Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga of the Southern District of Florida handed down the sentence to Miguel Pastran Hernandez.

He hired the Lyft driver for what was supposed to be a short trip to a gas station near Dallas, but it lasted nearly 1,400 miles.

A Texas man hijacked a rideshare ride, made the victim drive over 1,300 miles to Miami, and planned a high-stakes ransom ...

The brothers were arrested at their Miami Beach homes, charged with a slew of state and federal rape and sex-trafficking ...

Miguel Pastran Hernandez, 24, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for kidnapping a Lyft driver in Texas and forcing ...

Two Miami-Dade Fire Rescue training instructors were fired and then charged with manslaughter, authorities said.

A brave 16-year-old unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks to fight off a creep from New York who tried to abduct her early ...

A Florida man has been arrested and charged for shooting 17 bullets at two men who he thought were Palestinians.

Dudzinski “Zink” Poole and 16 co-conspirators were sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from six years, up to life, in a ...

He just pleaded guilty to tax evasion. The U.S. Department of Justice said Melton, 70, failed to pay more than $1.3 million ...

A 39-year-old convicted felon felt suspicious, so he forced a Miami undercover agent to use fentanyl, police officers ...