Garrett Wittels, the Florida International University baseball star who made national headlines last year with a DiMaggio-esque hitting streak, is about to be all over the interwebs for much less savory reasons. Wittels and two friends have been charged in the rape of two 17-year-old girls in the Bahamas…
Let’s start this list with a caveat: In the 305, the vast majority of police officers are decent men and women risking their lives to protect America’s craziest county. It’s not a job most of us could do, and we salute them for it. Really.But it’s also true that when…
Rosa Marie Pou, 44 of Miami, was arrested yesterday after allegedly abandoning her severely disabled son at the SeaWorld amusement park in Orlando and then laughing about it. Her son has severe mental and developmental disabilities, and police originally thought he was about 8-years-old when they found him alone in…
Last we heard from Carlos Bertonatti — the handsome, would-be pop singer accused of killing a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway while drunkenly speeding home from Club Space — his bond had been revoked after prosecutors said he was a flight risk who had lied about owning multiple passports.Well, Bertonatti…
City of Miami police have shot a suspect armed with a shotgun in Liberty City, leaving the man seriously wounded — and giving Chief Miguel Exposito a new round of questions to answer about violence in the neighborhood.Update: The suspect, who died overnight, has been identified as 22-year-old Brandon Foster…
Yesterday, a WSVN report on a Miramar man who was shot to death in front of his three young children and wife included a quote from a neighbor claiming the man was “best friends” with Miami rapper Rick Ross. Though no one could confirm the relationship this set off a…
First there was the human stew discovered in a bucket behind the Egg and U diner in Fort Lauderdale. Then there was the head found in another bucket a few days later in Dania Beach and the male torso spotted inside a storage container near the Country Club of Miami.Now…
Ciara Lee, 24, and her two-year-old son were the victims of an all-out assault by high-powered rifle. Police say their home in the Victory Homes housing project in Model City was riddled with bullets shortly after 1 a.m. Lee had worked as a corrections officer at the South Florida Reception…
You’ve got a steamrolling Ponzi scheme churning out cash so fast that you can’t spend it all. You’ve already leased the $4,700-per-month Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG with rims fatter than Fat Joe and dropped $1.5 million on a Riviera yacht. But where do you hang your (gold-plated) hat after a long…
Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman — the Perrine clerks who sparked a national furor and a local boycott after allegedly beating a customer to death ago over an argument about a few cents change — will have to wait another few weeks for their first day in court. The Sulaimans’ arraignment…
At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison’s pardon — which should be made official at 9 a.m. — closes a sordid footnote in rock history, some…
Miami police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a live-in boyfriend and girlfriend couple that happened sometime in the last 24 hours, reports The Miami Herald. Police believe the girlfriend shot and killed her boyfriend before shooting herself…
The wayward ways of former Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolaños’ troublesome son Rolando Bolaños Jr. have finally caught up to him. Bolaños Jr. has plead guilty to strong armed robbery of a bank stemming from an incident last year in which he made off with $2,389 from a Bank Atlantic…
Just after 7 p.m. last Tuesday inside Miami Beach City Hall, two high level bureaucrats settled a heated argument the old school way: With some good ol’ fashioned fisticuffs.Police broke up the brouhaha after Charles Carreño, the Capital Improvement Projects director, allegedly grabbed assistant to the city manager Emanuel Mayer…
Shatarka Nuby already had breast implants, but they weren’t big enough. And her arms! They needed liposuction, stat! The only problem: Nuby didn’t have $9,000 to pay for all that work.So that’s when the 29-year-old lifted a college application out of a mailbox, opened a fraudulent credit card, and went…
Gianni Versace’s 1997 murder on the steps of his Ocean Drive mansion remains one of the most high-profile and bizarre killings in Miami Beach history. While the death was always believed to be the strange end to the spree of killings by Andrew Cunanan, an ex-mobster believes Versace’s killing wasn’t…
In a feature last month, New Times explored skater culture in Miami, a city that’s never quite warmed to thrashers even though its warm environs and concrete jungles could easily make the Magic City a skateboard mecca. Last night brought another tragic blow to the scene when a 14-year-old riding…
In places such as Kabul, Gaza, and Baghdad, unmanned aerial vehicles hovering over homes, following suspects, and tracking enemies of the state are a daily reality. So where are the high-tech drones buzzing to next? Miami-Dade County, naturally!The Miami-Dade Police Department is poised to become the first large metro force…
Hundreds of protesters have surrounded a QuickStop in Perrine where two co-owners beat a man to death with a crowbar last week after an argument over a few cents and an exchange of racial slurs. Although the owners — Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman — have been charged in the death…
Gilberto Matamoros, the 21-year-old man who’s brutal beating at the hands of out-of-control City of Miami police officers on Halloween night in Coconut Grove was caught on YouTube, is being charged with resisting arrest. There’s still no clear explanation given for what exactly caused officers to repeatedly punch Matamoros in…
Willie Walden was co-director of North Miami’s Police Athletic League and a school resources officer who patrolled the campuses of North Miami High School, North Miami Middle School and several elementary schools. His job was to keep kids safe, but now the 48-year-old officer has been relieved of duties following…
In today’s senseless murder news, a maintenance worker was shot dead while helping police evict a tenant from an Ocean Drive apartment in South Beach this morning. The shooter and a police officer were also injured, though neither seriously…
