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YouTube prankster challenges cops to a duel — immediately regrets it
Infamous YouTube prankster Jack Doherty faces serious jail time after a run-in with police in Miami Beach last weekend.
The charges — which include possession of a controlled substance, possession of 20 grams or less of marijuana, and resisting an officer without violence — could get the baby-faced boor up to seven years in prison.
'After we duel, sir.'
After going viral with his "flipping" videos as a teen, Doherty has amassed a huge following — and a reputation for obnoxious public behavior — over the last decade.
Doherty was filming content for his over 15 million YouTube subscribers while parked in the middle of the street in Miami when local police asked him to move. That's when the trouble began.
In a video uploaded to TikTok, Doherty is heard responding to the request by telling police, "I challenge y'all to a duel," as he plays a gambling app on his phone. Repeated requests by the police were met with the same response. "After we duel, sir."
Fed-up cops placed Doherty under arrest, before conducting a search that led to a string of charges.
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YouTuber Jack Doherty Arrested While Filming Content On Miami Street
"Chill, chill, chill," Doherty said as an officer placed his hands in cuffs.
In bodycam footage from Miami Beach Police, an officer searched Doherty's pockets and found a pill before placing him in the back seat of a patrol car.
While it isn't clear what the pill was, "Inside Edition" reported that Doherty was later charged with possession of cannabis, a misdemeanor, as well as possession of a controlled substance, a felony. Another misdemeanor, resisting an officer without violence, was also charged.
The Populist Times reported, however, that Doherty was charged with possession of amphetamines and cited another video where police were visibly upset with the young male.
"You think you’re funny?" a uniformed officer asked Doherty. "If you're gonna be funny, get out of the f**king street. I don’t know who the f**k you think you are, bro," the officer added.
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Doherty was reportedly booked into a Miami-Dade County facility just before 9 a.m., alleging that he was released after about 10 hours.
Doherty said in a subsequent video that he "waited in a cell for five hours" before getting fingerprints and mug shots. "Then I chilled in there for another five-plus hours, maybe more," he explained.
He was later released on $500 bond, according to "Inside Edition," with an arraignment set for January.
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3 intruders — 1 armed — reportedly run into home. But homeowner also has a gun — and only 2 intruders run back out.
Police in Miami Gardens, Florida, told WTVJ-TV they got word of a possible home invasion in the 3000 block of Northwest 204th Terrace shortly before noon Monday.
Police said three individuals — one armed with a rifle — entered the home, the station said.
'I guess he was defending his daughter from the three people who went inside.'
However, as one of the intruders opened a bedroom door, a victim opened fire, hitting one of the intruders in the arm, WTVJ reported.
The two other intruders fled the scene, the station said, and Miami-Fire Rescue airlifted the wounded subject to Aventura Hospital.
The wounded individual's condition is unknown, WTVJ noted, and no other injuries were reported.
A man who lives at the house told the station that he and others who were inside at the time of the home invasion are OK, but he didn’t want to comment further.
A teenager who didn't want to be identified added to WTVJ that she watched from her bedroom window as three people ran inside the house — and when just two of them ran back out.
“I saw them shooting toward the porch, then running to the car, then the father shot four times,” the teen told the station. “It was loud, it was right there, across the street, boom, boom, boom, boom.”
The teen added to WTVJ that two men who were inside the house also ran outside: “He was standing outside of the house. He was defending the house. He said, 'That's my daughter; I have no money,' so I guess he was defending his daughter from the three people who went inside."
A woman who lives down the street added to the station that after she heard gunshots, she saw a car speeding by and someone with a face covering: “I saw the car zooming, and the guy was running behind the car, and I thought he was running after the car because I saw him with a gun in his hand. I was shocked. I was surprised."
WTVJ said the search for the two other subjects is ongoing.
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Court: Miami’s Suspension Of 2025 Elections Is Illegal
The city of Miami’s unilateral decision to suspend its 2025 municipal elections is illegal, a Florida judge ruled Monday. Writing for Florida’s 11th Circuit, Judge Valerie Manno Schurr determined that the Magic City’s bid to move its previously scheduled November elections to next year (and by default, extend the terms of its current local officeholders) […]Loaded guns, lube, and sex toys: Homeland Security agent reveals what was found in Diddy's room
A Homeland Security Investigations agent this week ran down details about last year's raid on Sean "Diddy" Combs' estate.
The testimony in the Manhattan sex trafficking and racketeering trial against Combs continued with HSI agent Gerard Gannon on Tuesday revealing what federal agents saw when they burst into the Miami property in 2024, using an armored vehicle to break through the hip-hop mogul's front gate.
'One of the weapons was reportedly found in Diddy's master bedroom closet, along with lingerie and platform heels.'
