Subject: Broward Sheriff's Office

• Crime and Identity

  January 12, 2007

• BSO Uses Kiddie Porn Subpoena To Crack Political Blog

  October 22, 2007

• Gun-Toting Prosecutor Let Off Easy

  September 12, 2008

• Letters

  October 29, 1998

• Morning Juice: Psychic on Lam Totally Called It, Florida Stays Flaccid, Gay Chorus Twinkles

  Psychic on the Lam Totally Called ItThe Broward Sheriff's Office is on the hunt for Gina Marie Marks, a psychic who they say ripped off her clients by promising to cleanse their souls. First off, the last time I went to Gina Marie Marks for a soul cleansing, she totally called this! I mean, she didn't say specifically that deputies would be chasing her on fraud charges. What she technically said was that the minor charge I'm facing for streaking through the Galleria Mall will result in some comm

  December 23, 2008

• Undercurrents

  August 26, 1999

• Sheriff Makes Questionable Purchase from Campaign Contributor

  Photo courtesy Mike Jachles/Broward Sheriff's OfficeBroward County Sheriff Al Lamberti held a press conference yesterday to show off his department's newest and trendiest purchase: four tiny Smart cars that will zip around Fort Lauderdale International Airport and Port Everglades. TV stations and the Sun-Sentinel followed the annoucement with stories about BSO's new "European minicars" that will save the department tons of money on gas prices.Nobody asked why BSO would actually buy Smart cars. T

  June 3, 2009

• Best Political Scandal

  May 12, 2005

• Modeling Portfolio on a Budget

  The Broward Sheriff's Office sent out a press release yesterday afternoon boasting "Young Thelma and Louise Back Behind Bars." A pair of 20-year-old girls were arrested after stealing and crashing a 2007 Chevy Tahoe. Thing is, this is the 12th time Erica Eisworth has been booked into the Broward County Jail since March 2007. It's the third time her accomplice Fallon Panton has been a guest at the BSO resort. The BSO has put together a pretty interesting composite of the ladies' mug shots, which

  February 6, 2009

• Source: 'Whistleblower' Took BSO Steroids Case To State Attorney

  The Broward Sheriff's Office steroids case had been sitting in the agency without action for months before a sergeant took it to the State Attorney's Office, according to a source. The details are sketchy but apparently a sergeant who was about to be transferred took the case to the State Attorney's Office. Prosecutors then went to internal affairs which restarted the investigation. Without confirmation, I'm not naming the sergeant, but the basic facts betray an agency that is incred

  February 26, 2009

• Murder Victim's Infiniti Missing

  The Broward Sheriff's Office is hoping that the public will help solve a murder. Last night, friends of 68-year-old Larry Ellison wondered why he didn't show up for a planned dinner. They stopped by his townhouse on NE 19th Street in Wilton Manors only to make a terrifying discovery -- his body.  BSO is ruling the case a homicide. Neighbors did not immediately return calls. Detectives noted that Ellison's vehicle -- a silver 2005 Infiniti FX35 like the one pictured above -- is missing. It h

  March 12, 2009

• Jug or Not

  BSO takes the "fun" out of funbags

  January 22, 2009

• Grave Doubts

  If Tondelaya McKenzie killed herself, how did she arrange her own corpse?

  June 15, 2006

• Stinkin' Badges

  Flashing the Gold

  June 8, 2006

• Dread the Star Chamber

  Did a face-off with sheriff's brass drive the sergeant to suicide?

  May 27, 2004

• Death Road Revisited

  A patsy for the sheriff's department gets the blame

  October 9, 2003

• Insult to Injury

  Some ex-deputies say BSO treated them like damaged goods after they got hurt on the job

  July 11, 2002

• The Wrong Keith

  The case against accused cop-killer Keith King was so weak, he's already out of prison. So why did BSO ignore evidence pointing to Keith Maddox?

  April 25, 2002

• How to Build a Rap Sheet With Legos

  Flickr User: Jonathan WThe Lego Bandit, swashbuckling no moreThe Broward Sheriff's Office has caught what it believes to be a serial toy bandit -- a 34-year-old man who lives in South Miami-Dade and has allegedly confessed to some 300 thefts. His ingenious method? Altering the bar codes on toy packages. Here's the description of his capture, courtesy BSO press release.The toy thief caught the attention of a Walmart loss prevention employee as he strolled through the isles of the retailer in Laud

  May 21, 2009

• Sheriff Makes Questionable Purchase From Campaign Contributor

  June 11, 2009

• Broward Sheriff's Office Brass Triple Dips, Makes Obscene Pay

  July 16, 2009

• The Finger That Robbed 7-Eleven

  Flickr User: sm4rtusSeveral suspects in the robberyBroward Sheriff's Office detectives are searching South Florida for the human being who belongs to the finger who robbed a 7-Eleven in Pompano Beach. The BSO release does not say exactly what, if anything, was on the tip of that finger that made it so menacing as to cause cashiers to empty their registers. But see if you can solve the mystery by watching the video. Here's the news release:He might have thought he was clever to pull of a robbery

