PINECREST

The holidays are normally a big time for small businesses, but a clothing shop in Pinecrest is now hoping the public can help identify two women who stole hundreds of dollars' worth of merchandise over the weekend.

This holiday season turned into a time of grief for the family and friends of Eric Contreras in Miami-Dade County.

A new government report shows fewer high school students are vaping.

It's the end of the road for the landmark restaurant Wagons West in Pinecrest.

Inside Ms. Mary Martinez's third grade class at Pinecrest Elementary, students are using the Miami Dolphins to help them learn.

Police arrested a man Thursday who they said shot a person in southwest Miami-Dade, authorities said.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, Miami city commission candidate Marvin Tapia and Miguel Gabela, Pinecrest Vice Mayor Anna Hochkammer and Doral Mayor Christi Fraga.

Police arrested two Broward men in Palmetto Bay Tuesday after suspecting them of targeting two Chase Bank customers in two separate robberies in less than two hours Monday.

A Miami man faced more than two dozen felony charges after Pinecrest police pulled him over and found a “high volume” of mail and packages in the backseat of his Cadillac SUV Friday.

A man dubbed the “Fine Wine Bandit,” with a penchant for walking into a local grocery chain and stuffing pricey vino and bubbly down his pants, was finally nabbed Monday, according to Pinecrest police.

his prolific thief with a taste for the fine things in life has no shame. He has stolen thousands of dollars in fine wine and champagne for months from Milam’s Market locations.

There is a peacock issue in Miami-Dade County.

Authorities are investigating after a school bus was sent careening into a utility pole in Pinecrest Thursday morning.

A suspected mail thief was caught on camera targeting a neighborhood in Pinecrest this week.

A custom home built by MLB great David “Big Papi” Ortiz in Pinecrest has a home theatre and sports bar room.

Joshua Reed had a Broward County pre-trial release GPS electronic monitoring ankle-worn bracelet when he was a part of a crew’s crime spree, police said.

Pinecrest homeowners are looking for better security measures after crime rings were caught on camera several times stealing in the area.

One homeowner has seen crooks scaling his wall trying to steal cars and it's a pervasive problem.

William Alger said his security system recently had a group of crooks looking like fools in Pinecrest. Alger said watching the surveillance video made him laugh.

Democratic candidate for governor Charlie Crist made a stop in South Florida Monday as the race to occupy the top spot in Tallahassee entered its final weeks.

A man was in critical condition late Tuesday afternoon, after Pinecrest police say he barricaded himself in a home in the village after shooting another man at a nearby apartment complex.

Rev. Matthew Gomez has been praying for the teenage girl who died after a recent boat crash in the Florida Keys. He spoke to students and teachers during a service on Friday afternoon in Miami-Dade County.

A man is accused of exposing himself to an Uber driver, then threatening to rape and kill her as she drove him from Cutler Bay to his home in South Miami early Monday morning.

Approximately one out of every 15,000 children born in the U.S. are diagnosed with Prader Willi Syndrome, a condition that is recognized as the most common cause of life-threatening childhood obesity.

South Miami-Dade's iconic breakfast restaurant Wagons West is up for sale, but thankfully, it will not be closing its doors.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, mental health experts are reporting an uptick in patient anxiety.

On the day of her swearing-in at the Supreme Court, a friend of newly-minted Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounted how her passion for justice and the law began right here in South Florida.

Rabbi Yossi Harlig’s work continues a year after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside.

According to police, 19-year-old Ethan Duey was taken into custody on Wednesday for having a gun on the property of Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest.

Janese Fayson said Ketanji Brown Jackson is an inspiration. The Miami Palmetto Senior High School senior is months away from graduating from Jackson’s alma mater in Pinecrest.

A 34-year-old woman was arrested after police said she assaulted a Miami-Dade public school teacher during a parent-teacher conference.

Reckless dirt bike riders swarmed the streets in Pompano Beach over the weekend ahead of President’s Day.

Video captured at least 300 riders swarmed the streets in the area of Northwest 173rd Street and 57th Avenue.

