Burglary

It Was a Ruthless, Professional Hit, and It Was the Cops Doing the Shooting

Two Men Break Into House Full of Poison Gas, Take Stolen Jewelry to Swap Shop, Police Say

Tuesday night, the guy who lives at 420 SW 18th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale couldn't sleep. He was put out of his house by a termite infestation and was staying elsewhere while exterminators draped a giant tent over his house and filled it with poison gas.It was around 4 a.m. when he took out his smartp ... More >>

Man Goes on Broward Asian-Food Burglary Spree (VIDEO)

A rock-wielding burglar broke into five Chinese restaurants in one night, according to police, who suspect him in "at least" 15 other burglaries.Surveillance footage shows the man using a rock to smash the restaurants' glass doors, then taking all the cash (and coins) out of the registers and, in tw ... More >>

Amado Cardenas Allegedly Burglarized the Wrong Apartment but Passed Out Anyway

​We're not sure what the worst part of Amado Cardenas' alleged burglary attempt is -- the fact that he broke into the wrong apartment or the fact that the woman who lived there tried to wake him up the next morning because he'd passed out on the floor.According to the Monroe County Sheriff's Offic ... More >>

Jennifer Finch Notches Arrest Number 50; Beard Slightly Trimmed This Time Around

Volusia County Sheriff's OfficeJennifer Finch, mug-shot take 50.​It took just over ten years, but 33-year-old Jennifer Finch managed to be arrested for the 50th time on Saturday and made her 50th trip to the Volusia County Jail.This time around, Finch was popped by the Daytona Beach Police Departm ... More >>

Markell Hollis, Boynton Beach Burglary/Car Chase Suspect, Turns Himself In

Florida Department of CorrectionsMarkell Hollis is now in jail.​The Boynton Beach Police Department says 22-year-old Markell Hollis -- who escaped police after an alleged burglary and car chase on Tuesday -- turned himself in at the Palm Beach County Jail last night.Hollis, who police said "should ... More >>

Boynton Beach Cop Who Drove Into Pole Yesterday Has a History of Crashing Cars

​The Boynton Beach cop who was driving herself and two other cops toward the scene of fleeing burglary suspects before crashing into a pole -- landing all three of them in the hospital -- happens to have a history of crashing her car into things, according to her discipline record.The discipline r ... More >>

Three Boynton Beach Cops Hospitalized After Their Car Hit a Concrete Pole

​Three Boynton Beach police officers were hospitalized after getting into a car crash while responding to the area of a car chase involving burglary suspects, authorities say.Boynton Beach Police Sgt. Suzanne Gitto says police were responding to a residential burglary on the 2600 block of NE Fourt ... More >>

Marcus McFadden Got in Woman's Car at Red Light, Tried to Rape Her -- He's Going to Prison

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeMarcus McFadden​After hopping into a woman's car at a red light and trying to rape her in Delray Beach in 2009, Marcus Christian McFadden is headed to prison.For his 31st birthday yesterday, McFadden received a 30-year prison sentence from a Palm Beach County judg ... More >>

Shooting to Kill and Kill Again in French Adrenaline Pumper "Point Blank"

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeMarcus McFadden​After hopping into a woman's car at a red light and trying to rape her in Delray Beach in 2009, Marcus Christian McFadden is headed to prison.For his 31st birthday yesterday, McFadden received a 30-year prison sentence from a Palm Beach County judg ... More >>

TSA Agent Nelson Santiago Not the First Agency Employee to Be Arrested on Theft Charges

sodahead.comInvasive and sticky.​Our news yesterday of 30-year-old Transportation Security Administration worker Nelson Santiago's being arrested after apparently being caught stuffing a passenger's iPad in his pants and allegedly stealing $50,000 worth of electronics from luggage went around the ... More >>

Palm Beach Schools: Principal, Naked Janitor Fired; Teacher Sleeping With Student Quits

giantbomb.comCaptain Jean-Luc Picard is not impressed​What a busy week for the Palm Beach County School District -- an elementary-school principal was fired after being accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of furniture, the janitor found naked in a storage closet was fired too, and a tea ... More >>

James Fraulo, Alleged 26-Time Burglar, Finally Caught By Broward Sheriff's Office Deputies

BSOApparently the 5-foot-7 James Fraulo is a little short for the BSO camera​After allegedly burglarizing at least 26 Pompano Beach businesses in the last two weeks, Broward Sheriff's Office deputies finally caught James Fraulo.According to the BSO, Fraulo, 41, has committed at least 26 burglaries ... More >>

