The roads of Miami-Dade are an asphalt hell full of asshole drivers. It’s simply a fact, and sometimes someone might cut us off. Sometimes such an incident might even devolve into a roadside confrontation, but it really& is not a good idea to bring guns into the equation.A man has…
Ana V. Ramirez’s 25-year-old son, Christian Pagan, has Down syndrome. In April 2010, Pagan flew into a violent rage, and Ramirez had little choice but to call 911. She specifically asked officers not to use a Taser because Pagan has a heart condition. Well, they zapped him anyway, and now…
An argument between two students yesterday afternoon at Miami Norland Senior Senior High School turned violent when one student pulled out a gun and shot the other in his rear end. The 17-year-old victim is recovering, and his injuries are not life-threatening. However, the student who shot him has so…
Sports dads are the worst. They’re boorish creatures who stalk the sidelines of youth athletic fields, yelling at their kid’s coach, cursing the referee, and heckling the other team. They know no shame, and sometimes they get violent.Robert Rodriguez is charged with punching Miami Springs High School baseball coach Jason…
Lawyers for RK Netmedia, owner of RealityKings.com, claim that a hardcore film featuring actress Bieyanka Moore was pulled off the porn site immediately upon being tipped that she may have been a 15-year-old runaway. But on the internet, it’s nearly impossible to put such a genie back in the bottle…
If you’re going to rip off your own mom for ten grand, you might as well get your money’s worth, right? So goes the tale of Miriam Garmas, a 34-year-old from Stock Island who police say committed the perfectly stereotypical South Florida crime by defrauding her mother out of more…
In this week’s New Times, we unravel the mysterious double life of Ronald Miranda AKA Richard Gamble.Back on November 15, 1980, Miranda allegedly mowed down the man he found sleeping with his wife in the small town of Los Banos, California. Thirty-one years later, Miranda — with a new name and…
Late Friday night, talented but troubled Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall wound up at Broward General Medical Center, while his wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall, was held in jail for allegedly stabbing the superstar in the gut. Today the Broward Sheriff’s Office released the 911 call Nogami-Marhsall made from their Southwest Ranches home…
Thursday brought the strange and tragic news that a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy might have fatally shot his mother while playing with a handgun in Miramar. Now, as the investigation continues, some friends and relatives of the victim, 33-year-old Julia Bennett, aren’t buying the original story and believe that the boy’s father,…
Charlie Ely says she took part in the crime only because others threatened to kill her if she didn’t go along with the plan.
Thieves in Miami will steal anything that’s not nailed down if the opportunity arises. Unfortunately, you can’t nail down your pet parrot, because that’s just animal cruelty. So keep a watchful eye on your feathered friends, because one was recently stolen from a Miami Beach apartment. Thankfully, a vigilant policeman…
You can accuse Joel Paul Williams of setting fire to several abandoned buildings in the Collins Park area of South Beach, but you can’t accuse him of being a liar. When police arrested the 33-year-old homeless man in February, the only explanation offered was: “I’m insane.” Well, now a court…
A 33-year-old woman was shot in the back last night at her home in Miramar, Florida, and police believe that her 3-year-old son was the gunman. The boy might have been playing with the gun when it accidentally fired and sent a bullet through his mother…
Several posts on 15-year-old Seath Jackson’s Facebook wall paint a picture of the heated arguments that might have set the stage for his brutal murder last Sunday near Ocala. Jackson had apparently been dating 15-year-old Amber Wright, but she broke up with him a few weeks before the murder and…
Residents of “Knifecrime Island” might become increasingly wary of traveling to the “Gunshine State.” The brutal murder of two British tourists in Sarasota has shocked the United Kingdom, and now the country’s media is stirring the idea that maybe Florida isn’t such a safe place to visit.For a state that…
LeBron James decided the best place to take his talents was South Beach, but it might not have been the best place to take his mom. A witness told TMZ that Gloria James yelled xenophobic slurs the night she was arrested for slapping Fontainebleau valet Rockefeller Sorel, a Haitian immigrant…
Rolling Stone details the quick rise and tragic personal fall of the teenage Internet queen.
Eugene Roman may never see the errors of his own ways. Or much of anything in fact. He gouged out his own eyes with his finger back in 2005 while serving time for beating his wife. Shortly after the incident he was released, and his wife accepted him back into…
Seventh Day Adventist? More like Seventh Day A-hole.According to investigators, Marguerite Martial Jean ran a $3.4 million Ponzi scheme targeting nearly 300 of her fellow Haitian-Americans. As if that wasn’t cynical enough, her former pastor says Jean scammed at least 25 fellow members of the Eden Seventh Day Adventist Church…
Last Friday, a Miami-Dade police officer was lucky to be alive after Durall Jessie Miller fired at him, leaving him with a wounded foot and a bullet-hole in his hat. Late last night, when police tracked the fugitive down to a Miami Gardens house, Miller wasn’t so lucky.Police shot and…
Percy Palomino walked into his home in Southwest Miami-Dade at about 1 a.m. on Sunday only to find his wife, Elizabeth Palomino, dead laying in a pool of her own blood. Police are investigating the brutal murder, but so far have released no information on possible suspects of motives…
Miami Hurricanes linebacker Ramon Buchanon’s arrest on felony charges in Coconut Grove last month may have put a dent on the team’s recent clean image, but the felony charges against him will be dropped assuming he completes a pre-trial diversion program. Buchanon had previously been reinstated to the team…
