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Police Chase: Could Pompano's Defection Trigger Domino Effect for BSO?

Flickr: sunrise954​Among the cast of hundreds who attended last night's standing-room-only meeting of the Pompano Beach Commission were several leaders of a neighboring city that has a Broward Sheriff's Office contract coming up for renewal this year: Deerfield Beach.City commissioners Marty Popel ... More >>

In Broward and Palm Beach, Kids Armed to the Teeth

Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeStephen Paulk, the 23-year-old accused of teaming with two teens to steal firearms in Lauderdale Lakes.​Scary reports from both Broward and Palm Beach counties today involving kids with access to firearms. Broward Sheriff's Office deputies just arrested three suspect ... More >>

Scamster Strikes in Tamarac

Sketch courtesy Broward Sheriff's Office​On January 14, Barbara Patrick of Beechfern Circle in Tamarac heard a knock. She opened the door to see a polite, well-dressed stranger -- he looked like the guy in the drawing on the right. We'll let the BSO release take it from here.The tall, slender visi ... More >>

Suspected Thief Shot, Killed in Lauderdale Lakes

A Broward Sheriff's Office sting aimed at catching a suspected thief turned into a gunfight this afternoon at the 19th Street Food Shop in Lauderdale Lakes. From the BSO release:The suspect, a man in his 20s, was the subject of an investigation by BSO and other agencies into several recent robberies ... More >>

Shooting Death in Pompano Beach Traced Back to Teens

No end in sight for a couple terrifying criminal trends: violent teenagers and homeless victims. The Broward Sheriff's Office is reporting the arrest of two teens, Harry Velez (age 17) and Brady John Fisher (19), in the murder of Eustoquio Lopez, a 40-year-old homeless man, who was shot early Saturd ... More >>

Roof-Breaching Robber Video, Now With Appropriate Audio

Since Monday, the Broward Sheriff's Office has been circulating the video below in hopes of catching the man who ransacked a pawn store in Lauderdale Lakes on December 4. But while Juice is usually the first media outlet in South Florida to lend BSO a bad-guy-apprehending assist, we decided to wait ... More >>

We Got Him! Suspect in Johnnie Walker Blue Theft Arrested

Photo courtesy Broward Sheriff's OfficeCharles Lennon​It's been a while since the United States apprehended a fugitive on this scale -- maybe not since Saddam Hussein was found crouching in his spider hole. Richard Goldstein of Hollywood and Charles Lennon of Coral Springs are accused of collabora ... More >>

Baby-Faced Killers: One Arrested, One Still at Large in Dania Beach Murder

Photo courtesy Broward Sheriff's OfficeTerry Moore​Man, but we've got some violent teenagers around here. Broward Sheriff's Office reports that 17-year-old Terry Moore has been bragging about gunning down Antonio Parker, 20, who was shot dead Sunday evening near the back door of his home on Southw ... More >>

Dania Beach Man Dead After Being Shot in His Home

Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeAntonio Parker​Antonio Brandon Parker, 20, was shot and killed last night near the back door of his home on SW Seventh Avenue in Dania Beach. His grandmother and younger siblings heard the gunshots. Broward Sheriff's Office investigators are looking for two men who a ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 No ... More >>

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 wor ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 P ... More >>

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. Ri ... More >>

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:Moz ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 Nation ... More >>

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 apar ... More >>

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-o ... More >>

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 c ... More >>

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 t ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 f ... More >>

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 s ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 bad ... More >>

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 li ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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. Detective ... More >>

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 Sherif ... More >>

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 w ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

Sheriff Makes Questionable Purchase From Campaign Contributor

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 th ... More >>

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 packa ... More >>

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 Atto ... More >>

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 Cou ... More >>

Jug or Not

BSO takes the "fun" out of funbags

Gun-Toting Prosecutor Let Off Easy

BSO Uses Kiddie Porn Subpoena To Crack Political Blog

Grave Doubts

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

Stinkin' Badges

Flashing the Gold

Best Political Scandal

Broward Sheriff's Office bogus crime stats

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