Broward Sheriff's Office Searching for "Rooftop Burglar"

​Just as a heads-up, if someone drops into your Pompano Beach business in the middle of the night through a vent or chimney, it probably isn't Santa Claus -- it's more likely to be the "Rooftop Burglar" the Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for.BSO spokeswoman Keyla Concepción tells New Times t ... More >>

The Holmes Report: BSO Explains How It Happened

It's a grim thought, but you have to wonder how close Broward Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes may have come to getting shot on Easter Sunday. Broward sheriff's deputies surrounded Holmes' sister house in Deerfield Beach with guns drawn, believing that the house was being burglarized. They had the wr ... More >>

Guy Fieri's $200,000 Lamborghini Stolen

​ Laine Doss Awww...and he even had a shirt to match the car....​Guy Fieri, the crazy-coiffed host of Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives had his yellow and black Lamborghini stolen from a San Francisco car dealership today.

Adam Hasner Joins West in Mindless Bashing

With the rhetoric coming from Allen West and Adam Hasner, it seems only a matter of time before they start talking about protecting our precious bodily fluids against the Muslim "infiltration." Hasner​Hasner, likely U.S. Senate candidate and former Florida House majority leader who represe ... More >>

Legally Owned Handgun Used Effectively in Self-Defense (No, Seriously!)

Flickr​Charleton Heston may have joined the Great Gun Rack in the Sky, but the National Rifle Association has found a new hero: Anthony Cole of Boynton Beach. That's because Cole used his legally owned gun to ward off an attack from a man who was robbing Cole's home.According to a probable cause a ... More >>

Deerfield Mayor's Husband Suspended for Day After Locker Dispute

FlickrNoland didn't trust the locks that his bosses were giving him.​Deerfield Beach Fire Rescue Lt. Howard Noland -- husband of Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland -- has been suspended for a day without pay following an investigation into allegations that he was insubordinate when he placed his o ... More >>

Alleged Kidnapper Who Led Boynton Police on High-Speech Chase Has Lengthy Rap Sheet

This is a Dodge Magnum similar to the one that Laderic Brown is accused of stealing.​Laderic Brown has only been an adult for 23 months, but he already has a dozen criminal cases in Palm Beach County courts -- and that doesn't include the charges of home invasion, kidnapping, ramming a police crui ... More >>

Burglar Used Crucifix to Pry Open Collections Box of Lauderdale Church

Photo: Wikipedia CommonsJesus died for our sins, but that doesn't mean thieves should use his crucifix as a crowbar.​It's one thing to break one of the Ten Commandments -- in this case, Thou Shalt Not Steal. It's another thing to break that commandment by stealing from a church -- in this case, th ... More >>

Morning Juice: Insurance Company Abandons Local Teen; BSO Deputy Kills Burglar Suspect

​Let's see what's in the news this Monday morning:In a move that should come as no surprise to loyal Juice readers, Deerfield Beach's Mango Festival was canceled after one day, apparently because the promoters ran out of money to pay for the sound system. No indication whether ticket purchases wil ... More >>

Burglars Got Worst of Saturday Night Encounter With Broward Sheriffs Deputies

Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Geoffrey Brown injured his leg Saturday night after he and his partner interrupted a burglary at an unoccupied Southwest Ranches home. But a BSO news release indicates Brown was released later that night. One of the suspect burglars was not so lucky.

Morning Juice: An Eyelash Triggers a Fire; Two Sides to Accused Killer

​Here's what's happening in South Florida this Monday morning:Make room for another lucrative South Florida industry overrun with fraudsters: the time-share telemarketing business. For all their character flaws, these guys are creative about giving gifts to their girlfriends, like the dude who tri ... More >>

Mercedes Smashes Into Lauderdale Jewelry Store

The black Mercedes that smashed through the front door of Windsor Diamonds in Fort Lauderdale this afternoon did not have a political motive. I say this because after yesterday's kamikaze attack on the IRS building in Texas, we're all a bit jumpy about people driving things into buildings where they ... More >>

Cash, Weapons Stolen From Bus in Wal-Mart Parking Lot

Sketch: Broward Sheriff's OfficeA drawing of the suspect.​A bus that belonged to X-Centric Club in Deerfield Beach was robbed on January 2 -- and Broward Sheriff's Office detectives are still looking for the thief, who made off with $20,000 in cash and three handguns.The incident occurred around 1 ... More >>

