A Miami-Dade man was arrested over the weekend after deputies say he tried to use fake employment and income records to buy luxury vehicles from local dealerships, part of what investigators are calling a “credit bust out” scam targeting the auto finance industry.

A 24-year-old Cuban man remains at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an immigration hold after he followed a woman who was leaving Miami International Airport on Wednesday, authorities said.

A police chase involving a robbery suspect ended in a crash Thursday evening in Brownsville, leading to the arrest of a 19-year-old driver and the recovery of a stolen gun, Miami police confirmed in an arrest report Friday.

Shoppers looking to buy a luxury SUV can choose among many models from various brands.

Police officers surrounded a black Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicle on Thursday outside the Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital in Allapattah.

Local 10 News has obtained dashcam footage that captured a high-speed chase over the weekend on Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade County.

Miami Beach police arrested a man on a DUI manslaughter charge Monday after they said he drove at nearly three times the legal limit when he crashed his Mercedes-Benz SUV into a palm tree in mid-July, killing his passenger.

Police arrested a man Monday on vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter charges after they said he plowed through a red light and into a pickup truck while he was driving in northwest Miami-Dade in April, killing a woman in the passenger’s seat.

Police officers searched for a black four-door Mercedes-Benz after a shooting on Saturday morning in Miramar.

As of Saturday afternoon, Crime Stoppers had used social media to identify 39 homicide victims so far this year in Miami-Dade County.

Miami-Dade police are investigating a late night shooting that left two men dead.

Police responded to reports of an apparent shooting on Tuesday night in Miami-Dade County.

The United Auto Workers on Friday accused Mercedes of interfering in last week's union election at two Alabama factories.

A decisive vote against the United Auto Workers at two Mercedes factories in Alabama sidetracked the union's grand plan to sign up workers at nonunion plants mainly in the South.

The United Auto Workers is aiming for a key victory at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama.

The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck on Friday evening, averting a potential strike of more than 7,000 workers.

The United Auto Workers union is celebrating a huge win at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, where workers will now be represented by the union.

Jail records show the rap artist known as GloRilla has been charged with drunken driving in Georgia.

Most electronic systems that take on some driving tasks for humans don’t adequately make sure drivers are paying attention, and they don’t issue strong enough warnings to make drivers behave.

CES 2024 starts today in Las Vegas.

CES 2024 has kicked off in Las Vegas.

A combination of heavy rain, snow, and wind is bringing threats of flooding and power outages to the Northeast.

The Southeastern Conference championship game will remain at Mercedes-Benz Stadium through at least 2031.

Detectives arrested a 21-year-old student, who aspires to be an emergency medical technician, at the American Medical Academy School of Nursing on Tuesday in Miami-Dade County, according to police.

Three men were arrested Friday morning in connection with a boat burglary in Pompano Beach, authorities confirmed.

Detectives were investigating a fatal shooting on Wednesday in Coral Springs.

BMW and Mercedes-Benz are well known for their 7 Series and S-Class flagship sedans.

A “loud metal grinding noise” at 2:46 a.m. caught the attention of Doral police officers on patrol outside a motel Sunday, leading them to catch a suspected thief in the act, according to an arrest report.

A 62-year-old Coral Gables woman was telling a police officer all about how she backed her black Mercedes-Benz into a pickup truck in Hialeah Gardens. But police say an alert witness helped them uncover her insurance scam.

Dramatic video taken in Golden Beach Thursday shows officers racing against the clock to save an unresponsive woman inside a locked Mercedes-Benz, smashing the luxury SUV’s windows in order to free her.

Detectives in Broward’s city of Hollywood and Palm Beach’s city of Boynton Beach continued their investigation Wednesday on the recent deaths of two pesticide company employees.

Three people were taken into custody Tuesday after Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a ShotSpotter call, authorities confirmed.

Flood waters inundated some streets in Aventura as heavy rainfall moved in Wednesday.

A Mercedes-Benz was shot up early Monday morning on Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade County, injuring the driver, authorities confirmed.

A 22-year-old man with tattoos on his face was facing charges Friday after a shooting injured a man at a gas station on Thursday in Palm Beach County, according to deputies.

A white Mercedes-Benz was shot up late Wednesday night on Interstate 95 in Broward County, authorities confirmed.

A white Mercedes-Benz that was splattered with blood was towed away Thursday morning following a shooting on State Road 84 in Dania Beach.

