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A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on multiple charges after he coerced at least two young women into a life of prostitution and then kept the proceeds, authorities announced Thursday.
A mother’s suspicion about her preteen daughter’s behavior led her to discover that she had been exchanging explicit text messages with a 37-year-old man, according to Miami police.
Miami police arrested a 30-year-old man Tuesday after they said he reacted to fatherly advice urging him to “change his life” by hitting his dad with a fan. Kemuel Emmanuel is now facing a potentially life-changing felony charge.
As of Sunday morning, the Miami Police Department had released 12 flyers for unsolved homicides in 2023.
Two women who worked as civilian employees at the Miami Police Department pleaded guilty to COVID-19 relief fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.
A 44-year-old man shot a 61-year-old man in the head after a night of work at the Studio 60 nightclub in Allapattah, according to the Miami Police Department’s announcement over 40 days after the murder.
Detectives with the Miami Police Department are investigating after three people were shot in the city’s Liberty City neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.
A worker for the city of Miami is facing a felony criminal mischief charge after police accused him of vandalizing a parking gate while in uniform and driving his city-issued car Monday.
The Miami Police Department announced Wednesday that they are looking to hire nearly 100 police officers.
Federal agents arrested an officer with the Miami Police Department after he was caught in an undercover sting trying to extort suspects for cash and drugs, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
A burglar was caught on camera stealing several welding machines from a business last month and now detectives with the Miami Police Department asked for the public’s help Friday in finding the person responsible.
A City of Miami police officer found himself on the wrong side of the law after being arrested for driving under the influence Tuesday morning, authorities said.
The Miami Police Department arrested an 18-year-old man Tuesday after they said struck a woman with his gun and then forced her to transfer $2,500 to his bank account in May.
Video from the Miami Police Department’s Real-Time Crime Center shows two crooks were following their victim at Northwest Second Avenue and 24 Street in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, records show.
An officer with the Miami Police Department was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital late Monday afternoon after being hit by a vehicle in the city’s Overtown neighborhood.
A man was formally charged Wednesday in connection with a Jan. 16, 2021, shooting in Miami that left a 6-year-old girl dead, authorities announced Thursday.
A family wants answers after a 41-year-old woman — who had reported suffering from extreme stress due to a hostile work environment at the Miami Police Department — left her office in an ambulance and died.
An Amber Alert was issued Saturday morning after a 3-year-old boy was reported considered missing and endangered in Miami, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Miami police are investigating after someone called authorities to report a suspicious package found Thursday morning near a guard gate by the James Lawrence Federal Justice Building.
The Miami Police Department’s Assistant Chief Armando Aguilar credits good police work coupled with new technologies as the success for a higher homicide arrest rate known as a clearance rate in 2022, and an overall decline in violent crime.
The South Florida Police Benevolent Association has subpoenaed staff members of the City of Miami Police Department, including the police chief, to testify at a whistleblower hearing at City Hall Tuesday regarding accusations of racism and corruption.
A set of “cowardly thieves” ransacked the Miami Police Department’s Police Athletic League youth center in Little Haiti, the program’s director said Friday.
For the last week, detectives have been asking the public for help with solving four incidents of illegal dumping in Miami’s Little Haiti and Little Havana neighborhoods.
Rapper Nehemiah “SpotemGottem” Harden was trying to get away from police officers while riding an orange jetski on Sunday in Miami, according to the Miami Police Department.
Two bicyclists were struck and killed by a vehicle in an accident along the Rickenbacker Causeway in Miami on Sunday, according to the Miami Police Department.
Detectives identified the man an officer shot and killed on Tuesday in Miami as Antwon Leonard Cooper. He would have celebrated his 35th birthday next month.
Detectives are actively investigating a theft that occurred Friday, January 21, 2022 at approximately 10:30 a.m.
In the coming months, the Pembroke Pines police department plans to buy more BolaWrap® Remote Restraint devices. The department already has 10 of the devices, which discharge a cord with a barbed tri-hook at each end.
Miami police arrested Louis Lugo on Sunday for impersonating a police officer.
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Two men were hospitalized after being found with injuries at a gas station on Northwest 17th Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets on Sunday, according to the Miami Police Department.
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Witnesses said there was quite a high-speed chase in Miami on Saturday, with a red pickup truck hitting another car, sending that car onto its side and the pickup truck crashing into a funeral home.
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The Miami Police Department is looking for an 8-year old boy who is missing and believed to be the victim of a parental abduction.
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Heather R. Morris became the first woman to serve as deputy chief of police in the history of the Miami Police Department.
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Traffic homicide detectives are investigating what prompted a pedestrian to jump in front of traffic on Saturday on the Venetian Causeway, police said.
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Detectives are asking the public for help with finding a man whose victims include two women, ages 82 and 86. The Miami Police Department released images on Monday from surveillance video showing a suspect in a burglary and an armed robbery.
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Darnella Melancon traveled from Sacramento, California, to the Miami Police Department to get an update on the search for her daughter Angela Morrisey. It has been 12 days since she vanished.
