When City Manager Tony Crapp Jr. hired Paul Philip to “audit” the Miami Police Department, we assumed the ex-G-man’s job was to write a bad report so Crapp could fire embattled Chief Miguel Exposito. So what the hell is Philip doing in the New York Times today justifying the string…
With Randy Shannon at the helm, the University of Miami’s football team may not have won any titles — but it did keep its nose clean, with zero player arrests since 2007. That’s one record that new coach Al Golden’s regime has already shattered.Ramon Buchanan, a senior linebacker from Melbourne,…
Thieves in Miami tied up a 95-year-old woman along with two other women while brandishing a gun and ransacked a home this afternoon. The women weren’t hurt, but the desperate thieves who apparently couldn’t find any babies with candy to steal from or fish in barrels to shoot, made away…
Following a bizarre string of body parts washing up on the shores of South Florida late last year, a man may have discovered yet another bag of body parts floating in Biscayne Bay. A bicyclist on Brickell Key spotted two grocery bags floating near shore, and at first thought they…
Barry Minkow’s life could have been an American archetype: A seemingly successful young entrepreneur goes to prison for in fact running a Ponzi scheme, and then finds Jesus and dedicates his life to helping the feds sniff out other frauds.But like any good crook, Minkow just couldn’t keep his hands…
The work of playful Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami, who has collaborated on everything from a colorful collection of Louis Vuitton bags to Kanye West videos, is always a big hit at Art Basel Miami Beach. His popularity also makes his works susceptible to theft, and a $72,500 one-of-a-kind ring…
If only every case was this easily solved with a box of stolen dildos. Monroe County Sheriff’s officers investigating the burglary of a trailer in Marathon caught a break when a woman turned over a box of sex toys and told them her ex-boyfriend had stolen them from just such…
In October 2009, prosecutors charged George Munne, the owner of local construction firm American Earth Movers (AEM), with felony organized fraud. His crime: Paying kickbacks to a minority contractor who never did any work, all so his firm could meet county standards on a big-money project in Virginia Key.Fast-forward to…
Margarita Blanco, 41, was set on fire by her boyfriend on Wednesday evening and, according to family members, did not survive the brutal attack. She passed away today around noon at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Meanwhile, her alleged killer and former boyfriend, Jesus Alvarez, also 41, remains on the run…
Miami-Dade Police are on the hunt for Jesus Alvarez, 41, after he set his girlfriend on fire following a fight in their mobile home. The incident occurred yesterday after 6 p.m. in the 2200 block of NW 27th Avenue. The woman is at Jackson Memorial Hospital in serious condition…
Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather — a University of Miami star drafted in the first round in 2007 — is under investigation in the shooting of two men at a house party in central Florida last week, according to a lawyer representing the victims.Meriweather allegedly pulled a gun at a party…
Edison Gonzalez is an electrician by trade, and allegedly a pervert by habit. Now he’s behind bars for using his skills as an electrician to install a secret video camera in a light fixture in the bathroom of his girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter. Back when another Edison invented the lightbulb, he…
More details continue to emerge in the disturbing and sad case of 2-and-half-year-old Elijah Collins, the boy who was found not breathing in a motel room with feces, urine, a dead animal, and other filth. The boy’s parents — Vincent Collins, 25, and Savannah Sholter, 21 — remain behind bars, charged…
Adam Tavss’s short career as a police officer is long gone after getting caught running a marijuana grow house out of his basement. But Tavss didn’t break the law by shooting and killing an unarmed tourist on Washington Avenue in 2009, the State Attorney’s Office has decided.In a close-out memo…
Shock nightclub in South Beach might be a chaotic vortex of revolving promoters, investors, and name changes, but it finally looks like that cycle might be grinding to a halt.Miami Beach Police now say they have begun an investigation into complaints against the Washington Avenue club…
Talk about a hostile witness. Armando Codina, the developer at the heart of a criminal case against ex-Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, repeatedly criticized prosecutor Richard Scruggs on the stand today for “misleading” him. Prosecutors say the $12,500 that Codina gave a charity at Spence-Jones’s urging amounted to a bribe, but the developer denied…
Four women have come forward and claimed they were sexually assaulted by employees at the spa at Doral Golf Resort & Spa. Two woman came forward with their allegations in early February, and now, according to NBCMiami, two other women plan to sue the resort for sexual assault by spa workers…
Cheese smuggling sounds like some sort of weird euphemism, but in this case we really mean that two people in Miami have been arrested for smuggling contaminated cheese into the country. Yuri Izurieta, 41, and Anneri Izurieta, 46, husband and wife, and their company, Naver Trading Corp., have been indicted…
Vincent Paul Collins, 25, and Savanah Lynn Sholter, 21, have been arrested after authorities found their two-year-old son abandoned in a Hialeah motel room surrounded by his own filth and a dead animal, and weighing only 15 pounds. The pair is charged with one count each of child neglect and…
Robin Greinke and Steven Neil do not deserve to enjoy the simple pleasure of pizza. All they seemingly deserve is a lifetime of jail. Greinke, 26, confessed to beating her 3-year-old son to death with Neil, her 33-year-old boyfriend, before the pair ate pizza and watched a movie in Orlando…
Miami Police arrested eight business owners and confiscated 32 gaming machines this afternoon in an operation that seems certain to escalate the ugly feud between Chief Miguel Exposito and Mayor Tomás Regalado.In January, the embattled chief accused the mayor of interfering with a similar sting days after Regalado had helped…
Eighteen-year-old Jay Stubbs is behind bars and facing charges that he fatally shot his 16-year-old girlfriend, Tracy Gabriel, in the face. Police booked Stubbs just a little more than 24 hours after the early Tuesday-morning murder…