Gannon was on the ground during the raid and acted as the special agent in charge due to his unit's experience investigating human trafficking. The agent said between 80 and 90 personnel were involved in the search of Diddy's 20,000 square-foot home on Star Island, which included tactical boat deployment to make certain there were no waterborne escapees.
The federal agent said loaded rifles were among a plethora of items in Diddy's master bedroom, according to TMZ.
Agents allegedly found loaded AR-15s with their serial numbers scratched off, sex toys, and Astroglide brand lubricant. One of the weapons reportedly was found in Diddy's master bedroom closet, along with lingerie and platform heels.
The testimony came days after Cassie Ventura, Diddy's former girlfriend and a recording artist under his label, said in court that she "only ever saw handguns" at his residences in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, and Alpine, New Jersey.
Ventura also testified that after releasing just one album through her 10-album deal on Diddy's label, her "job" mostly became organizing the entrepreneur's sex parties, dubbed "freak-offs."
"The 'freak-offs' became a job, where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and feel normal again," Ventura alleged.
The testimony also revealed that during the time of the raid, Diddy was purposely caught outside after agents carefully monitored his movements and timed the arrest with his exit from the property for an alleged family vacation.
"I think they raided Diddy's home to strip him of his power and leverage and blackmail material," BlazeTV's Jason Whitlock theorized.
Whitlock added, "All this is really about is taking away Diddy's leverage and handing it over to the Department of Justice or whoever is responsible for this or stripping him of the most damaging information he had on key people that they don't want harmed."
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Federal prosecutors said they intended to call rapper Kid Cudi to the stand as a witness this week; Ventura testified that Diddy became enraged when he found out she was seeing him.
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'We want our munyun': WNBA player demands higher salaries despite league losing estimated $40M in 2024
WNBA player Natasha Cloud said the WNBA needs to learn from the new women's basketball league called Unrivaled and pay its players higher salaries.
Cloud made the comments during a press conference after a game for the Phantom, a team in the newly formed women's three-on-three league. Unrivaled's schedule purposely takes place during the WNBA off-season with an eight-week schedule, giving 36 WNBA players the chance to play in the United States as opposed to going overseas.
With Unrivaled's average salary over $220,000 — which nears the WNBA's max salary — Cloud said she believes the WNBA needs to take cues from the new league.
'We've grown so much.'
"We want our munyun [money], and we want it now," the player said, after being asked what she hoped WNBA executives might have learned from the new league.
Cloud continued, "I think we've done a really good job over the last few years and especially over my 10-year career in the [WNBA]. We've grown so much, but there's so much room left to grow, and obviously you guys see us expanding, but also just prioritizing players."
The 33-year-old went on to praise the new company for prioritizing players and making them feel happy. She cited being able to speak directly to league executives without having to go through an assistant, as well as staff members popping in to say hello.
She added that she felt Unrivaled is setting the precedent for leagues across the board.
The devil is in the details of Cloud's demands, however, as the leagues are vastly different. According to ESPN, Unrivaled's eight-week season is run out of just one Miami facility and of course serves just a few dozen players, as opposed to the WNBA, which has about four times more.
The WNBA also has to charter flights and pay for private planes for players to compete at different facilities around the country, which of course came after athletes complained that star player Caitlin Clark was getting preferential treatment despite being the biggest money-maker in the league by far.
By most estimates, including previous reporting by Blaze News, the WNBA lost around $40 to $50 million in 2024, despite it being the league's most successful season by far, with the most fanfare.
Since the WNBA has never turned a profit during its existence, it is always intriguing to hear its salaries be compared to other leagues with vastly different business models.
Unrivaled boasts a star-studded list of investors and, as reported by Yahoo in 2024, includes a series of well-wishing celebrities and businessmen.
Athlete investors include former women's soccer player and left-wing activist Megan Rapinoe, fellow soccer star Alex Morgan, and former NBA players Carmelo Anthony and Steve Nash. LPGA Tour player Michelle Wie West and actor Ashton Kutcher were also listed as investors.
Belarusian business mogul Gary Vaynerchuk, former ESPN President John Skipper, and former Turner President David Levy round out the list of backers.
Unrivaled's approximately $8 million salary overhead combined with upkeep of just one facility may serve as a much better business model than the WNBA's operation and is likely to continue to provide fodder for players to make demands of the NBA's charity league.
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Homeowner shoots backyard trespasser allegedly after he wouldn't show his hands. Cops say the stranger was on the run.
A Miami homeowner shot a backyard trespasser over the weekend allegedly after he wouldn't show the homeowner his hands — and police said the stranger was on the run.
Authorities said the shooting took place shortly after 34-year-old Whitney Liberal was involved in a rollover crash on Interstate 75 near Northwest 186th Street, WPLG-TV reported.
