A South Florida lawyer helped pull off a $19.7 million fraud — a pump-and-dump stock scheme involving shell companies.
Now, federal prosecutors thinks James Schneider of Hillsboro Beach is trying to play them in a modern version of an old-fashioned shell game, keeping the government looking in one place while hiding his money in another.
Schneider, 77, was sentenced in Miami federal court to seven years in federal prison on Feb. 15... [...]
North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda fired three shots at a severely autistic man holding a silver toy truck.
He insisted he had to “take a life to save another.”
Nearly three years after firing at Arnaldo Rios Soto — missing and hitting his caretaker laying on the ground with his hands thrust in the air — the North Miami cop told his story for the first time publicly. Aledda, charged with attempted manslaughter, took... [...]
Hundreds of former felons celebrated on the steps of the state Capitol Tuesday, more than four months after Florida voters passed Amendment 4, a ballot measure that is estimated to restore voting rights to more than 1.2 million residents.
Yet inside the Capitol, lawmakers may soon spark another fight over who gets to vote — this time over the definition of “murder.”
This is unwelcome news for about 500 people who arrived Tuesday... [...]
Rubman Ardon Chinchilla, a roofer and father of three who has lived illegally in the United States for decades, used a phony immigration document to get a Florida driver’s license, a crime agents say was organized by a con man posing as a government officer.
Chinchilla was one of more than 20 undocumented immigrants arrested a few months ago for using a specific federal form — known as an “Order of Supervision” —... [...]
A Miami man is going to prison for more than 14 years for killing a criminal defense lawyer in a high-speed hit-and-run car crash on the MacArthur Causeway.
Elia Soto, 46, pleaded guilty this week for the 2017 death of lawyer Naphtali Hertz Wacks, who was driving to Miami’s criminal courthouse for work when he was mortally injured in the wreck. Soto pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of a fatal... [...]
