Kevin Gibson has just half a beard. He also had a full stash of marijuana with an intent to sell, police say. The combination of those two factors — plus the fact that Gibson spent the stoner holiday of 4/20 in jail for his alleged misdeeds — means that the…
If you hear a story about a woman seducing a man in South Florida only to make off with his Rolex, well, there’s a good chance that Subhanna Beyah was involved somehow. She’s been charged with several similar crimes in the past, but has managed to avoid jail time every…
Retired Miami-Dade Police Det. Greg Smith spent 31 years investigating some of Miami’s most brutal crimes, from drug-fueled shootouts to heartbreaking family disputes turned violent. But ask him which killing he can’t get out of his mind, and he’ll answer without a moment’s hesitation: the 1967 murder of Coral Gables…
Maybe you remember Miami-Dade County Judge Jacqueline Schwartz from previous headlines. She’s the judge who told a Coconut Grove convenience store clerk to “go fuck yourself” in a row involving an opponent’s campaign sign. She also once sent out an election victory e-mail boasting about being an “Anglo” who defeated…
In the midst of an already tense weekend on Miami Beach, David H. Johnson uploaded a video on Facebook informing friends that he had been robbed and was temporarily without a phone. His face was marred with stitches, contusions and scrapes, and the video soon spread outside of his friend…
Some thought she was behind a bizarre, eye-popping piece of performance art. Turned out she was actually carrying out an attempted second-degree murder. Siyuan Zhao, the woman who stabbed another woman with an x-acto knife in the middle of the Miami Beach Convention Center during the middle of December’s Art…
On a Friday in late March of 2012, an exasperated mother drove her teenage daughter to the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter in Tavernier, a residential program with room for up to 18 kids on the island of Key Largo. By all accounts, it was a difficult ride. Twice, the girl…
Jonathan Alexander Alonso has officially been charged with the murder of his older lover, 61-year-old Lou Piper. Appearing in bond court this morning, Alonso went on a bizarre rant in which he claimed he was “God’s will.” Police found Piper’s body Wednesday inside his Sunset Harbour apartment after co-workers reported…
After Louis Piper didn’t show up to work for a few days his co-workers informed police. They went to his South Beach apartment in the Sunset Harbour neighborhood on Wednesday and found 61-year-old Piper’s decomposing body. That explained the foul stench neighbors had been smelling. Police believe Piper may have already…
If you’re staying at a hotel near Ocean Drive or Collins Avenue, you should expect to get ripped off — usually by overpriced shrimp cocktail or colossal margaritas at a sidewalk café. Baltimore Ravens running back Terrance West, however, claims he got ripped off when he was staying at the…
On Tuesday, County Commissioner Sally Heyman had a serious question for the feds who have zeroed in on Miami as a haven of illicit money laundering: “Why target just Miami-Dade County?” she asked. Commissioners then approved her resolution, which expressed grave “concerns” that Miami’s image was being hurt by suggestions…
Miami may not be considered a city of high manners, but some people get awfully awkward when you ask what exactly it is they do for a living. Not because you’re breaking any of Emily Post’s rules of etiquette by asking, but because they may be admitting to breaking some…
Angel Nolasco was arrested on charges of practicing dentistry without a license in 2011 you’d figure he’d take the hint and pack up his probes and retractors for good. Sure, the charges ending up being dropped, but that didn’t mean he was free to keep on pulling teeth. Turns out…
Waka flakka, flamed out? The synthetic-drug epidemic that has gripped Broward County and spilled over into Miami-Dade more than two years ago may already be over thanks to an unprecedented level of coordination involved in the war on that drug. Flakka, known scientifically as alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone, had been floating around for years…
Stray cats riddle Miami-Dade like pigeons in New York or rats in Chicago. Except, you know, cats are cute, and come people can’t help but feed the feral felines, often to the chagrin of their neighbors. It’s a common quarrel, but one that usually doesn’t end in bullets. Then again,…
If there’s a tragic figure in the unseemly Biogenesis steroid scandal that tore apart Major League Baseball three years ago, it’s Yuri Sucart, Alex Rodriguez’s cousin and longtime drug connection. After years at A-Rod’s side, often doing his less-than-legal bidding, Sucart fell hard in a federal criminal case tied to…
If you’re heading to or from South Beach tonight you really might want to think about taking a cab or Uber. The Miami Beach police department is setting up a DUI checkpoint that starts at 8 p.m. tonight and will continue until 6 a.m. the next morning. The checkpoint will…
Miami Beach Police are asking for the publics help in identifying a suspect who allegedly attacked a visiting gay couple at the Whopper Bar in South Beach. The confrontation led to a brawl that was caught on tape by the restaurant’s security cameras. According to police, the incident occured in…
The Florida Keys are hardly a crime-free haven. Residents in the watery string of islands are used to all kinds of extra-legal shenanigans, from mass drug rings to wild backhoe joyrides. But murder is rare. And the execution-style killing of two young parents just a few feet away from their…
Mention “social media” and “Miami Police Department” in the same breath and one name will come to mind for most in South Florida: Javier Ortiz, the Miami police union chief who doubles as the king of cop trolling on Facebook and Twitter. Over the past few months, Ortiz has gotten the…
Miami-Dade Police confirmed officers shot and killed Ethan James Rincon last night. The 25-year-old had allegedly been roaming a street in Palmetto Bay with a pickaxe and was damaging cars. When officers confronted him, Rincon lunged at them, forcing them to shoot. The incident began last night before 9:30. Police…
Carl Lee Wilt, a 41-year-old Miami-Dade Metromover supervisor, is behind bars on allegations that he raped a 25-year-old Brazilian tourist who was in town for the Ultra Music Festival. It happened around 9:30 on Saturday night at the Metromover station in Park West. The woman was intoxicated and wasn’t allowed…
