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Broward Sheriff's Office

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Anthony Costanzo, BSO Detective Accused of Witness Tampering, Has Clean Record

    Broward Sheriff's Office Det. Anthony Costanzo faces charges of witness tampering, evidence tampering, disclosure of confidential information, and felony use of a two-way communication device, all of which could theoretically put him in prison for life.But a review of county personnel files sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    A Fat Guy Is Stealing Purses in Pompano Beach (VIDEO)

    The Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for a man they say is connected to two muggings at the end of March -- they want you to know that he's six feet tall, gets around in an old, gold-colored Nissan, and is... fat.In an announcement headlined "Big Boy Wants a Purse," the BSO describes a "corpulant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Broward Sheriff Candidate Scott Israel: "I Have a Pristine Record"

    The Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) is one of the largest sheriff's departments in the country. It provides law enforcement, firefighting, and emergency medical services to areas across the county, as well as other services like corrections and parole supervision. Sheriff Al Lamberti is facing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Manny Ramirez 911 Tape Released by Broward Sheriff's Office (Audio)

    Broward Sheriff's OfficeManny Ramirez​The 911 call phoned in by the wife of former MLB All-Star and performance-enhancing drug user Manny Ramirez has been released by the Broward Sheriff's Office. According to a police report released late last night by the BSO, Ramirez's wife called the cops aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    After 235 Fourth of July Celebrations, People Still Injuring Themselves With Fireworks

    bsoblog.wordpress.comThis is your watermelon. Now this is your watermelon on fireworks.​Yet again, the Broward Sheriff's Office is entitled to another told-ya-so moment.Year after year, the BSO invites media members to see the fire marshal and the bomb squad blow up fireworks on mannequins, includ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Second Suspect Sought in Murder of Man at Pompano Barbecue

    Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficePetigny​It appears that more than one man was linked to the stabbing death of a man at a Pompano Beach barbecue this past weekend. The Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for Tony Petigny, a 28-year-old man who lives in Deerfield Beach. Petigny allegedly had a role i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 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 No ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 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 wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 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 P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 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. Ri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 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:Moz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 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 Nation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 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 apar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 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-o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 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 c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 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 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 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 f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 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 bad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 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 li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 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. Detective ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 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 Sherif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 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 ... More >>

  • News

    July 16, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • News

    June 11, 2009

    Sheriff Makes Questionable Purchase From Campaign Contributor

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 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 Atto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    January 22, 2009

    Jug or Not

    BSO takes the "fun" out of funbags

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Gun-Toting Prosecutor Let Off Easy

    BSO takes the "fun" out of funbags

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    BSO Uses Kiddie Porn Subpoena To Crack Political Blog

    BSO takes the "fun" out of funbags

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2007

    Crime and Identity

    BSO takes the "fun" out of funbags

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    Grave Doubts

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

  • News

    June 8, 2006

    Stinkin' Badges

    Flashing the Gold

  • Subtropical Life

    May 12, 2005

    Best Political Scandal

    Broward Sheriff's Office bogus crime stats

  • News

    October 29, 1998

    Letters

    Broward Sheriff's Office bogus crime stats

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