North Lauderdale

Cigarette Thieves Are on the Loose in South Florida

Broward County cops are on the hunt for two dudes who have been running around stealing cigarettes from stores all over South Florida. The Nicotine Bandits first struck on August 5 around 3 a.m., when they hit a Publix at 1297 S. State Road 7 in North Lauderdale. About an hour later, they hit t ... More >>

Man Goes on Broward Asian-Food Burglary Spree (VIDEO)

A rock-wielding burglar broke into five Chinese restaurants in one night, according to police, who suspect him in "at least" 15 other burglaries.Surveillance footage shows the man using a rock to smash the restaurants' glass doors, then taking all the cash (and coins) out of the registers and, in tw ... More >>

Patrick Davis, Man With "Super Strength," Fights BSO Deputy; Two Old Guys Help Take Him Down (VIDEO)

​Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Kevin Meyer arrived at a Pompano Beach McDonald's this morning in response to a report that a man had tried to steal a backpack. The suspect, 29-year-old Patrick Davis of North Lauderdale, had for some reason decided to stick around and was just standing near the r ... More >>

Broward County Tallies Four Drownings in Five Days

Water mishaps aren't anything new for our special sweat-year-round corner of the country, but it's not every week four people die in the course of five days.The latest victim is 7-year-old Damien Tubbs, who died Sunday in an Oakland Park pool after it appears he wandered into the deep end and sank, ... More >>

Broward County Has Three of Florida's Eight Lowest-Scoring Middle Schools

​The Sun Sentinel had a cheerful story today about the state's new education rankings -- "Broward Schools land at top of state rankings," read the online headline of the story, which notes that the county has three high schools in the top 20.But what that story omits is that the county is also hom ... More >>

Tornado Spotted in Broward County (Video)

southernhoopty.comNo tigers were involved in the tornado.​A tornado -- yes, a tornado -- touched down in Broward County yesterday evening, according to the National Weather Service.The NWS says the tornado was first spotted on the east side of Tamarac, although it was reportedly seen in North Laud ... More >>

Florida Students Lead Nationwide Reading Competition, Await Bullying

Nerds: Better Brains, Cooler Glasses​Thousands of Sunshine State students have taken the lead in a national reading competition, which means that same number of pupils is going to be shoved into lockers, called names, and pantsed when the school year resumes this fall.

Pompano Beach Pirate Radio Station Raided, Shut Down by Feds

BSOMercius Dorvilus​The Haitian pirate-radio station that broadcast on 92.7 FM is no more, thanks to the Broward Sheriff's Office and the Federal Communications Commission, according to the Sun-Sentinel.That led to the arrest of 31-year-old Mercius Dorvilus, a North Lauderdale resident who the cop ... More >>

Pack of North Lauderdale Women Fails to Rob Pizza Boy With Paintball Gun

BSOTashay Bryant​For once, the pizza boy taking forever to deliver a pizza was a good thing.Four North Lauderdale women waited in the driveway of a vacant home for so long to rob the pizza boy that two neighbors called 911 and Broward Sheriff's deputies showed up before any sign of the pizza, cops ... More >>

North Lauderdale Old-Lady Rapist on the Loose

​The cops are looking for a man who they say climbed through the bedroom window of a North Lauderdale home and raped an 84-year-old woman last night.The woman told police she was watching television at her house around 10 p.m. yesterday when the man knocked on her front door.She told Broward Sheri ... More >>

Pill Polemic Unfolds in Broward Civil Suit

Got opiates?​Turns out, pill mills pain management clinics might not be the bastions of medical ethics once thought.North Lauderdale's Center for Wellness and Weight Loss, Inc. claims that two former employees pilfered confidential patient information via text and tried to poach these clients fro ... More >>

Garbage Business Is a Family Affair in North Lauderdale

The garbage contract is up in North Lauderdale -- and suddenly there's a lot of family involvement in the business. Mayor Brady, center, with Broward County Commissioner Barbara Sharief, right, and Miramar Mayor Lori Moseley.​Long-time Mayor Jack Brady announced at the January 11 commission m ... More >>

Vice Mayor's Brother Hits Up Lobbyists For Biz

Cal Deal Wild art: Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler with a friend (is that Judy Stern behind that mask?). And no, Seiler has nothing to do with the following blog post.​So what do you do when your brother is elected to the city commission? Why you go to political events -- like a meeting of the B ... More >>

Mark Guerette's Tenant, Cheryl Mann, Faced Criminal Charges and Struggled to Pay Rent

Michael McElroyMark Guerette​In this week's feature we tell the story of Mark Guerette, who saw a glut of empty houses and people with no place to go, and decided to take the matter into his own hands. After moving more than a dozen families into foreclosed houses and collecting rent for a few mon ... More >>

The Lord of Squat: Mark Guerette Got Busted for Putting Families in Foreclosed Homes

How to Take Over an Empty Foreclosed House

A placard like this on a house means it's abandoned.​Need a house for free? Luckily, you're in South Florida, which exists for the sole purpose of providing lots and lots of people with houses. Recently, a lot of those houses have turned up empty. So why not just take one?Starting in early 20 ... More >>

Fraud Case Ends With Probation for Rogue Foreclosure Landlord Mark Guerette

The Fergusons, happy former tenants of Guerette's.​The State Attorney's Office has wrapped up its case against Mark Guerette, the guy written about in the New York Times and here on the Juice for his work leasing empty, foreclosed homes to families in need by way of an antiquated squatter's-rights ... More >>