  July 21, 2009

• The Subway Sandwich That Didn't Stop a Robbery in Weston

  google maps The marginally palatable prospect of a Subway sandwich is largely to blame for the escape of two thieves from the Seminole Travel Center in Weston, pictured above. The success of the robbery itself? Well, that you can blame on the unlocked safe in the owner's office.A Broward Sheriff's Office release describes two men who on July 10 paid a visit to the travel center, which lies just north of Griffin Road where it meets the Everglades. The first to enter was, based on the surveil

  July 24, 2009

• Inmate Dies in Broward Jail

  No name, no age, no cause of death. All that Broward Sheriff's Office is reporting for the moment is that their deputies found an inmate dead in his cell at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale, around 7 p.m. The inmate had been in the cell alone. Here's the release. Stay tuned for more details, which will be available after BSO contacts the inmate's family.

  July 24, 2009

• Broward Sheriffs Give Dead Inmate's Name

  Broward Sheriff's Office​Jeffrey Willis, 41, is the name of the inmate who was found dead last week at the Broward Sheriff's Office main jail. On the right, his booking photo.Here's the BSO release:The Broward County Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause and manner of death. Detectives have confirmed that the death was not a suicide.Willis was arrested Wednesday, July 22 by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and was transported to the Main Jail. He was charged with trespassing

  July 27, 2009

• Another Reason You Should Visit Grandma More Often

  Photo by jessicafm​So the sweet old lady can call bullshit on the Canadian con men who have been targeting Tamarac seniors, according to Broward Sheriff's Office:Scam artists working out of Canada are contacting seniors and pretending to be their "Grandchildren". These scammers state that they are stranded, in jail or have been involved in some type of accident and need money wired to them immediately. The caller is adamant about not getting a return call and about not contacting any other fam

  July 29, 2009

• Bitchin' Car, Al! But How Will You Explain It to Stacy?

  ​The Broward Sheriff's Office is rolling out a fleet of 2009 Dodge Challengers, but if this is the first you've heard about it, that's probably because they arrive amid a fierce round of budget slashing in other county agencies. Not exactly a climate for bragging about muscle cars.It's a little like that sitcom scene where the husband (Sheriff Al Lamberti, in our example) comes home with a new set of wheels and his spouse (Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter, let's say) fumes about how she's been tryin

  July 31, 2009

• Things Not to Do on a Condo Staircase

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's Office​That's the sketch of an alleged flasher who struck in Lauderdale Lakes a few days ago. Broward Sheriff's deputies want your help finding him. But is this really a flasher? Or an unlucky guy caught having a private moment in a public place? Here's the BSO release:At around noon on Tuesday, July 28, a woman was walking down the stairs on the west side of the Cypress Chase North condos, located in the 3100 block of NW 47 Terrace, when she saw a stranger sitting on

  July 31, 2009

• Broward Deputy Charged With Sex Crimes

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeBleiweiss​A grueling summer for the Broward Sheriff''s Office just got worse. The agency arrested one of its own this morning on charges he sexually exploited illegal immigrants. Here's the agency's news release:A Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who disgraced his badge by preying on illegal residents was arrested Monday morning on a 14-court warrant for various offenses.Deputy Jonathan Bleiweiss, 29, who's been with BSO for almost seven years, faces five counts o

  August 3, 2009

• Deputy Do-Wrong, Take Two

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeGladys Dauphin​For the second time this week, Broward Sheriff's deputies have booked one of their own. Gladys Dauphin, a detention deputy at BSO's main jail in downtown Fort Lauderdale, is accused of striking an inmate in the head with her handheld radio. She's also accused of filing a false report of the incident -- which also sounds familiar for a Broward law enforcement community that's reeling from bad publicity.Here's the BSO release:The incident occurred at

  August 6, 2009

• 18 Lessons from Last Night's Premiere of "Police Women of Broward County"

  In the video above we have Andrea, the most aggressive of the Police Women of Broward County. In this episode she strips down to a thong and gun belt, then shoots a guy just for looking at her the wrong way yells a lot and manhandles (and yells) at some big (alleged) drug dealers. And mothers her son. (View more footage here. Or watch it repeat throughout the week.) Because The Juice would like to maintain a healthy relationship with the Broward County Sheriff's Office, and The Learning Channel

