MIAMI-DADE COUNTY – A 65-year-old man is accused of hitting a pedestrian near his southwest Miami-Dade home and leaving him to die in the street without ever giving aid or calling 911 Leer en español Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested the accused driver on Wednesday in connection with the April 16 crash in the unincorporated Palmetto Estates area as a pedestrian crossed Southwest 112th Avenue near 160th Street outside of a crosswalk Deputies said they were able to track down the Dodge Journey SUV to Pozo’s home and saw it with damage “consistent with hitting a pedestrian.” Authorities said he turned himself in at an MDSO station Wednesday night and was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving death Pozo was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $15,000 bond as of Thursday afternoon Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist TV Listings Email Newsletters RSS Feeds Closed Captioning / Audio Description Contact Us Careers at WPLG Terms of Use Privacy Policy Public File FCC Applications EEO Report Do Not Sell My Info 1.0 Host Exhibit Copyright © 2025 Local10.com is published by WPLG INC. Q: There are rumors swirling that the Publix at Orange Blossom project has ceased and the land is now being sold Q: Not sure if there is any truth to it but apparently there are rumors of a chain restaurant or sports bar being included in the plans for the new Publix on Oil Well Road Q: With the new Publix breaking ground on Oil Well next to Palmetto Ridge High School any additional tenants confirmed for the other spaces zoned there The phase 2 road to Big Corkscrew Island Regional Park is coming along quickly so hope development follows just as fast A: Plans for new retail opportunities are quickly materializing for The Shoppes at Orange Blossom the new mixed-use development proposed on Oil Well Road just east of Palmetto Ridge High School in Golden Gate Estates A new Publix supermarket will anchor the shops but a sports bar probably won’t make the final cut “We did have an interest from a sports bar but there’s no sports bar coming We don’t have any deals with a sports bar,” said Bob Pekol senior associate for Fort Myers-based LQ Commercial real estate services and we actually have a couple of other things we are working on The two restaurants are tentatively planned for units 106 and 107 on the eastern end of the future seven-unit inline retail strip that will adjoin Publix immediately east of Palmetto Ridge’s football field Only the 1,300-square-foot Unit 102 has not been spoken for yet Florida-based WMG Development broke ground this summer on The Shoppes at Orange Blossom “Our goal is to deliver a first-class development that will meet the needs of this growing community,” said Aryel Perring Next to a nearly 52,000-square-foot Publix—the company’s latest prototype that includes a 3,144-square-foot mezzanine—will be 9,374 square feet of inline retail The one-story strip will include a 2,128-square-foot Publix Liquors store in Unit 101 Encore Nail Bar in the combined smaller units of 103 and 104 and the two proposed restaurant spaces on the eastern end that will be slightly more than 1,300 square feet each The site work has been completed for Publix and vertical construction for the building shell will be starting soon “I believe the goal is to start the shell in September or October and then have it delivered the second quarter of next year “I think you’re probably looking at Q3 when we deliver the shop space to the tenants so they can start doing their interior buildout I would say that most of those things will be open by the end of next year.” Regarding the sole outparcel in the Publix parking lot area Fifth Third Bank representatives had a pre-application meeting with the Collier County Growth Management Department earlier this year for a proposed 1,900-square-foot freestanding branch office with a drive-thru for the northwest corner of Oil Well Road and Big Corkscrew Drive a future public access road that will cut through The Shoppes at Orange Blossom between the Publix property and a proposed luxury apartment community that is part of the total redevelopment of 40 acres of former citrus groves A new traffic signal is planned at Oil Well Road and Big Corkscrew Drive which eventually will connect to Big Corkscrew Island Regional Park’s second phase planned on acreage south of the park’s first phase and north of Palmetto Ridge High School Proposed for the outparcel lots fronting Oil Well Road in front of the future apartment community are a drive-thru restaurant sharing a multitenant building with a dental office and another building with a tire retail store according to a pre-application meeting last week with the county Another pre-application meeting in late July shows a 4,000-square-foot Circle K convenience store and fueling station proposed for the northwest corner of Oil Well Road and Hawthorn Road the entrance into the Orange Blossom Ranch residential community Adjacent to The Shoppes at Orange Blossom will be Emblem at Orange Blossom a 17-acre luxury apartment home community being developed by Quarterra Multifamily The multifamily development will have 384 units within 16 buildings and include a centrally located clubhouse with an outdoor swimming pool site clearing started on the apartment complex and construction is scheduled to begin in September and to be completed in May 2026 The Publix-anchored