Methodical Police Work Leads to Capture of Drug Store Cowboys

Photo: Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeJoseph Serkosky​This was a straightforward criminal plot: The bad guys wanted drugs. A pain clinic wall blocked their access to said drugs. So they destroyed that wall. (1) Smash; (2) Grab. Almost elegant in its simplicity. And the score was huge: some 56,000 pill ... More >>

Thief Has Jamaican Pride, Enough Video Games to Get Him Through 2013

Flickr: maxrockA guy with shoes like these treated himself to an early Christmas.​The thief remembered his gun. He brought the cord with which to bind the clerks at GameStop in Pompano Beach. And he had a Christmas shopping list, judging by the roughly two-dozen game systems he stole before the cl ... 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 >>

LA Fitness: Full of Cut Abs and Smashed Car Windows

flickr.com user: jaded rabies Not what you'd like to see after a good workout.​At the top of their corporate homepage, the compandy says "LA Fitness: Where Fitness is a Way of Life." At the Fort Lauderdale location, a block north of the intersection of Oakland Park Blvd ... More >>

Who Is Stealing Palm Beach County's Lawnmowers?

Flickr: NotleySomewhere someone is building a landscaping arsenal with stolen equipment.​All this worrying about serial cat killers and serial horse killers has led us to overlook the very serial nature of how lawn-care equipment has been vanishing from North Palm Beach County.The latest one occur ... More >>

Still No Arrests in Robbery of Canadian Tourists in Boynton Beach

What's with Boynton Beach suddenly becoming a hot spot for South Florida crime? Early yesterday, a couple of exhausted Canadian tourists trying to drive through the night to South Beach, pulled off on I-95 at Boynton Beach Boulevard, then parked at a closed gas station so they could switch drivers, ... More >>

Godly Truck Used for Evil Errand

pbso.orgThe bad guys were last seen driving this truck.​It's one thing to boost a truck from a church. It's another thing altogether to then use the church's truck to steal from landscapers. But the Palm Beach's Sheriff's Office is reporting that the two incidents over the past three days in Jupit ... More >>

South Florida's Housing Crisis Leaves Behind Ghost Towers

pbso.orgThe bad guys were last seen driving this truck.​It's one thing to boost a truck from a church. It's another thing altogether to then use the church's truck to steal from landscapers. But the Palm Beach's Sheriff's Office is reporting that the two incidents over the past three days in Jupit ... More >>

A Rash of Preschool Purse Snatchings in West Boynton

Flickr user: wyrd oneWatch out for mommy's purse, kids!What kind of criminal preys on parents waiting in line to pick up their kids from preschool? Four times in the last few weeks, unknown suspects have smashed windows and snatched purses from the cars of parents headed to pick up their kids at pre ... More >>

The Trail From a $6 Million French Art Heist Ends in Suburban South Florida

Flickr user: wyrd oneWatch out for mommy's purse, kids!What kind of criminal preys on parents waiting in line to pick up their kids from preschool? Four times in the last few weeks, unknown suspects have smashed windows and snatched purses from the cars of parents headed to pick up their kids at pre ... More >>

UPDATE: Thomas Noland's Friends Rolled Over

BSO just made public its interviews with James Rosa and Anthony Russo, the two 20-year-olds who were among the four charged with petty theft in connection with stolen campaign signs.The report indicates that both Rosa and Russo implicated Thomas Noland,  son of Deerfield Beach mayoral candidate ... More >>

High-Class Heists

Hang on tightly to those Picassos at Basel. Art crime is on the rise.

The Art of the Heist

Hang on tightly to those Picassos at Basel. Art crime is on the rise.

Blood Diamonds

Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it

To Catch a Shrimp Thief

Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it

Is R&B Singer Akon a Fraud?

Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it

Why Is Sean Taylor Dead?

Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it

The Mayor's Spin Zone

Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it

How Benevolent Is That?

Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it

To Re-Catch a Thief

For the old cat burglars, all that's left is a movie script, a book proposal, and undying hatred for one another

Race Cars 'n' Strip Bars

This Dragster's built for speed, not beauty

Slight Club

Stuck in the Panic Room, Fincher takes us to a most familiar place

Best Place to Carpool

Tri-Rail Park-and-Ride Lots

Little Shop of Horrors

The owners wanted to open a fun store in downtown Fort Lauderdale. After three burglaries in a month, the novelty wore off.