'It’s the first time in 30 years, and thankfully it wasn’t robbing — it was him escaping from something he did before.'
Miami-Dade police told the station that Liberal and two others fled the crash scene, and Liberal ran behind a barrier wall along the interstate, jumped a fence, and entered the back yard of a home in the 18000 block of Northwest 91st Court.
WTVJ-TV reported that arrest documents indicate the homeowner heard his dog barking, looked out his window, and saw his ladder had been moved to lean against a tall wall in his backyard that butts against I-75.
Police told WPLG the homeowner was armed with a gun while confronting Liberal around 6 a.m. and fired two shots after Liberal allegedly failed to show his hands. Investigators told the station one bullet struck Liberal in the leg.
“My neighbor was on the balcony with a gun and a lantern,” neighbor Alfonso Nieto told WPLG.
The homeowner spoke to WTVJ about the incident but did not show his face: “It’s the first time in 30 years, and thankfully it wasn’t robbing — it was him escaping from something he did before."
The arrest report indicates Liberal told investigators he fled the crash scene and entered the backyard while attempting to call his girlfriend to pick him up, WPLG said, adding that he said he injured his foot in the crash.
Police added to WPLG that they found marijuana and pills that appeared to be ecstasy when conducting a search on Liberal.
Liberal was being treated at a hospital for his injuries and was in the process of being booked into jail Monday afternoon, WPLG said, citing authorities.
Jail records show he's facing three counts of possession of a controlled substance, one count of trespassing on unenclosed curtilage, and one count of possession of cannabis, WPLG said.
“It was shocking because nothing like that ever happens in this community,” neighbor Ofelia Martinez noted to WPLG.
You can view video reports here and here about the incident.
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How a suspected murderer impregnated an alleged killer in prison without ever touching her: 'I can't believe it worked'
A Florida man accused of murder impregnated a female alleged killer while they were in prison — but the pair never touched each other.
Daisy Link, 29, is charged with second-degree murder after she allegedly killed her husband in 2022.
'Not gonna lie, this is gonna go down in history.'
Joan Depaz, 23, was arrested in October 2020. According to prison records, he's charged with first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, battery, and criminal mischief.
The two inmates say they communicated with each other through the air conditioning vents in their prison cells.
"You would knock on it, and you can hear the people from the different floors. You would stand on the toilet actually to be able to talk to them," Link told WSVN-TV. "Being in isolation for so long, you begin to spend hours and hours talking to this person, you know, to the point where it’s almost as if you’re in the same room with them."
Link said she and Depaz would pass notes and pictures through the A/C vents.
Eventually they developed a romantic relationship despite never meeting each other.
Depaz had a dream of being a father, but it didn't seem possible since he was facing a lengthy prison sentence if convicted for his alleged crimes.
"I always really wanted to have a baby. And I’m not gonna get to do that for a really long time," Depaz said. He then told Link, "So if I had to choose somebody, you know, it would be you. And she was like, ‘Yeah, we could do that.’”
Depaz devised a plan to make his dream come true.
"I told her a way that one of my friends had showed me through the vent," he explained. "Because the vents are like [an] L-shape, really. It drops right into my vent, from her room, she could throw a pen into the vent, and it’ll land right into my vent.”
Link added, "We had figured out a way to drop the line. It was a line that we had established out of like bedding material."
Depaz said he put semen in plastic wrap "every day like five times a day for like a month straight."
Link recalled, "He would kind of like roll it up, almost like a cigarette, and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent, and I would pull it through." She said she placed that in a yeast infection applicator and "administered it."
Link stated, "I don’t know what my fate is, you kind of don’t know what’s yours. If we’re gonna go out, might as well just go out with a bang, you know? If it works, it works. But it definitely did."
Link said she got pregnant after just a few attempts, and that she was "very excited" and "ecstatic."
WSVN asked Dr. Fernando Akerman — a fertility specialist and the medical director of the Fertility Center of Miami — if a woman could get pregnant through the method the inmates alleged. Akerman said it's possible but noted that the chances are less than 5%.
On June 19, Link gave birth to a baby at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
The baby is now living with Depaz's mother.
“I can’t believe it worked," Link stated. "I think everything happened for a reason."
“She’s a miracle baby, she’s a blessing,” Link said. “She could be anything. I think that she’s gonna be something great.”
DNA results show Depaz is the father.
When Depaz was asked if he ever had any physical encounters with Link, he said "never."
The pair are now being detained in different jails while they await their trials: Depaz is housed at the Metro West Detention Center; Link is at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. They still talk on the phone and see their daughter during video visits.
"Over here I’m like a celebrity," Depaz excitedly exclaimed. "Not gonna lie, this is gonna go down in history."
The Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department has launched an internal affairs investigation to determine how this could have happened without authorities knowing.
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