development is under construction and estimated to open in late summer 2025 More than 200 jobs will be created with the opening of the shopping center “I think we’re going to have an exciting lineup there that people are going to be excited about once they hear about it “When it’s all done people will be excited about what ends up out there.” The “Tim Aten Knows” weekly column answers local questions from readers. Email Tim at tim.aten@naplespress.com. Typical ebbs and flows of the single-family home market do not have much of an impact on the ultra Four restaurant chains and a cake shop will join seven other businesses coming this year to the new Tree Farm.. the May 5 opening of the Hospital for Special Surgery at NCH takes the health care.. Not only has Chef Brian Roland physically and emotionally returned to public life in Southwest Florida after his life-altering tragedy.. Beeline is counting on thirsty folks making a beeline to its new upscale cocktail bar at Mercato in North Naples... The 72-unit Verandas III opened and is fully occupied on Airport Road marking the final phase in the redevelopment of.. – After police officers arrested a man who was wanted for stealing rental cars he told detectives that the brain behind the over half a million dollars in crimes in Miami-Dade County was a woman Israel Smith was on the run for over a year before police officers found him on Monday at a house in Miami-Dade’s Palmetto Estates neighborhood After his arrest near the corner of Southwest 166 Street and 99 Court on Monday Smith signed a statement blaming Anseca Calix for crimes and claiming he didn’t know what she was up to The thefts in 2022 of over $550,000 in cars belonging to the Avis Budget Group were on Sept at the Miami International Airport’s rental car center Herby Smithlordeus had already accused Calix of renting him a car that he didn’t know had been stolen for $150 per day on Nov Smith avoided arrest while driving a stolen 2022 Dodge Charger when police officers stopped him on Nov he told police officers that he didn’t know the car was stolen Miami-Dade detectives reviewed surveillance video at the rental car center and cell phone data and concluded Smith and Calix were working together with SKU numbers They also talked to a security guard who told them he was a victim of intimidation and recognized Smith Smith was facing charges in six cases and he remained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Tuesday awaiting a hearing so authorities could verify the source of the funds used for bail Police officers arrested Calix on Nov. 11, 2022, and re-arrested her on Dec. 12, 2022 Prosecutors filed a case against her on Nov is for five counts of grand theft and one count of an organized scheme to defraud is for failure to redeliver a hired vehicle The next trial hearing for both of Calix’s cases is set for March 18 Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch is presiding over both Stay informed with regular breaking news alerts Copyright 2022 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013 She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award Longtime Palm Beachers Kathryn and Leo A. Vecellio Jr. have a new home in Palm Beach and it’s a whopper — landmarked Il Palmetto, the 5-acre ocean-to-lake estate Netscape co-founder James H. Clark had listed for sale until last spring at $95 million off-market deal — orchestrated by broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A Moens Associates — is said to have approached or exceeded $90 million according to sources interviewed by the Daily News But the deal missed the $95 million record that has stood for more than a decade for a single real estate transaction in Palm Beach the price range would make the Il Palmetto deal the second-highest-dollar single seller/single buyer transaction in the town’s history And it would certainly mark the biggest-dollar residential deal in Palm Beach this year Leo Vecellio declined to speak with the Daily News RELATED: Price of Netscape co-founder’s Palm Beach estate drops by $20M to $95M Whatever might have transpired this year at Il Palmetto on the stretch of coastal road known as Billionaires Row records at the Palm Beach County Courthouse offer no details about dollar amounts or terms between Clark and the Vecellios gleaned from public records and from sources who know the Vecellios but didn’t want to be identified courthouse filings document simultaneous transfers of ownership at Il Palmetto and of a house the Vecellios bought nearly five years ago at 120 Jungle Road in the Estate Section a mortgage recorded at just under $70 million was issued on Il Palmetto to its new ownership company the Vecellios signed a 99-year lease for Il Palmetto The length of the lease meets the criteria to let them transfer their existing homestead exemption according to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office One real estate attorney who reviewed the documents told the Daily News that such long-term leases can be used by families for internal estate planning purposes Moens listed the main house for sale at just under $30 million last month according to records in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service RELATED: See photos from previous sales listing for landmarked Il Palmetto Clark had been trying to sell his estate since at least 2016, first through Sotheby’s International Realty, which initially