New cell phone video is showing the moments police arrested a man accused of stealing a luxury car in Sunny Isles Beach, crashing it and then returning to the scene of the crime to retrieve another stolen car.

Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be the neutral site if Buffalo and Kansas City meet in the AFC championship game.

Mercedes-Benz will build its own worldwide electric vehicle charging network starting in North America in a bid to compete with EV sales leader Tesla.

Ludacris and Mercedes-Benz have surprised schoolchildren in Atlanta with more than 500 new pairs of shoes just in time for the holidays.

The driver of a white Mercedes-Benz was hospitalized Wednesday morning after their car collided with a school bus in the City of Miami, first responders confirmed.

Sunrise police are seeking the driver of a dark gray Mercedes they accuse of hitting an elderly pedestrian and leaving the scene Thursday.

A group of 13 teenage boys is facing charges for breaking into a home while the residents were sleeping. Some of them were later involved in a fatal crash while trying to get away from police in a stolen car.

The driver suspected of causing a fiery crash that killed five people, including a pregnant woman, near Los Angeles has been charged with murder.

The Florida Highway Patrol released dashcam video Friday that shows how they were able to stop a stolen car Thursday that was initially being followed by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies.

Police officers surrounded a white Mercedes-Benz on Thursday on Le Jeune Road in Miami-Dade County.

A woman driving on Interstate 95 in northwest Miami-Dade was injured early Tuesday morning during a shootout between people inside a Mercedes-Benz sedan and a dark green Lamborghini SUV, authorities confirmed.

Mercedes-Benz has opened a new electric vehicle battery factory near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that will create up to 600 new jobs.

Police say they have tied a car used in the killing of rapper Young Dolph to a shooting that left a woman dead and wounded another person days before the ambush on the hip-hop artist.

Authorities are searching for the driver of a black Mercedes-Benz who they said shot at the driver of a Nissan Altima Thursday morning on the Sawgrass Expressway.

A man ran out of the Now Tech Academy in Pembroke Pines and jumped into his leased red sports utility vehicle while a tow truck was lifting it.

Daimler's truck and luxury car businesses are going their separate ways.

Levon Lopez appeared in Broward County court on Wednesday to face a murder charge even though he didn’t shoot and kill Brittni Muldrew. Coconut Creek police officers did.

Germany's BMW is reporting 4.8 billion euros in profit for the second quarter.

Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz is stepping up its move into electric cars.

Police put up crime scene tape Monday morning around a strip club in Hialeah.

Miami-Dade police are investigating a shooting that left one man injured Tuesday afternoon.

Miami-Dade police are searching for the driver who fatally struck a bicyclist with their car Friday morning.

Un hombre de 45 años se entregó a las autoridades el lunes en relación con un accidente en el noroeste de Miami-Dade que mató a Derek E. Chirinos Betancourt, de 18 años, confirmó un abogado de la familia de la víctima.

Derek Mann said one moment he saw a man looking at products in the Miami Gun Show and the next he was dying on Saturday in Miami-Dade County’s University Park neighborhood.

The driver of a Mercedes-Benz nearly hit a Miami-Dade Police Department motorman on Wednesday on the Rickenbacker Causeway in Miami and sped away to a parking building in Dania Beach.

Mercedes-Benz has a new luxury car and it's electric powered.

LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. – One person has been hospitalized following a shooting Friday near a Shell gas station in Lauderdale Lakes. Sky 10 was above the scene in the 3100 block of North State Road 7 shortly before noon as a white Mercedes-Benz with blood on it was blocked off with police tape. Broward Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Gerdy St. Louis confirmed that deputies responded to a report of a shooting in the area shortly before 11 a.m.She said one person was transported to a hospital. No other details were immediately released.

The bottom line improved on 2.7 billion euros from 2019, even as top-line revenue fell 11% to 154.3 billion euros. AdDaimler AG faced production shutdowns early in the year along with other automakers but benefitted from recovering demand for luxury cars after the first wave of the virus outbreak. The Mercedes-Benz luxury car division saw sales down only 1% in the last three months of the year. Luxury car sales were boosted by the rebound in China, the division's largest market, where sales rose 12% compared with 2019. Net profit in the fourth quarter rebounded to 3.58 billion euros from a loss of 11 million euros in the same quarter of 2019.

