If the charges against Kelly Michael Bachmeier are true, Riptide salutes him for hitting for the cycle of Florida crimes: extreme drunkenness, a complete lack of pants, erratic driving and, of course, a good Tasering.Sheriff’s deputies say they caught Bachmeier near Gainesville completely naked in the drivers seat and then…
Still doubt that the beef between Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and his police chief Miguel Exposito has reached Biggie-vs-Tupac-ian heights? Here’s some more kerosene to toss on the campfire: Regalado has just sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to investigate the killing of seven black…
As Banana Republican reported earlier this morning, following our story detailing ten reasons to recall Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, the Miami Police union’s chiefs voted last night to do just that. Now they’re not alone — the firefighters union’s executive board has voted to do the same.”It was a unanimous…
Rescuers pulled the body of a white male out of Biscayne Bay around 8:30 this morning after he was spotted floating just south of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The man was a jet skier, Gabriella Ferraro, a Florida Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman, tells Riptide — but he hasn’t been ID’d…
Daniel Yepez learned a little something about psychedelic mushrooms this weekend. Namely, that too many can make you trip your balls off so badly that walking slowly and determinedly into the ocean while screaming, “It’s time for me to die!” seems like a great idea.Luckily for Yepez, a 21-year-old from…
Recall Tomas Regalado
You’d think hiring freeze is a pretty cut-and-dried concept. In the private sector, at least, it means you’re doing twice the work because your company can’t afford any new faces; if you’re unemployed, it means no one short of the organ donation factory will offer you a contract.In the City…
When Adewale Ogunleye walked into his condo in the South Beach Mondrian a few weeks ago, he got a nasty shock — a slammed door and a “large male” hiding in the shower. When he called out, the guy said he was “Roberto, head of housekeeping.” Even worse, Ogunleye says,…
Two Miami Beach cops accused of assaulting a gay tourist in Flamingo Park are getting pink slips — even though prosecutors declined to file charges against them. Officers Elliut Hazzi and Frankly Forte are set to be fired, Commissioner Michael Gongora announced on his Twitter feed this afternoon.The two Beach…
Doctors today are still struggling to save the life of an off-duty New York City cop grievously wounded during an early morning shootout on South Beach on Saturday. Detective Harold Thomas has undergone at least two surgeries after a bullet tore through his femoral artery during the gunfight on Collins…
An off-duty New York City police officer was shot on South Beach outside a ritzy beach resort early this morning, police say. Miami Beach detectives have shut down Collins Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets today while they search for whomever shot the off-duty vacationing cop outside the luxury 1233…
A transsexual who underwent Cuba’s first state-sanctioned sex change operation and a gay man with AIDS are set to wed in Havana in three weeks, with Cuba’s most infamous blogger serving as maid of honor. The ceremony is scheduled for Aug. 13, which also just happens to be Fidel Castro’s…
Miami Beach vigilante biker Ken Bereski gets driver charged with felony assault
Sorry, Herald, joyriding ATV cop Derick Kuilan didn’t have such a clean record
Federal prosecutors this morning charged 16 hackers linked to the Anonymous ring that targeted PayPal last year. Among those charged: Scott Matthew Arciszewski, a 21-year-old computer major at the University of Central Florida, who the feds say hacked into an FBI-linked firm then bragged about it on Twitter under his…
As long as parents have been putting a stop to house parties, teenagers have been finding ways to throw them anyway. But if police are right about Tyler Hadley, never before has a thwarted kegger led to this kind of horrific solution.Port St. Lucie cops this morning say the 17-year-old brutally…
A few months back, Riptide wrote about Ken Bereski, an IT consultant who’s become the Howard Beale to Miami’s cyclists who deal daily with life-threateningly awful drivers. Bereski was mad as hell, so he strapped cameras to his bike and started filming all the dangerous driving.Well this month, Bereski got…
Trust the Miami Herald at your own peril, at least when it comes to the Miami Beach cop whose ATV critically injured two beachgoers while he was joyriding on duty with a lady friend two weeks ago.In last Friday’s edition, the Herald reported that Derick Kuilan, the 30-year-old at the wheel…
A triumphant group of pot activists presented the Miami Beach Commission yesterday with more than 9,000 signatures in favor of decriminalizing small amounts of weed — but damned if city attorney Jose Smith didn’t do his best to harsh their mellow.Smith, despite admitting he hadn’t actually read the petition, questioned…
If Marc Sarnoff and Tomás Regalado had their way, pretty much any stationary object within 1,000 feet of a major Miami roadway would be plastered with an LED billboard by next Tuesday. (Surely this has nothing to do with the fact that both guys took thousands in contributions from sign…
Brickell satellite firm Inmarsat accused of aiding Hamas
Xavier Suarez: Don’t call him loco
