Suspects charged with shooting at Miami cop

Miami police said that they had arrested the man they believe fired an assault rifle at a patrol car during a traffic stop in Liberty City over the weekend.

Taken into custody Sunday was Kevin Glover Rawls, 18, of the 600 block of NW 182nd Terrace, Miami Gardens. He was charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer and related charges and was jailed without bond.

The shooting occurred Friday night about 9 p.m. when bullets struck a marked police cruiser driven by an unidentified police officer making a traffic stop in Liberty City.

Fleeing driver pins Miami officer against squad car

A Miami police officer was injured early Friday, after a woman trying to flee from police backed into the officer, pinning him against a squad car, police said.

Officer George Guillen was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. His injuries were not life-threatening, police said.

Patricia Woodard, 23, was charged with attempted first-degree murder on a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding police and resisting arrest without violence.

Handful of police piled up shootings

A group of 20 Miami police officers fired nearly half of all the bullets expended by the 1,100-officer department since 1990, making them some of the most aggressive shooters in the nation, a Herald investigation has found. The group includes seven officers now under indictment on charges of planting guns at police shooting scenes and four who have been disciplined for lying to supervisors in unrelated cases. One officer - Juan Mendez - has accumulated four fatal shootings, more than any other police officer in Florida, according to a Herald survey of more than 25 urban police departments in Florida and the nation. "Make sure when you're telling people I'm Florida's deadliest cop that you also tell them I'm working in Florida's deadliest city, on Florida's deadliest streets, and on Florida's deadliest shifts, " Mendez said in a recent interview. "I do not go out there looking to shoot people." Miami Chief Raul Martinez acknowledged that the problem of repeat shooters is particularly vexing - especially when

Crash injures three city workers on Calle Ocho

Miami police are investigating a car crash on Southwest Eighth Street that sent three city employees to the hospital with serious injuries.

The crash at the corner of Southwest Eighth Street, also known as Calle Ocho, and 15th Avenue happened about 10:30 a.m., according to authorities.

Sgt. Manny Gonzalez of Miami's traffic homicide unit gave this account of the crash:

Miami police chase, catch man after robbery attempt

A 19-year-old man is accused of running stop signs, crashing into a fence, then ditching his car and running -- all to avoid Miami police.

But officers caught up with him. Timothy T. Alexander is charged with fleeing police and burglary of an occupied dwelling. He spent Saturday in a Miami-Dade County jail.

It began about 8:45 a.m. on Friday, when a Dollar General employee was robbed near Northwest 38th Place and Northwest 38th Street, according to police. The employee called in a description of a car used in the crime.