Miami-Dade County and most of its cities have dropped in the rankings on CQ Press’s “Most Dangerous Cities” list, which is considerably good news. Last year, Miami-Dade was ranked the fourth most dangerous metro area in America. This year, it’s only number 16, and no it’s not just because other cities…
Twenty-three-year-old Diana Demayo had just graduated from the University of Miami with honors and had a bright future in front of her when she returned to her native Detroit and got involved with 24-year-old Peter Dabish. The privileged son of a cofounder of the national chain Powerhouse Gym, Dabish was…
One of Miami’s classic condo towers, The Grand at 17th and Bayshore Drive, was rocked by a shooting on its 28th floor on Wednesday that left two men riddled with bullets. Now police have released their report: the violence started when a man tried to turn a pot deal into…
Two store clerks allegedly killed a man who entered their store and began verbally assaulting them with racial slurs late yesterday afternoon. The verbal argument soon escalated into physical violence, and eventually four employees began attacking the man as an off-duty corrections officer and other patrons tried to defuse the…
Welcome to our first-ever Mugshots Friday — a collection of the craziest Miami-Dade County booking photos from the previous week. We’re going back two weeks just this time. And whoo, boy do we have a strong inaugural class…
Halloween night in Coconut Grove is a well-known annual mad house, and police are out in full force. Though, this year it seems that City of Miami police officers may have gotten out of hand with their use of force on partying patrons. A YouTube video has been making the…
For nearly five years, Telmo Ricardo Hurtado lived a quiet life in sleepy Surfside, moving between low-rent apartments just off Collins Avenue with his mom and his younger brother. Neighbors knew him as a quiet, middle-aged Peruvian who kept to himself. No one saw the day coming in 2007 when…
An unruly high speed car chase that lead police on a pursuit of one or possibly two armed robbery suspects through out the streets of Miami this morning ended when the driver violently crashed his car into the back of a tanker truck on I-95. The driver survived and was…
If the Dolphins’ Phillip Merling did violently assault his pregnant fiancée it seems he won’t be facing any formal consequences for it. The Broward State Attorney’s office has announced that they’re dropping all charges after the victim in the case refused to continue cooperating. The Dolphins meanwhile never punished Merling. Even following his arrest…
Stephanie Peterson, age 22, was babysitting a young child in the apartment of Kizzy Williams, 31, when her boyfriend showed up ready for an argument. Tavaris Fair, 25, fired several shots in the North Miami apartment before ending his own life after a long standoff with police…
A bit of free legal advice from the offices of Riptide and Riptide, LLC: If you’ve just finished drunkenly swerving your car into a school bus full of children and someone thrusts a TV camera in your face, plead the fifth. Or walk away. Or act like you only speak…
Last May, we brought you the story of Albert Gonzalez, Jonathan James, and their Miami-based band of hackers who engineered the largest online credit card theft ever before it all fell apart. The story, even six months later, is still incredible.Now the New York Times Magazine has weighed in, devoting…
Miami-Dade police didn’t hear the gunshots, but they did hear the phone ring. If it wasn’t for an anonymous phone call they may not have found the body of a dead man in a Northwest Miami-Dade apartment. Now, with little clues and few apparent witnesses police must solve the mysterious…
Reggae star Buju Banton, who faces a February retrial on a criminal charge of conspiring to buy cocaine from an undercover police officer, could soon be released from Tampa jail. He has been locked up for the past 11 months. On November 4, Federal Judge James S. Moody Jr. denied…
If you’re going to use part of your place of residence as a make-shift marijuana grow house, South Beach probably isn’t the best neighborhood to do it. For one thing, rent is expensive. Sure maybe your “side business” helps off set that, but you’re also dealing with thin walls, small…
Allen Stanford, the would-be cricket baron who engineered an $8 billion Ponzi scheme from his Miami headquarters, bought Coral Gables castles for his mistresses, and all-but ruled Antigua as a personal fiefdom, has not had an easy go of it in prison since the fraud disintegrated last year. He checked…
I think a lot of people love David Cassidy, so what are they so afraid of? Maybe that he’ll swerve into them in his white Mercedes while allegedly driving drunk. Yes, the former teen idol and Partridge Family star, now 60, was arrested in South Florida for driving drunk. When…
In a story sure to outrage the Marco Rubio camp on the eve of the midterms, two Florida firefighters have resigned after an investigation into their tea-bagging while on duty. What kind of upside-down nation are we living in where two public servants can’t express their pol … oh wait…
We all know cigarettes are deadly, but for at least the second time this year in Miami a man has died following a fight that started over a cigarette. An unidentified 54-year-old man is dead after a fight broke out somehow spurred by an argument about a smoke. 29-year-old Frank Alonso has been…
Tipsy beach bunnies routinely barf in their back seats. Robbers put guns to their heads, demanding cash. Crack addicts try to beat them to death for no reason.Life is tough for Miami’s 4,500 cab drivers. Now it’s getting tougher, as they could have to pay for new security cameras meant…
Was anybody surprised by the allegation that two brothers– one a Surfside police officer and one a Tremont Towing driver– were involved in a bribery scheme? Tiny Surfside is historically scandal-ridden, and this year another cop there was cuffed for a scheme involving false accident reports and insurance payouts. Tremont…
Rakontur is currently finishing up Square Grouper, their documentary on Miami’s pot smuggling heydays, but that’s not all in the past. The South Florida US Attorney’s Office announced that they recently found a boat just miles off the coast of Miami packed with 800 pounds of pot. Four arrests have…
