Crime

Injured Pit Bulls Used For Dog Fighting Rescued In Indian River County

Three pit bulls and a puppy suspected of being a part of a dog fighting ring have been rescued by Indian River County police. The dogs were found at a home located at 4565 33rd Avenue in Vero Beach, and had injuries consistent with dog fighting, according to officials. When police found the dogs, ... More >>

John Goodman Juror to Have Ground Rules Set by Judge

John Goodman's lawyers are looking for a way to get their client a retrial, and they just may have found it. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath is set to attend a hearing that will set some ground rules for an interview with Dennis DeMartin, who Goodman's lawyers are accusing of being a ... More >>

John Goodman's Case for New Trial Goes to Judge

Last week, we told you how Polo mogul John Goodman's attorneys wanted his manslaughter, failure to render aid, and vehicular homicide sentences dropped, and for their client to be awarded a new trial, because of a self-published book written by one of the jurors. See also: - John Goodman's Lawyers ... More >>

Teens Arrested on Child-Pornography Charges After Videotaping Friends Having Sex

In a story that is equal parts heartbreaking, confounding, and just a friggin' nightmare to parents with kids of all ages, two Pasco County teens were arrested Tuesday on child-porn charges. The charges comes after one of them allegedly videotaped the other having sex with a girl on their high scho ... More >>

Broward Cops Searching for One-Gloved Bandit

Cops are on the lookout for a crafty Walgreens robber who very nearly foiled their search. Since police have highly scientific ways in which to track a thief down by means of obtaining fingerprints left at the scene of the crime, this robber thought ahead and brought himself a glove to put on so he ... More >>

Robbers Reveal Their Identities by Accidentally Pocket-Dialing Victim

Two women, Ashlie Alewine, 22, and Nakilya Latisha Wright, 18, nearly pulled off the heist of the century when they robbed the InnPlace Hotel on Fifth Avenue South in Naples. They took money from the register. And they made a clean getaway. That is, until one of them accidentally ass- ... More >>

Robbery Suspect Recognized by Victims on Facebook

A Lakeworth man is facing armed robbery and aggravated assault charges after the two men he allegedly robbed recognized him on Facebook. Dondrae Mathew Pink, 18, was picked up by Palm Beach County cops on December 7 after two 17-year-old victims pointed him out to police as the man who had robbed t ... More >>

Anthony V. Mangione, Former ICE Chief, to Be Sentenced for Child Porn

Anthony V. Mangione, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for South Florida, faces a mandatory five years in prison for child pornography. Prosecutors are shooting for up to seven years. In 2011, Mangione was placed on paid administrative leave after his internet provider, AOL, reporte ... More >>

Steven Marks Facing 40 Counts of Possessing Child Porn, Says Life Is Over

See also: Middle School Principal Scott Blake Arrested on Child Sex Charges and Rob Lopicola Child Sex Arrest: The Creepiest Text Messages You've Ever SeenBroward Sheriff's Office deputies executed a search warrant at Steven Marks' Sunrise home after his computer address was tracked down for alleg ... More >>

Mexico's Magical Homicides

Kenneth Goldstein, 86, Kills Wife, Himself in Tamarac

Police are still investigating the details, but they said yesterday evening that an "ailing" 82-year-old woman found shot to death in her Tamarac home was killed by her 86-year-old husband, who then killed himself.Someone police described as "the couple's caretaker" heard gunshots shortly before 6 a ... More >>

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

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PBSO Would Really Like to Catch the Guy Robbing Burger Kings in a Barack Obama Mask

​Somewhere in Palm Beach County, there is a man with red gloves, a Barack Obama mask, a silver handgun, and a pile of money that smells like French fries.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office sent out another news release yesterday about the string of four fast-food robberies that started in Dece ... More >>

Judge Sends Alleged Domestic Abuser on Date With Wife; Sun-Sentinel Thinks It's Adorable (UPDATED)

