Crime and Law

Dilbert Coreas, Alleged MS-13 Gangbanger, Worked Kids' Parties, Gave Pony Rides and Operated Bounce Houses

If you ordered up a bounce house for Junior's birthday or celebrated a quince with a pony ride in South Florida over the past few months, you might want to listen up. According to police, a suspected gangbanger with some nasty associations may have been splitting his time between law breakin' and a ... More >>

Pollo Tropical Offering Free Food In Exchange For Your Old Cellphones

A new year is a great opportunity to practice the "out with the old, in with the new" mantra. If you're like most people "the old" includes piles of obsolete junk hidden in dark corners of the house or stuffed into impossible-to-open drawers. In every secreted-away collection of crap exists at least ... More >>

Cops Arrest Woman With Meth Hidden in Her Vagina

Alyssa Ainsworth, and her boyfriend, Ronald Stidd, were pulled over by police on West Second Street and Naranja Road in Valusia County on Friday for driving with an expired tag. But upon further inspection, an expired tag was the least Ainsworth had going against her. She was also driving with a s ... More >>

Polo Mogul John Goodman to Stay in Jail Through Thanksgiving

Well, at long last it looks like John Goodman's douche caught up to him, and he is finally going to spend some time in the slammer. The International Polo Club owner, who has been under house arrest on a DUI manslaughter charge for killing 23-year-old Scott Wilson back in February 2010 with his ca ... More >>

Mandy Dawson Gets Six Months for Tax Evasion

Though former Fort Lauderdale legislator Mandy Dawson said in April that "no different than any other person walking the streets of America" with tax problems, she's certainly different from people walking the streets now: She'll be locked up.Dawson was sentenced to six months in prison today a ... More >>

South Florida Earns a Spot on the List of "Judicial Hellholes" for the Ninth Year in a Row

​Another year has just about gone by, which means it's time for South Florida to appear once again on the American Tort Reform Association's list of "judicial hellholes."Now every year since 2003 -- when they actually just picked Miami-Dade County -- South Florida has maintained its spot among ... More >>

Allen West Admits 13 Months Later That He Was in a "White Supremacist Motorcycle Gang"

Allen West, self-admitted former member of a "white supremacist motorcycle gang."​Remember that absurd attack on Rep. Allen West stating that he'd been in sort of a motorcycle "gang" that didn't care too much for nonwhite people?Well, it's true, West admits -- 13 months after NBC Nightly News ran ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Man Says He Accidentally Shot His Little Brother in the Head, Killing Him

Felix Phelps told police he accidentally shot his 17-year-old brother in the head.​A Fort Lauderdale man says he accidentally shot and killed his 17-year-old brother over the weekend as the boy was helping his older brother close down the gas station he worked at, police say.Fort Lauderdale Police ... More >>

ACLU To Florida: "Two Lawsuits. Three Days Apart. And It's Only The Beginning."

aclufl.orgACLU of Florida's Howard Simon​The American Civil Liberties Union says Florida is "ground zero" in their fight for civil liberties -- which explains why it filed two lawsuits in three days against Gov. Rick Scott-approved legislation.The ACLU filed two federal lawsuits last week -- o ... More >>

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 >>

Dalia Dippolito Guilty Verdict Comes After a Reality-TV Defense Not Based on Actual Reality

When Dalia Dippolito's trial began on charges that she tried to have her husband killed, her defense attorney dropped a bombshell. Attorney Michael Salnick claimed in opening statements that Dalia's husband, Michael, had planned the whole thing in an attempt to get on reality TV. It was a crazy defe ... More >>

Bill Nelson Warns Rick Scott to Veto Election Bill or Face a Federal Investigation

State lawmakers want to keep people from having sex with animals. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson wants to keep lawmakers from screwing voters.​Although it seems like Gov. Rick Scott will make the bold and progressive move of banning bestiality, he still plans to screw voters. The election overhaul bill, wh ... More >>

The Judge And The Wiseguys

Broward Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato made her name as a Mafia fighter. As a former prosecutor and cop, she has both presided over, tried, and investigated high-profile mob cases.  John "Johnny Meatballs" Piteo is oft-convicted bookmaker with suspected organized crime ties who has done two str ... More >>

Richard Rubin Pleads Guilty, Faces Likely Prison Term

Richard Rubin, with his attorney David Bogenschutz at his side, was contrite in federal court as he pleaded guilty to a tax evasion charge. An emotional Rubin, who is the husband of criminally charged former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, admitted to Judge William Zloch that ... More >>

Kids Claim Abuse and Violence at Juvenile Lockup Thompson Academy

Judges Meet, Expect Florida Court Crisis To Soon Hit Broward

Outgoing Chief Judge Victor Tobin called a closed-door meeting of all 90 Broward judges this afternoon to discuss a budget shortfall that is threatening to shut down courthouses across the state. During the meeting, the idea was raised to "call the bluff" of Rick Scott and the Florida House and ... More >>

Eddie Santana Makes Six Figures by Suing Restaurants From the Inside

Florida Among Top Three States Targeted for a New Form of Identity Theft

flickr.com​How low can you go? Apparently six feet under wasn't low enough for the Fort Lauderdale man sentenced to nine years in federal prison last Friday for stealing identification from mourners attending funerals as part of an ID theft ring. But Diaz's funeral fraud ring isn't the only s ... More >>

New York Hedge Funds Strike Back In Rothstein Suit

We've heard all about how the Centurion and Platinum hedge funds in New York sank hundreds of millions of dollars into Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme.  Fort Lauderdale attorney Bill Scherer is suing them, claiming they were privy to the fraud and now must cough up ... More >>