set an off-market, jaw-dropping price tag of $137 million (and later reduced to $115 million in the MLS) The property was last listed in January this year at $95 million by Moens — but by April 5 Moens had withdrawn his listing from the local MLS real estate brokers and agents whose properties are listed when they sell must update those listings with a sales price once the sale closes no sale or sales price need ever be recorded in MLS even if the broker or agent is still involved when the property changes hands There also have been sightings over the past several months of moving trucks at Il Palmetto and at the house on Jungle Road in the Estate Section completed in 1930 with architecture inspired by Genoa and Venice is among the most prominent estates in Palm Beach The town granted the house landmark status in 1980 protecting it from major alternations unless the town approves The property has 340 feet of beachfront east of South Ocean Boulevard with another 360 feet on the Intracoastal Waterway Il Palmetto sits where the coastal road makes a sharp turn at Widener’s Curve The curve is named for Philadelphia industrialist Joseph Widener Il Palmetto’s house and outbuildings have 68,831 square feet of living space Considered Swiss-born society architect Maurice Fatio’s masterpiece the terraced property includes the six-bedroom main residence a boat house with a two-bedroom guesthouse and a two-bedroom beach house accessed by a tunnel under the coastal road In his book Maurice Fatio: Palm Beach Architect Mockler describes the house as “one of Fatio’s most exceptional designs and certainly one of his largest,” noting that it took 450 workers eight months to complete the residence He notes the house's palatial two-story entrance hall a living room of “baronial dimensions” and walls covered in a fleur-de-lis design copied from an Italian palace paid a recorded $11 million for the estate in 1999 and carried out a major restoration and expansion project which offers high-tech building-management systems for commercial properties and large residential estates Leo Vecellio heads the Vecellio Group Inc. a family-owned conglomerate that includes energy concerns and road builder Ranger Construction Industries of West Palm Beach He and his wife are active on Palm Beach’s charitable scene Moens acted on behalf of the Vecellios when one of their limited liability companies bought the house on Jungle Road for a recorded $25.46 million in February 2014 That property in the Estate Section was listed for sale at the time by agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch of the Corcoran Group A deed shows the Vecellios in December 2014 transferred ownership of their 1920s-era house into both their names and they took a homestead exemption on the property The Mediterranean-style house there has seven bedrooms and just under 18,000 total square feet — all set amid extensive gardens RELATED: Jungle Road home sells for $25.46 million Moens again represented the Vecellio family in a purchase Agents Carole Koeppel and John Lloyd of Sotheby's International Realty acted for the seller in that deal The Vecellios used an ownership company to buy the next-door house the couple joined the two properties under a unity of title as a single address RELATED: Renovated 1953 house sells for $9.6 million Less than two weeks after Moens withdrew his listing for Il Palmetto a document signed by the Vecellios and recorded at the courthouse shows they severed their unity of title on Jungle Road the county clerk’s office recorded deeds showing simultaneous internal transactions at the Clark and the Vecellio estates Clark transferred ownership of Il Palmetto from a trust in his name to a company named Brando Woody DE LLC a limited liability company registered in Delaware Delaware’s strict privacy laws cloaked the identity of anyone behind that entity although later courthouse filings show the company is managed by a West Palm Beach attorney they transferred ownership of their house at 120 Jungle Road to Delaware-registered Big Sky Property Holdings LLC And as every real estate lawyer in Palm Beach knows the owner of one Delaware limited liability company can sell so-called “membership-interest” shares to another Delaware limited liability company without any record of that transfer necessarily becoming public — or a price being recorded for the transaction ownership of that company can completely change hands without any courthouse documentation So it’s at least conceivable that Clark sold his membership-interest shares in Brando Woody DE LLC to the Vecellios for an undisclosed amount the Vecellios could have leased the property to themselves using the 99-year lease with no record of any money changing hands Brando Woody DE LLC is identified as the Vecellios’ “landlord” on the lease recorded Oct Moens listed the Jungle Road house for sale for its owner It’s unclear from public records what role — if any — the smaller house at No 695 has played in any transactions that may have involved the Vecellios and Il Palmetto manager of ownership services at the property appraiser’s office Buying member-interest shares in a limited liability company is exactly how the Vecellios purchased an oceanfront mansion across town at 589 N according to trial records in a civil suit filed in 2009 by the couple The Vecellios also sold the North County Way house through the same process in 2014 The amount that