In a Jacksonville courthouse yesterday, Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the death of her 3-month-old son, Dylan Lee Edmondson. Her chilling motive: The boy was annoying Tobias while she was trying to play the highly addictive Facebook game Farmville. She was too busy…
Police are searching for suspects in two separate firearm attacks that occurred overnight in North Miami-Dade. One was fatal; the other victim is not expected to survive. A 25-year-old man was found shot to death near his black SUV near Barry University in Miami Shores. In the other shooting, a…
Surfside is one of those three-block hamlets that subsists entirely on the hundred-dollar fines slapped on drivers unlucky enough to crawl through a hair over the limit. Surfside PD doesn’t exactly have a lot of CSI-worthy affairs to spend their time on (although they did fine work tracking that masturbator…
Miami Police have arrested a suspect in a recent rash of taxi cab robberies.Christopher Albert Debanos, 21, was arrested yesterday on robbery, burglary, and gun charges in connection to as many as seven stick-ups this summer. Debanos has already confessed to at least one of the robberies, according to police…
Residents of two blocks of a Miami neighborhood awoke this morning to find their street littered with the corpses of dozens of headless animals, NBC Miami reports. Neighbors heard a loud boom early in the morning and came outside to discover the stench and sight of the bodies…
Miami has long been the country’s capitol for Medicare fraud schemes, and today federal authorities arrested four people associated with American Therapeutic Corporation and charged the Miami-based company with fleecing $200 million from Medicare. The company is accused of preying on patients with severe dementia, and forcing them to go…
This summer, Miami Police fatally shot four suspects in Liberty City, Overtown, and Little Haiti, raising questions of excessive use of force and calls for Police Chief Miguel Exposito’s resignation.So Exposito could perhaps be excused for playing up the positive this morning at a press conference marking the end to…
The Miami Police Department should be on high alert tonight as a shadowy gangland character is reportedly coming to town. The MPD has been in well-publicized pursuit of the mysterious criminal– often referred to as “The Jiggaman”, or “Jigga” and pictured with his identical twin and three multi-racial underlings in…
Lady Justice hasn’t exactly been harsh to Adam Tavss, no matter how badly he messes up. When the Miami Beach cop was caught with drugs in his system last year — months after he shot and killed two different men under questionable circumstances in just four days — he was…
Thanks to a brazen cadre of lady criminals, a couple of liquor stores in Pembroke Pines are with out pricey bottles of top shelf booze like Grey Goose. While an accomplice distracted the store clerk, a surveillance camera caught the women taking the liquor bottles off the shelf, hiking up…
Sean Cronin, a 36-year-old federal prosecutor who was arrested last month for a neither regions-exposing wardrobe malfunction while taking a dip in the pool in only his boxers at a local bar, will not be charged with indecent exposure. The State Attorney’s Office believes there’s insufficient evidence to prove he…
The Bank of America in Coral Gables that just weeks ago was the scene of a bizarre hostage crisis, has been robbed yet again. The latest robbery went down around 10 a.m., when a man entered with what appeared to be a gun a gave a teller a note demanding…
Ever since you’ve been a little kid you know that you’ve wanted to get on the baggage carousel at the airport and ride it. You know you especially wanted to go through to the other side and find out what was back there. Well, 40-year-old Bradley Ray Bromelow did just that…
Yesterday we wrote about the brave police officer Tasing an 18-year-old man, now identified as Zak Anthony King, for the horrible crime of jogging completely nude save for a pair of swimming goggles in West Melbourne, Fl. Today, obviously, there’s video…
We don’t know what it is about police in Florida, but they sure love to Taser people. Especially naked people it seems. Following a bizarre incident here in Miami just six days ago, police in West Melbourne have Tasered an 18-year-old boy for jogging in the nude. …
Just ask Tupac, Lil Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You might as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting…
Bank robbery is not a dumb man’s game. With high-tech security and cunning police, there’s little room for amateurish. Even if you do manage to make off with some loot, you better have a good get away plan. That usually involves making sure your getaway driver isn’t asleep, and if…
Nail salon employee is not a job usually associated with danger, but a worker at the Nails 4 U salon on Biscayne Boulevard and 155th Street was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night for surgery after being shot in the chest on the job…
A bizarre incident this morning involving a Florida Department of Environmental Protection officer and an apparently naked suspect ended up with the officer taking bullets to his hand while the au natural suspect was Tasered…
A week or so ago, Riptide braved the overhyped media maelstrom that was the grand opening of the new 5th Street Gym. A sanitized version of the South Beach boxing den where Muhammad Ali trained, it’s now helmed by a Chicago-based ownership group. Ali trainer Angelo Dundee’s own share feels…
P. Leonardo Mascheroni had a simple dream: earning billions of dollars in government funding to build a gigantic laser beam that would create stable nuclear fusion and limitless, free energy for the world. So simple! But the government wouldn’t listen.So the Los Alamos-based nuclear physicist took his plans to a…
Reggae star Buju Banton’s trial on cocaine charges has ended in a mistrial after the 12-person jury sent a second notice to the judge saying they couldn’t reach a decision. The jury had been deliberating since Thursday following a four-day trial…
