A Miami-based chain of for-profits colleges that is under hot water for ripping off taxpayers is now the center of a stranger allegation: it used strippers to lure potential students to its school. The allegations came after the U.S Attorney’s Office and Florida’s attorney general joined a class-action lawsuit against…
Keep your amateur stand-up routine for open mic night. You might bomb, but at least it’s free. Dr. Manuel Alvarado, a 60-year-old Venezuelan, decided to try his best comedy routine at Miami International Airport and now has to pay $89,000…
It’s a bad time to be skirting the rules about harvesting endangered coral and live rock in the Keys. A multi-year investigation called “Operation Rock Bottom” has already netted more than half a dozen indictments of businessmen accused of illegally selling the protected marine life. Two Miami men are the…
On Black Friday, 18-year-old Pedro Uriarte snagged a new pair of Beats headphones. On Sunday afternoon, he tried out the new headphones while walking near Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary School on NW 20th Street. That’s when someone shot the Jackson Senior High student, leaving him dead on the side of…
A lot of addicts say they needed to hit rock bottom before being ready to accept recovery. This apparently has not yet happened for Miami lawyer Kenneth Kukec. He was arrested in July after he was allegedly caught snorting lines of cocaine off the back of a toilet in a…
A Florida Sheriff’s deputy has been placed on suspension with pay after making insensitive comments on Facebook in the wake of civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. “Damn cockroaches! Squashem all !!!! I say we rally for Wilson, who’s with me?” wrote Detective Richard Moon of the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Department…
Luis Ramirez Gonzalez had a pretty admirable alleged bank robbery run as far as bank robbery runs go. He didn’t quite reach Butch Cassidy levels, but taking part in four robberies in just over two months in these days is pretty decent. Well, last night the 27-year-old Miami man was…
Last night, President Barack Obama announced he will take executive action to shield 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. The prime-time speech was big news in the U.S., kicking up a political skirmish ahead of the 2016 elections. But it was far from the continent’s top story. Instead, that title…
Police are actively searching for a gunman after two young victims were found shot near Carol City High School this afternoon. About 400 people remain in the school under lockdown…
The date was January 29, 2013. Miami New Times had just published its investigation outing Coral Gables clinic Biogenesis as a steroid dealer to the stars, including Alex Rodriguez. A few hours later, A-Rod and his celebrity lawyer Roy Black met with Susy Ayala-Ribero, the high school buddy and now…
Scarface. Cocaine Cowboys. How to Leave Hialeah. Now Miamians can add a new title to their list of must-haves: Tony Dokoupil’s The Last Pirate. The book’s subtitle says it all: “A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana.” Dokoupil, a reporter for NBC, will speak about his gripping,…
The gunman, who law enforcement officials have identified as Myron May, a lawyer and graduate of FSU, was later killed by officers after walking outside and firing in their direction.
What started as an argument over a taxi cab refusing to take a credit card allegedly ended up with a woman being arrested in the nude. Now that woman, Candice Padavick, is suing the Miami Beach Police Department…
On a warm summer evening in 2010, a young man with kind eyes and a faint mustache took his position on the 50-yard line of a football field in Palm Beach. Sporting a baggy black shirt, jeans, and a Bible, however, Eric Readon wasn’t there to play. He was there…
Fraud is so prevalent in South Florida that it has even infiltrated the world of higher education. Fourteen former and current Miami Dade College students were arrested today along with three others for their participation in a tax refund scheme that sought to rip off the federal government for $1.9…
As if things couldn’t get worse for the 1-9 Jacksonville Jaguars, one of their players got arrested for the stupidest crime recently committed by an NFL player in Miami Beach this weekend. Cornerback Dwayne Gratz was arrested early Sunday morning for showing up drunk to a South Beach convenience store…
Beetoo Pierre, a 17-year-old, has been arrested for the murder of Kenson “Short Kidd” Pierre, a 21-year-old up-and-coming rapper, and Justin McAdam, a 31-year-old Navy veteran turned photographer and videographer. The incident happened back on June 18 in front of Kenson Pierre’s home at 1130 NE 133rd Street in North…
Javier Cuenca, a former assistant basketball coach at Hialeah Gardens High School, has been arrested on multiple charges after allegations arose that he molested one or more male players over a period of two to three years. “He would tell them that he was going give them a steroid to…
The two middle-aged men were ambitious. They wanted to repair their sailboat and navigate across the ocean, from Colombia to Italy. All so they could smuggle two tons of cocaine. According to a federal arrest affidavit filed last week, keysnet.com reports, two South Florida men — Juan Soberon and Marin…
In May 2010, Broward dispatchers received a call from a terrified woman cowering in a bathroom. She was pregnant, she said, and her much larger fiancé had just hit her in the face. “Please help,” the woman begged. Police showed up and arrested her alleged abuser. But because the woman’s…
Dumb names. Serious crime. Miami-Dade Police’s yearlong “Operation Willy Wonka” investigation into the “Get Money Soliders” street gang has ended in the arrest of 17 members as well as 14 other individuals. The Get Money Soldiers were operating out of the Arthur Mays Villas Public Housing complex down in the…
Tannie “T-Man” Burke, 21, tells CBS4 that he’s used to being hassled by cops even though he’s never been convicted of a crime. He’s been arrested twice and detained several other times, he believes, simply because he’s a young black man. “I feel they stop me because they see a…