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. – A child was hit by a car that police said ran a red light in Sunny Isles Beach. According to police, the 11-year-old was in the crosswalk when struck by a red Mercedes-Benz. It happened early Wednesday evening in the eastbound lanes of Sunny Isles Boulevard near A1A. Police on the scene after an 11-year-old boy was struck by a car that ran a red light. “You are not expecting the light to be red, so a lot of people often run the red light,” said Tchogorian.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A South Florida man will not face charges for fatally shooting a car thief who took off with his boss’ Mercedes-Benz G-class SUV in Miami Beach, prosecutors announced in a closeout memo obtained Tuesday by Local 10 News. According to the closeout memo, Stephen Allen Lott, now 50, shot the suspect, Jose Antonio Reyes Bermudez, 58, on Dec. 18, 2018, outside the South Beach Finest Hand Car Wash at 1229 18th St. Prosecutors said Lott ran outside of the car wash waiting area and shouted at the suspect to try to stop him. As he stepped into the path of the Mercedes, which was traveling at a high rate of speed, he fired two shots at the driver-side door, shooting Reyes Bermudez once in the head, the closeout memo stated. It actually struck one of the FPL power poles,” Miami Beach police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said the day of the shooting.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A driver fled on foot after crashing into two vehicles Friday afternoon on Interstate 95, authorities said. The crash was reported in the southbound lanes of the highway just south of Pembroke Road in Hallandale Beach. Florida Highway Patrol officials said the driver of a black Mercedes-Benz rear-ended a Jeep and a Hyundai. Another vehicle sustained damaged when it was struck by a piece of debris. Authorities said the Jeep rolled over and the driver of the Mercedes got out of his car and took off.

German automaker Daimler said it will split itself into two independent companies by spinning off its truck and bus division. The division had revenue last year of 40.2 billion euros ($48.1 billion) for trucks and 4.7 billion for buses. One reason for the spinoff is that the auto business and the truck business are pursuing different technologies as they seek to reduce vehicle emissions. The luxury car business is bringing out new battery-powered models, while the truck business is investing in hydrogen fuel cell technology. The market listing is subject to a decision by an extraordinary shareholder meeting of Daimler shareholders to take place in the third quarter of 2021.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Authorities are investigating a shooting that occurred early Monday morning in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Hallandale Beach. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 31-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman who is pregnant were traveling in a silver Mercedes-Benz just north of Hallandale Beach Boulevard when they were shot at just after 1 a.m. Troopers said the couple was traveling in the left lane when a silver Chevrolet SUV approached the vehicle from the right side and shot multiple times into their car. Troopers said the woman was shot once in the right thigh. Troopers said the driver of the Chevy SUV continued traveling north on I-95 without stopping.

The new electric sedan from Mercedes will replace the conventional dashboard with a screen that extends almost the width of the car. (Mercedes-Benz via AP)FRANKFURT – Daimler's Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a key interior component of its upcoming electric luxury sedan: a large, curved screen that sweeps across almost the entire width of the car in the place of a conventional dashboard. The screen also lets the front seat passenger watch television in some markets, while preventing the driver from watching the passenger's screen to avoid distraction. Kallenius said that in developing the screen, the company focused on eliminating information and activities that could preoccupy drivers. It's the first Mercedes car built on its all-electric framework rather than sharing components with an internal combustion model.

SOUTH MIAMI HEIGHTS, Fla. – Investigators were working on Monday to figure out why a driver was going the wrong way while causing a Sunday afternoon five-vehicle crash that left a 58-year-old man dead in Miami-Dade County’s South Miami Heights area. According to Lt. Alex Camacho, a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver of a white Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicle was heading eastbound in the westbound lanes of Quail Roost Drive. Camacho said the five-vehicle crash was east of Southwest 113th Avenue, and west of the Homestead Extension of Florida’s Turnpike, also known as State Road 82.1Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel found the man dead and six injured who needed to be treated at nearby hospitals.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – South Florida rapper Zoey Dollaz was shot early Thursday while driving on the Julia Tuttle Causeway, authorities confirmed. The rapper was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital to be treated for his injuries and is now at home recovering. Camacho said the rapper immediately made a U-turn back toward Miami Beach and flagged down an officer on 41st Street. Millord told authorities he was coming from a private party in Miami Beach at the time and had not had any altercations with anyone prior to the shooting. Flores said he and Millord were together at a star-studded party on Miami Beach only minutes before the rapper was shot.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Police followed a stolen car, which turned into a chase that ended in Broward County and created an active scene on Sheridan Street in Hollywood around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday. Sky 10 was over the scene as the driver exited off of Interstate 95, then stopped the car. Someone bailed out of a black Mercedes-Benz sedan and took off running in a residential area. According to reports on the ground, a K-9 unit sniffed out the suspect hiding in a shed. Local 10 is gathering information as to what led to this chase and arrests.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the person or people responsible for a fatal double shooting in northwest Miami-Dade. According to authorities, the shootings occurred shortly before 11:30 p.m. Thursday in the area of Northwest 194th Street and 82nd Avenue. Police said someone reported the shooting of one of the men and officers found him suffering from a gunshot wound. One witness, Giovanni Pirri, said he saw the crashed Mercedes outside his Marbella Park neighborhood when was driving home. Anyone with further information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz vehicles, is reporting third-quarter earnings on Friday Oct. 22, 2020. Quarterly net profit rose to 2.16 billion euros ($2.54 billion), up 19% from 1.81 billion euros in the same quarter a year ago — and improving on a net loss of 1.9 billion euros from the second quarter during the worst of the lockdown. Operating profits, which exclude one-time expenses and financial items such as interest and taxes, rose to 2.42 billion euros from 1.87 billion euros in the same quarter the year before. The company saw strong cash flow and has 13.1 billion euros in net liquidity, resources it can use to develop new technologies such as electric cars and digital services. Daimler AG said that its outlook assumed no new widespread lockdowns.