  August 7, 2009

• BSO Report: Foul Play in Death of Taco Bell Manager

  Tikkitress Johnson, the 39-year-old manager of a Taco Bell on Oakland Park Boulevard did not die this morning from an accidental fall. Rather, Broward Sheriff's Office detectives believe she was murdered. From the BSO release: Just before 9 am, Oakland Park Fire Rescue was dispatched to a reported fall injury at the Taco Bell restaurant at 593 East Oakland Park Boulevard. Co-workers showing up for work looked inside the business and saw their colleague on the floor, unresponsive, and called 9-1-

  August 10, 2009

• My Brother's Keeper: Second Suspect Caught in Taco Bell Murder

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeTesfaye Ritchie​After 20-year-old Karari Ritchie was arrested Tuesday in the homicide case of a Taco Bell manager, Broward Sheriff's detectives say he told them about a partner from Miami -- but that was a red herring. Detectives believe he was trying to protect his older brother, Tesfaye Ritchie, but they say they pulled Tesfaye's fingerprints off a cup that was found at the murder scene.Karari, say detectives, was a former employee of the Taco Bell on Oakland P

  August 14, 2009

• Body-Slamming Thief on the Loose

  Flickr: Ryan BudkeLurking in your local grocery aisle...​Just in from Broward Sheriff's Office: A masked man brandishing a handgun threw a store clerk over a counter during a robbery Monday night as the criminal demanded cash from the register. The clerk was not seriously injured, but detectives are anxious to catch the suspect before he hurts someone.Detectives say this strong-arm (literally!) robber has hit the same Winn Dixie in Pompano Beach four times this past month. But looks BSO doesn

  August 20, 2009

• BSO Looking for "Beer-Bellied Duffer"

  Flickr: compassion matt​The Broward Sheriff's Office has a rather weird streak for ridiculing its criminal suspects in advance of apprehending them. Like in this release from a few minutes ago:A casually dressed man who looked like he should have been watching golf from his recliner instead robbed a Citibank Saturday afternoon, and the entire caper was caught on surveillance video.Detectives are hoping someone recognizes the beer-bellied duffer who walked in with a threatening note and walked

  August 24, 2009

• Fatal Stabbing at Pompano Gas Station

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeEdris Berry​An argument at a Shell gas station in Pompano Beach led to the early-morning stabbing death of a 33-year-old man, Edris Berry, and the Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for two men in their 20s who were with Berry when the stabbing to took place. From the release:Both have short-cropped Afros, are of slim build and wore dark shirts and shorts. In October 2007, the same Shell gas station was the site of a double homicide during which two clerks were

  September 2, 2009

• Cops Pop Chop Shop in Pompano

  Photo: BSODelano Henry​Childhood ambitions gone terribly awry: That's the theme of today's Broward Sheriff's Office news release, which begins:An automotive engineering student who dreamed of someday building race cars was arrested this week by Broward Sheriff's Office detectives for operating a chop shop in Pompano Beach. On Sept. 7, a BSO deputy in Oakland Park saw Delano Henry, 22, driving a stolen Subaru from Oakland Park to a warehouse in Pompano Beach. The following day, detectives foun

  September 11, 2009

• Deputies Charge Cypress Bay's Bathroom Peeper

  In a reversal of its original decision, the Broward Sheriff's Office is now asking county prosecutors to bring a misdemeanor case against the 17-year-old caught snapping cell phone photos of girls going to the loo at Cypress Bay High School in Weston.From the BSO news release:The victim, a 15-year-old student, told detectives that she was inside a closed toilet stall in a second-floor girl's room, fully dressed and applying makeup, when she noticed someone holding a cellphone under the stall wal

  September 15, 2009

• Attackers Torch Deerfield Beach Teen

  Horrific story coming out of Deerfield Beach. The Broward Sheriff's Office is reporting that a 15-year-old boy named Michael Brewer was attacked at a pool within an apartment complex, then deliberately burned. Here's the BSO news release: At 3:14 pm BSO deputies were dispatched to the Lime Tree apartments in reference to a person who suffered a burn injury. Deputies arrived along with Deerfield Beach firefighters and found the victim, Michael Brewer, sitting in a lawn chair near the pool. The te

  October 12, 2009

• Now Five Teens Charged in Burning of 15-Year-Old

  In addition to the three teenagers who appeared in court today on charges they set fire to Michael Brewer of Deerfield Beach, the Broward Sheriff's Office is now reporting the arrest of two more juveniles: Steven Shelton and Jesus Mendez, both of whom are also 15 years old, like the victim. From the BSO news release:At 3:14 pm Monday BSO deputies were dispatched to the Lime Tree apartments in reference to a person who suffered a burn injury. Deputies arrived along with Deerfield Beach firefighte

  October 13, 2009

• Broward Deputies Bust Out the Wife-Beaters for Domestic Violence Sweep

  If you slapped your spouse around lately, then earned an arrest warrant but wondered where the police were, check your front porch. Broward Sheriff's Office just announced the arrest of 30 offenders in a sweep that concluded this morning and which coincided with the seventh anniversary of the National Family Violence Apprehension Detail.BSO release is here. It points out that this has been an unusually violent year for Broward couples -- domestic disputes account for 18 murders already, when the

