What’s worse than a rotten-egg-stench-belching sewage plant in your back yard?How about an odiferous shit factory that poisons your family and leaves you with severe neurological damage? That’s exactly what John Rosser, a 58-year-old retired pilot, says happened to him in Key Biscayne. Now Rosser has abandoned his dream home…
Around 3:20 p.m. yesterday, Miami-Dade Police responded to a call at 11210 SW 157th St. that a man was threatening someone with a gun over a landlord-tenant dispute.View Larger MapWhen the cops arrived, a 39-year-old named Iran Delima pulled out a gun. One of the officers pulled his own piece…
In the early morning hours of Jan. 8, 2008, in a dark alley off South Glades Drive, a gang member named Andrew James Rolle walked up to a white Ford Taurus and blasted the man inside to death.The driver was an off-duty Miami detective named James Walker, and his murder…
Maybe you’ve never heard of Trevor Mbakwe, but he’s one of the best ballers in Miami. The six-foot-eight-inch forward dominated Florida’s junior college circuit this year, leading the Miami Dade College Sharks to their best season since 1983 — a 26-3 final record and a close loss in the state…
Last summer, South Florida sank under a spectacularly burst housing bubble that had been inflated well beyond reason by speculators, absent investors, and more than a few outright criminals.In June ’08, the U.S. Attorney’s Office created a task force to track down the last — the fraudsters who helped dig…
Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon is a 41-year-old career military officer. He is the chief spokesman for the most controversial outpost on the planet, the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. And, if you’re to believe a letter he sent to the Miami Herald last week, veteran Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg so…
A few weeks ago, New Times brought you the story of our own black-market cigarette king, Roman Vidal.The feds accused the gray-haired Cutler Bay resident of funneling millions of illegal smokes through the Port of Miami to England and Ireland. Worse, investigators say Vidal’s profits went to a group connected…
The City of Miami is so desperate for revenue that nothing should really surprise us here in Riptide’s heavily fortified underground command bunker.Cockfighting at Miami-Dade Public Libraries? Yawn. Legalized brothels beneath county hall? Eh, whatevs. Drunken Russian roulette tourneys at Manny Diaz’s place? Sure, we’ll believe it.But the Onion-esque absurdity…
From the moment that Ben Novack Jr. was found bludgeoned to death in a Rye Brook, N.Y. hotel room on July 12th, it was evident that the Fontainebleau Hotel heir had some pretty dark stuff in his past.His wife, Narcy Novack, who found his body, was at the center of…
Police this morning released the first details of a Saturday-night murder in Allapattah — including a sketch of the prime suspect in the killing.Around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, someone shot a man named Hector Belgrade near 2261 NW 28th St. and then ran off, says Det. Juan D’Elia of the Miami…
Another week has passed from this Earth, and another mysterious email announcing a Dolphins news conference featuring a popular musician has landed in Riptide’s inbox.First came Jimmy Buffett. We all know how that turned out.Then came Gloria Estefan. Tragically, the team was not renamed the Miami Sound Machine Dolphins.Today comes…
Four years ago, a heavyset 26-year-old Miami woman named Rossana Miliani walked into a general store in Bryson City, North Carolina, with an older man whose hair was going gray.The man told a clerk he was a preacher who traveled to campsites around the nearby Appalachian Trail. Miliani, who had…
Dog Bites Man: Miami Police canine units attack first, ask questions later
Last week, we brought you the story of South Beach security guards who are trying to unionize for better pay and benefits. Three-fourths of the Security Alliance rent-a-cops riding around Lincoln Road signed a petition to join the SEIU, but only one was willing to talk to Riptide on the record. Richard…
Good thing Stephen Ross wasn’t stuck on “I Kissed A Girl.” Or humming “My Humps” all day long. The South Florida Business Journal confirmed this morning what we’ve suspected all along here at Riptide: The Dolphins owner gave away the naming rights to Dolphin Stadium for absolutely nothing because he had an annoying Jimmy…
Sometime early last night, Juan Tojeiro got in a bit of a spat with his girlfriend. Apparently still furious after the argument, the 38-year-old Miami resident took the only logical revenge: He plowed his motorcycle through the front door of her jewelry shop, barricaded himself inside, and then tried to…
When the uber-expensive Chinese eatery Philippe opened in the Gansevoort Hotel last year, most reviews (including our own) pointed to chef Philippe Chow’s time as head chef at the acclaimed Mr. Chow’s in New York as evidence of his pedigree. But wait! A lawsuit filed in Miami’s federal court this…
When the uber-expensive Chinese eatery Philippe opened in the Gansevoort Hotel last year, most reviews (including our own) pointed to chef Philippe Chow’s time as head chef at the acclaimed Mr. Chow’s in New York as evidence of his pedigree. But wait! A lawsuit filed in Miami’s federal court this…
Last week, we reported on “Secure Communities,” a new national program that links local detention centers into a national database of illegal aliens. In our story, critics of the plan said it might cause racial profiling. If cops know that anyone they book into custody gets run through an immigration database,…
Nightmare Miami Police Officer in Trouble Again
South Beach security guards fight to unionize, get fired instead
Every day, Richard Ruiz maneuvers his mountain bike through swarms of tourists in neon “I’m in Miami Bitch” T-shirts on Lincoln Road. Sweating through his white uniform, he watches for shoplifters and herds away panhandlers. Once in a while, he breaks up a drunken shoving match. Ruiz still thinks he…
