CRIME & SAFETY
Man, 24, faces 13 charges after arrest in Miami
MIAMI – Prosecutors filed a case with 13 charges against a 24-year-old man on Saturday in Miami-Dade County court over alleged crimes committed at a business in Miami’s Wynwood area. Miami police officers arrested Frank Ivan Suarez-Gonzalez, and correctional officers booked him shortly after 11:35 p.m., on Friday...
Police: Car burglar nearly stole rent cash in Miami; 2 women fought him to death
MIAMI – Detectives reported two women were with a teenager and three children when they spotted a man stealing from their car in Miami. There was a shooting and the thief later died. Police officers arrested the women and they were facing murder charges. Antwoinse Lachaveia Clark and Fredericka...
Several detained after 2 people were robbed at gunpoint in Wynwood: Police
Miami Police are investigating after two people were allegedly robbed at gunpoint in Miami's Wynwood area early Sunday morning. Officers responded to the area of Northwest 1st Avenue and 29th Street where they found two victims who were robbed at gunpoint by an unknown number of people, according to Miami Police.
Miami police officers arrest 2 women for murder
MIAMI – Two women — who stand accused of murder in Miami — were at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Saturday held without bond in Miami-Dade County. Miami police officers arrested Antwoinse Lachaveia Clark and Fredericka Sherice Pickett-Wilson and correctional officers booked them at about 5:50 p.m., on Friday.
Miami man aims for $13K injury claim for crash he was never in, police say
MIAMI – A 28-year-old man was arrested Monday after Miami police say he made an injury claim of over $13,000 for a vehicle crash he was never in. An arrest report from the Miami Police Department states an investigation by the Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Investigative and Forensic Services and Bureau of Insurance Fraud revealed that Sandy Reyes Martinez, of Miami, submitted a claim with United Automobile Insurance Company for a traffic crash that occurred on Sept. 28, 2023.
Ex-Miami cop lied to get $246,000 in PPP loans during the pandemic, authorities say
A routine inspection of Djimy Joseph’s Sabor Latino Bar & Grill in Miami led investigators to open a public corruption probe into the Miami police officer. Police officers cannot own a bar.
Police: Axe-wielding Miami roommate defies judge’s stay-away order in Wynwood
MIAMI – According to an arrest report released on Monday, police officers described Frank Ivan Suarez-Gonzalez as the Miami roommate from hell. The conflict started when Suarez-Gonzalez, 24, allegedly ate someone else’s food without permission at a house with roommates in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Former Miami police...
Mother of man who died in Miami-Dade police-involved shooting has pending stalking case
MIAMI – Richard Hollis was holding two kitchen knives. He shouted his food was poisoned. Officer Jaime Pino stormed into an apartment, saw the 21-year-old man near his mother, Gamaly Argentina Hollis, and fired his stun gun and his firearm. That’s how records describe the fatal police-involved shooting on...
Transgender woman murdered in Miami Beach
Andrea Doria Dos Passos. (Photo via Equality Florida’s Facebook) Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic details. Gregory Fitzgerald Gibert, 53, who was out on probation, is charged with the second-degree murder of 37-year-old Andrea Doria Dos Passos, a transgender Latina woman who was found deceased in front of the Miami Ballet company facility by a security guard this past week.
‘All hands on deck': Large federal probe into suspects in Homestead woman's fatal abduction
A massive investigation involving multiple federal agencies is continuing into the suspects arrested in connection with the fatal armed carjacking and abduction of a Homestead woman that was caught on camera in central Florida earlier this month. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of...
No jail for Miami mom who posted articles about cop who shot her son. At least for now
Gamaly Hollis has been given a reprieve from prosecutors’ request to send her back to jail for posting news articles about the police officer who shot and killed her mentally ill son feet from where she stood in her Kendale Lakes apartment.
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