Update, 2:17 p.m.: Added comment from Hurley's judicial assistant.Update: 3:05 p.m.: Added comment from the president of Women In Distress.​Plantation's Joseph Bray is accused of pushing his wife onto a couch, putting his hand across her neck, and raising his fist to punch her. He was arreste ... More >>

Cops Say Stephen Saftler Kept an 800-Image Kiddie-Porn Gallery on His Work Computer

​Downloading child pornography anywhere isn't the greatest idea, but at the workplace -- c'mon, man.Still, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department says that's what 62-year-old Stephen Saftler's been doing, as they served a warrant at his workplace in Sunrise yesterday.After seizing the computer in S ... More >>

Broward Hate Crimes Totaled More Than Any Other Florida County Last Year

​There were fewer hate crimes in Broward in 2010 than in 2009, but it's still a higher total than any other county in Florida.The 2010 report of hate crimes statewide was released today by the attorney general's office, which reports 19 of the state's 149 hate crimes last year occurred in Broward. ... More >>

Man Killed at Dania Beach Party, Cops Looking for Alleged Shooter and "Person of Interest"

Broward Sheriff's OfficeEric Hunter​A 20-year-old man was shot and killed at a Dania Beach street party early Saturday morning, and the Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for both the alleged shooter and a "person of interest" wanted for questioning.Dijon Brown, a Hollywood resident, was ... More >>

Stealing From the Rich to... Oh, Whatever. Funny Is the Message in "Tower Heist"

West Palm Beach Head Shop Workers Busted for Allegedly Selling Fake Weed

Not weed. But still not legal.​The main problem with selling the false weed commonly known as "spice" -- it's illegal too.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrested 37-year-old Monica Lee, owner of the Hidden Treasure Smoke Shop in West Palm Beach, and one of her employees, 27-year-old Hope S ... More >>

SlutWalk South Florida Hitting the Streets in Early 2012

​The SlutWalk movement is finally coming to South Florida.SlutWalk South Florida has started to develop its online presence, hand out fliers, and begin planning demonstrations to curb sexual assaults and the blame sometimes associated with sexual-assault victims.There's no precise date set for Sou ... More >>

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 >>

Cliff Reynolds Sent Undercover Cop Loads of Child Porn and Asked Him to Ejaculate in a Cup

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeCliff Reynolds​Cliff W. Reynolds -- who went by "peter_rabbit57" in Yahoo! chat rooms -- spent about five months talking dirty and sending kiddie porn to an undercover Boynton Beach cop over the web.That kiddie porn part is why Reynolds was sentenced yesterday to ... More >>

Cops Serve Warrant on Kiddie Porn Suspect and Find Him, of Course, Downloading Kiddie Porn

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeClaudio Vindal, who's "very knowledgeable" with computers.​Police served a warrant Thursday at Claudio Vidal's Boca Raton apartment, suspecting he'd been downloading child pornography.Sure enough, the cops walked in and found Vidal's computer screen on and mid ... More >>

West Palm Pedophile Gets 40 Years in the Pen for Letting the Cops Know He Molests Kids

Florida Department of Law EnforcementPedophile Allen Mark Levinson​Allen Mark Levinson likes molesting kids so much that even with a previous conviction for aggravated sexual abuse, he decided to let the cops know again -- in a chatroom called "dadanddaughtersex" -- that he molested his daughter t ... More >>

Deputies Tell Victims of Strip-Club Shooting to Drive Themselves to the Hospital

Would she have gotten better medical attention?​Deputies of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office told two women wounded June 30 in a strip-club shooting to drive themselves to the hospital, according to a police report obtained by the Pulp.So 40-year-old Janie Scott of Boynton Beach and  23 ... More >>

