Crime & Police

Millions of Americans tune in to every new episode, and with ratings as seductive as these, who cares about a few botched investigations?

Audelin Pierre, 34, is now the fourth person arrested in the case of a 13-year-old runaway who ended up working as a prostitute and a stripper at Miami Beach’s Club Madonna. He’s now charged with human trafficking, procuring a minor for prostitution, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and…

Miami-Dade Police are on the lookout for a nicotine-addicted neck-stabber who attacked one of his own. On January 5 around 6 a.m., a man walked up to Miami-Dade Department of Corrections officer Jorge Marbal in the area of 6215 SW 133rd Ave. He asked the officer for a cigarette and…

The knee jerk media reaction to every sketchy shooting in Florida apparently now is to wonder if somehow the “Stand Your Ground” law is involved even when it clearly is not. Look no farther than the local and national response to yesterday’s bizarre and tragic shooting in a Tampa Bay-area…

Miami Police are searching for the suspect who beat a homeless woman to death on a sidewalk early this morning. The brutal murder has left the local homeless population and advocates shaken, and is just the latest act of ruthless violence against Miami’s homeless. See also: Naked Man Shot by…

Why are politicians so eager to close Club Madonna but not the porn companies filming underage girls being statutorily raped on camera?

Demetrick Cooks told the stripper she might as well get into the car because he planned on following her wherever she went. A week earlier, on New Year’s Day, he had gone to the Central Florida bar where she worked, but the exotic dancer had eluded him. After that incident,…

And just like that, South Beach went from one strip club to none. Club Madonna’s business license was pulled for six months amid allegations that a 13-year-old girl stripped at the establishment…

One of Miami’s most recognizable strip clubs, perched along the heavily-touristed Washington Avenue, may also be one of its worst, reviewers from Yelp to Club Planet to Foursquare claim. Club Madonna shot into headlines earlier this week when Miami Beach police and the county’s Human Trafficking Task Force alleged that…

Club Madonna, South Beach’s infamous and only fully nude strip club, is in damage control after three people were arrested for allegedly forcing a 13-year-old runaway to dance there. The club’s lawyers say they have no record of the girl having danced at the club, but owner Leroy Griffith told…

Vilbert Jean, 36, Marlene San Vincente, 22, and DeWayne Ward, 18, were arrested on human-trafficking charges Monday after they allegedly forced a 13-year-old girl into prostitution and stripping at South Beach’s only fully nude strip joint, Club Madonna. The State Attorney’s Office says the girl, identified only as D.J., ran…

Don’t let all the talk fool you. Don’t let the story that Broward cop Paul Pletcher, in an apparent case of road rage, stopped a Hispanic woman, pummeled her with racial slurs, and destroyed her BlackBerry when she began recording him, convince you otherwise. Don’t allow the fact that even…

Former Miami Police Sgt. Raul Iglesias is serving his four-year prison sentence for dirty deeds done under the badge, but now he’s been charged with more crimes after he posted phone calls on YouTube and a police-centric message board in an attempt to intimidate and harass witnesses in his case…

Ron Oneal Morris, the transgender woman convicted of illegally pumping back-alley patients with all sorts of substances to enhance their derrières, turned herself in this morning to begin her sentence. Morris pleaded guilty last October to practicing health care without a license and was sentenced to 336 days in prison…

Hate crimes in Florida were up 22 percent in 2012, according to information just released by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office. In all, there were 170 instances of people being charged with a hate crime in Florida, up from 139 in 2011. That’s also the highest number since 2008…

Marcelo Cicuta said he recently turned down a $30,000 offer for his award-winning French bulldog. But when Cicuta returned to his home, he found the dog and 15 of its newborn puppies gone…

Miami-Dade Police are still trying to figure out what happened yesterday afternoon that sent two members of a family to the hospital and another two to their graves. Police arrived to the scene at 5940 SW 103rd Place at about 4 p.m. yesterday to find a man and a woman…

On November 14, 2009, two officers pulled over a 38-year-old man at the corner of Northwest 22nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the middle of the day. At some point over the next several minutes, a tussle occurred, and Corey McNeal withdrew a box cutter. Police then shot him 27…

Jermaine Dupri was cruising South Beach with his boys when cops noticed the black Lincoln Navigator’s tint was so dark that they couldn’t identify the race, sex, or number of passengers inside the SUV. Police pulled over the party to see who was headed north on Washington Avenue at 3:24…

It’s tough to grow up in Florida. Things seems alright until you hit 16 and realize that shuttling between stucco strip malls leaves a little to be desired. But for Tyler Hadley, living in Port St. Lucie was so boring that he would do anything for a good time. At…

Dwaynesha White was not about to give her goodies away for free during the holidays. The 22-year-old set up an appointment with 19-year-old David Roberts of Miami at her Hollywood apartment to exchange sex for money. But after the deed was done, White went to the bathroom to clean up…

Police say the two had been arguing since September but that a particularly heated argument caused a Florida teen to murder his mother Christmas Eve. Brandon and Sharon Aydelott had apparently spent several hours in a war of words before the stabbing occurred. Brandon Aydelott loved baseball. He was a…