  October 16, 2009

• Smooth Criminal No More; "Dapper Dan" Busted

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeJenkins​Two weeks after a suit-wearing man pulled a gun out of briefcase and shot Tobias Barfield of Dania Beach, "Dapper Dan" is in police custody. The Broward Sheriff's Office is reporting that the suspect, John Roger Jenkins, turned himself in this morning. Here's the release.Investigators have not yet identified a motive in the shooting, and that, of course, is the $64,000 question. We've been fascinated by this strange case since it first broke two weeks ago

  October 19, 2009

• Murder Victim identified at Boat Ramp

  The man who was found dead yesterday at a boat ramp near Weston has been identified as Edward Brown, 40, from Homestead. His death has been ruled a homicide.Brown's friends and family became worried after he failed to show up for a Sunday barbecue. An officer with Broward County's Fish and Wildlife Commission reported the discovery of Brown's body yesterday, according to the BSO release. Investigators are asking the public for tips. Full text of the release after the jump.

  October 19, 2009

• Beware the Gold-Toothed Broward Deputy

  Photo: BSO​Sure, he may have a gun and be speaking into a shoulder-mounted radio but the man in the sketch is most definitely not a deputy with the Broward Sheriff's Office, as he claimed during a Tuesday evening visit to 62-year-old Roland Mozard's Pompano Beach apartment.From the BSO release:Mozard told BSO detectives that around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday someone he didn't know knocked on his apartment door. The visitor identified himself as an undercover BSO deputy and asked for Mozard's identifica

  October 22, 2009

• Thief Who Lost His Cell Phone, Soon to Gain a Cellmate

  Photo courtesy Broward Sheriff's OfficeSinclair photographing himself; saving time for investigators.​Losing your cell phone is not a crime. If it was, we'd all be locked up! But if you lose your cell phone at a crime scene -- say, a strong-arm robbery -- well, then you might have some trouble. Right, Scano?Scano Conrade Sinclair is the 28-year-old man from Miramar who Broward Sheriff's Office investigators say tried to rob a Palm Beach County man, failing and losing his cell phone in the proc

  October 26, 2009

• YouTube: Maybe Not the Best Place to Conceal Video Evidence of Your Crime

  There you have four juvenile delinquents near the Blue Sky Motel in Pompano Beach, in a scene that could have appeared in The Clockwork Orange. They're harassing some poor homeless guy. The Broward Sheriff's Office turned up this video during its investigation into the vicious beatings in Oakland Park in which one man was killed and another badly injured. Apparently, one of the kids in the video above was a suspect in those Oakland Park beatings.Two of the four -- 19-year-olds William Sleight a

  October 27, 2009

• Homeless Taunting Foursome Reunited in Jail

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeWunderlich​A day after the Broward Sheriff's Office went public with video evidence against four young men for harassing a homeless man, deputies have rounded up all four. Bradley Wunderlich, 21, was found to already be in custody, at BSO north jail, while the fourth suspect, 19-year-old Nicholas Bakum, turned himself in on Wednesday morning. The other two accused in the incident are Brandon Edwards and William Sleight, both 19.We published the two videos of the

  October 28, 2009

• Another Lazy Bank Robber; Nickname Needed

  Photo courtesy Broward Sheriff's Office​Fortunately, they're enabled by very lazy bank tellers. Just when we finally nab the withdrawal bandit, South Florida has a new and even more complacent serial thief, who has yet to be formally nicknamed. Above, that's him from his Halloween heist. We'll work on that nickname after the jump. This is from the BSO release:Broward Sheriff's Office detectives are looking for a brash bank robber who hit the same bank so often that the tellers recognized him w

  November 2, 2009

• Lighthouse Point Man Shot Dead in Pompano Beach

  A 22-year-old man was murdered early this morning in Pompano Beach. Broward Sheriff's Office detectives say that Michael Frank, a Lighthouse Point resident, was sitting in the passenger seat of his friend's car around 2 a.m. when someone walked up and fired at him. It occurred in the 200 block of Northeast 14th Avenue.Here's the BSO release.

  November 12, 2009

• Victim Identified in Deadly Tamarac Fire

  Daniel Arnodo, a 26-year-old from Coral Springs, was one of the two people killed Sunday morning in a fire that erupted in his home in the Shaker Village subdivision just north of Commercial Boulevard.The other fatality is a woman, but Broward Sheriff's Office investigators aren't going to name her until they've made a positive identification.A third victim, 27-year-old Nicholas Figueroa, also from Tamarac, was hospitalized with smoke inhalation. The group had gathered to watch the Saturday-nigh

  November 16, 2009