Lavont Flanders will spend life in prison, a federal judge decided yesterday. The former Miami Beach cop was convicted in December of more than a dozen counts related to drugging and raping women on camera. The films were then sold around town as a porno series called “Miami’s Nastiest Nymphos.”Last…
Quentin Wyche stands accused of murdering FIU football running back Kendall Berry after an on-campus brawl in 2010, but his lawyer had hoped to get him off the hook without even facing trial. Wyche’s attorneys cited the controversial 2005 “Stand Your Ground” law signed by former Gov. Jeb Bush that…
Yesterday, we asked if a mysterious woman with a stroller was responsible for setting fire to a Michaels arts and crafts stores down in Kendall. Well, police have now located the mystery woman according to CBS Miami. She denied any wrongdoing and, apparently, persuaded police enough of her innocence that…
Last week a Michaels arts and crafts store in Kendall mysteriously caught fire. Authorities say three separate fires were set with an unknown flammable substance around the store. Police don’t have a suspect just yet, but would like to talk to this unidentified woman seen in security footage pushing a stroller through the store…
Paul Michael Mira, the former PE director at a Miami charter school, has admitted to having sex with both a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old student, but because of a plea deal struck with prosecutors, the man will not have to serve any time behind bars. Instead, the sexual predator who…
Tavon Mahlab now faces first-degree murder charges after his four-month-old son has died. Mahlab was arrested three weeks ago for allegedly beating the child so badly the infant was placed on life support. The 30-year-old North Miami man was already being held in jail with no bond…
A 17-year-old boy walking home from school was shot in Liberty City this afternoon. The student is in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital, while police search the area for the culprit…
A suspected car thief fleeing a traffic stop was shot and killed last night in Liberty City by a Miami Beach cop working on a county anti-robbery team.Details are still sparse — with a Miami-Dade police spokeswoman this morning declining to name the cop or the victim to Riptide –…
Police across Florida are looking for a 19-year-old accused of killing his own grandma as brutally as possible: By stabbing her more than 100 times, beating her in the face with a wrench and even shooting her in the head with a crossbow.Jason Aristotle Smiddie has been on the run…
What makes a house a home? Probably not cocaine, a shotgun, marijuana, grenades, a pig, and lack of ownership.Police arrested a couple last night who they found squatting in a Miami home with all of those strange items and more. A bomb squad had to be called to remove the…
Details are few and far between at the moment, but a student at Barbara Goleman Senior High School in Miami Lakes has been stabbed and seriously injured. WSVN reports that the student was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital. County police and fire rescue are on the scene investigating. Updated…
Bertram Clark, 42, is alleged to have shot his 25-year-old girlfriend and left her for dead in a pool of her own blood in front of her children. Clark remains on the run, and Miami Police are trying to track him down.The incident occurred shortly after midnight on Monday morning…
In a gruesome act that certainly can’t be attributed to a dog, Miami Beach found four dead cats shoved into a bag last night. One cat was found alive. The feline was taken to a local animal hospital, but it too later died.Update: The cats may have been poisoned. And…
Wilfredo Ruiz, you lying liar. Miami resident Ruiz has been charged with dousing his wife with gasoline and trying to set her on fire — on Christmas morning, with their kids in the house. But when we last spoke to him, he told us that he was innocently fueling a…
Imagine you’re the teller working the front window at a quiet bank in the Keys, when 43-year-old Eli Escalera walks up and hands you a note: “Give me what are 20s and 50s.””Is this a robbery?” you wonder, staring at the bizarrely worded demand. “And why the hell is this…
Two women are in critical condition at the Ryder Trauma Center after being shot during a bizarre incident that started with hair pulling at the Molino Rojo Bar in Little Havana last night. Meanwhile, 35-year-old Fidencio Membrano now sits in jail and faces charged of attempted murder and battery…
A four-month-old baby boy was on life support at Jackson Memorial Hospital this morning while his father appeared in court on charges of putting him there. Yosi Mahlab, 30 of North Miami, stands accused of beating his own son on January 21. The child lost brain activity as a result…
It’s a not a true Miami saga unless it includes a full out brawl on a Spanish language talk show, so it’s really no surprise that during a taping of Cristina Saralegui’s Telemundo show yesterday Corey Eubanks, the man who was arrested as an accomplice in the case of accused…
Tyree Lincoln Smith, a Florida man, has been arrested in Lynn Haven, Florida, for allegedly beating a Connecticut man to death with an axe and then eating his eyeball and part of his brain in a nearby cemetery.According to warrant application obtained by The Connecticut Post, Smith told his cousin…
If you’re going to take the risk of setting up an illegal marijuana growhouse, it’s best to take just the littlest bit of caution and make sure that growhouse isn’t directly next door to a school where kids as young as kindergarteners study.Three Miami men weren’t so smart and set…
Whenever the world reads a bizarre headline, the first question is always: “Did it happen in Florida or Texas?” Scientists, after all, have proven that 98.7 percent of truly messed up crimes originate the two Southern states. But that begs the question: Which is truly the most WTF state in…
Quentin Wyche, the man accused of murdering FIU running back Kendall Berry during an on-campus confrontation in March 2010, could walk free without a trial thanks to Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law that was championed by former governor Jeb Bush. At least that’s what his attorneys hope. Wyche’s lawyers claim…
