It has not been a good two days for Miami police officers. Just yesterday, officer Reynaldo Goyos was fired for killing an unarmed man during a traffic stop while officer Luis Hernandez was arrested on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery.Now, yet another officer for the department finds himself in…
Nearly eight months after being placed on suspension, Charles Hurley, the chief of the Miami-Dade Public Schools police force, has officially been demoted. Now the hunt is on for his replacement…
Not exactly a good day for the Miami Police Department. Hours after announcing that they’ve fired a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man, another officer has now found himself in trouble.Twenty-seven-year-old officer Luis Hernandez has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery. Hernandez is a seven-year…
Officer Reinaldo Goyo, a City of Miami police officer who shot and killed Travis McNeill, a 28-year-old unarmed black man during a traffic stop, has been officially terminated from his position. Goyo had previously avoided criminal manslaughter charges after prosecutors declined to pursuit the case, however the City of Miami…
Bartolo Gelsomino, a 78-year-old Kendall resident, is facing second-degree murder charges after allegedly stabbing his 71-year-old wife to death after she refused to make him a burger. The elderly culprit then tried to cover up the crime by staging a break-in…
Karlie Tomica was booked into jail yesterday after the car she was driving struck and killed a man outside the Shelborne South Beach on Collins Avenue. She might not have been found so quickly if a Good Samaritan hadn’t followed her to an apartment building in Mid-Beach. Now, the witness’s…
This much, at least, is clear: Around 5 a.m. this morning, someone opened fire on a Rolls -Royce on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. More than a dozen shots were fired, and the Rolls ended up careening into the front of a restaurant.Now for the real question: Was Rick…
Not many people have heard of the band Lights Over Paris, but that didn’t stop frontman Robert Mawhinney from trying to live like an A-list rockstar.Unfortunately, he was arrested at Miami International Airport earlier this month on fraud charges…
A nightmare scenario played out in front of a Liberty City restaurant yesterday when an armed mugger confronted a mother with two young kids in tow and demanded her purse. The mom, identified by her family as Evelyn Matamoro, handed over her purse without a struggle — but then the…
Manuel Cruz, a teacher Hialeah Senior High, has been arrested after allegedly hitting a 17-year-old girl who refused to have sex with him. Cruz did not meet the girl through school, but rather met her at his apartment complex on December 9…
“Pay for a lap dance, end up getting fucked,” Danny Garcia says.Most of the time, this T&A truism translates to a sticky ending in the back of one of Miami’s seedy strip clubs. But Garcia alleges that for customers at Twist, one of South Beach’s oldest and most beloved gay…
Carlos Miller, the photographer and activist behind the “Photography is Not A Crime” blog, feels pretty damn strongly that there’s nothing illegal about shooting photos or video on a taxpayer-funded Metrorail platform. He believes so strongly that he’s already sued the County’s security company over two previous incidents where they…
In January 2011, Renan Rico bought a home for $25,000 and moved his family in. Then, after completing tens of thousands of dollars of renovations, he started receiving notices that the home was owned by a bank and under foreclosure. Turns out the realtor they bought it from, Ricardo Ribas,…
Choose your own terrible crime adventure: Ricardo Davis was driving his girlfriend to work at Taco Bell this week just up the coast in Palm Bay when the couple started to argue. The girlfriend pushed Davis’ head, so he responded by a) Calmly telling her to cool off; b) Singing…
It’s been a terrible week for Miami’s bicycle activists. First, a judge sentenced Michele Traverso — who killed cyclist Aaron Cohen last year on the Rickenbacker Causeway in a brutal hit-and-run — to less than a year in jail, even though he’d been driving on a suspended license. Then, this…
How do you know when your immigration system is truly messed up? When people pay $16,000 to be smuggled more than 10,000 miles just to end up in jail and on the wrong side of an STD joke in South Florida.That’s exactly what happened to some poor Brazilian bastards who…
When the Miami-Dade Police Department acquired two drones in 2010 and then got FAA clearance to fly them, civil rights advocates warned the move was a harbinger of the Blade Runner police state to come when unmanned aircraft would hover outside every window. That privacy nightmare could still come to…
Oksana Gerzon was running late and missed her flight at Miami International Airport last Thursday. Instead of accepting she’d be booked on a later flight, she decided she needed her already checked baggage right then and there. So she did the sensible thing, obviously. She made a bomb threat…
When Miami Beach cop Derick Kuilan ditched his police ATV for some drinks at The Clevelander, his superiors were none the wiser (although maybe they should have been). As a result, Kuilan drunkenly jumped back on his ride with a bride-to-be and nearly killed a couple of beachgoers.Now cops are…
On Friday afternoon, two small-time criminals entered a CVS pharmacy in Kendall and allegedly began pocketing some of the goods. By the time Miami-Dade Police officers arrived, Yolanda Thomas and Xavier Johnson were already pulling out of the parking lot and making their getaway.Cops pursued the shoplifting suspects for 20…
Violence once again erupted in Liberty City last night as a pregnant woman was gunned down in the streets at 10 p.m. last night. The incident happened in the 1200 block of Northwest 53rd Street.It’s unknown if the woman was an innocent bystander or the intended target of the attack…
When Barack Obama visited the University of Miami a few weeks before the big presidential election, one of the agents in his Secret Service detail decided to go a little buck wild in Brickell. In fact, that agent, Aaron Francis Engler, had so much fun he passed out drunk on…
