It’s Thursday, April 7th – and NBC 6 has the prime tales for the day.
No. 1 – A phony rideshare driver accused of raping a lady he picked up at Miami International Airport has been arrested, police stated.
Fernando Avila Hernandez, 28, was arrested Wednesday on sexual battery and battery fees, an arrest affidavit stated. The affidavit stated the 28-year-old sufferer had simply arrived at the airport from Salt Lake City and was making an attempt to get a taxi when she was approached by Hernandez, who was soliciting passengers as a rideshare driver. Hernandez advised the lady she was very fairly and supplied to take her to his home, however she once more requested to be taken to a resort, the report stated. Hernandez drove previous the resort and went to a purchasing plaza in the 3400 block of Red Road, the place he parked behind a restaurant, the affidavit stated. Hernandez advised the lady to get in the again seat earlier than he bought in the again seat and sexually battered her, the affidavit stated.
No. 2 – A person accused of fatally taking pictures his spouse at a Jewish group heart in Miami-Dade over the weekend and who’s a individual of curiosity in the 2014 disappearance of an ex-girlfriend could also be related to the killing of one other girlfriend again in 2009, members of the family stated.
Carl Watts, 45, was arrested in Sunday’s deadly taking pictures in the pool space at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center on Northeast twenty fifth Avenue. Miami-Dade Police officers stated he confirmed up at the heart and fatally shot his spouse, recognized by members of the family as 30-year-old Shandell Harris, as Harris was attending her daughter’s swimming lesson. On Wednesday, members of the family of one other of Watts’ ex-girlfriends, stated they consider he had one thing to do along with her killing. Vickie Simmons, a 25-year-old mom of two at the time, was discovered slain at a North Miami motel again in 2009. Sister Lashon Jones stated Simmons and Watts had been courting however she began to have second ideas about their relationship they usually had a falling out.
No. 3 – The Senate is anticipated to verify Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black lady on the excessive court docket and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his historic decide.
Three (*6*) senators have stated they may help Jackson, who would change Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires this summer time. While the vote might be removed from the overwhelming bipartisan confirmations for Breyer and different justices in a long time previous, it can nonetheless be a big bipartisan accomplishment for Biden in the slim 50-50 Senate after GOP senators aggressively labored to color Jackson as too liberal and comfortable on crime. Jackson, a 51-year-old federal appeals court docket choose, can be simply the third Black justice, after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and the sixth lady. She would be part of two different girls, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, on the liberal facet of a 6-3 conservative court docket.
No. 4 – Miami Beach took rather a lot of warmth over its spring break curfew, which some noticed as a crackdown towards a largely African American crowd. The metropolis’s administration stated it was pressured to take drastic motion after 5 individuals have been shot in a two-day interval.
Now that Memorial Day weekend and its large crowds are developing, the Miami-Dade County Back Affairs Advisory Board is making an attempt to determine the way it may help make the vacation trouble-free. At a gathering Wednesday, the board stated it needs to assist the City of Miami Beach keep away from some of the issues it’s had with the inundation of giant quantities of vacationers by being proactive as an alternative of reactive. Click right here for extra in a report from NBC 6’s Ari Odzer.
No. 5 – When a video of a big cat roaming a Miami neighborhood alarmed residents, the proprietor of the uncommon feline needs to clear the air and let his neighbors know that his pet is just not harmful.
Stryker is not your common cat — the noticed feline is an especially uncommon F1 Savannah cat. And he is amassed a big following on Instagram. Stryker’s proprietor was shifting into his new dwelling in the Buena Vista neighborhood close to the Design District when the cat bought out. So whereas his dad did the heavy lifting, the feline determined to make himself acquainted with the neighborhood. Stryker was caught on a neighbor’s Ring digital camera roaming outdoors of a house. The house owner, alarmed, ended up calling 911 after recognizing the giant cat. Click right here for extra in a report from NBC 6’s Nicole Lauren you’ll see Only on 6.
No. 6 – Residents at a Weston condominium complicated stated they’re leaping by way of hoops to get their mail.
A cluster of mailboxes at the La Morada condominium complicated didn’t enable for the secure supply of mail and packages, in accordance with the U.S. Postal Service. Max Sandberg is one of the residents at La Morada who spoke to us about this situation. He stated since December the postal service began delivering the mail in bulk. The mail is then distributed by the property’s administration. On the day we visited La Morada, NBC 6 Responds noticed an orange signal posted at the group’s leasing workplace which said mail can be distributed to all residents throughout the week between 3:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. But on the day NBC 6 was there, the workplace was closed earlier than 4 p.m. Click right here to seek out out what occurred subsequent in a report from NBC 6 shopper investigator Sasha Jones.