Christopher Madrid | PantherNOW Staff Writer This Monday, an 18-year-old FIU honors student was charged with allegedly writing an electronic threat of terrorism. The student, Rolando Hernandez-Padron, claims: “It was a joke, it was supposed to be a joke, but it got taken to something literal.” Hernandez-Padron’s account, “JurrasicParkLover2006” was flagged by Instagram after posting […]
Benz De Marshall Pierre | Staff Writer The City of Miami Beach is putting an end to the criminal madness by enforcing stricter policies, which amount to a cancellation of spring break. Of all the things that have been canceled or banned in Florida over the past 3 years, this cancellation is long overdue. The […]
Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief An FIU student was shot on the afternoon of Nov. 3 in his Westchester home, dead when officers arrived at the scene. According to original reporting from the Miami Herald, the shooting occurred at 10703 SW 84th Ave., with only the victim and father home during the incident – around 2:00 […]
Alexander Luzula | Staff Writer A former FIU student was arrested on Aug 30 after exposing himself to a female student in the Chemistry and Physics Building. Michael Hwanampe, 25, was arrested and charged with felony false imprisonment, misdemeanor lewd and lascivious behavior, non-violently resisting an officer and possession of marijuana. Hwanampe followed the victim into an empty classroom, […]
Maya Washburn / News Director A former FIU student has been charged with a violent hate crime against a man over the victim’s sexual orientation. Oleh Makarenko, 21, computer science major at FIU as of summer 2021, was arrested on March 10 alongside his parents Inna Makarenko, 44, and Yevhen Makarenko, 43. Their offenses were […]
Elise Gregg / Staff Writer One year ago, four young Miami residents died in a car accident allegedly caused by an intoxicated driver. Today, a teenager accused of killing them while intoxicated remains in jail, and a memorial to them remains, despite being vandalized. On New Year’s Day 2021, 21-year-old Yuhlia Medina and her 22-year-old […]
Elise Gregg / Staff Writer A former university student was arrested twice in two days, on Dec 2 and at FIU on the third. Captain Delrish Moss told PantherNOW Gal Eric Presser – an FIU alumni, who graduated in 2016 from the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs- was arrested today by […]
Elise Gregg / Staff Writer An assault with a knife at Bayview Hall on Oct. 9 led to a student arrest, according to reports from the FIU Police Department. At about 5:45 p.m., officers arrived at the housing building on FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus. The incident began when two roommates got into a verbal altercation, […]
Jesse Fraga / News Director FIU Police arrested a Miami FC soccer player on Tuesday, Sept. 28 for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at the Modesto Maidique Campus (MMC), according to an FIUPD crime report. A custodian rescued her, police say. Jahshaun Anglin, 20, was charged with a felony on the account of sexual battery […]
Elise Gregg / Staff Writer Students can do a lot more with in-person learning — like getting personal belongings stolen. After a year of remote learning, FIU police expect a rise in theft as students return to campus this fall. Laptops, phones and bags are often stolen when left unattended. “[Students] share a goal: they’re […]
Martina Brady / Staff Writer Criminologists from FIU and Loyola University of Chicago (LUC) teamed up to launch Florida’s first prosecutorial data dashboards for two Florida counties. This data, which has never before been publicly available in the state of Florida, allows communities to evaluate the performance of their law enforcement departments using Prosecutorial Performance […]
Last updated Monday 11 a.m. Guido Gonzalez and Gerard Albert III/PantherNOW Staff Police say they have recovered the car used by suspects in the robbery of an FIU student last week. The dark colored Honda was found by police abandoned in the parking lot of Aventura mall. An FIU student was robbed near Parking Garage […]
