Lisa Caridad Garcia turned herself in last night for hitting Doral police officer Carlos Alvarez. The accident happened around Southeast 35th Terrace near 102nd Avenue on Saturday night, when Garcia hit Alvarez’s motorcycle head on, and kept going.Garcia’s motorcycle was demolished, but luckily he survived. He’s forced to get around…
The standoff over Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who has turned a Kingston slum into his own personal bunker to avoid extradition to the U.S, has forced his country into a state of emergency. To local law-enforcement officials, the situation is all too familiar. Coke’s ultra-violent cartel, called “The…
Maybe Riptide has been watching too much Animal Planet, but we can’t help thinking Miami’s crop of critter smugglers deserves its own special mini-series. Like cocaine and hookers, there’s a booming market for exotic animals in this classy city, and just imagine the drama: There will be suitcases full of…
The United Methodist Church Outreach Ministry in Florida City went up in flames over the weekend, and the building was mostly destroyed. Even the church’s playground, which was built a year ago, was melted to the ground.Parishioners say that they hope to rebuild the building, and are accepting donations, but…
It’s been nearly a year since Tyler Weinman was arrested and charged with a string of cat killings in the Palmetto and Cutler Bay neighborhoods. His trial isn’t even set to begin until October 25, but the Miami-Dade justice system trudges on. Weinman made an appearance in court today, during…
Philipe and Sherrine Mathieu have been arrested and charged with 860 counts of child neglect after forcing their own daughter to live outside for eight years. The child, now 16, was forbidden from eating, sleeping, or even using the restroom in the family home, and was forced to do it…
One-year-old Kianna Meus was found dead in the North Miami home of her grandmother on Monday. Originally reports and quotes from the family indicated that the death was an accident, but now police have charged Timothy Bodden, 23, with second degree murder for the death.Bodden is the boyfriend of the…
Twenty-five-year-old Vladimir Santos has been with his wife, Maria, since they were 13. Together the couple already had three sons under the age of five, with their first little girl on the way. The young family was renting a house in North Miami Beach, but Santos was told the house…
We’re not really sure what it is that drives people to expose themselves to teenagers in public. Psychologically at least. In this case we know the man was driving in a dark-colored, older- model, four-door car when he pulled up to a bus stop yesterday morning at NW 87th Avenue…
Miami-Dade Police officer John Villar has been arrested by his own force after he was charged with stealing $131,000 in a roadway robbery. Villar and two accomplices, including his cousin, targeted a man who had just won the money by betting on the NBA playoffs.Villar pulled the man over in…
Fourty-three-year-old Hernan Lazaro Concepcion has been charged with kidnapping and lewd and lascivious exhibition after allegations that he attempted to rape a four-year-old girl Sunday afternoon.The victim and her mother were attending a barbecue at their apartment complex, where Concepcion was also present. The mother realized her daughter had gone…
Florida Highway Patrol Patrick Ambroise was parked on the shoulder of the Florida Turnpike, most likely running a radar on traffic, when his patrol car was hit from behind by a Lexus. The collision sparked a fire in the patrol car, and the officer died on the scene. The accident…
Trains, forklifts, planes, and automobiles. Today’s News Roundup has it all. In terms of stealing major amounts of cash from a bank, just straight jacking the ATM always seems like the dumbest, the messiest, and, consequently, usually the most hilarious. A Bank of America branch at 9890 Bird Rd. in…
North Miami Beach Police Officer John Baker was conducting a routine search for a burglary suspect at an apartment building and decided to knock on neighbors’ doors to see if they had any information. When he knocked on the door of apartment number 9 he didn’t get any new information…
The Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services Center provides emergency food, shelter and consoling for troubled youth and their families. Now, two teen girls disappeared from the center on the same day, and police are asking for the public’s help in finding them. Sixteen-year-old Amanda Nazario suffers from bi-polar disorder,…
Daniel Zajac really hates sex offenders — but not for the usual reasons. No, he loathes the gropey pervs because they foiled his swell digs: “They totally ruined everything.” Zajac is a shelter-averse homeless man who started living in a tent on the Julia Tuttle Causeway, a few hundred feet…
Miami Metrozoo workers were cutting branches to feed to giraffes when they found the body of a woman near the entrance of the zoo April 19. Police have now identified the body as that of 60-year-old Gloria Marinckovic of Kendall. Marinckovic suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and had gone missing from her…
A former Miami Beach cop has pleaded guilty to charges that he kidnapped and tortured a Russian man in an attempt to extort more than $100,000 from him, bringing to an end one of the strangest crimes connected to the troubled police department.Richard Anastasi, a 47-year-old with almost 14 years…
Late last month, 65-year-old Laurinda Mae Hughes was found dead in the crawl space of her Tacoma, Washington home. Her body was wrapped in a sheet with a bullet hole in it. The following day, police issued a warrant for the arrest of her son and his wife, Thomas Al…
35-year-old Sosthene Louis has been arrested and charged in the killing of 26-year-old Lisney Oliveira a day after police identified him as the suspect.Louis is alleged to have asked Oliveira and his friends for a cigarette. No one in the group had one, and continued walking. That’s when Louis attacked Oliveira from…
Just one day after gunmen opened fire in a public park during a game of women’s flag football in southwest Miami-Dade, shots rang out over a basketball court in Liberty City. Two men walked up to the court and unloaded about 30 rounds on a man in his late teens…
Thirty-five-year-old Sosthene Louis has been identified as the man alleged to have killed 26-year-old Lisney Oliveira outside Club Mekka after Oliveira didn’t give him a cigarette. Louis is still on the loose and believed to be dangerous. He’s described as being between five-foot-nine and five-foot-eleven, around 200 pounds, with two…
