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Con man pleads guilty to running a racketeering operation from inwards a Miami jail
Shoppers looking for supplies met with empty shelves at Broward grocery store
Satellite imagery shows Irma approaching Leeward Islands
Hurricane Irma maintains strength, comes in Western Atlantic
Hurricane Irma: Customers swarm Costco for supplies
Miami-Dade Police officer kills man who who police say lunged at officer with a knife
A Miami-Dade police shot and killed a man who came at him with a knife Tuesday morning near the Miccosukee Golf & Country Club in Kendale Lakes. Police said the officer fired a Taser very first, but if it struck the target, it had little effect.
Third man killed by Miami-Dade cops in three months came at officer with knife, police say
A Miami-Dade police officer shot and killed a man who came at him with a knife Tuesday morning near the Miccosukee Golf & Country Club in Kendale Lakes. Police said the officer fired a Taser very first, but if it struck the target, it had little effect.
When cops came, this Miami rapper ditched his Porsche – maybe he shouldn`t have
West Kendall’s Str8 Kash, who raps alongside another artist known as Stitches, was charged with resisting arrest without violence.
Two Miami dudes convicted of laundering billions in Amazon gold
Both defendants admitted smuggling tainted gold from South America for NTR Metals in Miami, in one of the largest money-laundering schemes in South Florida history.
Why one driver went from the front seat to the back seat
Victor Yanez, a 21-year-old from Kendall with a spotty driving record and a suspended license, was arrested for driving iwthout a license in the Keys. Yanez allegedly attempted to hide his driving by leaping in the back seat and later left a bag of marijuana in the back seat of a patrol car.
Amber Alert finishes for 11-year-old lady. She was found with a felon relative, cops say
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office says an 11-year-old Apopka resident for whom an Amber Alert was issued Sunday was found with her step grandfather, 50-year-old Darrell Mills of Apopka. Mills, a seven-time resident of the Florida prison system, faces kidnapping and sexual battery charges.
Hit-and-run driver strikes two fellows. One lives. The other took a 2nd hit.
BSO is looking for the hit-and-run driver who struck Alex Cheguen-Reyes and Jerson Mortaya-Cheguen as they crossed North State Road seven Saturday night. After the hit-and-run driver left them in the road, a 2nd driver, attempting to swerve around the figures, hit Cheguen-Reyes, who later died.
Miami-Dade Police officer kills man who who police say lunged at officer with a knife
A Miami-Dade police shot and killed a man who came at him with a knife Tuesday morning near the Miccosukee Golf
Miami racketeering trial delayed as Hurricane Irma coerces closures of courts
With the Category five storm bearing down on South Florida, suspected will still emerge in bond court, if the weather holds up.
Armed robber menaces convenience store clerk
Broward Sheriff’s Department is searching for a suspect that robbed a Pompano Beach 7-Eleven gas station on August Eighteen, 2017. The clerk got fairly a shock when an imposing masked figure walked into his store, pulled out a gun and demanded all the money in the register. To add to the stress of the situation, the robber began to count down from ten while pointing his gun at the victim, possibly as an added threat to the clerk. The suspect fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Goodbye to a big-gun prosecutor who took on some of Miami`s most-infamous criminals
Pat Sullivan wasn’t a household name, but many of the criminal cases he prosecuted over the last four decades for the U.S. Attorney’s Office rank among the largest in South Florida.
Con man pleads guilty to running a racketeering operation from inwards a Miami jail
Jimmy Sabatino, 40, pleaded guilty to running a racketeering operation using cellphones from within a Miami jail on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.
16-year-old boy shot and killed in Northwest Miami-Dade
A 16-year-old boy was killed while walking near his home late Friday night, police said.
Serial con man admits tearing off luxury retailers from Miami prison cell
Jimmy Sabatino faces up to twenty years for his latest ripoff, in which he swindled luxury retailers from a federal prison cell, using a contraband cellphone.
Feds say he stole $Trio.6 million from Miami Beach. Now he faces trial, maybe prison.
The Fresh York man accused of stealing $Trio.6 million of public funds from Miami Beach was indicted in federal court this week on numerous counts of bank fraud and identity theft.
He died over racing pigeons. Now, his murderer is facing up to life in prison.
Miami jurors deliberated less than two hours in convicting Lazaro Romero for the two thousand thirteen murder of Yoan Vazquez over twenty prized pigeons.
Big, fat checks keep rolling into this Miami brewery. It`s a scam and they want it to stop
A ‘secret shopper scam’ involving fake checks has Miami’s award-winning Wynwood Brewery mixed up in a mail fraud it wants nothing to do with.
Cops ask for help to find killer of Homestead woman who died in domestic dispute
Police say 34-year-old Tiara Jackson was killed in a Homestead domestic dispute early Thursday morning.
Woman arrested for stabbing her bf with a pair of scissors, cops say
A Lauderdale Lakes woman was arrested after she stabbed her beau in the arm with a pair of scissors early Friday morning, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
Another year, another drug raid in Cutler Manor Apartments
Thirty-four people were arrested Thursday by Miami-Dade police, working with the FBI, U.S. Attorney’s Office and state attorney’s office. The officers were targeting drug dealing at Cutler Manor Apartments.
Burglar uses a patio chair to get in and out. Then he escapes with the help of a tree.
Miami police released surveillance movie Thursday of a burglary at a Brickell-area home.
