Once Miami-Dade police finally arrested Carlos Bertonatti on Sunday morning — after he’d slammed into a biker, sped away and led police on a several mile chase with a bike lodged under his front fender — the singer-songwriter refused to acknowledge that he’d just killed a man. So says an arrest…
Three days after drunkenly killing a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway and speeding away to his high-end Key Biscayne condo, would-be pop star Carlos Bertonatti is a free man this morning.Bertonatti posted a $100,000 bond late in the afternoon yesterday, Det. Rebecca Perez, a Miami-Dade Police Department spokeswoman, tells Riptide.At…
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On Riptide’s message boards and across the web, Miami’s bikers have raged about Sunday’s gruesome hit-and-run accident near Key Biscayne that left 44-year-old cyclist Christophe Le Canne dead on the Rickenbacker Causeway. Carlos Bertonatti, a wannabe professional singer and all-around horrific driver — with more than 40 citations in 12…
What kind of person drunkenly slams into a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway and then speeds away while the cyclist bleeds to death on the road?In the case of this Sunday’s horrific crash, its the same kind of person who can rack up more than 40 traffic violations in twelve…
What kind of person drunkenly slams into a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway and then speeds away while the biker bleeds to death on the road?In the case of this Sunday’s horrific crash, according to police, it’s the same kind of person who can rack up more than 40 traffic…
An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne yesterday.Carlos Bertonatti, a 28-year-old who lives on Key Biscayne, was arrested yesterday near his battered Volkswagen after a short police chase.Police say Bertonatti…
An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne yesterday. Carlos Bertonatti, a 28-year-old who lives on Key Biscayne, was arrested yesterday near his battered Volkswagen after a short police chase. Officers…
The announcement came in October with much ado and a “wire cutting” outside Miami Beach City Hall.”We are the first in the country to have a free citywide hotspot,” City Manager Jorge Gonzalez crowed to the Miami Herald.Well, Jorge, there might be a good reason for that.After a more than…
Michelle Spence-Jones is not taking her latest suspension from the Miami City Commission quietly.The District 5 commissioner has taken aim at her two biggest adversaries — Gov. Charlie Crist, who suspended her again yesterday, and the Miami Herald, which has oft criticized her attempts to keep her seat — with…
In this week’s New Times, you can read my update about the Bolivian victims of a 2003 conflict now known as Octubre Negro. More than 60 mostly indigenous protesters and bystanders died when the government called the military on demonstrators. Then, Bolivia’s president and defense minister fled to Miami. Today,…
On December 29 around 11 p.m., the call came in: A woman was being assaulted near NE 70th Street and North Miami Avenue.A few minutes later, a squad car pulled into an alley behind 45 NE 70th St. Cops found Regina Renee Crawford on the ground, unconscious and with bruises…
Hey, Fidel, you might wanna take a break from the sex maniac routine to take a hard look at the University of Havana’s journalism programs. We’re beginning to get the impression your state publication’s reporters are less than entirely committed to the truth.Peruse the Juventud Rebelde that ran earlier this…
From Bolivia: Massacre victims get no justice
Ex-Miami Beach cop Adam Tavss kills two, gets caught with drugs, and earns a nice payout
A massive 7.0 earthquake struck just south of Port-au-Prince last night, devastating a Haitian capital still rebuilding from multiple serious hurricanes two summers ago.Even in this age of instant information, news is only trickling out of Haiti. CNN reports this morning that there’s no casualty count yet, but that the…
In 2008, a New Times investigation brought you the story of the growing problem of South American gangs targeting local jewelers in violent robberies. “Highly organized South American theft gangs” are targeting local merchants, we wrote, employing “sophisticated surveillance and commando-style assault tactics.” The gangs struck again two weeks ago,…
Last Wednesday, the early contender for young 2010’s most senseless murder of the year went down at the People’s Self-Storage on NW 79th Street. Just after 12:30 in the afternoon, a 55-year-old Haitian-American woman named Joslin Augustin visited the center to pick up some blankets and warm clothes she’d stored…
Kill two men in four days under questionable circumstances. Get caught with drugs in your system and suspended from work. Walk away from it all with $17,242.46. Not a bad deal, right? That’s exactly how much Adam Tavss, the former Miami Beach cop, earned from taxpayers when he quietly resigned…
Mansor Mohammad Asad sure picked the wrong month to have a crazy-guy episode on a Detroit-bound airplane. As you’ve surely heard by now, Asad was arrested on the tarmac at MIA last night after disrupting a Delta flight scheduled to head for Detroit by screaming “I’m Palestinian and I want to kill…
Thanks to crotch bombers and death panels, immigration reform hasn’t been the topic du jour in the Beltway since Obama took office. But that could change thanks to an ongoing fast by five activists in Homestead. The protest, which aims to stop all deportations of immigrants with families in America,…
Chinese drywall has screwed thousands of South Florida homeowners
