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A 42-year-old man was behind bars Friday night accused of trying to kill a man in Hialeah who owed him $1,500, police said.
Sergio Velazquez, the Hialeah police chief from 2012 to 2021, walked out of jail Tuesday after prosecutors accused him on Monday of using city funds to cover lavish personal expenses including Rolex watches.
Former Hialeah Police Chief Sergio Velazquez appeared in court Tuesday, facing serious accusations that he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars during his time leading the department.
A Hialeah couple’s apartment was a drug house ― and sales of drugs like methamphetamines, heroin and fentanyl happened right in front of their 17-year-old daughter, according to the city’s police department.
Former Hialeah Police Chief Sergio Velazquez was arrested Monday morning on multiple charges, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced.
Several South Florida restaurants were temporarily shut down last week due to serious health violations, including widespread roach infestations.
About two weeks after postal inspectors offered a hefty reward for information leading to an arrest, authorities say they’ve captured one of two men suspected of stealing mail at a Sunrise apartment complex.
The campus of Hialeah Senior High School was rocked Tuesday by the news of an arrest of one its longtime teachers.
A judge ordered that a 55-year-old man be held without bond on a first-degree murder charge Wednesday after police accused him of shooting and killing a man visiting a neighbor’s unit at his Hialeah apartment complex the day prior.
Two Hialeah men face felony charges after a man told police he was ambushed, beaten, tied with a rope and dragged into a vehicle during a violent kidnapping on Saturday, authorities confirmed in an arrest report on Tuesday.
Police arrested a Hialeah mother after they said two good Samaritans found her toddlers walking naked by themselves on a sidewalk near her home.
A high school basketball standout and recent Marine Corps enlistee is now paralyzed after a shooting in Miami that his family believes was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
Newly released body camera video obtained by Local 10 News Thursday shows the moments leading up to a deadly police shooting in Hialeah last year that authorities now say was legally justified.
Several companies profited from the platinum, palladium, or rhodium extracted out of auto parts that thieves stole from cars in South Florida, according to detectives.
A bizarre string of events Saturday morning led Miami Springs police officers to arrest a man on several felony charges, authorities said.
A woman is facing years in prison after New York authorities said she claimed to be unemployed and got Section 8 rental assistance for an apartment in the Bronx — which she then subleased while, in reality, she lived more than 1,000 miles away in Hialeah.
A 71-year-old man’s shopping trip at the Caliente Adult Superstore in Hialeah would lead to disaster earlier this month after a woman he met there offered him sex, took him back to her hotel, then robbed him of his Rolex, deputies said.
A Hialeah man who wasn’t even supposed to be operating a motorcycle left his injured passenger lying in the street after he slammed his sport bike into a van and went home, police said.
A man used his Hialeah companies to launder nearly $2 million as part of a larger, $41 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a federal criminal complaint.
A Hialeah woman is facing three felony charges in Broward County after police said she embezzled more than $230,000 from a law firm while working there as an office manager — all while on probation for stealing from a previous employer.
Reaction in South Florida to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has been far more muted than in his first term.
Sang’s Chinese Food and Dim Sum in North Miami Beach was ordered shut on March 11 due to rodent activity, marking its fourth closure after previous shutdowns in May 2022, April 2017 and July 2014 for similar issues.
Detectives raided a Hialeah motel after accusing a family of selling drugs in front of two girls who were regularly around men with criminal records.
A former Miami-Dade Schools police officer received a lengthy prison sentence Friday, years after she shot her ex-boyfriend, who is a Miami-Dade sheriff’s deputy.
A Miami-Dade detective reported that a human trafficking victim who was at the for-profit Broward Transition Center said she had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her husband and four children while pregnant last year.
A Miami-Dade detective reported that a human trafficking victim who was at the for-profit Broward Transition Center said she had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her husband and four children while pregnant last year.
Hialeah police will soon assist federal agents in cracking down on illegal immigration as part of a new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak is addressing concerns surrounding the city’s participation in the 287G agreements, which assist federal immigration authorities.
A 21-year-old woman was arrested this week, nearly a month after she was involved in a physical altercation with another woman at a nightclub in Hialeah, authorities said.
A 35-year-old man was arrested Tuesday, months after his girlfriend’s elderly mother accused him of verbally abusing her and stealing from her.
An extortion charge has been dropped against a South Florida woman who was accused of extorting a dental hygienist who performed out-of-office work for her, Local 10 News learned this week.
A second man is now facing charges after Hialeah police say a Santeria ritual led to a deadly dispute earlier this month.
A religious ritual in Hialeah took a deadly turn Wednesday night, ending in a fatal shooting and the arrest of a 48-year-old man, police confirmed in an arrest report Friday.
A man has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting and stabbing incident that left one person dead and two others injured during a dispute at a Hialeah home on Wednesday, authorities confirmed Friday.
