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  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Do You Recognize This Lady Accused of Cashing Stolen Checks From Palm Beach County?

    The charming woman pictured at right is accused of stealing checks out of two cars in Wellington and Royal Palm Beach on March 24. From the looks of those wide eyes and her death grip on the steering wheel, she spends a lot of money on caffeinated beverages.I've requested more information (which ban ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Police Say This Guy on a Razor Scooter Robbed a 97-Year-Old Woman

    On April 12, a 97-year-old woman was out with her 85-year-old sister, doing what old folks do. Police didn't say what they were doing, exactly -- probably drinking milk shakes and talking about Herbert Hoover or how crazy air travel is or whatever people talk about when they're pretty much made of d ... 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

    April 3, 2012

    Bank Robber Drops Cash All Over I-75, FBI Asks For It Back, Nobody Gives It Back

    ​The FBI announced a $5,000 reward yesterday for information leading to the arrest of a man they say robbed a Pembroke Pines Wells Fargo bank on March 29.Police say the man fled on a dark-colored sport bike with the money stuffed in a black backpack. The backpack then opened on Interstate 75 and d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    BSO News Release Calls Suspect in Botched Robbery a "Tool" (VIDEO)

    ​A suspect wearing black pants and a white shirt tried to swipe two impact drills from a West Park Home Depot last month but ended up staging one of the clumsiest almost-robberies we've seen on tape.The security footage shows the man grabbing the drills and actually taking them to a register, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    South Florida Muslims Meet With BSO Officials, Urge Collaboration

    ​The men file in slowly to the meeting room at the Broward Sheriff's Office headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. "As-Salaam-Alaikum," they greet one another, shaking hands, smiling warmly at a Sunrise police officer they recognize from prayer services.About 25 men are here, some wearing skull caps, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Gang Activity May Be to Blame in Boynton Beach Double Homicide

    ​Whatever happened in the 1600 block of NE Second Court in Boynton Beach, it's all bad news.Sisters Janice Rahming, 54, and Daphne Clemons, 41, were both shot and killed Saturday night by unnamed suspects who police believe are dangerous enough that a Boynton Beach Police spokeswoman sent out an e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Broward Sheriff's Office Looking for Suspects in West Park Murder, Burglary

    ​The Broward Sheriff's Office has released several images of suspects in two separate Broward crimes.The first suspect, on the far left, is wanted in connection to an attempted burglary in West Park -- a woman discovered the man in her dining room around 9 a.m. Friday, according to police; as she ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2012

    Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Gets Its First Homicide of 2012

    ​Thirty hours and 30 minutes into 2012, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office began investigating its first homicide of the year.The PBSO announced this morning that 49-year-old James McMillan was working at his Belle Glade grocery store when he was shot during an attempted robbery around 6:30 a. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Cattle Thieves on the Loose in Wellington; Abducted Bovine Count Up to Six

    zazzle.comAliens: NOT the suspects.​The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is looking for a pair of dudes who jacked six heads o' cattle from a Wellington property.The agricultural-crimes unit at the Sheriff's Office says three bulls and three cows were taken from the northeast corner of 50th Stre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Releases New Sketch of Serial Rapist

    PBSOSuspected serial rapist​The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has released a new sketch of the "very violent" serial rapist police believe has sexually assaulted five women between July 2009 and September 2011.The sheriff's office connected the most recent attack from September 23 to the seri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Fort Lauderdale Cops Investigating Shooting Death

    ​The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is currently investigating a shooting last night that left one man dead.According to Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Travis Mandell, the shooting took place around 9:50 p.m. yesterday in the 1100 block of NE 16th Court.Mandell says that when officers arrived ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Subway Workers Told Man They Didn't Sell $2 Sandwiches, So He Shot Them

    Broward Sheriff's OfficeCops say this guy discovered Subway doesn't sell $2 sandwiches and shot the people working there.​A man walked into a Fort Lauderdale Subway store last night and asked the two employees if they sold $2 sandwiches.The employees said they didn't, so the guy demanded cash and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Boynton Beach Cops Looking for Man Who Had Extremely Difficult Time Stealing Cigarettes

    splicetoday.comThat would be Santa puffin' on a cancer stick.​Boynton Beach police are looking for a guy who made an ass out of himself stealing $1,300 worth of cigarettes from a Walgreens on Monday.The cops say the man went into the store with a woman who distracted the clerk of the store by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    PBSO Looking for a Couple of Rapists, Including One Violent Serial Rapist

