While asset-hiding Wall Street traders perch on their windowsills waiting for the latest from WikiLeaks — which plans to soon release more than 2,000 secret banking records of tax-cheats — founder Julian Assange has bigger fish to fry.No, not the Swedish sexual abuse charges that have left him on house…
When Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth, two veteran officers on the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Warrants Bureau, approached a dilapidated duplex on NW 6th Court yesterday, they knew their target was a seriously bad dude. They knew he’d recently served time for robbery and selling coke, and that he was suspected…
An attempt by local police and U.S. Marshals to serve an arrest warrant on a murder suspect in Liberty City turned into a violent shootout this morning, leaving multiple officers injured — and two dead in the line of duty. Officer Roger Castillo died on the scene during the gun…
Is any city more firmly locked in the brimstone-y grasp of Satan than Miami? Lustful tourists gape at topless sunbathers while the rest of us worship a false idol who’s so prideful he gets Swarovski to sponsor his birthday cake. Our police chief and mayor, meanwhile, carry on a wrathful…
Among the many activities best done while relatively sober, walking a baby in a stroller along US-1 would have to be fairly high on the list. Raymond Dascott learned that lesson in Marathon yesterday, when he passed out on the ground next to the stroller after telling a passerby he’d…
When did Colombia’s avian population fall into a desperate life of drug running? First, there was Lorenzo the Parrot, who was arrested last fall for acting as a look-out for a weed and weapons stash. Now comes word this morning that Colombian police have detained a pigeon that was trying…
Not to say, ‘we told you so,’ but when a guy’s behavior leads us to write about his similarities to maniac SNL character Bill Brasky, there’s a good chance he’s got some mental issues. Before he ever got arrested for running an $8 billion Ponzi out of a Miami office,…
Miami-Dade Police this morning are looking for two shooters who lit up a front lawn in West Little River just before midnight last night, leaving a 20-year-old woman dead and five men wounded.An argument between the woman and her boyfriend, who was just released after a long stint in federal…
When Riptide broke the news last week that a violent reality show clip filmed inside the Miami Police Department was making the rounds on YouTube, we knew the shots of cops chomping cigars and calling themselves “hunters” wouldn’t help Miguel Exposito in his bid to keep his job as chief.Apparently,…
Been feeling a bit odd lately? Did your last date with a Oujia Board end with your roommate babbling in ancient Assyrian and levitating off the ground? Had any head-spinning vomiting moments this month?Don’t worry: Rev. Bob Larson is here to help. America’s top exorcist-for-hire is in Miami today, and…
Reality Bites Mark down January 1, 2011 as the moment when the incendiary fight over leadership at the Miami Police Department hit the ski ramp at full speed, jumped the Fonz and his shark, and landed squarely in a strange land populated by Kardashians, Octomoms, and Sarah Palin. It all…
In case you needed any more proof that the CIA often is not the most astute judge of character, check out this 1966 report on accused anti-Castro mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles: “Although … dedicated to the overthrow of Castro, he is not a typical ‘boom and bang’ type of…
Yesterday around 2:45 p.m., 72-year-old Roberto Garcia entered his usual neighborhood shop and ordered a Cuban coffee. Then, while the owner made a cafecito in back, police say Garcia attacked her four-year-old son. He repeatedly touched the boy’s penis, touched himself and eventually licked the boy’s ear before pretending to…
Ever wonder where those razor-clawing, beak-breaking, brutally mistreated roosters who duke it out in illegal cockfighting rings across South Florida come from? Yeah, neither had Riptide, though in hindsight it makes sense that fighting birds don’t just hatch from the egg with a metal spur tied to their leg and…
In front of a dozen television cameras and a packed room of reporters, Police Chief Miguel Exposito blasted Mayor Tomas Regalado this afternoon over Regaldo’s claims that he was being tailed by police officers. Exposito also defended his department’s conduct in the six recent fatal police shootings that have stirred…
On Saturday, Miami police shot and killed a 27-year-old suspect in Overtown — the sixth black man they’ve killed since last summer. The latest death has left Chief Miguel Exposito fighting for his job and pleading his case to community leaders that cops only use violence when absolutely necessary.It’s hard…
Anyone who watches Univision’s decades-long institution, Sabado Gigante, knows that host Don Francisco is kind of a baller. The 70-year-old variety show wizard is an unholy mutant blend of Bob Barker, Simon Cowell and Anderson Cooper, all in a body that stole George Hamilton’s skin and wardrobe.But a paternity suit?…
There’s a four-foot-tall map hanging inside Miami Beach City Hall, a high-resolution satellite image of an oceanfront slice of town. The grainy brown dunes are speckled with red and green dots that mark points carefully calibrated by a Global Positioning System. It could be the cartographic reckoning of a crime…
Nevin Shapiro, the South Beach architect of a $880 million Ponzi scheme, will have to endure another few weeks of Jersey lockup before learning his punishment. His sentencing, which was originally scheduled for this week, has been postponed until Valentine’s Day, says Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s…
Just when it looked like ex-Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez was headed back to Caracas for burial, a brand new round of fighting between his wife and mistress has again left his body in a Miami funeral home limbo.Cecilia Matos, his longtime companion in Miami and his daughters now deny…
Efraim Diveroli, the young Miami Beach gun runner who stirred national outrage two years ago with a fraudulent a $300 million Pentagon ammunition deal, listened with downcast eyes yesterday as a federal judge read aloud his sentence: four years in prison, a $250,000 fine and $149,000 in restitution.The term came…
There’s a four-foot-tall map hanging inside Miami Beach City Hall, a high-resolution satellite image of an oceanfront slice of town. The grainy brown dunes are speckled with red and green dots that mark points carefully calibrated by a Global Positioning System. It could be the cartographic reckoning of a crime…
