Elias Garcia Garcia and Maria Angela Plancarte, both 53-year-old residents of La Feria, Texas, have plead guilty to selling jaguar skins throughout South Florida. Jaguars are of course protected by the Endangered Species Act, and the sale of their pelts is explicitly outlawed…
Since the arrest of Oneal Ron Morris on Friday made headlines across the country, several other victims of the fake doctor have now come forward. Morris, who identifies as a transgendered woman, was accused of injecting a patient looking for butt implants with a mixture of super glue, cement and…
Ten cats were found dead in a yard in the Hammocks on Monday morning, and another three were so ill they had to be euthanized. One of the cats was found with signs of head trauma, but authorities suspect that all of the felines were likely poisoned…
Horsing around with a coworker on an active construction site already seems like a fairly terrible idea — but when the play-fighting includes a real knife and an accidentally loaded gun, the game is downright fatal. Police now say that’s exactly what went down at an abandoned lot in El…
If you watched the video we posted Saturday of a hog being slaughtered in incredibly brutal fashion, these are the three fellows you should thank for putting you off your lechón forever. Fifty-seven-year-old Rudesindo “Rudy” Acosta, 43-year-old Javier Estevanez, and 24-year-old Luis Cardoza were booked Saturday by Hialeah police after…
“Dr.” Oneal Morris has a very literal solution for patients looking to add a little junk to their trunks. She injected a woman looking to add a little more oomph to her caboose with a solution made of cement, superglue, mineral oil, and Fix-A-Flat tire mender. Thirty-year-old Morris was arrested…
Sure, John Philip Stirling may be Canadian, but he’s also the most Miami-flavored drug smuggler to land in local federal court since the heyday of the Cocaine Cowboys. When he was caught at sea last week off Colombia with 800 pounds of coke, the good captain flat-out told the feds:…
Arthur Balom, an Opa-locka police captain, has been arrested on allegations he helped protect a South Florida drug ring and had knowledge of the murder of a Brinks armed truck guard that happened last year. The arrest was part of an FBI investigation. Three other men, members of the drug…
A national legal magazine for prisoners has filed suit against the Florida Department of Corrections, claiming it’s been censored from distributing in Florida prisons due to a vendetta by the state agency. According to a complaint filed today, the DOC has rejected Prison Legal News off-and-on since 2005 because of…
Miguel Exposito may be gone, but the blowback from his turbulent reign atop the Miami Police Department hasn’t ended yet. Eight months after the last of seven fatal shootings of young black men by Exposito’s force, the U.S. Justice Department is set to announce this morning that federal investigators will probe…
Twin brothers, one an FIU student and another a UM student who was on track to become a Marine officer, have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after about $75,000 worth of marijuana plants were found in their shared South Miami apartment. The discovery was made after…
Paul Michael Mira, the athletic director of Archimedean Middle Conservatory and Archimedean Upper Conservatory, two associated Miami-Dade charter schools, is on the run after being accused of committing sexual battery on a 12-year-old girl. Police report that Mira has told relatives that he’d sooner kill himself than be caught alive. …
The end of the year is a time of reflection around these parts. Specifically, it’s a time to dig through our old police reports and find the most cretinous criminal offender in 2011. Our first nominee, 20-year-old Samuel Lee Walker, is a top front-runner. He’s a budding career criminal who…
While gang activity is nowhere near as prevalent in South Florida as it is in South California, it should come as little surprised that Miami-Dade has one of the highest gang populations in America, the highest in the Southeast, and the second highest on the entire East Coast. …
When former mayoral candidate and commissioner Joe Sanchez announced this morning that his Florida Highway Patrol cruiser had been vandalized with human feces — possibly the latest salvo in a war raging between FHP and the Miami police — we were picturing a liberally placed turd or two. Maybe a…
Dade County is quickly devolving into a real life Spurbury, Vermont, the town in cult classic Super Troopers where war erupts between cool, hipster Highway Patrol officers and douchebag townie cops. Except instead of fighting over Canadian drug shipments, Miami police and Florida Highway Patrol troopers are brawling over footage…
A tip for all you would-be cocaine kingpins: When the FBI catches you off the coast of Colombia with more than 800 pounds of yeyo stashed in your boat, do not argue that “there is nothing wrong with cocaine trafficking.” That’s exactly the tact John Philip Stirling, a 60-year-old Canadian…
Allen Henshaw is pretty recognizable, what with the permanent war paint, the word “Indian” tattooed across his chin, and– most notably– “Fuck You” lovingly penned on his neck.So it only makes sense when he’s evading police after doing drunken push-ups in front of a corner store, that our hero would…
Police are on the lookout for a possibly armed man who posed as a cop and then sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who was on her way to school.The incident occurred Wednesday morning between 6:45 and 7:15. The suspect approached the young victim near Northeast 166th Street and Eighth Avenue…
At 7:30 last night, Bunche Park was humming with activity — pickup basketball games scuffling on the asphalt, young football players running drills, and moms and dads enjoying the cool November weather. Then a black Chevy Impala slowly drove past and rained at least a dozen bullets on the crowd,…
On Sunday, a 21-year-old woman said she pulled over near NW 103rd Street near Sixth Avenue in Miami-Dade due to car trouble, and claimed she was beaten and raped by a stranger. Police issued a profile of the assailant, but now say that the victim has changed her story and…
Next time someone argues that justice is the end result after a trip through American courts, here’s the only rebuttal you need: “Liberty City Seven.” The informants were money-extorting, wife-beating lowlifes. Bush-era, terrorism-obsessed cronies hyped it. And after two straight juries deadlocked on whether seven poor dudes in Liberty City…