The possibility that a Miami native could be the first Black woman on the United States Supreme Court is already having an impact.

Before she was a frontrunner to make history as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown-Jackson was dreaming of her future while a student at Miami Palmetto Senior High School.

A man wearing a corrections department jacket and what looked like an official identification was arrested Thursday for impersonating an officer after entering Palmetto Senior High School.

Pinecrest police are searching for two people who smashed in 26 large impact glass sliding doors earlier this week at a construction site.

A structure went up in flames overnight in Pinecrest.

Award-winning chef Cindy Hutson is asking the public for help with finding her pink flamingo sculpture.

A British artist will be exhibiting a large-scale light installation at the Pinecrest Gardens’ Swan Lake starting on Saturday evening.

Two popular Miami gardens will be exhibiting light shows this year. In December, Pinecrest Gardens will be unveiling “Bruce Munro: Forest and Field of Light,” a large-scale, light installation. In November, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will be unveiling “NightGarden: A Magical Light Spectacular,” its walk-through light exhibition.

The McDonald’s is located on South Dixie Highway near 124th Street in Pinecrest.

The driver involved in the single-vehicle accident was a man in his 30s, according to Pinecrest police.

In order to get their message across, officials with the Florida Department of Transportation staged a mock bicycle crash, complete with an ambulance and even a possible victim.

Seven years to the day that Art Sotloff’s son Steven was beheaded by ISIS militants in Syria, he came face to face with Alexanda Amon Kotey, who admitted to torturing his son.

A British man involved in the beheading of Steven Sotloff, an American-Israeli journalist who was born in Miami-Dade County, pleaded guilty to all eight counts against him during a U.S. District Court hearing in Alexandria, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday night.

According to police, a man pointed a gun at two different drivers after blocking them with his car, believed to be a silver or white sedan.

Daria Feinstein said she is worried about the “magnificent” macaws in her southeast Miami-Dade County neighborhood. She said it’s nesting season and poachers are out like crazy.

These screengrabs from a video provided to Local 10 News by Robert Diaz show police officers searching for a suspect on Thursday in Pinecrest. PINECREST, Fla. – Detectives are searching for a suspect related to an ongoing investigation on Thursday in Miami-Dade County. According to Detective Lee Cowart, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, detectives were following the suspect on the Palmetto Expressway. “The subject vehicle rammed the MDPD vehicle,” Cowart wrote in a statement. “The MDPD officers attempted to continue to follow the subject vehicle.

MIAMI, Fla. – A South Florida medical student is under arrest after investigators charge that he made disturbing threats against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in postings on Twitter. According to the arrest report, Steven Marbury Dilauro, 31, of Pinecrest, posted several comments on his personal Twitter account, including one that stated: “Whoever wants to investigate this and come after me, feel free, but if I ever see Mitch McConnell and am not promptly shot dead, I will bounce his skull on the sidewalk..." Dilauro also stated several other threatening situations in which he would harm McConnell. The written threats were posted on Monday, Oct. 26, according to police. On Thursday, Nov. 5, Miami-Dade Police made contact with Dilauro and he admitted that he posted the comments “out of anger.”He has been charged with making written threats “to kill or do bodily injury.”Dilauro, whose occupation was listed as medical student on the arrest form, is behind bars at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

MIAMI, Fla. – A South Florida medical student is under arrest after investigators charge that he made disturbing threats against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in postings on Twitter. According to the arrest report, Steven Marbury Dilauro, 31, of Pinecrest, posted several comments on his personal Twitter account, including one that stated: “Whoever wants to investigate this and come after me, feel free, but if I ever see Mitch McConnell and am not promptly shot dead, I will bounce his skull on the sidewalk..." Dilauro also stated several other threatening situations in which he would harm McConnell. The written threats were posted on Monday, Oct. 26, according to police. On Thursday, Nov. 5, Miami-Dade Police made contact with Dilauro and he admitted that he posted the comments “out of anger.”He has been charged with making written threats “to kill or do bodily injury.”Dilauro, whose occupation was listed as medical student on the arrest form, was taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He has since posted bond, according to corrections department information.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – As the saying goes, all politics are is local, and it doesn’t get more local than your county commissioner. Due to new term limits, half of the 13-member Miami-Dade County commission will turn over for the first time in recent history. One of the more contentions races is for District 7, which represents Key Biscayne, Miami, South Miami, Pinecrest and Kendall. Raquel Regalado is an attorney, radio broadcaster and former member of the Miami-Dade County School Board. They joined This Week in South Florida hosts Glenna Milberg and Michael Putney, and the discussion can be viewed at the top of this page.

