Federal Bureau of Investigation

Fort Lauderdale Firefighter Steven Loleski Arrested on Extortion Charges

A 35-year-old Fort Lauderdale firefighter has been arrested on extortion charges after, police say, he illegally recorded a conversation and tried to use it as leverage to get information out of union president William Humpherey about a criminal investigation.Steven Loleski was held on $51,000 bond ... More >>

A Fugitive on Facebook: Inside Fort Lauderdale's Most Bizarre Kidnapping

See also "Dash to Dubai: An FBI Fugitive Explains Why She Kidnapped Her Daughter and Fled Fort Lauderdale"Leslie Delbecq is a fugitive. She has a most-wanted profile, as do her parents.Since kidnapping her daughter from Fort Lauderdale in August of 2010 and fleeing to Dubai, Delbecq has been pursued ... More >>

Oscar Luis Franco Padron Staged Car Accidents, Got Eight Years in Prison and $4.3 Million In Fines

South Florida is a grifter's paradise. And the latest con to emerge in this skeezy swampland is as brazen as it is complex: staging car accidents. Earlier this week, the FBI announced that at least ten people have been sentenced in a West Palm Beach court for their role in the scheme. ... More >>

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 >>

FBI Purges Anti-Islam Training Material

​A graph contends the more devout a Muslim is, the more likely he is to be violent. An instructional document saying that in Islam, "war is the rule and peace is only temporary." The paperwork sounds like propaganda produced by Joe Kaufman or U.S. Rep. Allen West. But the documents were used to tr ... More >>

South Florida Muslims Seek a New Way to Get Along in the Wake of Terrorism Charges and Bigotry

BSO and Feds Investigate Cruise Ship Death

As we noted earlier this month, there are plenty of weird and awful ways to die on a cruise ship. Now falling can be added to the list of lethal hazards.Broward Sheriff Office investigators on Monday combed over Royal Caribbean International's Liberty of the Seas after a 47-year-old w ... More >>

Scarlett Johansson's Boobs Presented to the World by Florida Man, According to FBI

Consult the internet for less fabric.​A Jacksonville man named Christopher Chaney has been identified by the FBI as the man who graced the interwebs with nude photos of actress Scarlett Johansson.He also faces 121 years in prison for allegedly doing so.In a news conference this afternoon, the FBI ... More >>

ICE Chief Anthony Mangione Indicted in Federal Court on Kiddie-Porn Charges

​Update: Mangione pleaded not guilty to all counts. He "showed no emotion" in court, according to the Miami Herald. The head law enforcement official for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in South Florida, Anthony Mangione, has been indicted in federal court on counts of transporting, ... More >>

"Dougherty Gang," Composed of a Stripper, a Sex Offender, and Their Brother, Caught in Colorado

FBI​The FBI has confirmed that Lacoochee's Dougherty siblings -- who've been on the run since shooting at a Zephyrhills cop on August 4 -- were captured in Colorado today.Lee Grace Dougherty, a 29-year-old stripper; Ryan Edward Dougherty, a 21-year-old sex offender; and Dylan Dougherty Stanley, th ... More >>

Are More Arrests to Come in the Scott Rothstein Saga?

csmonitor.comOne year in prison down, only 49 more to go!​Four more people were charged late last week for their alleged roles in the Ponzi scheme of former Fort Lauderdale lawyer and scam-man extraordinaire Scott Rothstein.The U.S. Attorney's Office announced on Friday that Howard Kusnick, 58 ... More >>

Despite Decades of Corruption Allegations, Is the Riviera Beach Police Department Clean?

