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Fort Lauderdale Police Department

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Nicole Okrzesik, Girlfriend of James Ayers, Arrested in Killing of Juliana Mensch

    Police say 21-year-old Nicole Okrzesik was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation of 19-year-old Juliana Mensch in late March.Police say Okrzesik and James Ayers, her boyfriend, killed Mensch after getting high with her so they could rob her and use the money for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman's Defense, and Two More Potential "Stand Your Ground" Cases in Broward County

    ​Florida's 2005 "stand your ground" law has gotten plenty of attention over the past month because of the Trayvon Martin shooting. But the case involving George Zimmerman is not the only "stand your ground" case that's come about since 2005 -- it's been cited in at least 130 cases, according ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    James Ayers Killed a Woman, Told His Friend a Week Later, Got Turned In, Police Say

    ​Police say 32-year-old James Ayers called a friend Wednesday and said he killed a woman named Julie on March 23. The friend turned him in.Fort Lauderdale Police then arrested Ayers, who was in Plantation at the West Broward Care Center, a rehab facility. Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Det. Trav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Edwin Walker Jumps Through Broward Boulevard Burger King Drive-Through Window; Employees Take Him Out (VIDEO)

    ​​Tanya Calvin was just trying to do her job yesterday, serving breakfast out of the Burger King takeout window at 666 W. Broward Blvd. A guy pulled up, she took his money, and then 31-year-old Edwin Walker came jumping in through the window like a cat burglar with a balance problem."I cashed hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Fort Lauderdale Guy in Plaid Shorts Accused of Beating Man He Thought Was Australian

    ​Fort Lauderdale Police are looking for a suspect in connection with a beating that happened at an Andrews Avenue gas station last month.Police say the charming, American-Eagle-bedecked gentleman at right was standing in line at the Shell Station at 1144 S. Andrews Ave. on February 19 when he spon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Fort Lauderdale Police Fighting Parole For Murderers Who Didn't Technically Kill Anybody

    ​In July 1974, Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Walter Ilyankoff was executed in the parking lot of a Red Lobster during a botched armed robbery attempt.The four men who committed the robbery were all convicted of first-degree murder. The three still alive are up for parole in August -- and the Fort ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Kenneth Chevelier, Caretaker of "Grotesquely" Burned Child, May Be a Rapper With a Long, Long Rap Sheet

    ​Police arrested a couple on Tuesday after a child in their care was found to have what police called a "grotesquely deformed" hand as a result of untreated burns that left her missing an entire finger and parts of two other fingers. Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Travis Mandell said he couldn't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Broward Sheriff Candidate Scott Israel: "I Have a Pristine Record"

    The Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) is one of the largest sheriff's departments in the country. It provides law enforcement, firefighting, and emergency medical services to areas across the county, as well as other services like corrections and parole supervision. Sheriff Al Lamberti is facing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Burnie Reed Arrested in Shooting of His Pregnant Ex and Her Sister

    ​Cops told us late last month that they were looking for 19-year-old Burnie Reed, who they believe was arguing with his pregnant ex-girlfriend in the street, then shot the woman's sister in the head when she tried to step in. Police say Reed then chased down his ex, shot her in the head and fled t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Broward Brady List Includes 137 Current and Former Cops, 57 of Them BSO Deputies

    ​The Broward Bulldog's Dan Christensen obtained Broward's "Brady list" -- a laundry list of cops who are being investigated for any number of reasons, ultimately to be used by defense attorneys to question the veracity of a cop's testimony.The list is the result of a 1963 Supreme Court case involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Rick Braswell, Former BSO Chaplain, Named Among "Worst Bosses in America" for 2011

    ​Two months after resigning from his position as the chaplain for the Broward Sheriff's Office, Rick Braswell has been named as one of the 100 "worst bosses in America."Braswell, who raked in a six-figure income with the sheriff's office, was accused by several female employees of numerous wro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Fort Lauderdale Men Killed Six Days and a Few Doors Apart; Cops Say Homicides Not Related

    ​The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is currently investigating the deaths of two men who were killed six days apart and only a few doors down from each other.The first victim was 51-year-old Eugene "Bow-Leg" Lynch, who was found shot to death in a residence at 837 NW Tenth Terrance on the after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Occupy Fort Lauderdale Getting Kicked Off of City Hall Property

    ​According to a communique received from a protester with Occupy Fort Lauderdale, the group will be kicked off of City Hall property (100 N. Andrews Ave.) at 5 p.m. today. The Occupiers find it reprehensible that the city would do such a thing on Thanksgiving Eve, when most people are busy with ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Fort Lauderdale Cops Face Life in Prison on a Gang of Charges; Two More Under Investigation