changed hands four years ago on North County Road was never made public But sources familiar with the deal have said coffee mogul Robert Stiller and his wife paid as much as $55 million for the Vecellios’ property Moens is said to have acted on behalf of the Vecellios in that sale opposite Sotheby’s International Realty agent Cristina Condon RELATED: 2014 Vecellio's oceanfront mansion sale may have hit $55M Courthouse records show that Brando Woody DE LLC — the new owner of Il Palmetto — is managed by attorney H CEO and managing shareholder of the Gunster law firm Perry also managed the limited liability company the Vecellios used in early 2014 to buy the house at 120 Jungle Road The Vecellios later took ownership in their names from the same company through an internal transfer Perry filed a notice at the county courthouse — recorded on the day after the April ownership transfer at Il Palmetto — that shows the new owner signed a promissory note for a loan in an unspecified amount related to that property The loan was through United Bank of Virginia That’s the same bank that issued Brando Woody DE LLC the $69.95 million mortgage on Il Palmetto who signed the mortgage document on behalf of Brando Woody DE LLC Hidden from the coastal road by tall hedges Il Palmetto features a series of pavilions connected by cloisters The four-year renovation designed by Fairfax and Sammons — with Bridges Marsh & Associates serving as architect of record — rebuilt the original house and added about 30,000 square feet Il Palmetto had been on the market for three years before Clark bought it from the estate of the late philanthropist Janet Annenberg Hooker When the house entered the market two years ago a Wall Street Journal story said he was selling the property because he and his wife were spending less time on the island Leo Vecellio declined comment when approached Thursday by a Daily News reporter at an event at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Big residential deals are not uncommon in Palm Beach — but some are definitely bigger than others The single buyer/single-seller record still stands from 2008 and a $95 deal that involved a real estate developer and television celebrity who has since become the island's most famous snowbird — President Donald Trump In July 2008, Trump sold an investment estate at 515 N. County Road he had bought a bankruptcy auction for about $41 million in 2004 Moens Associates acted on Trump’s behalf in that deal opposite agent Carol Digges of Brown Harris Stevens a company controlled by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev RELATED: Trump’s former estate: The story behind the $95-million mansion tear-down If the recent deal at Il Palmetto at 1500 S Ocean Boulevard came close to or breached $90 million it would top the $85 million deal recorded at the Palm Beach County Courhthouse last year as the second-biggest single-buyer/single-seller sale Chicago hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin expanded his South End estate by buying his next door neighbors’ house at 1290 S in an off-market deal orchestrated by Moens Griffin has assembled 17 contiguous acres on Billionaires Row for more than $250 million with almost all of those deals brokered on both sides by Moens RELATED: Griffin pays $85 million for neighboring Billionaires Row estate The other biggest single-buyer/single-seller deals in Palm Beach include the following: fashion retailer Sidney Kimmel sold his seaside estate at 1236 S Corcoran Group agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch were the listing agents were represented by Cristina Condon of Sotheby's International Realty The property is today known as 200 Emerald Beach Way * In an off-market sale in April 2017 recorded at $77.06 million a company affiliated with real-estate tycoon Frank McCourt bought an oceanfront house at 60 Blossom Way from a company associated with Venezuelan banker Victor Vargas hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II paid Martha Schar and her developer husband Dwight a recorded $71.2 million for Casa Apava an oceanfront estate with a landmarked house at 1300 S RELATED: Ex-Dodgers owner Frank McCourt linked to $77 million Palm Beach sale This Chinese scroll painting was the top lot of the sale bringing much interest and drama to the auction before finally gavelling for $528,000 Review and Onsite Photos by Andrea Valluzzo – The brothers behind the eponymously named Millea Bros Known for scoring estates offering a wealth of choice pieces to attract collectors of all tastes the Milleas knocked it out of the park with their spring auction May 11-13 1,100-plus-lot sale featured several fine estates but the star of the sale overall was unquestionably the Palmetto Hall estate Michael Millea calls a bid while his associate Kris Ryan monitors and clerks the company’s own online bidding platform The auction was also on several other bidding platforms “It was a good sale and what I like about the sale was it was a little bit of everything,” said Michael Millea Jay and Nan Altmayer bought the grand antebellum property known as Palmetto Hall in Mobile and furnished the mansion with classical European furnishings Southern art and quintessentially American paintings and much of their estate was sold at Christie’s New York in January For this latest group of items offered here the bank handling the estate put it out for competitive bids and