Sotloff later appeared in the video the jihadists released in August 2014 of Illinois war correspondent James Foley’s beheading. We have been inspired by their memories and moved by the determination and grit of their families, families which will never rest until justice is done,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said. From 2012 to 2015, Kotey, Elsheikh, Davis and Emwazi were involved in ransom negotiations during the kidnapping, torture and killing of hostages. The 2nd one begins when you realize you have only one.”THE CHARGESPeter Kassig was a U.S. aid worker killed by Islamic militants in Syria. If convicted, Kotey and Elsheikh face a maximum penalty of life in prison.

PINECREST, Fla. – Friends, family members and Westminster Christian School students and faculty are mourning a 17-year-old who died in a boat crash on Sunday afternoon off the Florida Keys. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is holding a red and white boat that was involved in a fatal boat crash off the Florida Keys on Sunday. The school’s website listed a varsity lacrosse team player with the same name as the boat operator. The captain of his lacrosse team, Alvarez wore the #6 jersey and played defense. According to the school’s announcement, students are set to return to school on Wednesday, administrators are organizing a special assembly for high school students and faculty, and therapists will be available for small group counseling sessions.

MIAMI – Detectives and prosecutors agreed with church administrators’ suspicions that two men were stealing from St. Louis Catholic Church and St. Louis Covenant School in Pinecrest, according to the Archdiocese of Miami. As a campaign manager and development director, the church entrusted Nelson C. Tarke with handling church funds. The Archdiocese of Miami released a statement Friday saying the church administrators reported Tarke’s alleged unauthorized spending to the Miami-Dade Police Department last year. The church reported having dismissed Tarke in May 2019 and Lambo in August 2019. Tarke was also active with CAMACOL, the Latin Chamber of Commerce and Industry of USA, and Lambo with the World Financial Group Miami-Dade and the REMii Group Inc.

Yes, homes have personalities. On this episode, Design Expert, Martin Amado, shows you a luxury home in Pinecrest with plenty of personalityCopyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

Yes, homes have personalities. On this episode, Design Expert, Martin Amado, shows you a luxury home in Pinecrest with plenty of personalityCopyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

Yes, homes have personalities. On this episode, Design Expert, Martin Amado, shows you a luxury home in Pinecrest with plenty of personality

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - Two brothers were arrested after bringing a loaded gun, brass knuckles and knives to a Pinecrest high school, police said. Upon initial questioning, Mizelle did not have any items in his possession inside the school, but did comply with the officer's request to search his vehicle in the school parking lot. As Mizelle was being put into custody, he told the arresting officer that he had told his brother to stop bringing the gun to school several times. Further investigation revealed that the gun had been brought to the school for the last two weeks. Both brothers are facing identical chargers because they came to school in the same vehicle and had equal access to the weapons inside.

Yes, homes have personalities. On this episode, Design Expert, Martin Amado, shows you a luxury home in Pinecrest with plenty of personalityCopyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

Yes, homes have personalities. On this episode, Design Expert, Martin Amado, shows you a luxury home in Pinecrest with plenty of personalityCopyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

MIAMI-DADE, Fla. – Miami Palmetto Sr. High School, 7460 SW 118 St., in Miami-Dade's Pinecrest neighborhood had about 3,095 students enrolled. The school was among the top 10 reporting the most drug use in Miami-Dade County public schools. Last year the school reported an increase on tobacco. Records show the majority of students in the school do not struggle with poverty or academics. The school is in a low crime area and it has been an "A"or "B" school for years.

During his career as a foreign correspondent, Steven Sotloff published stories about Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, Turkey and Libya.