Palmetto Estates
CRIME & SAFETY
Cutler Bay man accused of beating stepson, 10, with broomstick over online program lockout
CUTLER BAY, Fla. – A Cutler Bay man is facing a child abuse charge after Miami-Dade police said he beat his 10-year-old stepson with a broomstick when the boy was unable to access an online school program on Wednesday. According to police, the incident occurred on Wednesday evening when...
Tattoo shop employee shot by robbers in Kendale Lakes: Police
Police are looking for a pair of subjects who robbed two tattoo stop employees and shot one of them Thursday night in Kendale Lakes. The shooting happened before 8 p.m. on Miller Drive near 134th Avenue, according to Miami-Dade Police. The employees were taking a smoke break in the back...
‘He seemed like a good person': Friend shocked by couple's Hialeah murder-suicide
A friend of the woman found dead in a murder-suicide along with her boyfriend in their Hialeah apartment while their 3-year-old son was inside says she was shocked to learn of the tragedy. The bodies of 28-year-old Clifford Renard Murray III and 27-year-old Rosemary Gutierrez were found Tuesday in their...
Parkgoer says he was attacked, bitten by bats at SW Miami-Dade park
MIAMI - A South Florida man said he was swarmed by bats at a Southwest Miami-Dade park earlier this week and woke up the next day with teeth marks on his body. Daemyn Maldonado, 22, believes the bites were caused by bats. One expert, however, said he is not so sure about that. Either way, park officials are taking the mysterious bites seriously. Maldonado, who is warning others to beware, said he was walking with his friend through Larry and Penny Thompson Memorial Park and Campground, adjacent to Zoo Miami, when "the bats just swooped down."CBS News Miami asked a couple...
All bullets killing UPS driver, bystander in Miramar shootout came from officers, FDLE report says
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has released its report into the killing of four people — including a kidnapped UPS driver and an innocent bystander — in a 2019 police shootout in Miramar. Four Miami-Dade Police Department officers are facing manslaughter charges...
Video shows men rushing to the rescue after ATV plunges into Miami-Dade canal
MIAMI - Surveillance cameras recorded two men scrambling to save a woman sinking underwater in a canal in the Hammocks Thursday afternoon. One day later, the father and son wished they could do more."Emotionally, it sunk in once we started looking at the videos," Dennis Padilla, who along with his son Mikhael, 24, helped rescue a woman. While sitting inside their kitchen, Padilla and Mikhael heard a sound unlike anything they had ever heard before coming from the canal behind their home."A woman screaming: I can't swim," Dennis Padilla said. "I can't swim."Both men ran to help. Mikhael Padilla grabbed...
Bodycam video shows child alone while mother gets cosmetic surgery in Doral
New video shows the moments Doral Police officers found a 3-year-old boy outside an apartment complex alone while his mother was getting cosmetic surgery. The arrest of 25-year-old Jessica Renteria happened back in late June after numerous neighbors shared concerns about seeing her son alone and unsupervised. Body camera video...
$12k Ritz-Carlton robbery and $1k fraud among recent KB police activity
Here is a summary of incidents and actions taken by the Key Biscayne Police Department during the period of August 19 to August 25. These incidents were taken from the department’s logs. August 19, 2024. While on patrol, units at the 50 block of West Mashta Drive issued a...
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