awarded the contract to Millea Bros besides the Palmetto Hall lots (more on that in a bit) was a darkened and unassuming – to the untrained eye – Chinese scroll painting that crossed the block early on the sale’s final day Cataloged as a Song dynasty painting in the manner of Mou Yi having two alleged collector seals of Emperor Qianlong and depicting court ladies traveling in spring the 67-inch-tall work was conservatively estimated at $1,5/2,500 No less than 14 phone bidders jumped on the lot as soon as bidding opened and as the price kept climbing rapidly A buyer in the room tried to hit the lot at $90,000 during a brief lull as one phone bidder paused but the phones hadn’t run down yet and by the time the auctioneer came back to the room bidder only two phone bidders were in play at about the $200,000 mark and both seemed equally committed the underbidder signaled defeat but then an online bidder jumped in out of nowhere The unexpected move threw the auctioneers for a loop and they held the bidding open for another minute as they quickly tried to verify if the online bidder was legitimate Mark Millea announced he was not confident in the bidder Altmayer Family Collection was Andrew John Henry Way’s oil on canvas “Baltimore Fruit Vendor,” going for $50,400 Exercising “auctioneer’s discretion” for the first time Michael announced at the podium that he was rejecting the online bid and the phone bidder won the lot with a $440,000 bid ($528,000 with the buyer’s premium) as the stunned audience The sale achieved another first for Millea Bros as its first half-million-dollar lot and most expensive item sold to date The previous company record was held by a Kangxi vase sold here ten years ago for just under $300,000 Michael said he has since talked to all three of the highest bidders in play for the painting and all understood his decision Given an upsurge in the last few years where many auctioneers have had winning online bidders renege on paying for lots they won the legitimacy of an unknown online bidder is a reasonable concern The phone bidders had been vetted before the auction “It was a nail-biter… and a difficult decision but I just could not take the chance; I left it open long enough so that if it was someone who knew us they could call us at the gallery…,” he said I have to protect my consignors at the end of the day,” he said The rest of the auction went smoothly and the Palmetto Hall estate was well worth the week the Milleas spent in Mobile picking up the items and shipping them to New Jersey decorative arts and furniture from the mansion were led by Andrew John Henry Way’s oil on canvas “Baltimore Fruit Vendor,” which attained $50,400 well over its conservative $2/3,000 estimate Another standout from the Palmetto Hall collection was this white marble bust of George Washington by Raimondo Trentanove that went far over its $2,5/3,500 estimate to attain $48,000 Coming in a close second was a white marble bust of George Washington by Raimondo Trentanove which similarly bested a reasonable estimate to fetch $48,000 Trentanove apprenticed under Antonio Canova during which he assisted Canova in making a life-size statue of Washington for the North Carolina State Capitol which was the only piece Canova made for America but tragically was destroyed less than a decade later when a fire swept through the state house Among fine art performing well from the collection were a large oil on canvas painting by Johan Jacob Bennetter “Arab Slaves Leading Cargo,” that brought $34,800 and Charles E and included Andy Warhol’s color screen print portrait of Elizabeth Taylor that sold in the first session for $37,200 An Alexander Calder riveted copper stabile sculpture abstractly resembling an elephant earned $19,200 Both came from a private collection in New Jersey From a major corporate art collection in New York City came an Ed Ruscha color screen print The furniture category was led by a Regency brass inlaid calamander bagatelle table Bringing $6,600 each were a French Louis XVI-style display cabinet having a marble top over a black lacquered case Rounding out the sale were a Fabergé presentation statuette created for the Imperial Russian Geographical Society at $15,600; an Eighteenth Century portable chess table box from Central Europe having a view of a castle on the interior that realized $18,000 items were an extensive silver flatware service in the Hampton pattern that made $11,400 and a rare double sterling baby feeding tray All prices reported include the 20 percent buyer’s premium For additional information, www.milleabros.com or 973-377-1500 Andrea Torres 2 injured after shooting in Miami-Dade’s Palmetto EstatesHatzel Vela PALMETTO ESTATES – Detectives were investigating a fatal shooting on Friday in Miami-Dade County’s Palmetto Estates neighborhood a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department reported detectives recovered a firearm after a woman and a man were wounded and a man died of “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.” Police officers and fire rescue personnel responded at about 4:20 p.m. to a house near the intersection of Southwest 165 Terrace and 99 Avenue Fire Rescue personnel took the two injured to the Jackson South Medical Center’s Ryder Trauma Center Rodriguez reported their condition was critical “There was another adult female on the scene who was not injured,” Rodriguez wrote adding “The familial