Retired Gen. Rene Sanabria, who once ran Bolivia’s national anti-narcotics police unit, has pleaded guilty in a Miami court to smuggling cocaine. Sanabria and his co-conspirators were arrested in March and charged with trying to sneak about 315 pounds of cocaine into the Port of Miami…
Reggae superstar Buju Banton will spend the next decade in federal lockup, a judge in Tampa ruled this morning. The sentence comes after Banton — who played to a packed crowd at Bayfront in January and won a Grammy this year — was convicted of trying to engineer a cocaine…
A 6-foot, 250-pound woman who allegedly jumped on a cop’s back was acquitted of battery on the Miami Police officer. The jury took only 28 minutes last Friday to find Sarah Myles not guilty after all three sergeants who were at the scene told different accounts of what happened.Police made…
It’s almost too crass to state, but it remains obvious that nothing mixes worse than kids and guns. Forget oil and water.A 4-year-old boy in Little Havana was accidentally shot in the groin after his 17-year-old half-brother found and then began playing with a rifle…
Walter Chesnut just wanted to feed his family. So, since about February, he’s been on a unique stealing spree: he’s been taking manhole covers from the Wynwood neighborhood and selling them for about $25 each…
Police went looking for a burglary suspect on SW 69th Avenue yesterday afternoon and thought they saw him run into a home. They believed him to be armed and barricaded inside, according to WSVN. The “standoff” began around 2 p.m., and at 6, the SWAT team stormed the house.Nobody home…
If you’re a fan of firsthand accounts, Michael O. Munday is something of a local treasure. Almost every one of his colleagues is dead, in prison, or underground. But 65-year-old Mickey Munday — as the served-his-time cocaine megasmuggler is known — just won’t shut up. Now the gregarious native Miamian…
Nobody’s saying Miami-Dade is particularly well-behaved, but GOOD LORD, Palm Beach, you kicked our ass on this one. What a mug shot. Such emotion, such conflict. And a faint suggestion of artful composition too.Oh — and this isn’t his first arrest…
As Miami continues to emerge as a serious art center, the city’s infatuation with the colorful yet shallow work of pop artist Romero Britto continues to be a source of embarrassment and frustration for some. Usually that frustration emerges in derogatory jokes or blog comments, but an unknown vandal has taken…
Seven people have been arrested by the Miami-Dade Police Department for running a ring of brothels in Homestead that possibly exploited human trafficking victims. 53-year-old Daysi Jaques, known around the neighborhood as “Mami,” is believed to be one of the heads of the ring and explained to neighbors that men…
South Florida gangs are a ruthless and bloody bunch, whose names strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. Lately, however, those names have gone bilingual. And redundant.Six members of the Lake Worth-based gang Krazy Locos — not to be confused with the formerly caffeinated brand of booze-in-a-can Four Loko…
Health care fraud is the hot ticket among Miami’s white collar criminals these days, and prosecutors today say they’ve busted a ring that was recruiting school bus drivers to bilk the Miami-Dade Public School’s insurance fund to the tune of at least $1 million. The owner of a fake clinic…
Just as news came yesterday that Florida was the grow house capital of America, a suspected hydroponics lab in Opa-locka has caught fire. Fire fighters haven’t completely confirmed that the warehouse is indeed a grow house, but they’re taking turns trying to put out the fire from the inside. You…
Some communities debate over police levels, school funding and the mayor’s race — you know, real issues.Coral Gables burdens itself with pickup trucks.Starting August 8, the city will once again enforce a ban on parking a pickup truck on the street or in a driveway between 7 p.m. and 7…
The New Orleans Saints won their first Super Bowl rings in Miami back in 2009, and one member of the team almost lost his here, too.Saints linebacker Stanley Arnoux left his 2008 championship ring in his vehicle when he valeted his car at the Fontainebleau resort in Miami Beach on…
A sizable crowd was hanging outside a grocery market in the heart of Liberty City a little before 1:30 this morning when police say a white Nissan Maxima rolled up and someone in the car started blasting indiscriminately.When the smoke cleared, four bystanders had been hit with bullets and two…
Dallas Maverick and all-around shitty person DeShawn Stevenson done got himself arrested. What a pity.Stevenson, who called the Miami Heat “classless” after game 6 and then showed up in Dallas the next day wearing a T-shirt that said “Hey LeBron! How’s my Dirk taste,” was arrested last night after he…
One of the strangest chapters from Miami’s pot-smuggling glory days came to an end in federal court today, when a judge sentenced Mark Steven Phillips — a long-lost associate of the Black Tuna ring — to five years in prison. Phillips fled during the gang’s infamous 1979 trial and hid…
America’s pawnshop and jewelry store owners can rest a little easier tonight, because authorities have arrested eight South Florida men accused of running a burglary ring that stole $6 million worth of jewelry from stores in six states over the past two years. All eight have been charged with racketeering…
LeBron James might be the most hated man in basketball, but at least he’s not involved in a bizarre scandal involving gang members, robbery, kidnapping, and a sex tape. Can’t say the same for Shaquille O’Neal. Los Angeles prosecutors are investigating a weird case allegedly centered on a tape showing the…
Extortion. Beatings. Stabbings.When Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail first aired on May 22, the BBC documentary made it look like inmates — not guards — were really in charge of the Miami-Dade Pre-Trial Detention Center downtown.Corrections officials say the documentary is misleading, but the scenes were disturbing enough for county…
Danna Bogdanoff, the 19-year-old daughter of Republican state Sen. Ellyn Bogdandoff, was arrested in Miami on Friday and charged with four felonies. Though the police report has not been released yet, it appears that the younger Bogdanoff was arrested for an incident involving a burglary and drug possession…
