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A 14-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy who is her cousin were among the four retail theft suspects detectives arrested during a recent undercover operation in Miami-Dade County, according to deputies.
Detectives caught two convicted felons after they tried to speed away after a theft in southern Miami-Dade County, records show.
This October was bloody in Cutler Bay. After the shooting injured a teenage boy at the Cutler Manor Apartments, another shooting injured two and terrified the kids of the Cutler Bay Vipers who were playing nearby at Franjo Park.
Authorities formally arrested an already-jailed 37-year-old woman early Christmas morning, one month after they said she used pepper spray on her ex-girlfriend — and her ex’s new girlfriend — then used her car as a weapon in southwest Miami-Dade.
A man with the last name “Hope” might be running out of it after he was accused of dousing his niece with gasoline and then setting her on fire in the West Perrine area of southwest Miami-Dade.
Police investigated a deadly shooting early Friday morning in the West Perrine area of southwest Miami-Dade.
A man suspected of shooting another man in the face in the Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood last year appeared in court on a host of charges over the weekend, after police said he crashed his car trying to run from them.
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It has been more than a year since Lliliam Alonso’s 16-year-old son Carlos died. A shooter killed him — just a day before Mother’s Day — in southwest Miami-Dade.
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WEST PERRINE, Fla. – There has been progress at a South Florida apartment complex where senior citizens have been living in fear of gunfire and decaying conditions. Just one day after Local 10′s report at the public housing complex for seniors in West Perrine, suddenly the grass was cut, and garbage was picked up. Also, the laundry area, which had been locked and inaccessible to the seniors, has once again been opened and is now working. The group Mothers Fighting for Justice said it will be meeting with Miami-Dade County officials and police about more security for the seniors. AdRELATED LINKMothers against gun violence advocate for seniors in public housing who are living in fear
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WEST PERRINE, Fla. – A group of mothers against gun violence has been checking up on seniors in Miami-Dade County’s West Perrine neighborhood. Romania Dukes founded Mothers Fighting For Justice about two years after her son De’Michael Dukes, 18, was fatally shot on July 21, 2014. She and members of the support group have been doing welfare checks on the public housing residents. “Bullets have actually landed on top of the roof of these seniors’ house,” Dukes said. Two police officers walked around the neighborhood with the Mothers Fighting for Justice members.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Jean Wesner Saint-Jean worked as a cashier at McDonald’s. The 19-year-old Miami Senior High School student was saving to move to Texas to go to college. He was killed Nov. 17 while walking in Miami-Dade County's West Perrine neighborhood. (MDPD)She and other members of Saint-Jean’s family are also asking the public to help Miami-Dade detectives to solve his murder. Hermantin and detectives are asking anyone with information about the murder who wants to remain anonymous to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A drive-by shooting interrupted a fond farewell for a new college student leaving two people injured on Sunday night in Miami-Dade’s West Perrine area. The shooter sped away about 9:45 p.m. on Southwest 173rd Terrace near Southwest 102nd Avenue near the South Miami Heights Haitian Baptist church. Two weeks ago, a drive-by shooter targeted another home nearby. No one was injured in that shooting. Detectives have surveillance video in both cases and they are asking people with information about the shootings to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A person was pulled out of a burning car on Friday night in West Perrine and died on the way to the hospital, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. Officers were chasing the car when the driver crashed into another car. The driver was going so fast the car then collided with a power pole. The two people in the other car involved in the crash did not appear to have suffered any serious injuries. Witnesses said a survivor ran away.
Three people, including a teenager, were wounded Sunday in a drive-by shooting in the West Perrine neighborhood of southwest Miami-Dade County, police said. Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - Three people, including a teenager, were wounded Sunday in a drive-by shooting in the West Perrine neighborhood of southwest Miami-Dade County, police said. The shooting occurred while the victims were sitting on the front porch of their home on Southwest 174th Terrace near 103rd Avenue. He said a man, woman and 15-year-old boy were injured in the drive-by shooting. Colome said the boy was shot in the back and taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition. "This drive-by gun violence -- they need to stop it," Wright said.
Miami-Dade Police Department officers are investigating a shooting Saturday in West Little River. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - One man was injured in a Saturday morning shooting outside of a home in Miami-Dade County's West Perrine neighborhood, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, a spokesman for the department, said the man appeared to have suffered a wound to the stomach along Southwest 175th Street between 104th and 103rd Avenues. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took the man to Jackson South Medical Center. Zabaleta said dispatch received a report of an "apparent" armed robbery, but officers later classified the case as a shooting.
Nathaniel Hearns was found dead near Southwest 176th Street and Homestead Avenue. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - Detectives released the photograph of a 52-year-old victim Monday and asked the public for help solving the murder investigation in Miami-Dade County's West Perrine neighborhood. Miami-Dade police detectives identified the victim as Nathaniel Hearns. Officers found him dead Saturday night near the intersection of Southwest 176th Street, also known as West Indigo Street, and Homestead Avenue. The crime scene was near the Perrine Community Action Center and the Kerr Memorial United Methodist Church.
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