MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A Hialeah man took police on a collision-filled chase in Miami-Dade County after stealing a Dodge Caravan in Miami Beach on Wednesday afternoon, officers say.
Juan Miguel Garcia, 46, faces charges that include grand theft, fleeing police and aggravated assault of a police officer. He’s being held on a $46,000 bond.
Miami-Dade police say that they were advised by Miami Beach police to be on the lookout... [...]
Melissa Vasquez’s truck was traveling at 82.7 mph at moment of impact, arrest report states
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A South Florida woman turned herself in to authorities Wednesday to face charges in a crash that left a young boy dead nearly a year ago.
That accident took place last summer on busy Bird Road and left several other people injured.
For nearly a year, the deceased little boy’s loved ones have been praying for... [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida’s death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 2,319, an increase of 60 over the past 24 hours, according to data from the state’s health department.
Twenty-two of those new deaths were reported in Miami-Dade County.
As of Wednesday morning, the health department confirms 52,634 total cases of COVID-19 statewide (an increase of 464 from the previous day), with 9,639 hospitalizations since the start of... [...]
‘We were within our First Amendment rights to protest on the beach,’ woman says
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Kimberlee Falkenstine was arrested again over the weekend after she and two other people held a protest on South Beach, demanding that local beaches be reopened amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Falkenstine, 33, spoke to Local 10 News reporter Christina Vazquez on Tuesday outside a library where Gov. Ron DeSantis held a... [...]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A woman was arrested Sunday after leaving a designated protest area in Lummus Park in Miami Beach to sit on the sand while holding a sign that read “We are free,” authorities said.
According to her arrest report, Kimberlee Falkenstine, 33, of Miami, and her husband were taking part in a protest Sunday afternoon in the 600 block of Lummus Park when Falkenstine decided to leave the area and sit on the beach “to... [...]
