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Two Miami men received life sentences — and a judge ordered a third to spend a dozen years locked up — in the kidnapping, torture and executions of two victims in Opa-locka in 2020, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
A South Florida woman was arrested after trying to cash a check containing roughly $32,000 stolen from the victim of a “phone-based phishing scam,” authorities said.
Residents and visitors in Opa-locka and Miami Gardens are demanding answers after officials said a water main break left many without running water Wednesday.
A 25-year-old man was arrested early Tuesday morning after he allegedly attempted to stab a police officer in Opa-locka, records show.
An Opa-locka man was arrested last week by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, months after he allegedly uploaded a pornographic photo of a child on a social media website, authorities said.
Thieves duct-taped the eyes of three men, who were bound, tortured, and kidnapped at a truck yard in Opa-locka. The trio was in a rental van before they were shot nearby at an abandoned house’s backyard.
The man found dead on the side of Northwest 27th Avenue in Opa-locka in mid-November was a hit-and-run victim, police said. The driver accused of leaving the scene turned himself in on Thursday.
here were hundreds of art exhibits this week in Miami-Dade County. A little activists’ haven with a garden in Opa-locka opened one with a purpose featuring Jamaican artists.
A northwest Miami-Dade man visiting an exhibit in Opa-locka set up as part of Miami Art Week sexually attacked a woman working there late Thursday morning, police said.
An Opa-locka woman stands accused of using a “Rambo” serrated knife and a box cutter to recently attack a man in Miami Gardens, police said.
Police are investigating after shots were fired Tuesday afternoon in Opa-locka, and a gunshot victim later arrived at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
In Opa-locka, Vietnam veteran Jose Quinones is picking up food from local nonprofit Make-A-Wish Veterans.
An Opa-locka man is facing multiple charges after authorities said he broke into a woman’s apartment in the city, robbed her at knifepoint and then tried to force her to perform a sex act on her. Police said she was able to escape.
A man accused of an assassination attempt on an Opa-locka city commission candidate was set to get out of jail Friday after a Miami-Dade judge granted him bond.
Police arrested a man on a felony charge Tuesday after they said he was responsible for polluting the soil with lead and other contaminants through his work at a metal recycling business in Opa-locka.
A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday, months after a 13-year-old girl’s mother caught him inside her home in Opa-locka, authorities said.
Surveillance video obtained by Local 10 News shows the moments before a delivery driver was shot and killed in Opa-locka.
A 48-year-old man was arrested Sunday on accusations that he forced a 14-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him while he was conducting some kind of work at her home in Opa-locka, authorities said.
Police arrested a 33-year-old man after they said he robbed a victim at gunpoint to steal his electric scooter in Opa-locka early Monday morning.
Police arrested a Miami man on a second-degree murder charge early Tuesday morning after they said he shot and killed a delivery driver in Opa-locka earlier in the month.
Miami-Dade police performed a raid Thursday morning in connection with the 2021 El Mula Banquet Hall mass shooting.
A shooting and a Miami-Dade police search involving SWAT armored trucks and a helicopter abruptly woke up Opa-locka residents, some of whom couldn’t leave their homes on Saturday morning.
Miami Norland Senior High School is mourning one of their football coaches, Keon Smith, who was killed early Monday morning in a shooting in Opa-locka.
A woman who was a vendor at the Opa-locka Flea Market has filed a federal lawsuit against the city following her rough arrest.
Miami-Dade and Opa-locka police, as well as the Florida Highway Patrol, swarmed an apartment complex amid reports of a shooting Monday afternoon.
A man described in a recent federal lawsuit as a “mule” for Diddy was arrested Monday at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport while federal agents raided the music mogul’s Miami Beach and Los Angeles properties as part of what sources said is a sex trafficking probe.
Detectives were searching Saturday for the driver of the blue Hyundai SUV who struck a boy after the driver of a public bus had run him over while he was riding his bicycle in Opa-locka.
Less than two weeks after she was born, two South Florida parents took their baby girl to the hospital with a bruised right ankle, but an X-ray turned up more troubling injuries indicating “severe physical abuse,” according to investigators.
Aerial views of a residential property in Miami-Dade County show a yard in shambles. The satellite view on county property records shows about half a dozen parked vehicles. Google Map’s satellite view shows about a dozen vehicles — some without a hood.
A spinning, crashing end to a police chase was caught on camera after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, used the precision immobilization technique – better known as a PIT maneuver – on an Opa-locka police captain.
It has been 21 days since a 36-year-old man vanished in South Florida and his family is asking the public for help.
Miami-Dade police arrested an Opa-locka man on multiple felony charges Thursday in connection with a deadly late-2022 crash in the city that claimed the life of a scooter rider.
State investigators say a former Opa-locka police officer turned in her badge, gun and uniform after being fired in July 2022, but left out one thing: her department-issued credit card.
An Opa-locka business owner took the law into his own hands when confronting a man he believed to be a burglary suspect Friday, leading officers to arrest him on an attempted murder charge, according to police.
An unsolved mystery is torturing a family. A 37-year-old man who works as an aviation mechanic vanished over a week ago in South Florida.
Officers with the North Miami Police Department arrested an Opa-locka man Tuesday after they said a tip from Google led them to discover that he uploaded 40 child sexual abuse videos online.
Amanda Collins was just 37 years old when she was killed in May 2022. Her body was discovered by police days later, partially nude and decomposing in an Opa-locka canal. More than a year later, Miami-Dade police have her accused killer — her then-boyfriend — back in South Florida, charged with her murder.
Police arrested an Opa-locka man on three felony charges Monday after they said he had sex with a runaway teenager multiple times and later choked and threatened her while she was pregnant.
From black mold to vermin, the residents of an apartment complex in Opa-locka said they’ve been forced to live with a plethora of unlivable problems for years.
The suspected gunman in the May murder of a Miami Gardens teen’s romantic rival was moved from juvenile custody on Friday after being charged as an adult in the case, according to court and jail records.
A man said he and his girlfriend broke into an Opa-locka apartment Sunday to confront and attack a person using money from his girlfriend’s food stamp card, later firing a gun, according to police.
Former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel announced his resignation as Opa-locka’s police chief after a little more than a year on the job Friday, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.
After a little more than a year on the job, Scott Israel, the former Broward County sheriff, is set to step down from his role as Opa-locka’s police chief.
Lorenzo Shine is known in the streets of northern Miami-Dade County as “Du Du” or “Blaze.” Over the years his reputation also earned him the street moniker “Shine Murda,” records show.
A crash involving a motorcycle and a sedan in northwest Miami-Dade sent one person to the hospital Tuesday, according to fire rescue officials.
The building whose Arabian-style minarets and pink domes symbolize Opa-locka could be in a state other than disrepair by the end of the year.
When Dominic “Nick” Jackson met with detectives on Monday in Opa-locka, and they took him to the Northside District Station, he was wearing the same sandals that he wore during a recent shooting that was captured on surveillance video, according to the police arrest report.
More details are surfacing about a domestic violence case in Broward County involving an Opa-locka police sergeant who is related to the current and former mayor of Opa-locka.