    Broward Sheriff's OfficeBilly Koepke (left) and Brian Dodge​Two Fort Lauderdale cops were arrested around 8:30 p.m. yesterday, charged with 36 crimes between them that include a maximum possible sentence of life in prison plus more than 100 years each.Officers Brian Christopher Dodge and Billy Cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2011

    "Occupy Fort Lauderdale" Movement Holds First Demonstration (PHOTOS)

    Photos by Stefan Kamph​They started outside the federal courthouse, and marched -- on the sidewalk, escorted by police -- to the front steps of Scott Rothstein's old digs on Las Olas. Outside the restaurant space where the local Ponzi king once cut his porterhouse, people gathered with American fl ... 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

    February 10, 2011

    Fort Lauderdale Cop Gets Canned for a Joke Involving Her Dog and Some Peanut Butter

    Via www.guzer.comThe next step in the joke is to serve this peanut butter to cops.​This will teach you never to pull a practical joke a work -- or let your dog near your coworker's jar of peanut butter.These two ingredients -- combined with a few subversive voice recordings -- was all it took to f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Sheriff Lamberti Needs To Bring Justice To Favorites, Upper Brass

    So the Broward Sheriff's Office arrested three minority jail guards on charges they helped bring contraband into the jail. The mugs of the correction officers were published at the top of the Local section of the Sun-Sentinel with the words: "Inquiry focuses on contraband and sex at a county jail." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    UPDATE: Police Close Case Against Richard Lippner With No Arrest

    Richard Lippner dated both Casey DiStefano (left) and Brianna Negron (right) before they died similar deaths earlier this year.​Richard Lippner, the wealthy Fort Lauderdale socialite under investigation after two young women died in his apartment four months apart, will not be charged with a crime ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Exclusive Video: How Baggin' a Bad Guy Cost Lauderdale Cop His Job

    Wenkiewicz, left, placing a paper bag over the head of a suspect.​John Wezkiewicz had been a Fort Lauderdale Police reserve officer for more than 20 years when in the early morning hours of November 1, 2009, he went a little too far in restraining an unruly suspect.After the jump, we'll look at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Morning Juice: Slave Labor Charges for Boca Firm; Villegas Makes Court Appearance

    ​Your look at the local news for this Thursday:A 13-year-old Hollywood boy was killed Wednesday afternoon after his 14-year-old shot him in the head. Police don't yet know whether the shooting was accidental or how the 14-year-old got the gun. [Sun-Sentinel]The owners of Quality Staffing Services ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Affidavit Describes Debauched Night for Ryan LeVin, Derek Cook That Turned Deadly

    Cook​A just-released Fort Lauderdale Police affidavit describes how Ryan LeVin and Derek Cook partied all night February 12, then into the morning of February 13, a party that came to a gruesome end around 2:18 a.m., when LeVin's speeding Porsche careered off Seabreeze Boulevard and struck two Bri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Search Launched for Missing Lauderdale Woman

    Photo: Fort Lauderdale PoliceParada in a recent photo.​A 36-year-old woman named Melanie Parada disappeared March 11 from her home on 15 Isle of Venice Fort Lauderdale. That night, a Thursday, Parada put her 8-year-old daughter to bed. When the daughter woke up that Friday morning, Parada had vani ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    After Parking Dispute, Man Beaten With His Own Bat

    Photo: Fort Lauderdale Police​Last Wednesday, in the midst of an argument over where he'd parked his Jeep, Virlyn Watson grabbed a bat, then threw it at the man he was arguing with. That man dodged the bat, then picked it up and beat Watson with it.The incident, which occurred around 1:45 in the a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Man Shot by Police in Downtown Fort Lauderdale

    Details remain vague, but Fort Lauderdale Police are investigated a shooting that occurred near the Broward County bus terminal downtown involving an off-duty officer. From the release:Preliminary investigation has revealed that a Police Sergeant was working an off-duty detail at the Broward County ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Police Release More Details in Cop Shooting

    Georges​The man who shot and wounded a Fort Lauderdale police officer this weekend before being killed has been identified as Bastiany Georges, a 29-year-old who had an extensive criminal history. The incident occurred following police attempts to make a traffic stop on Andrews Avenue. The Fort La ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    Body Found Near Freeway Identified; Death Remains Mysterious