Newly obtained surveillance video shows the moments a former Miami-Dade Schools police officer shot her ex-boyfriend, a Miami-Dade sheriff’s deputy, in what investigators describe as a premeditated attack.
One person was killed and two others were injured Wednesday night during a “heated dispute” that occurred at a home in Hialeah, authorities confirmed Thursday.
Sixteen-year-old Maykoll Santiesteban may not leave prison until well into his senior years after pleading guilty Friday to killing three women in a crash during an April 2024 joyride in Hialeah.
A 28-year-old man has been arrested after police said he fatally shot his girlfriend inside a Hialeah residence late last year.
Charges have been dropped against the campaign treasurer for former Miami-Dade County mayoral candidate Alex Otaola, who was arrested last year on accusations that he had sexually abused and given drugs to a teenage boy, Local 10 learned Tuesday.
A man hit a construction worker over the weekend in Miami Springs, leaving him writhing in pain on the ground until a passing police officer stopped to help, authorities said. They said he shouldn’t have been driving to begin with — and is now facing charges.
A woman convicted of multiple felonies for scamming thousands of dollars from prospective Miami apartment renters is now in even more serious trouble — this time in Hialeah.
Derek Rosa, the 14-year-old charged with fatally stabbing his mother in their Hialeah apartment in October 2023, appeared via Zoom for a court hearing early Thursday morning.
A Hialeah man was arrested Wednesday after police said he threatened to kill his girlfriend and her son “like a dog” during a violent confrontation that left the victim injured.
A Miramar family is celebrating an emotional reunion Friday after their 75-year-old matriarch, who suffers from dementia, was found safe days after thanks to a tip from a Local 10 News viewer who recognized her from a televised report.
Police arrested a man on an attempted first-degree murder charge after they said he continually stabbed a victim eating inside a Taco Bell in Hialeah Sunday morning.
A 42-year-old man stands accused of sexually abusing girls who were under his care while he worked as a Miami-Dade County Public Schools substitute teacher.
A 33-year-old man was arrested Sunday by Hialeah police after the man’s nephew accidentally shot himself with his gun, authorities said.
Santa Claus now comes in a pink Miami soccer uniform, holding a six-pointed starred “piñata” and a “maraca,” or wearing a white “Guayabera” with a Cuban cigar in its pocket.
Gregory Yearty, Jr., was 16 years old when deputies accused him of stealing a car in Palm Beach County and again a few days after he turned 17. Deputies also accused him of a burglary at 18, and by the time he was 19, he was a convicted felon.
A 54-year-old woman from Miami was arrested by Hialeah police Tuesday after she extorted a dental hygienist who performed work for her outside of the office, authorities said.
Hialeah Senior High School went on lockdown Monday morning after the school received apparent hoax threats.
Miami-Dade County prosecutors charged a 49-year-old Hialeah man on Wednesday with the murder of Jose Manuel Carbajal Zaldivar, better known as Cuban singer El Taiger. He was 37.
A Hialeah man is facing charges after police viewed surveillance footage showing him firing at his former friend and other bystanders fleeing the scene earlier this month, authorities confirmed Friday.
A food-related argument between two roommates in Hialeah escalated into a stabbing on Tuesday evening, leaving one man injured, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
A 39-year-old man from Miami Gardens was arrested Thursday after he stabbed another man in Hialeah, authorities said.
After an undocumented Honduran migrant was convicted of murder and sexual battery and a Miami-Dade County jury recommended the death penalty, reports of jury misconduct surfaced.
A dispute between a 36-year-old driver and a 29-year-old man who was working for a mobile tire repair service ended in a fatal shooting on Saturday in Hialeah, police said.
Police announced the arrests of two 22-year-old men Tuesday who they said were wanted for firing multiple gunshots at two individuals in a Hialeah parking lot earlier this month. Authorities say the incident may be connected to a separate shooting involving the same victim in Miami.
A third victim has died months after a Hialeah crash that already claimed the lives of two others. Police say a joyriding teenager was responsible.
Police are investigating a possible coordinated package theft scheme in Lauderdale Lakes, where residents said a woman and an accomplice were caught on surveillance camera stealing a delivery from a homeowner’s porch.
Six people, including three children, were taken to area hospitals after a school bus and a dump truck crashed in a Hialeah neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.
Police arrested a man on an attempted murder charge Friday after accusing him of stabbing another man multiple times outside of a Hialeah gas station following a “disagreement.”
A 35-year-old Hialeah man was arrested early Friday morning after police said he attacked his girlfriend and her 12-year-old daughter with a baseball bat during a domestic dispute.
Authorities booked a Palm Beach County man into the Miami-Dade jail Thursday in connection with an armed carjacking over the summer in Hialeah.