    PBSOWho has two thumbs and is a suspected rapist? That guy.​If you know a guy who may or may not have raped four women and looks a lot like the dude in the picture to the right, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office would like to know about that.Detectives from PBSO are looking for the "very viol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    BSO Seeking Damaged Jaguar in Hit-and-Run Death That Flung Bicyclist Over Train Tracks

    motortrend.comA maroon 2001 Jaguar S-Type, similar to the one suspected of killing Kevin Hamill this morning.​If you know anybody who drives a 2000 to 2002 maroon Jaguar S-Type and the car is missing a few front-end parts -- as if the car had recently killed a bicyclist by launching him over some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    North Lauderdale Old-Lady Rapist on the Loose

    ​The cops are looking for a man who they say climbed through the bedroom window of a North Lauderdale home and raped an 84-year-old woman last night.The woman told police she was watching television at her house around 10 p.m. yesterday when the man knocked on her front door.She told Broward Sheri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Escorts Who Met Clients at Hotel Rooms Found Themselves at the End of a Gun, Cops Say

    ​Police say a gang of men came up with a novel idea for a series of robberies: Call escorts, meet them at hotel rooms, and then rob them at gunpoint. For some reason, the robberies sometimes ended in the men pepper spraying the escorts. In response, cops from Plantation Police, Fort Lauderdale Pol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Sketch Released of Suspect Who Beat and Robbed 88-Year-Old Pompano Woman

    ​The Broward Sheriff's Office released this sketch today of the suspect who they say beat and robbed an elderly woman during a home invasion last week. Last Tuesday, shortly before 10 p.m., the suspect busted into the Pompano Beach home of 88-year-old Pearl Patrinos, punched her in the face, threa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    McDonald's Robbery: I Am So Not Lovin' This

    ​It's shaping up to be a bad month for national fast-food franchises. First Pizza Hut gets a visit from a pair of towel-wearing banditos. Now this.A very similar crime happened Monday at the McDonald's just west of I-95: Another dude with a gun places his order, as in orders a cashier to give him ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Who Belongs to This Plunging Neckline? (Palm Beach Sheriff Wants to Know)

    Photo: PBSO​The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office doesn't have the same flair for giving its criminal suspects colorful nicknames as Broward Sheriff's Office, but maybe we can help. In this surveillance photo you can see two women wanted for using a stolen credit card to make purchases at Target and Bes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    [UPDATED] Lauderdale Police Name Suspect in Hit-and-Run

    Photo courtesy Fort Lauderdale PoliceIver Sui​A Lake Worth resident named Iver Siu has been named as the suspected driver in last week's hit-and-run on State Road 84 that left a 13-year-old boy in critical condition.That boy, who has not been named, was crossing the westbound lanes of State Road 8 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Van Strikes 13-Year-old, Flees the Scene

    Around 3:55 this afternoon, we got another hit-and-run case in Fort Lauderdale. Sounds like this case will be easier to break than the others, thanks to a motorist who chased down the suspect. From the Fort Lauderdale Police news release:Investigators have learned that a 2001 Dodge van was traveling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Cyclist Involved in Accident With Lauderdale Police Car Dies From Injuries

    William Schramm, the 65-year-old man who was struck by a Fort Lauderdale police cruiser on Las Olas Boulevard on Saturday, has died from his injuries.According to the Fort Lauderdale police news release, at 12:04 a.m., Schramm's bicycle was eastbound on East Las Olas Bouelvard, making a left turn on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Sheriffs Report Another Child Missing

    Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeJainy Santos-Ramos​A search has been launched for a 14-year-old girl, Jainy Santos-Ramos, who is said to be a "habitual runaway." The girl's father first reported that the girl disappeared on January 25. She returned on February 3, only to vanish again that night. Sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Boynton Police Working Possible Child Abduction This Morning

    http://images02.olx.aeThe girl was taken by a man driving a vehicle similar to the one pictured here.​Boynton Beach police are investigating a possible child abduction this morning. The girl, age 4 or 5, was wearing pink shorts and a white top with pink flowers. She was taken from a bus stop in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Description of Suspect in Las Olas Hit and Run

    Fort Lauderdale police have just released a description of the SUV driver who struck and killed Carolyn Bianco and injured her friend, Victoria Kirby, earlier this month:He has been described as a white/light skinned male, 30s, dark hair, possibly worn slicked back, clean shaven, and slender built. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Search Intensifies in Hit-and-Run Case, Now a Homicide

    Carolyn Bianco, the 65-year-old woman who was struck last week by an SUV while crossing Las Olas Boulevard, has died. That means vehicular homicide charges against whoever was driving that SUV, last seen heading east on Las Olas.The Fort Lauderdale police news release says that the other woman who w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Victims Identified in Boynton Shooting

    Benton Lineau is the name of the man who was driving a gold Lincoln Navigator last night, when he was shot in the chest, say Boynton Beach Police. The 23-year-old, who crashed into a home on the 2000 block of Northeast 3rd Street, died later at Delray Trauma Center.Police were investigating that sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    If You Have a Mustang Cobra and You Live in Pompano Beach...