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MIAMI – A man who was injured during an arrest on Sunday in Miami was back in the hospital on Monday after he suffered a seizure, his relatives said. The Miami Police Department released an arrest form identifying Leskeil Shakeil Richards, a fugitive from Broward County, as the subject of a rough arrest video in Miami’s Liberty City. Officers reported Richards underwent a medical check-up on Sunday at Jackson Memorial Hospital before officers took him to jail, according to the arrest report. AdIesha Richards did not come to a complete traffic stop at Northwest 22nd Avenue, Sevilla reported. Sevilla also reported Leskeil Richards had moved to the back seat and he was “pretending” to be asleep.
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MIAMI, Fla. – Top brass at the Miami Police Department said they are looking into an incident that a woman caught on cellphone video. Video captured a man being punched in the face from a city of Miami police officer while physically restrained during a traffic stop. The video showed another city of Miami officer, who Milton said, kicked the man. Milton told Local 10 News that she and her mother were driving from the funeral of her aunt who had passed away from COVID-19 when they saw the commotion. She told Local 10 News that when police saw her recording, they told her she would be cited for stopping traffic.
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MIAMI, Fla. – A brazen burglar broke into a City of Miami marked patrol car and stole a gas mask, laptop, vest, GPS and a radio charger. According to Miami Police detectives, the patrol car was parked in the area of N.W. The marked patrol car was left on Wednesday, Feb. 17 around 5 p.m. A time stamp on the surveillance video shows the man in the area at 9:29 p.m. Wednesday. AdAnyone with information should contact Miami Police Department’s Burglary Unit at (305) 603-6030.
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MIAMI – For the past week, Local 10 News has been working to find out details about the City of Miami’s progress in hiring the next Chief of Police. In September, Chief Jorge Colina announced he would be retiring in January. Colina has been in charge of the Miami police force for nearly three years after being named chief in January 2018. AdLocal 10 News has also reached out to the City of Miami Police to inquire about whether Colina has scheduled a final day in office. Mayor Francis Suárez declined to address the current status of the hiring process when asked by Local 10 News during a news conference on Tuesday.
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The ruling was handed down on Jan. 20 and the panel found that Officer Ioannys Llanes used excessive force when detaining Oscar Riou. The panel also found that Llanes did not have reason to arrest Riou and that he used improper procedure. RAW FOOTAGE: Video shows interaction between Oscar Riou and Officer Ioannys Llanes. “Sustained excessive and unnecessary force, sustained false arrest, sustained misconduct upgraded from improper procedure, and why was that upgraded? Because even IA found in its own investigation that Officer Llanes gave false statements on his police report,” Williams said.
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PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Since the violence at the U.S. Capitol and in the days leading to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden., law enforcement around the county has been on high alert. Last week the FBI warned all 50 states of the possibility that armed protests are planned. Chief Jorge Colina of the Miami Police Department was on that call Wednesday with FBI Director Chris Wray and others, and he joined This Week in South Florida hosts Glenna Milberg and Michael Putney to discuss. Their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.
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MIAMI – Police officers closed the Venetian Causeway Bridge on Wednesday afternoon to investigate a suspicious device inside a vehicle at the Venetia Condos in Miami. Authorities focused on a vehicle on the first level of the Venetia Condos parking garage. Miami police officers closed the Venetian Causeway on Wednesday afternoon amid an investigation into a suspicious package. Late Wednesday night detectives were observed processing the suspicious items found in the car. “This investigation is still ongoing, there are still a lot of moving parts.”Authorities have not said who the owner of the vehicle is or anything about the items inside.
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WYNWOOD, Fla. – Miami Police Department officers were enforcing Miami-Dade County’s curfew from midnight Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday in an effort to encourage social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said the measure is necessary as South Florida deals with rising COVID-19-related hospitalizations. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said there will be two exceptions, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, when the curfew will begin at 1 a.m.Gov. Vice President Mike Pence was inoculated against COVID-19 on Friday in an effort to show that he believes in the safety of Pfizer’s vaccine. “With cases rising across the country, hospitalizations rising across the country, we have a ways to go,” Pence said.
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MIAMI – At its highest point above Biscayne Bay, the MacArthur Causeway in Miami has a 68-foot clearance. It was there that Miami police officers recently rescued a suicidal man. The Miami Police Department released a police officer’s Dec. 11 body cam video on Thursday afternoon. I promise you are safe,” a policewoman said as several officers pulled him away from the edge and over the railing. The man was at Jackson Memorial Hospital where officers said he was getting the help he needs.
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MIAMI – A Miami police officer was involved in a car crash on the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 on Tuesday morning near Brickell. With only one lane open about 6:30 a.m., there was a traffic backup stretching from the area of Southwest Seventh Street and 25th Road. Officer Kiara Delva, a spokeswoman for the Miami Police Department said the officer was on duty when the crash happened and no one was injured. Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Guadalupe Monarrez contributed to this report. 9 AM UPDATE
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Here is @CityofMiami Police Officer Daniel Ubeda, in full uniform with badge and gun wearing his Trump mask inside of the polling location in government center. “The City of Miami and the Miami Police Department do not support or endorse any candidate for political party or elected office,” Suarez said. “It is our mission to provide impartial police services to everyone regardless of political affiliation.”Colina said that Ubeda will be disciplined for the actions. At last check, there has been no actions taken by Colina or the department concerning the incident. We are aware of the photograph being circulated of a Miami Police officer wearing a political mask in uniform.
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