Yes On Amendment 8; More On School Board Leak Scandal

Time to talk about Amendment 8 real quick. Vote for it. ​Amendment 8 is the one that is going to give Florida school boards a little more flexibility on class sizes that were mandated by the 2002 class-size amendment. Since then the legislature has appropriated about $18 billion to fund tha ... 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 >>

Fort Lauderdale PD Helps Nail Fugitive Attempted-Murder Suspect in WPB

​On Monday, Fort Lauderdale police found the man they've been looking for -- Marquous Daunte Deyounks (left). He's accused of trying to kill a woman he'd just gotten involved with, back on July 14. A verbal dispute escalated, and Deyounks allegedly produced a knife and sliced up his new girlf ... More >>

Morning Juice: Retired Football Stars Tackled by Legal Woes; Experts Divided on Oil Spill's Effect on Florida

​It's Thursday. Here's what's in your local news:In what could be a major step toward fighting corruption in Broward County, the sheriff's office will be collaborating with the FBI to bust crooked politicians. [Daily Pulp]Poor Sapp: Retired NFL All-Pro and ex-Miami Hurricanes star Warren Sapp is o ... More >>

"Formosa Betrayed" Dismisses the Taiwanese Truth

As Fitzroy Salesman Trial Ends, Many Want to Know Who's Next

Morning Juice: Salesman Not Buying FBI's Case; Embattled Palm Beach School Official Stripped of Duty

​Here's what in the local news this morning:Local targets of the FBI corruption sting were apparently unimpressed by the case that was made against them. The same day that former Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher entered a not guilty plea to selling her office, former Miramar Co ... More >>

A South Florida Muslim Leader Refused to Be a Snitch, so the Feds Tried to Destroy Him

Inside the Arrest of Broward School Board's Beverly Gallagher

Peace, Love, and Terror

The Weather Underground talked of peace, but FBI agents say members also planned a cop killing.

South Florida Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism

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

Dilema de ADN

Hace ocho años, alquien mató a Al Sicherer. Sigue la busqueda de su asesino.

FBI Documents: Knievel Ordered South Florida Assault

If you believe the FBI, the late daredevil Evel Knievel made it a habit of harassing his rivals. He even ordered his enemies to be beaten, especially if they wouldn't back down from challenging his records. That's according to a 290-page file on Knievel released by the FBI earlier this year.& ... More >>

Spy Versus Why

Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor

Letters for December 20-26, 2007

The Tao of Brother Naz

The Liberty City Seven leader was never boring

Have Terror, Will Travel

How two FBI mercenaries cashed in on the Liberty City Seven terrorism case

Rx for Plunder

Looting the Treasury was never so easy

Alleged Hollywood Leaker Arrested

Hollywood Chief Granteed Speaks

Ace Up His Sleeve

Joe Carnahan's overly slick, heavily edited dark comedy works despite itself

Baghdad Boy

What was really behind Farris Hassan's trip to Iraq? Ask his father, who has a fascinating and checkered past.

Finding Gary, Part 2

A rogue FBI agent, tons of smuggled drugs, a wife in search of her husband's corpse

Knotty Head Bandits

In the bank robbing business, these guys are the best. They're also the most wanted.

Bombs for Babies

Stephen Jordi planned to blow up abortion clinics. Does that make him a terrorist?

The Snitch

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

Charlie Numbers

Forget the Mob ties, says ex-cop Clay, and send me to City Hall

Muslim McCarthyism

A Miramar family gets the full suspect treatment

A Family Affair

Wackenhut Corp.'s days as a South Florida firm are over, but its legacy lives on

Straw Man

A boiler-room denizen describes a hustling career

Anthrax Side Show

Media madness at disease central is no joke

Grift and Run

The FBI doesn't want you to know about Mel Ruth

Best Local Boy Gone Bad

FBI Agent David Farrall

Assail on the Fun Ship

Carnival doesn't just neglect passengers who claim to be victims of sexual assault. It attempts to shut them up.

The Emerald Ire

A former probation officer once saw the IRA as killers and the FBI as heroes. All that's changed now, as he investigates the Irish gun-smuggling case.

Oldfella

Battling cancer and investigating a botched federal investigation, mobster Vinnie Ciraolo is fighting to clear his name

The FBI's Most Wanted Agent

When Jerry Sullivan was arrested for criminal behavior, he chose to blame an unexpected source: the FBI