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – A witness told Local 10 that two men were saying “We’ve been shot. We’ve been shot" as they ran into a North Miami urgent care center. The shooting incident reportedly started on Bay Terrace in Bay Harbor Island with two victims ending up in North Miami, about 2 miles from that location. Bay Harbor Islands spokesperson Brian Andrews told Local 10 that the injured were not residents of Bay Harbor Island. The witness said that “they were wounded real bad.”Crime scene technicians from North Miami police examined the car, placing one evidence marker inside the vehicle’s trunk.

TAMARAC, Fla. – A man was killed Monday afternoon in a shooting just outside a gas station in Tamarac, authorities confirmed. One person in handcuffs could be seen sitting on the ground. Man sitting on ground in handcuffs following shooting outside gas station. (WPLG)Broward Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Miranda Grossman said deputies were called to the Speedway gas station around 12:45 p.m.“I was in my truck over there and I hear these shots, like 6 or 7 rounds -- ‘pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.’ I thought it was fireworks,” witness Jeff Charette said. You never know where the shots are going to end up.”When the shooting ended, the man inside the grey Mercedes was dead and bullet holes could be seen in at least one other car outside the gas station.

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Mercedes-Benz stolen in Miami-Dade County with the spotting of a car in Broward County and then a chase through two cities is captured on infrared video. It’s a bird’s eye view of an opportunity to see how Broward County Sheriff’s high over the scene assist deputies on the ground. The suspect vehicle was located after BSO learned the car was taken during a carjacking in Miami-Dade late Monday. Then a BSO car on the ground with flashing lights and blaring sirens is seen following the Mercedes-Benz as it pulls into the driveway of a home. Jamison is being held in the North Broward Bureau Jail and faces charges of grand theft auto and resisting an officer without violence.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Witnesses told detectives the tragedy started when an argument turned into a fistfight. Steve Jean Baptiste pulled out a firearm, shot a 28-year-old man several times, and fled in a white 2006 Mercedes-Benz, the Broward Sheriff’s Office reported on Friday afternoon. Baptiste, 30, is likely to be armed and dangerous, according to Gerdy St. Louis, a spokeswoman for BSO. He was last seen Sept. 13 in Pompano Beach driving away in the four-door Mercedes-Benz AMG model. Deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue personnel first found Hunter wounded near the Chevron gas station at 390 W. Sample Road.

DAVIE, Fla. – An argument over a parking space in a Walmart lot turned violent quickly on Tuesday afternoon, according to Davie Police. It all happened at the Walmart on University Drive and Griffin Road over a parking-space disagreement. Police said one woman had been waiting for a parking spot but when the space opened up, a silver Mercedes sped into the spot before she could pull in. At that time, when she got out of her car, she was attacked by three people from the Mercedes-Benz, according to police. Video shows the woman on the ground being attacked by the group while other shoppers try to help stop the assault.

WASHINGTON – Automaker Daimler AG and subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA have agreed to pay $1.5 billion to the U.S. government and California state regulators to resolve emissions cheating allegations, officials said Monday. The settlement, which includes civil penalties, will also require Daimler to fix the vehicles, officials said. Daimler AG said the settlement would bring costs of about $1.5 billion, while the civil settlement will bring a one-off charge of about $700 million. Fiat Chrysler also is being investigated for allegedly cheating on emissions. In April 2016, the Justice Department asked Daimler to conduct an internal probe into its exhaust emissions certification process.