Marcelo Riveros, West Palm Beach Kiddie Rapist, Gets Life in the Hoosegow

PBSOChild rapist Marcelo Riveros​Marcelo Riveros -- a Palm Beach man convicted of raping a young girl "a lot" over several years -- was sentenced yesterday to life in prison, plus an extra 25 years just in case.Riveros, 41, was arrested in March 2009 after the girl and her mother went to the cops ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Motel Owner Finds Out His Building Is Home to 24 Perverts -- Now It's Not

arrogantatheist.comDon't invite the Sun-Sentinel to your next pervert party.​The Sun-Sentinel sure knows how to ruin a pervert party.The paper had been working on a story detailing how hard it is for sex offenders to find a place to live in South Florida when it noticed that 24 registered sexual d ... More >>

Trial of Alleged "Demonically Possessed" Rapist and Tag-Teaming Brother Ends in Hung Jury

Broward Sheriff's OfficeGuy Cherubin (left) and Harold Cherubin​A new trial will be scheduled next week after a jury couldn't decide whether 34-year-old Guy Cherubin and 32-year-old Harold Cherubin kidnapped a Fort Lauderdale woman and raped her in 2006.The men are accused of forcing the woman int ... 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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Experts Say a Deputy's Tale About Getting Shot Doesn't Add Up

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 >>

Teens Arrested for String of Armed Burglaries

A group of four Boynton Beach adolescents, ranging from age 14 to 17, are behind at least six cases of armed robbery, according to Boynton Beach Police who apprehended the four today and are investigating whether the teens committed even more robberies.Their names: Gary Finklea, 17; Tydarius William ... More >>

Herald Blogger Calls New Times Article Baloney, Forgets to Read Past the Second Section

This morning, Miami Herald reporter Steve Rothaus criticized New Times' cover story "Escape from South Beach." The blogger, who focuses on gay issues, cites one statistic, writing: "It's bit over the top." The article -- if you haven't seen it -- takes a look at three things. 1) The fact that South ... More >>

At Speech in West Palm Beach, Attorney General Eric Holder Touts Fraud Task Force

Flickr: MainJusticeEric Holder​What better place to promote a new Justice Department task force against financial fraud than South Florida? Specifically, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gave his speech this afternoon at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, which staged a luncheon in his honor at ... More >>

Are Florida Gang Members Using Twitter?

​A recent news story on The Business Insider got me thinking about something. If New York gang members are using Twitter to talk to one another and organize fights, robberies, etc. then could Florida gangsters be doing the same?Of course, Twitter has sub-cultures just like any other group ven ... More >>

Dead Body Found in Fort Lauderdale; Police Open Murder Investigation

This morning Fort Lauderdale Police found the body of a dead woman at 201 Northwest 20th Avenue. They believe she was murdered. Judging by the press release, they don't know much more than that.Police and Fire responded to the location and confirmed that they had a deceased person. This is an activ ... More >>

Deerfield Beach Murder Suspect Found in Alabama

About six weeks after a Honduran man, Elvin Sanchez, was found murdered in a residential neighborhood of Deerfield Beach, the man suspected of killing him is in custody. That suspect is 22-year-old Ronald Rivera, who was working as a carpenter in Birmingham, Alabama.From the Broward Sheriff's Office ... More >>

Siren Call: You're Attracted to a Lady in Uniform; She's Attracted to Drunk Drivers

Photo: Boynton Beach Police Department​For single men who go to singles bars, then drink till they're charming: Opportunity knocks on the streets of Boynton Beach. Actually, that's not a knock so much as a... police siren? Those flashing lights must mean this one wants it bad. Was it your tricked- ... More >>

Bike-Riding, Guilt-Ridden Rape Suspect Makes Easy Target for Broward Deputies

Eduardo Josue Ortizromero, an 18-year-old suspected of raping two women, aged 18 and 25, has been arrested by Broward Sheriff's Office deputies in Dania Beach. Judging by the news release, he made it easy for cops and prosecutors -- riding the bike associated with one rape and then giving a quick c ... More >>