Email Author Trevor Aaronson

Awards

• 2007 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published August 3, 2006

  "Buy My Rock!"

• 2007 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published August 3, 2006

  "Buy My Rock!"

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published September 29, 2005

  "Vested Interests"

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2004 Stories by Trevor Aaronson

• Suffering Together

  published December 9, 2004

  He was 16 and scared. Jason was a newcomer at Growing Together, a boot camp-style drug treatment center for adolescents in downtown Lake... More >>

• Tale of the Tape

  published December 9, 2004

  Donald Baker takes a drag from a cigarette as he sits in front of a laptop computer at his mother's mobile home near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel... More >>

• Third Man

  published October 28, 2004

  It's nearing 5 p.m. on Thursday, September 30. Drumbeats can be heard for miles down South Dixie Highway near the University of Miami as... More >>

• Strong Arm of the Law

  published September 30, 2004

  Vincent Del'Ostia, a tattooed, five-foot-nine, 160-pound 31-year-old with a history of drug abuse and psychological problems, paced outside the... More >>

• Last Candidate Standing

  published September 2, 2004

  Richard Grayson is an anomaly. Though politicians usually don't discuss their faults and neuroses, he'll happily tell you that he's cheap,... More >>

• Darker Horses

  published August 19, 2004

  Randy Dunlap is a plump man with thinning white hair, large round glasses, and a down-home Alabama, "Yeah, buddy" speaking style not... More >>

• An Imperfect Murder

  published August 19, 2004

  Charlie Moretto's off-white mansion on Millionaire's Row in Lighthouse Point would have been suitable for Al Capone. Nestled along the... More >>

• Patriot Acts

  published July 29, 2004

  Jennifer Van Bergen opens the door to her tenth-floor apartment on Hallandale Beach, a law review article in her hand and eyeglasses perched on... More >>

• Below the Bar

  published July 15, 2004

  Melody Ridgley Fortunato was the type of woman young girls are taught to admire. She overcame early hardship, living modestly but with big... More >>

• Bombs for Babies

  published July 15, 2004

  In the early evening of Tuesday, November 11, 2003, Stephen Jordi parked his 1988 Ford Aerostar van in a lot south of the Sunset Harbor Marina in... More >>

• God's Madam

  published June 24, 2004

  Simone Gitman wants to help me find God. A petite brunet with ocean-blue eyes the size of half-dollar coins, Gitman sits cross-legged next to me... More >>

• King's Tarnished Crown

  published June 17, 2004

  The laughing arrives first, echoing down the hallway. Then comes the commotion. Bodyguards and business associates enter the room, walking slowly... More >>

• Pretty Boy

  published May 6, 2004

  It's approaching 8 p.m. on March 18. About 400 people are crowded together elbow-to-elbow outside Brasserie Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale. A cool... More >>

• Deep Inside the Bunny

  published May 6, 2004

  Alexis, a tall exotic dancer from New Hampshire with golden blond hair that hangs seductively to the small of her back, sits at the bar of... More >>

• The Snitch

  published March 25, 2004

  On July 26, 1999, at 5:01 p.m., 57-year-old Al Polito walked into Gold Coast Check Cashing, a squat, pink, concrete-block building on the corner... More >>

• Father Gomorrah

  published March 18, 2004

  John Joseph Reid creates a striking image as he walks out of his pink house on NE Tenth Avenue in Wilton Manors, just two blocks from the popular... More >>

• Charlie Numbers

  published March 4, 2004

  Dressed in an olive suit with an American-flag pin on the lapel, Charles Clay walks into the downtown Fort Lauderdale office of New Times... More >>

• Rainbow Colors

  published February 19, 2004

  Mike Smarro offers a smile as he takes drink orders from behind the bar at Georgie's Alibi on a sunny February afternoon. A handsome, muscular... More >>

• Die, Ted-E, Die

  published February 12, 2004

  A white, two-inch-tall teddy bear lies next to an M4 assault rifle. Behind them on a blue wall are T-shirts of Uncle Sam and the Statue of... More >>

• One-Way Street

  published January 29, 2004

  Martha Roldan, a 45-year-old employee of the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, doesn't have a law degree. She never took the... More >>

• Too Dumb to Die

  published January 15, 2004

  In the early-morning hours of Friday, July 25, 2002, Kevin Moore walked down SE Second Avenue in Deerfield Beach. The skinny, five-foot-nine-inch... More >>

• Window Treatment

  published January 1, 2004

  Fort Lauderdale attorney Norm Kent made a personal vow in 1999 as he lay in bed receiving chemotherapy treatment. At the time, the gay community... More >>