    Flickr: CalifDreama​... then either your Cobra's already been swiped or this pack of thieves is working on it. From the press release:It's unclear why the thieves are choosing the souped-up Mustangs and how they located four of them in the same upscale neighborhood in southeast Pompano Beach. Some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Car Alarm Leads Lauderdale Burglary to Escalate to Sexual Assault

    Javerros Wright​The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is reporting that a man broke into a woman's car early this morning. After the woman came outside to investigate the alarm, the thief sexually assaulted her, say police.Javerros Wright, 22, was arrested in connection with the incident, which oc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Bank Robbery on Las Olas

    Photo: Fort Lauderdale PD​No, this one didn't involve Scott Rothstein. It was the lonely, forlorn creature to the left, who came to the SunTrust at 501 E. Las Olas this morning, then waited patiently for other customers to leave. This is from the Fort Lauderdale Police news release:Once he was alo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Video of Boynton Purse Snatcher

    Boynton Beach Police are hoping this newly released video of a Britney Spears look-alike purse snatcher and her accomplice help nab the pair. Shortly after this scene, the young woman in the foreground exercises her sticky fingers, boldly grabbing the Kate Spade purse belong to a 79-year-old woman w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Release the Hounds! Priceless Whisky Is Missing!

    Flickr: Arroz con NoriMy precious...​If the man who stole the bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue from the Weston liquor store thought that this blog -- which covers only major breaking crime stories -- was going to overlook this case, well, that person does not know this blog. We will solve this case, ... 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 22, 2009

    Oh #%&@! Cars Are Talking to Loxahatchee Schoolchildren.

    Flickr: Loren JavierKids: Do not talk to cars, especially when you're gobbling psychedelics.​Hot off the wire from the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office: There have been several suspicious incidents in the area of Osceola Creek Middle School, Loxahatchee in the last week or so. We have two vehicles tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Hey, Laser Geeks: Stop Playing Star Wars at the Palm Beach Airport

    Flckr user: pedrosimoes7Keep your lasers out of my eyes!​More than 20 times in the past year, pranksters have shone a green laser beam into the cockpits of planes landing at Palm Beach International Airport, attempting to blind the pilots. No planes have crashed, but at least one pilot was injured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    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 >>

  • 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 5, 2009

    A Caper That's Genius for Its Simplicity

    Flickr User: mitten melee1) Grab diamond 2) Run like hell​Jewel thieves tend to over-think the heist, often with disastrous results -- as you might remember from Before the Devil Knows Your Dead. A thief who hit Galleria Mall yesterday did not make this mistake. He simply walked into Zales and... ... 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 27, 2009

    Ironic T-Shirt an Accessory to Robbery

    Photo by Dom Cruz​At least since Bonnie and Clyde, criminals have been fashion trendsetters. Now an unidentified thief appears to be seeking similar icon status, days after wearing a "POLICE" T-shirt to an armed robbery in Pompano Beach.The BSO news release tells of a 35-year-old woman named Franc ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Firebug on the Loose. May Dance Like James Brown.

    It seems an odd target of a violent crime, but a Pompano Beach party supply company called Rides, Slides, and Games was set ablaze by five arsonists -- or as the Broward Sheriff's office calls them, "firebugs" -- on Sunday night. Five males, all with their faces covered, poured gasoline over a bunch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2008

    Crime Stoppers Cares (If You're A Cop)

    It seems an odd target of a violent crime, but a Pompano Beach party supply company called Rides, Slides, and Games was set ablaze by five arsonists -- or as the Broward Sheriff's office calls them, "firebugs" -- on Sunday night. Five males, all with their faces covered, poured gasoline over a bunch ... More >>

  • News

    April 17, 2008

    Letters for April 17-23, 2008

    It seems an odd target of a violent crime, but a Pompano Beach party supply company called Rides, Slides, and Games was set ablaze by five arsonists -- or as the Broward Sheriff's office calls them, "firebugs" -- on Sunday night. Five males, all with their faces covered, poured gasoline over a bunch ... More >>

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