Man Punches Baby in Face During Thwarted Kidnapping

In this morning’s roundup of crime: A man punched a baby in an attempt to kidnap it and left it with fractured bones; a security guard runs over a “suspicious” man with a golf cart; another baby thought to have been kidnapped in Tennessee is found in Miami-Dade; and Cuban…

Wigged-Out Pregnant Thief Targets University of Miami

A thief suspected of targeting the University of Miami is apparently stealing for two. Surveillance videos have connected the woman, who appears visibly pregnant, to thefts from various buildings on the university’s Coral Gable campus. However, each time she seems to be wearing a different wig. …

Man Stabs Wife to Death in Front of Daughter

In your Monday-morning wrapup of crime, horrors, and the occasional glimmer of hope: A man is charged with fatablly stabbing his wife in front of his daughter, a young girl was accidentally shot during a two-man gunfight, a bicyclist and a pedestrian were hit by vehicles in separate incidents, manatees…

Fontainebleau Heir’s Wife Charged in Connection With His Murder

The bizarre saga of Ben Novack Jr. — the amputee-porn-lovin’ Fontainebleau heir found murdered in a New York hotel room last summer — is finally closer to a conclusion. His wife, Narcy Novack, and three other accomplices were indicted in New York today and charged with tying him to a chair, beating him,…

Four-Year-Old Dies After Shooting Himself in Head

In today’s roundup of the travesties and tragedies of South Florida: A 4-year-old boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head, a police officer shoots and kills a man during a traffic stop, the search for a missing boater has turned into a homicide investigation, and a teen…

Man Dies After Swallowing Cocaine During a Traffic Stop

In today’s roundup of the sins of South Beach and the rest of Miami-Dade: The death of a man in police custody is blamed on desperate cocaine ingestion, two separate shootings are being investigated, a string of car break-ins is being questioned, and a boat fire sends one man to…

Cash Rules Everything Around Miami-Dade Police

Mayor Alvarez’s former chief of staff, Dennis Morales, and several other high-ranking Miami-Dade Police officers flaunted rules related to outside employment and made hundreds of thousands of dollars each by consulting for a police force in Panama. [Herald]Meanwhile, Miami-Dade Police division chief Frank Vecin has retired following allegations that money…

One Arrested in Brutal Strip Club Beating, Four More Sought

Strip clubs should be happy places. Well, maybe not for the girls winding and grinding up on those polls (while they’re just hiding that pain deep in their souls), but for the dudes right? There’s boobs everywhere, shouldn’t they just be content to be chilling? Then why do so many…

Three Men Shot at Heathrow Lounge

Heathrow Lounge in Miami Beach is supposed to have a classy, vaguely British atmosphere, but it’s located on Washington Avenue, so of course it still has the occasional Miami-style violence.The club was hosting some sort of Father’s Day bash (because nothing says “excellent dad” like hitting up the club. “Sorry,…

Guard at Dade Pretrial Detention Center Beats Inmates Off Camera

Dale Picardat isn’t your typical jailbird. The slight, bespectacled 53-year-old has zero criminal record, a degree from Michigan State University, and about as much street cred as a granny with a walker. But he ended up at the Miami-Dade Pretrial Detention Center in August 2009 after a fluke loitering charge…