A federal appeals court has ruled against former Golden Beach police officers who sued after claiming they were falsely arrested for an off-duty billing scam.
The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals this month ruled that public-corruption investigators indeed had “probable cause” to arrest ex-Golden Beach officers Lyndean Peters, Omar Paez and Yovany Diaz. A fourth officer, Jon Anterio, was not arrested but resigned after the... [...]
Over a decade ago, Guilbert Cruz-Reyes was robbed at gunpoint while mowing a lawn in North Miami-Dade. Detectives arrested the shooting suspect, Kamal Williams.
Two years later, Cruz-Reyes sat down for a deposition with the suspect’s defense lawyers. Within days of that deposition in April 2010, Cruz-Reyes again became a victim — when a group of gunmen unleashed over 40 bullets into the man’s house.
Cruz-Reyes was critically... [...]
HOMESTEAD, Fla. - A chaotic scene unfolded Tuesday at Homestead Senior High School when several students got into a fight.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesman John Schuster said two girls started fighting at lunchtime, which caused more girls to jump in and a large crowd to gather at the school in the 2300 block of Southeast 12th Avenue.
He said a total of five female students were given civil... [...]
Each woman was strangled, dumped in the woods, their corpses left to rot for weeks. For decades, Mary Brosley and Angela Chapman, women on the fringes of society, remained forgotten footnotes of crime-plagued Dade County in the turbulent 1970s.
Until Samuel Little began to talk.
Little is the 78-year-old serial killer jailed in Texas who in recent months has stunned law enforcement by confessing to 90 murders across the United States,... [...]
MIAMI (AP) — Four fired Miami firefighters are charged with criminal mischief for their roles in drawing penises on another firefighter's family photos.
The case drew national attention because a noose was also found at the scene, just as Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida in September 2017.
Prosecutors and Miami Fire-Rescue officials will detail the charges later Tuesday.
The Miami Herald reports that none of... [...]
