Federal authorities charged a veteran City of Miami detective today with scamming the Crime Stoppers tip program for thousands of dollars.Wayne Fortella, an 11-year vet, faces wire fraud charges for the scam, which netted him $5,000, says Annette Castillo, a spokeswoman for the U.S. District Attorney’s Office.Fortella worked in the…
Well, that didn’t take long. Ever since FIU shocked the basketball world earlier this year by landing Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas to coach its less than notable program, Riptide has been waiting for that first sweet whiff of the controversy that seems to follow Thomas wherever he walks. Looks like he’s…
It’s so nice to know Fidel is still reading our work. Now if he could just get his propaganda rag to quit twisting our stories around. This weekend, Granma finally responded to our piece about Gustavo Villoldo, the man who buried Che Guevara and won a $1 billion judgment against…
Poor Mike Lowell. The Miami native has already been through a lot. In between World Series wins with the Marlins and Boston, he endured testicular cancer, a massive John Henry fire sale, and a badly fractured hand.But now he has really invited a true stain on his good name: He…
Yesterday, rapper Pitbull won the keys to the City of Miami for his work “traveling the country and the world sharing a positive message of Miami,” according to one city commissioner. But for all of Mr. 305’s postive-image-spreadin’ “world-traveling,” it’s a trip he’s accused of not making that’s landed him…
Yesterday, rapper Pitbull won the keys to the City of Miami for his work “traveling the country and the world sharing a positive message of Miami,” according to one city commissioner. But for all of Mr. 305’s postive-image-spreadin’ “world-traveling,” it’s a trip he’s accused of not making that’s landed him…
Miami Police Officer Eric Guzman: A History of Violence
Flanked by the victims’ sobbing family members, Miami Police Chief John Timoney announced this afternoon the arrest of a suspect in a brazen mass shooting in Overtown.Police nabbed Rodney Lashawn Miller, an 18-year-old with a long criminal record, just before 1 a.m. this morning near 65th Terrace in Liberty Square…
In case you missed it, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross made it official this morning: The Fins are indeed waging the biggest celebrity love-fest in South Florida this side of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami.The Dolphins have lost 20 percent of their season ticket base since 2006, and Ross’s plan to win…
Just before 9:30 p.m. July 13, Officer Eric Guzman flashed his lights and pulled over next to a litter-strewn grass field on NW Fifth Avenue, a few blocks north of the Miami River.Guzman, a five-year veteran of the Miami Police Department, had spotted a man who matched the description of…
Earlier this summer, New Times brought you the story of Roman Vidal, a 54-year-old Cutler Bay resident accused of funneling millions of dollars’ worth of black-market cigarettes through the Port of Miami to criminal gangs in Europe.Just before 11 a.m. today, Vidal pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud,…
When the NFL suspended Cleveland Browns receiver Donte’ Stallworth yesterday for the full 2009 season, he issued an official statement with all the right sentiments about the drunken March 14 crash that killed a man on the MacArthur Causeway.Stallworth promised to “use the period of my suspension to reflect, to…
Gardens Apartments’ Dilip Barot: Slumlord Millionaire in Opa-locka
Miami Police arrested four young suspects, including two teenage girls, on suspicion of robbing a Little Havana man at gunpoint early this morning.Salene Cala, age 14, and Estefay Ferrera, 16, were arrested after police pulled their car over just after 6:30 a.m. They’re accused of helping an 18-year-old man, Olin Lopez, and a…
When Riptide saw the news this week that an all-star band of celebrities and local power-players — including the always busy Emilio Estefan and Alonzo Mourning — was trying to bring the World Cup to Miami, we were tempted to laugh it off as a pipe dream.But then we remembered…
News flash out of Davie this morning, courtesy of the Associated Press: Dolphins training camp really sucks ass, and coach Tony Sparano knows it.Fullback Matt Quillen, a 24-year-old prospect out of the fightin’ New Mexico Lobos, lasted only one day under Sparano’s apparently brutal and unprecedented regime of running around out in…
Residents at Opa-locka’s Gardens Apartments — perhaps the city’s sketchiest property — endured 5 murders, 656 assaults, 34 robberies, 25 shootings, and 80 stolen cars during one four-year stretch, according to police records. And the apartments remain the hottest spot in the city for cops, says Capt. Rex Galindo, a spokesman…
Next time you lose 20 bucks in a drunken bet with a friend, remember the name “Teo Garcia” before you feel too bad for yourself.”I had a unique way of getting back into the service, no doubt,” Garcia says by satellite phone from a base in Baghdad. Here’s how he…
Remember those good ol’ days when the Miami Dolphins just played football? When Shula, Marino, and Csonka were the names that first came to mind when you imagined the teal and orange — not Buffett, Estefan, and Anthony?Yeah, neither do we. And neither do the Fins, who are plunging ahead full-speed with…
A Key Biscayne Sewage Plant Poisons a Neighborhood
The CIA’s Gustavo Villoldo Buried Che Guevara
New York Times this morning and had a serious 1962 flashback.The Times reports today that two Akula-class Russian nuclear submarines are patrolling international waters just off the East Coast. Defense Department sources told the Times that one sub remains about 200 miles off the coast somewhere, and that the other…