From Government Snitch to Best-Selling Author, Andrés López Exposes the Cocaine Cartels

Haitian Kidnappers Kill an American Federal Agent in Their Quest to Abduct a Child

Cell Phones in Prison: A Former Inmate Explains the Real Deal

flickr.com​A former long-serving federal inmate living in South Florida says the real reason for the proliferation of cell phones in prisons has more to do with privately owned institutions gouging inmates and their families with ridiculously overpriced phone time than it does organized crime.The ... More >>

BSO Jail Guard Romanced Suspected Cop Killer

We all know that three Broward Sheriff's Office deputies were arrested earlier this month and charged with supplying contraband to inmates and having sex with them.    Deitrick Johnson and Dep. Kiara Walker (inset)​The shocking part, though, is the identity of  ... More >>

Ann Coulter Watch: "Like a Condom, The First Amendment Can't Always Protect You."

​This week, our favorite local virgin published her most vapid screed yet at Human Events, her "editorial home." Wondering why our nation's top "legal eagles" have yet to make a compelling case for the criminal prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, she draws on her lawyerly training to ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Car Accident? Doctors and Lawyers in the 411-PAIN Network Will Line Their Pockets With Your Insurance Money

Boris the Bandit Forces Pompano GameStop to Close

The closer.​Wanna close a GameStop? Then rob it. Twice.It seems to have worked for Boris the Bandit -- the fellow who robbed the GameStop outlet at 2223 SW 22nd St. in Pompano Beach, twice in the past 12 months and most recently on November 6. We cannot be absolutely certain the same man was behin ... More >>

The Law Considered Jose Torres to be a Child -- Until the Friend he Allegedly Shot Died

All grown up.​Jose Torres is a child who will be tried as an adult on a manslaughter charge for allegedly accidentally shooting his playmate in the face.Adults, as it turns out, have "playmates."Jose, a 17-year-old Deerfield Beach teenager, shot that playmate in the face with a 9-mm pistol, which ... More >>

Renegade Miami Subs Manager Wrestles Gun from Robbery Suspect, Traps Him Until Police Arrive

flickr.com​Never bring a gun to a sandwich fight.Steve Lebrun, a manager at the Miami Subs on Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale had an amazing encounter with a robber on Sunday evening, according to police. The suspect, Devane Jenkins, entered the restaurant at 661 West Sunrise Boulevard Sunday ... More >>

Antonio Balta Got 20 Years for Leaving His Baby in a Hot Car. Was the Sentence Too Harsh?

Spate of SoFla Bank Robberies is Dramatic, but Not Unusual

​This past week saw a series of headline-friendly bank robberies in South Florida. Two of them involved bomb threats scribbled on notes, in which the offenders were arrested within minutes of the attempted robberies. The most recent, at the BankAtlantic branch on Fairway Drive in Deerfield, was mo ... More >>

PBSO Launches New Program to Manage Sex Offenders, Not Just Exile Them

Professor Jill Levenson says not all sex offenders are alike.​In a world where residency restrictions exile convicted sex offenders to live under bridges and on park benches, a glimmer of sanity has emerged. Working with psychology professors at Lynn University, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Off ... More >>

Asylum Denied

Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

Bondsman Busted for Drug Trafficking Was Accidental Chauffeur for Bank Robber

From FacebookManny Periu's colorful career as a bondsman may be over.​Turns out last week's Juice post about bondsman Manny Periu was not his first brush with local news infamy. In June 2008, Periu and his bail bonds partner were featured in this exclusive CBS4 report about how they unknowing ... More >>

Seized: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital

For Polo Mogul John Goodman, Other Celebrity DUI Cases Offer Hope of Minimal Punishment

Facebook.comScott Wilson, 23, drowned in a canal after Goodman's Bentley crashed into his car.​As polo mogul John Goodman faces vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter charges for the Wellington car accident that led to the death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson, many wonder if he'll receive special le ... More >>

Report on Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection Finds Florida Ahead of Southern Neighbors

​Good luck getting onto a jury in the South if you're black. And if you're a black defendant, good luck challenging the fact that the prosecutor eliminated potential jurors just because of the color of their skin. Unless you live in Florida.The Sunshine State's laws aimed at protecting jurors from ... More >>

Four Kids From South Florida Led the World's Biggest Online Identity Heist

Juice Obtains Civil Suit Filing Against Chiquita Listing 242 Plaintiffs

Today's suit alleges Chiquita funded AUC terrorists​The Juice has obtained the 110-page civil suit filed yesterday in West Palm Beach Federal District Court on behalf of 242 Colombian plaintiffs against Chiquita Brands International. The suit, brought by Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, which ha ... More >>

He Really Is a Saint!

Not So Rockwellesque

Mutual Benefits Con Man Joel Steinger Spent a Lifetime Getting Mobbed Up

Chinese Drywall Leaves Florida Homeowners Looking for Someone to Blame

High-Class Heists

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

Muscles, Murder, and a Messiah, Part 2

Gil Fernandez Jr. could be responsible for as many as nine murders. If he's truly repentant, his former prosecutor says, he needs to confess his sins.

The Snitch

Meet John Mamone -- devoted father, Mafia soldier, government witness

The Deadbeat Goes On

The state legislature should soon pass a bill criminalizing failure to pay child support, but those who live within the system say this reform doesn't go nearly far enough

The Unforgiven

Bryant Troville served out his sentence for his sexually violent acts. His prospects for freedom? Not good.

Secrets and Crimes

Four years after hed been convicted of murder in Belgium, Jean-FranCois Buslik was a pilot and a family man living quietly in North Palm Beach. Then justice came calling.