Amazon says its buying 1,800 electric delivery vans from Mercedes-Benz, the biggest such order for the German automaker to date. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)BERLIN Amazon says it's buying 1,800 electric delivery vans from Mercedes-Benz, the biggest such order for the German automaker to date. In announcing the order Friday, Mercedes said it would also join a climate initiative established by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The transport sector, including the surge in deliveries from online retailers like Amazon, is a major source of carbon emissions. While the e-van order with Mercedes is Amazon's biggest in Europe, it is dwarfed by a contract it signed last year with U.S. start-up Rivian to deliver 100,000 electric delivery vans by 2030.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. Two men were arrested early Wednesday after an Uber vehicle was shot at in Hollywood, authorities confirmed. According to a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, the Uber driver picked up a man and a woman from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino shortly before the car was shot up in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 near Sheridan Street. Local 10 News had a crew at the scene as a black Honda could be seen with bullet holes in it. Hollywood police confirmed that the suspects were in a Mercedes-Benz, which they parked in front of a home off Polk Street and North 13th Avenue before running off. A motive for the shooting remains unclear.

MIAMI Two people were injured Wednesday morning when a white Mercedes-Benz drove off the second floor parking area of a building in the city of Miami, authorities said. The incident occurred in the area of Southwest 58th Avenue and Eighth Street. Authorities said the driver and passenger were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, but they did not sustain serious injuries. A Miami Fire Rescue technical rescue team assessed the building and determined that they did not need to stabilize any part of the area where the crash occurred. The cause of the incident is under investigation.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A West Palm Beach man has been arrested after another man's Sunday morning drive in a convertible Mercedes-Benz ended in a fatal crash with a forklift in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Ulises Mondragon Umanzor, 30, was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of a fatal crash, driving without a license and failure to stop at a stop sign. Police said the driver of the convertible was struck by the forks as they protruded out onto Seabreeze Boulevard. Witnesses said the operator of the forklift, identified by police as Mondragon Umanzor, drove away after the crash and headed toward the construction site where he was working. A police probable cause affidavit shows that Mondragon Umanzor had a suspended driver's license and didn't have a license to operate heavy machinery.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - A 46-year-old man injured in a multi-vehicle accident last week in North Miami Beach has died. Daniel Jeruslami was one of nine people injured in Thursday afternoon's accident at the intersection of Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 163rd Street. Surveillance video shows the white Jaguar SUV driven by Jeruslami trying to make a left turn into the shopping plaza when he's hit by a Mercedes-Benz being driven at a high rate of speed. Two others were hospitalized in stable condition after the accident. No citations have yet to be issued in the accident.

Amos Shuler told an officer he "was resting" when he was caught sitting in the front seat of a Mercedes-Benz parked in the driveway of an El Portal home, police say. According to an arrest affidavit, an El Portal police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when he noticed someone sitting in the driver's seat of the Mercedes-Benz. When the officer confronted the man, later identified by police as Shuler, he told the officer he "was resting." Shuler also told the officer that he didn't live at the home but was waiting for his mother, the affidavit said. El Portal police are warning residents of recent burglaries to unlocked vehicles.

(CNN) - Mercedes-Benz is using location censors to track and repossess vehicles in the United Kingdom when drivers fall behind on payments, raising privacy concerns and leading one prominent politician to call for a government investigation. Location sensors are fitted to most new vehicles in Europe, and used in the event of a crash. But the German luxury brand has at times activated trackers to help it find and repossess cars. The use of tracking, which was first reported by UK newspaper The Sun, set off a debate about privacy. "While what Mercedes are doing is technically legal, it belies a deeper problem that motorists are under ever-increasing levels of surveillance," Christopher Weatherhead, technology lead for Privacy International, said.

Andreas Rentz/Getty ImagesSTUTTGART, Germany - Daimler and China's BAIC are the latest carmakers to take their relationship to the next level. The German owner of Mercedes-Benz confirmed Tuesday that its Chinese partner, BAIC, has acquired 5% of its shares. Daimler already owns 9.6% of the listed subsidiary BAIC Motor. Li Shufu, chairman of another Chinese carmaker Geely, owns 9.7% of Daimler. The BAIC investment reflects two industry priorities: Global carmakers are teaming up with Chinese rivals to improve their standing in the huge market, and they're partnering to share the cost of developing new technologies.