Here’s the truth about the war on drugs: You can pass new laws. You can carry out police stings. You can put people behind bars. You can squash one growing probably, like Florida did with pill mills. And, yet, even after all of that people are still going to find…
Up until now, the true dangers of bath salts were a bit hazy. The synthetic drug was blamed for everything from the Miami zombie to the guy in West Virginia who dressed in panties and slaughtered his neighbor’s goat, but the science was much less certain. After all, face-eating killer…
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.Despite almost embarrassing amounts of public outreach to remind Miamians not to shoot their guns off into the air every time they see fireworks, a man was struck by a falling bullet on New Year’s Eve…
Nothing rings in the new year like a suspicious death in Miami Beach.According to city police spokeswoman Det. Vivian Hernandez, homicide detectives are investigating a dispute between a couple who were staying at the Marseilles Hotel at 1741 Collins Ave.Police found the man dead in his room early on New…
When Gus Lopez was arrested in October on 63 charges ranging from money laundering to bribery, even the most jaded Miami Beach residents were amazed at the extent of his alleged corruption. For five years, the city’s procurement director had run a contract racket out of his office at city…
Twice a year, during the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve, the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County have to constantly reminding everyone in town NOT to shoot their guns off in celebration. Actually, a news conference held last week highlighted the Rickia Issac Foundation’s 14th annual No More Stray Bullets event…
The father of a 13-year-old girl who was shot and killed while riding a school bus in Miami last month has committed suicide just over a month after the original tragedy. Armando Guzman’s body was found dead inside a car near Fort Lauderdale on Thursday…
There’s only one person who is supposed to eat your cookies without explicit permission during the Christmas season and that’s Santa. Not Shuwana.Shuwana Horne, a Homestead woman who worked at a UPS warehouse in Islamaroda, has been arrested for opening and eating an undelivered tin of cookies and pocketing an…
Now we know why George Zimmerman started selling his autograph last month. Turns out, back when he was preparing to leave jail on bond over the summer, he and his lawyers had hired a detective agency run by a former SWAT team member to concoct an elaborate disappearing act: Zimmerman…
Revelry turned to tragedy this past Halloween at Taverna Opa in Mary Brickell Village when a man in a red devil mask punched another man so hard it eventually lead to his death. Two months later, Miami police have now arrested Sagy Shachar for the deadly attack…
Oh, girl, hope you’re not getting your hair did soon, because Miami has experienced what we imagine must be one of the biggest hair care heists of all time.Thieves struck a warehouse in West Kendall on Sunday night and wiped the business clean of $80,000 worth of fancy hair products…
As the rest of the nation huddled up to some eggnog, crackling fires and repeat viewings of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Miami baked under tropical skies and celebrated Christmas the best way we knew how: By going bananas with horrific crime sprees.Between Christmas Eve and early Wednesday morning, all these…
More than 14 months after the saga of Fausto Lopez, the City of Miami police officer who was stopped by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper while speeding 120 mph down the Florida Turnpike to an off-duty job, is still causing embarrassment for the department.Now the trooper, Donna “Jane” Watts, has…
Nationwide, the use of the death penalty is in steep decline, with only nine states carrying out any executions at all last year. But in the Sunshine State, sentencing prisoners to die is as in vogue as ever.>In fact, Florida led the country in new death sentences handed down in…
Krishna Maharaj was a powerful local newspaper publisher when he was arrested in 1986 and accused of a grisly crime: the brutal double murder of a father and son in a downtown Miami hotel room. Maharaj was convicted, but as we reported back in 2007, the Trinidadian millionaire insisted he…
There’s no such thing as too much precaution following last week’s shooting in Connecticut.Two Miami-Dade schools were placed on lockdown today after a shooting occurred nearby…
Three defendants involved in the bonkers South Beach scam that involved sending hot Eastern European girls out on the town to lure men to what were basically fake nightclubs only to charge ridiculous sums to their credit cars have been convicted by a jury today. A fourth was acquitted.See also:-…
A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in Wynwood last night. The incident happened at about 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of NW First Avenue and 28th Street, just a block off of the art district’s main drag, and a few blocks from the Midtown shops…
When Henry Bryant and Daniel Mack were caught last year trying to transport a few kilos of cocaine, the arrest sent shock waves well beyond the usual coke bust. That’s because Bryant was a Miami Beach firefighter and Mack was a Miami-Dade cop. Their arrest came in a public corruption…
After a task force appointed by Gov. Rick Scott ultimately decided to make no substantial change to Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law after the Trayvon Martin shooting, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chris Smith has introduced his own changes to the law. The changes would ultimately give law enforcement more…
Steven Bauer, the Cuban-American actor best known for his roles in Scarface and ¿Qué Pasa, USA? was arrested yesterday by Sweetwater police on a 12-year-old outstanding warrant…
Miami-Dade Police have arrested 16-year-old Austin Lee Bowling for making threats to shoot up the Miami Lakes Educational Center on the one-week anniversary of the the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. In addition to threats about shooting fellow students, Bowling also tweeted that he had no sympathy for…
