Hollywood Police Department

John Sims, Cooper City Commissioner, Posts Racist Obama Message on Facebook

Cooper City city commissioner John Sims is considered to be "outspoken." A straight-shooter who isn't afraid to "tell it like it is." He's also mind-blowingly racist. As Bob Norman reports, Sims had himself a racisorgasm and threw out every racial stereotype anyone has ever said pertaining to Obam ... More >>

Jason Kertesz May Have Beaten His Mother to Death With a Baseball Bat, Police Say

Broward Sheriff's OfficeJason Kertesz​An arrest report from the Hollywood Police Department says 29-year-old Jason Kertesz -- who's been charged with the murder of his 62-year-old mother -- may have beaten her to death with a baseball bat.Irene Kertesz's husband found her dead in her Hollywood hom ... More >>

Hollywood 3-Year-Old Returned to Mother; He Was Missing for Hours Before Anyone Noticed

Hollywood PDThis kid was out for a Sunday stroll this weekend, unbeknown to his caregivers.​Hollywood cops spent much of Sunday trying to find the parents of a 3-year-old boy whom a man found wandering around on the street.At least 4.5 hours later, the boy's aunt called the cops to report him miss ... More >>

Victim Identified in Fatal Motorcycle Crash in Hollywood

The Miami firefighter killed Thursday night when his motorcycle was struck by car has been identified as Leslie F. Luma, 37, from Miramar.According to details just released by Hollywood Police Department, Luma was riding his 2005 Suzuki motorcycle north on State Road 7 Thursday night at 8:46 pm when ... More >>

Hollywood Animal Rights Protesters Get Protested

Tara Nieuwesteeg​ Many people were very confused as they drove down Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday. There was a full-on protest on both sides of the street, replete with colorful signs, matching T-shirts, chanting, music, and adults wearing large, heavy dog costumes. Some drivers thought it was a ... More >>

Lyrikill.com Bumrushes South Florida TV Reporters

Hollywood Man Killed in Botched Robbery

Photo: Florida Department of CorrectionsOteger Greene​A 27-year-old man from Hollywood died from gunshot wounds this weekend after he was shot during a struggle with another man in Lake City. But detectives are only recently pieced together the sequence of events that led to his death, according t ... More >>

Have Picture of Cab Stabber, But No Motive

Photo: Hollywood PD​Driving a cab is hard enough work without your fare knifing you after he arrives at his destination. So let's all help Hollywood Police get the guy in the picture. Squint if you have to.Judging by the news release, it doesn't seem that the stabber made off with any money, aside ... More >>

A Department Or a Demolition Derby?

Flickr User: definity_fallsHow many dents does it take to wreck a Hollywood cop's career?​Just as cats get nine lives, Hollywood Police officers get 9 wrecks. Or at least that appears the case with Officer Joel Francisco, who averaged almost one per year over an 11-year career, according to a revi ... More >>

CSI Recruits Cop From Troubled Hollywood PD

Hollywood police have a new set of pecs.Hit cop show CSI Miami is getting a new cast member -- a cop from the Hollywood Police Department. There's no indication yet whether the show is looking to do a ripped-from-the-headlines-type treatment of the new character, who will be played by the usually sh ... More >>

Cause of Fire That Damaged Hollywood Mayor's Law Office Under Investigation

A street shot of the office building that houses Bober's law officeA fire at the building that houses the law office of Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober is being investigated by police for possible arson.According to a Hollywood Fire Department spokesman, Mark Steele, a fire struck in the upper floors of ... More >>

Vigilante Dumper Hits Hollywood Police HQs

Photo courtesy Stephan ClevelandThe car parts decorating a Hollywood man's front lawn.For people like Stephan Cleveland who are trying sublet a condo, the weekend is prime time for prospective tenants to come calling. Which is why he was mighty peeved when on Friday afternoon, he discovered a pile o ... More >>

Ken Jenne, What About Those Legal Bills?

When trouble brewed, former Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne was quick to spend our tax  dollars on lawyers to try to help him get out of trouble. Most infamously, he engineered the payment of $1.2 million to his good friend and political supporter Tom Panza to "investigate" the ... More >>

With a Bullet

Corruption-busting lawyer Bruce Udolf wants to be Broward sheriff. After the Ken Jenne experience, though, are voters too suspicious of lawyers turned cops?

Dirty South

Sex in the CRA

Hollywood clamped down on a bar for sexual high jinks, but a high-ranking city official gets frisky and walks

Norm, Norm, and NORML

Who's Smokin' Funny Cigarettes?

How´s Your Slime IQ?

Take the Broward Corruption Quiz

Mayor's Boy

You know Mara and Stacey. Now, meet Michael, the Giulianti family's tough guy.

Letters for March 15-21, 2007

Dahmer Did It

Why won't Hollywood police take seriously the best chance at solving Adam Walsh's murder?

Hooray for Hollywood

Even with a housing bust and bad court verdicts, the show goes on.

Bubba the Love Expunger

A Porn Starlet's Appearance on Satellite Radio Was More Rough-up Than Tete-a-Tete

Editor, Interrupted

A favored Hollywood lobbyist's affair with a newspaper editor ends in a sordid mess.

City Bites Dog

How to deal with a man holding up $2.4 billion in development: Kick his pooch.

Don't Do It in Davie

The Long Fin of the Law.

Toppling the Tower of Babble

The Terrorist Who Wasn't

Hollywood's Manny Ebaid struggles to rebound after the War on Terror made him collateral damage.

Invitation to a Stomping

On the low-end neck-breaking circuit, only God and America are bigger than bull riding. Just barely.

Letters for August 11-17, 2005

Tailpipe

Go Climb a...

Cop, Judge, and Jury

When Hollywood lawman Pete Salvo allegedly covered up a crime, Internal Affairs looked the other way

The Doctor's Trials

Meet Hollywood's Donald Tobkin: caring M.D., feared lawyer, accused felon

Letters for February 10-16, 2005

Entrapped

Hollywood police used a Bahamian Casanova to set up Valarie Curry

Letters for October 7-13, 2004

Requiem for a Murdered Poet

In the end, Lorrie Tennant's words and deeds overshadow her shocking death

Enter the Dragon Man

Moving Targets

In the past 15 years, at least 14 newspaper hawkers have been killed on the job and 29 more have been injured

Drug Holiday

Once a leading gay activist, CenterOne cofounder Gary Steinsmith has fallen on hard times

We Have a Problem

Filthy bathrooms, dirty pictures, teachers fleeing in droves -- sounds like Apollo Middle School is adrift

Undercurrents

The Herald hustles on the Boulis murder while the Sentinel puts it in cruise control

Street Life

One reporter pursues one crack-addicted Hollywood hooker in order to ask one not-so-simple question: Why?

Welcome to the Entrada

Where Hollywood motel culture is alive and well -- the good, the sad, and the funky

Just Say, Um, OK to Drugs

A new crusade to rid Dania Beach of drugs has targeted some unlikely villains, including a local program director and a former mayor

High-Volume Complaints

A man in Hollywood often screams at the top of his lungs in the middle of the night. It could be worse. You could be his neighbor.

Maurie, We Hardly Know Ye

Grant-writer Maurice Connell has become a well-paid institution in Hollywood. How? The politics of power and money.

These Are the Times That Try Victims' Souls

Take a number and wait. That, in essence, is what the Broward County courts are telling crime victims even those who get shot at.