You’re high on meth, cruising around Fort Lauderdale with dilated pupils, a rocketing body temperature, and a pipe on your lap, when cops suddenly pull you over. What do you do? Well, if you’re Carlos Lopez, then the purchasing director for the City of Hialeah, you stuff that meth pipe…
Alex Rousseau, a Miami firefighter who has posed twice for the popular South Florida firefighters calendar, was arrested today for allegedly downloading child porn while at the firehouse…
A man led police on a wild chase this morning after he escaped from Jackson Memorial Hospital’s crisis center. The unidentified suspect was being held under the Baker Act to undergo a mental evaluation but somehow slipped out and then tried to steal a car before successfully taking a bike…
Braulio Valenzuela-Villanueva, a 73-year-old Miami man, set his neighbors’ trailer home on fire simply because they were lesbians. “He stated that he despised the two adult victims for the simple fact that they were lesbians,” the arrest report reads. “According to the defendant, every time he saw them kissing, he…
Like many families in Miami, Nelson Valeriano Rodriguez and Nelson Angel Rodriguez were running a father and son business together. Thier’s just happened to be a drug ring. Miami-Dade police busted the pair yesterday after receiving an anonymous tip…
Atlanta rap trio Migos have had a hell of a 2014 already, with Complex naming one member, Quavo, the year’s most influential rapper for his oft-imitated rhythm as the group has dropped new videos with Souljah Boy and about Emmitt Smith. Early this morning, the crew were headed south down…
Thanks to a five-month undercover investigation by animal rights activists, a man named Raul “Freaky” Fernandez is facing seven counts of animal cruelty. The group Animal Recover Mission went undercover and filmed Fernandez doing horrifying things to animals at his unlicensed slaughterhouse in Miami-Dade’s C-9 Basin. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s…
How would you feel about police having secret technology that lets them track your exact movements via your cell phone without even having to get a warrant first? Well, it’s not a paranoid, PRISM-fueled conspiracy theory. It’s happening every day in the Sunshine State, where police agencies are using a…
Did former Miami Hurricane and current Tennessee Titan Adewale Ojomo not read that report that came out earlier this month about Miami’s sex industry? Doesn’t he know that the best prostitutes nowadays are found online and not the street? Apparently not, because he was booked into jail early this morning…
On Jan. 16, 2014, Heritage K-8 Charter School and three other nearby schools in Escondido, California were shut down for an entire day after very specific violent threats made online were reported to authorities. Police originally thought it was a local girl who made the threats, but after a long…
When Karina moved to Miami Beach from Eastern Europe in 2007, she used no nicotine, no alcohol, no drugs, nothing. Although she’d had a problem in her midteens with booze and MDMA, the 22-year-old was determined to begin her new life in America clean and sober. Soon after she arrived,…
This week’s feature story focuses on Máximo Caminero, the local artist who made international headlines last month by destroying a precious urn painted by Ai Weiwei. At the time, much of the media attention centered on the urn’s million-dollar price tag. But Caminero says cops were guessing, and both PAMM…
Former Hialeah mayor and Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Julio Robaina was already in big trouble with prosecutors for allegedly taking $300,000 in secret loan payments from a buddy running a Ponzi scheme. Now he might just be in even bigger trouble with his wife and codefendant, Raiza Robaina. That’s because prosecutors…
Despite the fact that there’s no doubt Máximo Caminero walked into Pérez Art Museum Miami and smashed a vase by artist Ai Weiwei (it’s on video, after all), Caminero has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. See also: Miami Artist Destroyed $1M Ai Weiwei Vase Because PAMM “Only…
Nearly three years after one of the bloodiest police operations in recent Miami history, prosecutors have issued a scathing report calling the killings “unusual, counter-intuitive, suspicious” and “disturbing.” The June 30, 2011 sting — in which four suspects, including a police informant, were shot dozens of times — was the…
Oldy Ochoa Jr. allegedly met the girl while working on a case. The two flirted on Facebook and e-mail, and — according to the girl — the Miami Beach Police detective photographed his young muse as she posed suggestively. According to a search warrant obtained by CBS 4 News, the…
Perhaps the only thing more deplorably than holding up a Boy Scout trying to raise funds for his troop at gunpoint is doing the same to a Girl Scout, but then at least you’d get some Thin Mints and Tagalongs. A man who robbed a 12-year-old Boy Scout down in…
At the University of Central Florida, Jah Reid terrorized defensive lineman with his 6’7″ frame and 335 pounds of muscle. Police say Reid put that size advantage to another use this weekend at a Key West strip club, where he head-butted a man who innocently bumped into him and sparked…
Earning the title of Florida’s most corrupt city is no easy job. Dade County’s mayoral elite have certainly done their best to make a bid for the plaudits this past year, from Sweetwater’s bribe-taking chief to Homestead’s allegedly campaign-finance breaking mayor. Tiny Hampton, Florida, blows them both out of the…
You know how Nancy Grace always gives terrible mothers nicknames like “Tan Mom” and “Tot Mom?” Well, we’re just going to christen Irisdaly Rios with the tabloid-worthy name of “Chonga Mom,” because, if you’re talking trash she’ll beat you after class. See, Rios has been caught on camera beating one…
Miami-Dade Police say they had no choice but to shoot and kill a 20-year-old bipolar man after a Taser malfunction. The incident happened at the Kendallwood Villas complex near FIU’s south campus. Federico Osorio’s mother had called police claiming that her son had threatened to kill her and his sister…
Thanks to a little-known device manufactured by a tech company in Melbourne, police departments across Florida have tracked thousands of cell phones — often without bothering to get a warrant first. In at least one case, the cops purposely kept the device secret in court because the company asked them…
