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CRIME & SAFETY
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...
Woman dead after ATV ends up in canal in SW Miami-Dade
MIAMI - A woman is dead and another was assessed for injuries Thursday afternoon after their all-terrain vehicle ended up in a canal in the Hammocks area of Miami-Dade County. It happened shortly before 1 p.m. in a canal near 112th Street & SW 157th Avenue.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to the scene and reported one woman was out of the water, while they searched for another in the canal. Authorities said one near-drowning patient was pulled from the canal, but that person did not make it. Police have not identified the victims and are continuing to investigate.
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
Miami carjacker steals vehicle with 3 sleeping children inside
MIAMI – A Miami woman reported a carjacking with children still inside the vehicle around 3:50 a.m., Saturday morning, near SW 23rd Ave. and 8th St., in downtown Miami.Police said, the mother parked a rented, silver Nissan Versa on the side of the street and left her children, ages 1, 10 and 12, asleep inside for a few minutes to meet up with a friend. They say when she returned, she discovered that her vehicle had been stolen.Miami police responded and sent out a BOLO for the vehicle. According to the arrest report, surveillance video captured the suspect entering the vehicle and driving away. The 12-year-old stated in the police report that she woke up and noticed the suspect in the driver's seat. She said, the man looked at her and said, "I got something for you," before removing his shirt and fleeing the scene.Within an hour, officers located the vehicle with the children unharmed inside at Beacon Blvd. and SW 6th St.A second BOLO for the suspect was transmitted. Noel Castro, 27, was later taken into custody and charged with kidnapping, grand theft vehicle, burglary and child abuse.
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