    Paul Innamorato is the name of the man whose body was found along I-95 on September 10, but the Fort Lauderdale Police Department is still trying to learn the circumstances that brought about the 54-year-old's death. From today's release: Innamorato was staying at the Marriott Harbor Beach Hotel loc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Armed Man in Rusty Mercedes Sought by Police

    Photo: Fort Lauderdale PDAntoine Joseph​Fort Lauderdale Police are looking for the rusty Mercedes that 25-year-old Antoine Joseph allegedly used to kidnap an ex-girlfriend, Dominique Duval, 23, last night in north Fort Lauderdale. From Sgt. Frank Sousa's news release: Preliminary investigation has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    [CORRECTED] Bicyclist Badly Hurt in Lauderdale Traffic Accident

    A 2008 Toyota Scion​A bicyclist sustained life-threatening injuries this morning in an accident that occurred on West Davie Boulevard. A Fort Lauderdale Police news release says that a Toyota Scion involved in the accident was driven by Taisha Gonzalez from Coconut Creek.According to police, Gonza ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Broward Sheriffs Give Dead Inmate's Name

    Broward Sheriff's Office​Jeffrey Willis, 41, is the name of the inmate who was found dead last week at the Broward Sheriff's Office main jail. On the right, his booking photo.Here's the BSO release:The Broward County Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause and manner of death. Detective ... More >>

  • News

    April 30, 2009

    Letters From the Issue of April 30, 2009

    Broward Sheriff's Office​Jeffrey Willis, 41, is the name of the inmate who was found dead last week at the Broward Sheriff's Office main jail. On the right, his booking photo.Here's the BSO release:The Broward County Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause and manner of death. Detective ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    An Interview With the Wife of a Victim

    Lately, there has been little news about last month's most breathlessly covered local story -- the two British tourists who were killed when a drag-racing Porsche lost control and struck them as they walked along Seabreeze Boulevard. I haven't been able to find an article with more recent informatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Fort Lauderdale PD Busts Armed Robbery Ring

    Fort Lauderdale PDThe alleged ringleaderFort Lauderdale Police have arrested five men they believe are connected with at least 20 armed robberies, the department announced in a press conference today. Most of the robberies targeted construction sites and vacant houses. Police say the suspects would ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Seiler Wants to Revive Light Rail Plan

    jackseiler.comSeilerIt looks like Fort Lauderdale Mayor Elect Jack Seiler is enjoying his honeymoon. Five days after routing three other candidates in the municipal elections, he paid a Sunday morning visit to This Week in South Florida on WPLG Local 10. An unpugnacious and downright avuncular Micha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Sun-Sentinel Stiffs Fort Lauderdale Cops for Beer Fest Duty

    Sure, it might seem like bad taste to kick the Sun-Sentinel when it's down, especially when its parent company, Tribune Co., is bankrupt. But we'd say it's not bad taste to point out that the media conglomerate is writing bad checks to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.The Tribune Co. recen ... More >>

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    Solar Eclipse

    Early-rising photographer becomes "cruising for cock" suspect

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2007

    New Blog Kicking Up Dust In Deerfield

    Early-rising photographer becomes "cruising for cock" suspect

  • News

    March 15, 2007

    The Crimi-ny Ticket

    Frank Crimi may have found the foolproof get-out-of-jail-free pass.

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2007

    Sun-Sentinel Leaves Readers In The Dark

    Frank Crimi may have found the foolproof get-out-of-jail-free pass.

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2006

    The Crime That Can't Be Named?

    Frank Crimi may have found the foolproof get-out-of-jail-free pass.

  • News

    May 11, 2006

    Petrol Patrol

    The Smell of Gasoline in the Morning

  • News

    October 20, 2005

    Letters for October 20-26, 2005

    The Smell of Gasoline in the Morning

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    Fowl Play

    A Victoria Park man has been charged with the murder of Big Bird, and residents rejoice

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    A Bloody Cacophony

    John Wolmer rakes in the bucks telling journos where the action is

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    Beach Beat

    When Chris Caulfield got stomped near South Florida's most notorious nightclub, he didn't roll over

  • News

    March 8, 2001

    Undercurrents

    As Gus Boulis’ murderer wanders free, the cops wait to talk to a key player

  • News

    July 17, 1999

    The Sex Empire Strikes Back

    Adult businesses in Broward put the heat on the heat by investigating local vice cops, but their evidence is slim

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    The Sex Empire Strikes Back

    Adult businesses in Broward put the heat on the heat by investigating local vice cops, but their evidence is slim

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Undercurrents

    Adult businesses in Broward put the heat on the heat by investigating local vice cops, but their evidence is slim

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    Undercurrents

    No fast-food drive-thrus

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