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"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Patriotism and respect is taught at our home early. Even with little Olaf. Thank you to our friend North Miami Beach Commissioner Barbara Monuse Kramer for the invitation to today's event. Congratulations to Mayor Anthony F. DeFillipo on a great speech Honoring All The Men, Women, and Military Animals Who Have Selflessly Served Our Country. Veterans Day 2019 was great at NMB. Always a great patriotic destination. We ran into our friends Major Ochoa, Assistant City Manager Sharon Ragoonan and our new friend Color Guard Officer R. Hernandez. #veteransday #veteran #ciddp #middp #jfd3dp #litigation #nmb #miami #friends #coralgables #hialeah #kendall #darcefamily #rolemodel #wesaluteyou #thankyou #patriotism #pledgeofallegiance #daughters #nmbpd #miamischools (at North Miami Beach, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4vZD1PBDB1/?igshid=13ukgtuqh0qgm

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Florida News: Former Tax Return Preparer, Saul Frederick Sentenced for $1.75 Million Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme

Florida News: Former Tax Return Preparer, Saul Frederick Sentenced for $1.75 Million Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme

Florida – Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Brian Swain, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, and William Hernandez, Chief, North Miami Beach Police Department (NMBPD), announced that Saul Frederick, 45, of…

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[kacydeneen]

'Sewage Just Exploded': North Miami Woman in a Stinky Bind

The sound of the running water from a sewage line brings with it the unpleasant contaminants that flow into the street and then into the North Miami home of Gwen West.

"Sewage just exploded in the middle of the road,” West said. "I mean just exploded."

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The South Florida woman says the trouble happened multiple times in 2017 and most recently in the fall. The result for West, she’s now living in an RV parked in her driveway and says she can’t go inside the home without a protective mask.

"And when I walked outside, I got this gasp of sewage gasses that gave me something like an asthma attack," West said. "I have lost everything."

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A check of inspection reports for the area of North Miami shows that West isn’t the only homeowner who called complaining. When FEMA came to inspect, she says it informed her that the home was unsafe to live in.

Months later, West and her attorney Andrew Kassier said she’s caught in the ultimate Catch-22 because no one wants to take responsibility for the damage to her property.

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"Can you say a Catch-44? Double the dose," she said.

West said a government construction project adjacent to her home is part of the problem, with the pile driving damaging the structure. A FEMA inspection report indicates the work is to upgrade the storm drain capacity in the area.

"The line is supposedly maintained by both the county at one point and by the city of North Miami," Kassier said.

"North Miami had to take care of the water lines, they said to protect them from breaking during their digging. But they never thought about me," West said.

West called for help but said the city of North Miami told her it’s not their problem, it’s the county.

"The City is not the party undertaking the lift station upgrade...Consequently, the City of North Miami cannot be held liable," the city said in a letter to West.

So West said she called the county. "The county said 'oh, no that’s North Miami,'" she said.

"The location in question is within North Miami water service area. Construction was being done for the private contractor and the City of Miami Beach. You will need to refer...to them...no liability exists on Miami Dade County," the county wrote in a letter to West.

Kassier is going to court now and suing for West to get help.

"I have now walked into the legal problem of having two defendants pointing the finger at one another," Kassier said.

Coming home to an RV and not going inside her home has West at the end of her rope.

"It seems like we have a government that don’t care about its constituents. It’s a horrible place to live," West said.

The City of North Miami Beach said they don’t have anything to do with the project. North Miami said it tried to work this out and wanted to fix the property, but that West wouldn’t sign a document releasing them from being responsible, so they didn’t do the work.

West isn’t alone. One inspection report indicted other residents have also called for help too.

Photo Credit: Gwen West, NBC 6 'Sewage Just Exploded': North Miami Woman in a Stinky Bind published first on Miami News

[kacydeneen]

Boy Injured After Car Crashes Into Home, Hits Race Car Bed

A 5-year-old boy is recovering after he was catapulted across his bedroom Thursday morning by a vehicle that crashed his Hollywood home and slammed into his race car bed.

Carlos Gallardo's son was in bed when the incident happened at about 5:40 a.m. in the area of 56th Avenue and Lincoln Street.

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Tony Felipe said he was riding as a passenger in a black van when he saw a Chevrolet Impala run past a stop sign. He said there was no time to react.

Felipe said they attempted to stop but the other vehicle crashed into the home, hitting the boy's bed. There is a sofa on the other side of the room and it's possible it may have helped cushion the impact the boy sustained.

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Joshua Cypress, 26, was identified as the driver of the Impala and authorities determined he was at fault, police said. Cypress was arrested for driving with a suspended license and issued three traffic citations.

Gallardo said his son wasn't moving when they first found him. However, the boy is recovering – mainly from knee, shoulder and neck pain, he said.

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"Thank God he's OK right now. But he's in the hospital to be looked after," Gallardo said.

The house has been deemed unsafe to live in, as the foundation has cracked and the corner of the home is being supported by equipment fitted by Hollywood Fire Rescue.

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Rubio: 'This Won't End Well' if Taken Newborn Not Returned

The battle over a baby born in a Miami-Dade hospital but taken by Miccosukee Police officers days after her birth will continue Thursday in a tribal court.

Justin Johnson and his attorney were scheduled to appear at a 1:30 p.m. hearing inside a court in the Miccosukee Indian Village located in Southwest Miami-Dade. Johnson is looking to regain custody of his one week old daughter, Ingrid Ronan Johnson, after she was taken from Baptist Hospital in Kendall on Sunday.

