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Bomb joke airport Florida felony: Osniel Blanco-Lopez, 52, faces up to 15 years in prison after saying 'I have a grenade' in Spanish at an American Airlines counter at Miami International Airport. Florida Statute 790.163 bars judges from ever withholding conviction for false bomb reports -- saying 'just kidding' or lau

MIAMI (WSVN) - A 24-year-old man accused of driving recklessly on Interstate 95 faced a judge on Monday. Tykwon Laster faces several charges, including reckless driving and leaving the scene of a crash involving injuries. According to Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies witness Laster driving at a high rate of speed.

Thanks to some good work by CBS Miami and other media outlets, the grand jury report on the Hope Florida scandal was revealed last week.

Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez joined Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz following the arrests of 11 individuals as part of Operation Parking Denied, an ongoing investigation into an alleged fraudulent scheme involving the improper issuance of Disabled Person Parking Permits. The investigat

A man was hospitalized after he apparently shot himself while barricaded in a Miami high-rise Monday morning, police said. Officers had responded to the Aria Reserve near Northeast 7th Avenue and 24th Street in Edgewater around 7:30 a.m. after a man barricaded himself inside a unit where gunfire heard, Miami Police off

People with a pending immigration status and no criminal charges are still subject to ICE street arrests especially in Florida and Texas.

MIAMI — Dr. Gilbert Beauperthuy-Rojas, an orthopedic surgeon, remained hospitalized on Monday afternoon after a driver struck him while he was cycling in Miami’s Virginia Key. Miami Fire Rescue personnel rushed Beauperthuy-Rojas, 63, to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center after the collision on Saturday mor

MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - A teacher at North Beach Elementary school bonded out of jail after, police said, he attacked his neighbor. Nelson Martinez, who is listed as a Spanish teacher at the school, was arrested Saturday on a misdemeanor battery charge. Martinez’s neighbors said the 64-year-old suspect has...

MIAMI (Court TV) — Prosecutors dropped charges against a woman accused of attacking fellow inmates at a Florida jail after the alleged victims failed to come to court. Daisy Link, 31, had faced three charges of battery on a detainee for separate incidents at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. At a Monday s

A Miami man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after scheming to exploit a 94-year-old woman out of her home. On Aug. 26, Alejandro Diaz Torriente, 67, was found guilty of the financial exploitation of a 94-year-old woman and sentenced to 20 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation, according to the Miam