ties have not been determined Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report Stay informed with regular breaking news alerts Copyright 2023 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved – A man was charged with attempted murder after police said he hit another man in the head with a machete multiple times and leaving him with a large slash wound on his head following an argument at a southwest Miami-Dade shopping center the incident happened during the late evening hours of May 1 Police said Yearwood had gotten into a verbal argument with the victim that turned physical when Yearwood went to his car to retrieve a machete The report states that Yearwood struck the victim on the head multiple times with the machete then hid behind a car to avoid any arriving police officers came back out and started hitting the victim again Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews later took the victim to a nearby hospital with a “large head laceration,” the report states Miami-Dade police later arrested Yearwood at the agency’s Cutler Bay station where he claimed to have committed the slashing in self-defense He was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center – An investigation remains active into a triple shooting that took place in a southwest Miami-Dade County neighborhood on Friday Police are now investigating the incident as a murder-suicide A woman who died in the gunfire has been identified as Maria Cruz Another man was shot before police said the shooter turned the gun on himself This took place in the Palmetto Estates neighborhood in the area of Southwest 165th Terrace Authorities have yet to reveal the details of what led up to the shooting David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019 David has covered South Florida sports since 2007 – A woman from Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood is facing a series of felony charges after Miami-Dade police accused her of a bizarre series of crimes beginning with a stolen pressure washer and ending with a burning Mazda in a farm field 24 in the Palmetto Estates area of southwest Miami-Dade Aburto went to her ex-boyfriend’s house on Southwest 156th Street entered his yard without permission and began to drag a pressure washer belonging to a second victim to her blue Mazda CX-5 (Aburto’s ex-boyfriend) decided to call police for assistance,” the report states “While he and (the other victim) were outside checking for any damage to the vehicles on the driveway as similarly caused to another vehicle by (Aburto) in the past he observed a vehicle driving at a high rate of speed down the street abruptly turn onto his driveway.” her ex took out a gun and began firing at her vehicle multiple times in fear for his life purposely crashing into a gray Toyota Corolla used by the second victim That victim later told police that Aburto had vandalized her vehicle in a similar manner in the past an officer on agricultural patrol saw Aburto’s Mazda on fire in an open field near the intersection of Southwest 138th Terrace and 162nd Avenue abutting southwest Miami-Dade’s Country Walk area Aburto had reported the vehicle stolen hours after the Feb She told Miami police and her insurance company that her car had been stolen from her home on Southwest Eighth Avenue sometime between the evening of Feb saying she had last seen her vehicle the night of Feb showed Aburto driving the Mazda during the Feb 24 incident and cellphone data obtained by Miami-Dade police placed her in the same farm field where the car was found ablaze Aburto had been behind on her auto insurance payments but brought her policy up to date in the hours between the driveway incident and when she set the SUV on fire She was taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count each of felony criminal mischief filing false insurance claims and filing a false police report in the commission of a crime Terrell Forney Andrea Torres – A charter school community in Doral was grieving a slain 51-year-old teacher the victim of a recent murder-suicide in Miami-Dade’s Palmetto Estates neighborhood and Spanish at The Doral Academy Preparatory School “She made math like fun,” said Sebastian Rondon Diana Chacon was among the dozens of parents who attended a memorial on Sunday at the school Cruz was shot on Friday afternoon in a house near the intersection of Southwest 165 Terrace and 99 Avenue and she died at Jackson South Medical Center “Let us come together for her two daughters as they navigate this extremely difficult time,” a representative of the Doral Academy and Just Arts and Management wrote on a GoFundMe page Rodriguez reported detectives recovered a firearm after a man died of “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head” and another was injured Fire Rescue personnel took Cruz and the man injured to the Jackson South Medical Center’s Ryder Trauma Center Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 Samiar Nefzi joined the Local 10 News team in August of 2023 Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida – Gunshots and a flat tire did not deter a southwest Miami-Dade couple from chasing a man who robbed one of them outside of their home Thursday Officers arrested the suspect the following day in the drive-thru of a Church’s Texas Chicken listed in arrest reports as having addresses in Palmetto Bay and southwest Miami-Dade robbed the husband and wife just after 