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Johnson and the baby’s mother, Rebecca Sanders, said they have filed complaints with various agencies – including Miami-Dade Police and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Sanders says that officers, along with hospital security and staff, came into her room shortly after Ingrid was taken by a doctor Sunday morning.

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"He said something was filed where I lost custody of my daughter and I said 'how, I'm in the hospital, I haven't been given any notification, no hearing, nothing whatsoever,'" Sanders said Wednesday. "And he said he doesn't have an order, hasn't seen one and doesn't have it on him but was told to come to the hospital to take my daughter."

The order was filled by Sanders’ mother, Betty Osceola, in tribal court shortly after the birth. The couple claims is upset and does not want Johnson, who is white, in the child’s life.

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According to the order, the grandmother claimed the father was violent toward Sanders while she was pregnant. Sanders and Johnson denied those claims, with Johnson calling them "false."

"I can’t even begin to explain how hard this has been. I don’t see how people of the Miccosukee tribe can look me in the face and tell me this is OK,” Johnson told the Miami Herald.

The Miccosukee Tribe, which currently has less than 600 members, does not fall under the jurisdiction of the state of Florida – which has led to issues in the past with officials in Miami-Dade and across the state.

If the baby is with the grandmother on tribal land, only the federal government can get involved and possibly take the child back.

One of Florida’s two U.S. Senators, Marco Rubio, tweeted Wednesday night, calling the incident a kidnapping and saying that "this won’t end well" for the tribe if they don’t return the child.

Osceola, who owns a major airboat tour business on the reservation, convinced a Miccosukee judge to grant her temporary custody.

"This is what you would expect to see in any state court, in Florida, when it comes to the well-being of the children, there is a concern they are either going to end up in dependency court, or a relative getting temporary custody of them through the family courts," said an attorney for the grandmother, Spencer West.

Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez issued a statement that an “immediate inquiry” into what took place had begun to determine if there is anything the agency can do.

Photo Credit: Rebecca Sanders and Justin Johnson Rubio: 'This Won't End Well' if Taken Newborn Not Returned published first on Miami News

[kacydeneen]

Ultra Festival Brings Road Closures, Mass Transit Discounts

With hundreds of thousands of people projected to attend the Ultra Music Festival in Downtown Miami this weekend, organizers are advising concert goers to avoid driving to the event and are urging them to use mass transit.

Road closures along Biscayne Boulevard near the concert site in Bayfront Park will start at 9 p.m. Thursday and continue through Monday at 6 a.m. Southbound traffic will be diverted westbound at Sixth Street and be re-routed onto Northeast 2nd Avenue.

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Northbound traffic will be reduced to one lane between Southeast 1st Street and Northeast 4th Street and will be directed into the closed southbound lanes for that stretch.

Those heading to the Intercontinental Hotel, Port Miami or Bayside will still be able to access the roadways needed for those areas. The concert runs from 4 p.m. to midnight on Friday, noon to midnight on Saturday and noon to 11 p.m. on Sunday

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Miami-Dade Transit has announced they’ll be extending the hours of the Miami Metrorail and Metromover services, in an effort to get festival-goers to “leave their cars behind.”

From March 23 to March 25, the transportation services will run from 5 a.m. until 2 a.m. Anyone heading to Ultra can purchase a one-way Metrorail ticket for $2.25 to get to the Government Center Station.

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From there, Ultra attendees can hop on the Metromover’s Inner Loop and come off at the College/Bayside, First Street or Bayfront Park Metromover station.

There is no charge for the Metromover’s Inner Loop service.

The cost of parking in a Metrorail garage or surface lot is $4.50 for the day. Garages will remain open until the following day, according to a statement.

Uber has also partnered with the concert to help people avoid driving their own cars. A 10 block stretch from Northeast 5th Street to Southeast 1st Street between Northeast 2nd and Miami Avenues will be the designated ride sharing section where people can go to pick up a ride. Those who sign up with the code Ultra2018 can save $20 on their ride.

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[kacydeneen]

No Bond for 2nd Teen Charged in Fatal Aventura Drug Deal

A second teen charged in the fatal shooting of another teen during a botched robbery of an underage drug dealer in Aventura in January made his first appearance in a Miami-Dade court Wednesday, where he was ordered held without bond.

Silas Lee Spence, 18, is charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 19 killing of 18-year-old Omar Darwish. A second suspect, 19-year-old Lucas George Seeger, is also charged with first-degree murder.

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The arrest report says Spence and Seeger met up with Darwish and another teenager for a drug deal in the parking lot of the LA Fitness at 3455 Northeast 207th Street. The plan was to rob the other teen and take the THC vaporizer cartridges they were allegedly bringing, according to the report.

At one point during the encounter, Spence handed M.G. a bullet and said "I'm going to pay you with this," the reports said.

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Spence got spooked when he thought Darwish had a gun, and that's when detectives say Spence shot Darwish in the neck. It was a fatal shot and Darwish ended up bleeding to death in the parking lot, the report said.

Police arrested Seeger two weeks ago, and he remains behind bars without bond. Spence was booked into Miami-Dade jail on Tuesday and was ordered held without bond at a court hearing Wednesday.

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[kacydeneen]

Monkey on the Loose Near King of Diamonds Strip Club: NMBPD

Police are trying to find a monkey that was on the loose near the King of Diamonds strip club in North Miami Beach Tuesday.

The monkey came from an industrial area west of I-95 and was reportedly loose in the area of the club near Northeast 6th Avenue between 179th and 180th streets.

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Police said the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was assisting in the search.

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