A drug-buy-gone-bad ends in tourist's death after he's tossed from car hood, cops say
A drug-buy-gone-bad ends in tourist's death after he's tossed from car hood, cops say Five days after a man visiting from California was left to die on a roadway, police have made an arrest in a case they say that began as a minor drug purchase and morphed into hit and run. According to police, Californian Steven Beech, 38, met a woman at a Miami Beach bar, accompanied her to an ATM to get money to go buy drugs, then jumped on the hood of the car as the woman drove off. Early Saturday morning police found Beech bleeding with severe trauma to his head on the road near Liberty Avenue and 20th Street. He died in the hospital two days later. Wednesday afternoon, police arrested Latravia Chantae Reed, 33 and charged her with first-degree murder, leaving the scene of a deadly crash, strong-arm robbery and credit card fraud. Police caught up to Reed in Doral after identifying her blue Hyundai Veloster and with help of video surveillance. "Ms. Reed gave a detailed acc...