7 a.m Thursday as they were leaving their home in the 12600 block of Southwest 77th Street in the Kendale Lakes area had nearly crashed his vehicle into the couple and when the husband got out to check on any potential damage Odom approached him and demanded his Cuban link gold chain and Rolex at gunpoint Police said Odom also demanded the man relinquish his two gold and diamond rings Odom then took out a knife and punctured their rear tire But that was not going to stop the pair from trying to get their roughly $53,000 in jewelry back Police said the man got back in his car and started chasing Odom who stopped his car at Southwest 127th Drive and 76th Street and started shooting at the victims The man threw his car into reverse to avoid the gunshots but went right back to chasing Odom as he fled towards Florida’s Turnpike Odom tossed items out the window as the victims tailed him southbound on the Turnpike they said Odom exited and later stopped on Southwest 106th Avenue in the Palmetto Estates area pointed a gun at the victims and began chasing them Police said he eventually ran behind a home on Southwest 105th Court police said they spotted Odom on Southwest 216th Street in the Goulds area and undercover officers tailed him into the Church’s Texas Kitchen restaurant at 21595 S Police then stopped him and took him into custody Odom was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on charges including armed robbery attempted murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony – A man who was working for a Florida Power & Light subcontractor died of electrocution on Wednesday in south Miami-Dade County after live wires made contact with his work truck A witness said he called 911 after he saw the man fall shake and catch on fire in the Palmetto Estates neighborhood Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the intersection of Southwest 162 Terrace and 107 Avenue “The truck came into contact with this line and the truck did catch on fire,” said Detective Luis J Fire Rescue personnel rescued the worker near FPL bucket trucks and power lines and rushed to Jackson South Medical Center’s Ryder Trauma Center Firefighters extinguished the bucket truck fire released a statement confirming Sierra’s report by also saying the contractor “came into contact” with a power line The residents in the area reported power outages Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Frine Gomez and Managing Editor Alissa Merlo contributed to this report More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter Liane Morejon is an Emmy-winning reporter who joined the Local 10 News family in January 2010 Liane has a unique perspective on covering news in her own backyard – The Miami-Dade Police Department identified the man who was working for a Florida Power & Light subcontractor in the Palmetto Estates neighborhood when he died of electrocution as Jorge Hernandez Detectives investigated Hernandez’s death Wednesday as an “industrial accident.” He had just turned 32 years old on Dec Hernandez had the “dangerous job” of “servicing local power lines,” according to Sierra A witness said he called 911 after he saw him fall Firefighters had to extinguish the flames on the back of a bucket truck near the intersection of Southwest 107 Avenue and 162 Terrace Fire Rescue personnel took Hernandez to Jackson South Medical Center where staff pronounced him dead at least two people have been shot in Titusville at the Palmetto Ridge Estates Apartment complex Titusville Police and Brevard County Sheriff’s Office have responded to the scene There are also reports of a third victim who was reportedly shot in the neck nearby on Gibson St Titusville Crime News first reported the incident The suspected gunman is still at large after fleeing the scene according to reports Residents in the complex state that police are searching for the gunman with K-9’s and BCSO helicopter Photo Photo Re-offending Child molester convicted, sentenced to life in prison - The Space Coast Rocket Photo Photo Boca PD was called to a domestic dispute in East Boca. The resident wanted her boyfriend, Eric Burd, to leave. Burd refused to leave. Burd, 22, is a resident of Palmetto Pines in West Boca. Police described him as extremely intoxicated and belligerent. After refusing police orders to leave Burd was arrested for trespassing. He was taken to Boca Regional Hospital and while there he allegedly struck a female police officer with his knee, adding a felony battery charge to his troubles. It appears that felony charge has been dropped by prosecutors and his case is still pending. We see no priors for Mr. Burd. We aren’t sure, but think he went to Monarch High in Coconut Creek. A domestic disturbance in Southwind Lakes led to the arrest of Luisa Forero Chacon (age 37). During an argument about her not wearing her wedding ring her husband allegedly grabbed her and she bit his arm. He then called for deputies. We see no priors for her and the prosecutor has dropped the charges. Roger Oakes (60, Watergate Estates) was arrested for battery. He and his wife were both drunk (according to the deputy’s report) and were arguing. He allegedly pushed her to the ground during the argument. He claims he had a seizure and fell on her. Oakes has more than 10 prior cases in the Palm Beach County courts. PreviousRoaches & Rodents Close HOA ClubhouseNextContinue Crime Report: Ladies Night© 2025 West Boca News