arrested and charged with the manslaughter of Shatarka Nuby today. Nuby died in March due to complications from the injections. Nuby tragically had…
The trial of Juan Carlos Portieles, AKA DJ Seasunz, for the murder of his 18-year-old girlfriend Jaclyn Torrealba began this morning.Portieles was a well-known DJ who specialized in promoting and playing at all-ages parties. The 33-year-old man, who clearly didn’t like age restrictions, had been dating the barely legal Torrealba…
Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks apparently is a stunner not only in fashion mags but also in cat fights. The model, who has graced the pages of a myriad of publications, including Vogue to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, is being sued by another model, Liza Irizarry, for allegedly breaking her nose during…
Joseph Loprete has a Google problem. The first search result for his name is a Sun-Sentinel article about his DUI arrest in 2010 for driving his car into his Boca Raton house. The article, citing a police report, calls the accident the result of mixing alcohol and “jealous rage.” The…
Coral Gables cop Eric Plescow was arrested yesterday after he allegedly tried to strangle his girlfriend. This is not the first time the 26-year-old police officers has found himself on the wrong side of the law in his relatively short career. He also once caused a three car accident on…
Hector Sarna isn’t surprised that his friend Rosita Hidalgo was killed. As a transgender woman who was a sex worker, she was putting herself at risk. He warned her that one of the men she brought home would hurt her, or worse. He remembers a day almost a year ago…
Dianelis de la Caridad-Fonseca, a 22-year-old Hialeah woman, and, Jose Martin Perez-Sanchez, a 21-year-old hitman, have been arrested for the murder of teacher, Richard Vasallo. Vasallo was found dead in the street just blocks away from his Cutler Bay home.Vasallo was Caridad-Fonseca’s ex-boyfriend. She’s allegedly admitted to cops that she…
Reina Herrera, a Miami-Dade kindergarten teacher, was sent to adult timeout this week for attempting to burglarize a home. Herrera, a teacher at Earlington Heights Elementary, had also stolen items from the home twice in May and had a previous burglary arrest in 2010. Suspected heroin was also found in…
Opa-locka cop German Bosque is Florida’s most troubled police officer. State records show he has been fired at least five times for everything from using excessive force on kids in handcuffs to car theft, keeping seized narcotics in his car, and sexual harassment.But Bosque says the media has got it…
A painting by French modernist master Henri Matisse had been missing for more than a decade, but authorities uncovered it yesterday at, of all places, the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach during an undercover sting. The painting, which is estimated to be worth upward of $3 million, is the property…
Last Monday, federal agents nabbed a former Miami Beach police officer, Jose Quintana, for illegally selling guns over the course of three years at various Florida gun shows. And as you would expect from an ex-cop who broke the law, Quintana’s record with MBPD wasn’t exactly sterling.According to employment records…
Criminals tend to talk a lot of shit. So journalist Evan Wright wasn’t exactly convinced when a former cocaine mega-smuggler told him he once performed a contract murder with a drug-world enforcer who went on to become a CIA spy. But when Wright researched the claim, he was stunned. Hard…