Housing Crisis Solved? North Lauderdale Family Lives in Foreclosed Home, Rent-Free

​A year ago, Fabian and Jocelyn Ferguson found themselves with no place to live. Thanksgiving was a few days away and they needed a place to go with their two young children for the holidays. They, like many South Florida families, had lost their own home to foreclosure.So Jocelyn went to Pastor J ... More >>

Evicted Tenant's Scam Had Everything but an Exit Plan

Based on a Google Maps search, this is the home where McKenzie was evicted and which she allegedly rented fraudulently.​At some point after Kerrian McKenzie was informed of her impending eviction, the North Lauderdale woman hatched a plan: McKenzie moved out. Then, according to the Broward Sheriff ... More >>

Mother Abandons Baby in Stroller to Go Shoplifting With Her Other Kids

FlickrStrollers: They tend to slow down a shopaholic mom.​The prices at Wal-Mart weren't quite low enough for one local family who paid a visit to the North Lauderdale store Wednesday night and extracted the proverbial five-finger discount on store merchandise.According to a news release by the Br ... More >>

BSO Grooming a Star in "Buxom Bandit"

Flickr: goinonbro​Sometimes one bust leads to another. Broward Sheriff's Office hopes that the bust seen in this video helps them apprehend a full-figured woman who has been victimizing Broward teachers.On May 27, the woman dubbed the "Buxom Bandit" is believed to have grabbed a wallet belonging t ... More >>

Amateur Actors, Professional Thieves Perform a Lucrative Skit at Broward Gas Station

Photo: BSOThis unidentified man collapsed dramatically, while his buddy grabbed the cash.​I guess it's too much to expect aspiring actors to make their money the honest way, by performing Hamlet on the sidewalk, where passersby could put a tip in a jar. Rather, they're plying their trade in a Nort ... More >>

Amateur Actors, Professional Thieves Perform a Lucrative Skit at Broward Gas Station

Photo: BSOThis unidentified man collapsed dramatically while his buddy grabbed the cash.​I guess it's too much to expect aspiring actors to make their money the honest way, by performing Hamlet on the sidewalk, where passersby could put a tip in a jar. Rather, they're plying their trade in a North ... More >>

Lauderdale Lakes Man Killed After Teen Driver Runs Red

Taj Michael Harris, a 28-year-old man from Lauderdale Lakes, was struck and killed Wednesday afternoon by an Infiniti that ran a red light at the intersection of Rock Island Road and Forest Boulevard in North Lauderdale.The driver of the Infiniti has been identified as Markita Bynes, an 18-year-old ... More >>

Police Brutality Rarely Ends With Punishment for the Cops

Order Up: The How-to Guide to Roti

John Linn​Roti, an Indian-style flatbread that's pretty much a staple in West Indian food, is everywhere in South Florida. Little roti shops and curry huts specializing in the stuff can be found throughout Broward, especially the western stretches of Lauderhill, Margate, and North Lauderdale. But ... More >>

Morning Juice: Broward Judge Faces Trial; Friction Among Acreage Activists

​Here are your local headlines for Broward and Palm Beach:Broward Judge Ana Gardiner will be tried by the Judicial Qualifications Commission in September over allegations that she displayed a "lack of candor" in answering questions by the commission about her relationship with attorney Howard Sche ... More >>

Crime Duo Steals $6,000 in Cigarettes; Sentenced to Death by Lung Cancer

Flickr: okayproTwo local man may soon enjoy free rent and tobacco-financed luxury.​The Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for a two-man band of thieves who purloined roughly $6,000 worth of cigarettes from Aunt Molly's convenience store in North Lauderdale last week.Investigators say that the duo ... More >>

No Honor Among Thieves: Check-Cashing Store Robbed

Here's how it's supposed to work: You're so desperate for your paycheck that you visit a place like the Family Financial Center in North Lauderdale to get an advance on that check, in exchange for the center itself getting to skim from that check. But if folks are going to just rob the check-cashing ... More >>

The Long Arm of Calvin, Giordano in South Florida

Flickr user: doncon402Can you find a city where Calvin, Giordano is not working?​The private, Fort Lauderdale-base consulting firm Calvin, Giordano & Associates plays a big role in providing essential government services in Broward County. As the Juice has reported, the firm has a monopoly in ... More >>

The Dutch Pot Overfloweth

John LinnGet used to lifting fork to mouth at the Dutch Pot.​ I've been really digging me some Jamaican food lately, so it's a good thing that South Florida houses so many islander restaurants. Two weeks ago, I mentioned Kelsie's Place on Sunrise as a great place to get fast, cheap Jamaican classi ... More >>

Broward and Palm Beach Banks Slightly Better Prepared for Apocalypse Than Rest in Florida

Flickr User: jbenson2Geithner will spare us locals from his bank spreeWhen you fill out a deposit slip these days, it's hard to know whether you'll get the money back or if you're throwing it into a bottomless pit. So it should come as an enormous relief that a bank-rating firm, Bauer Financial, has ... More >>

Is There a Duck Serial Killer in West Broward? Are Humans Next?

Oh, sure. It starts with ducks. Then it's cats, maybe a dog. Eventually, that loses its thrill and the sick bastard upgrades to humans. So we really have to catch the Miramar Duck Killer, who struck again yesterday. From a statement released today by the Humane Society:The second duck was found impa ... More >>

Blogged To Death

Letters for March 13-19, 2008

Blubber for Cash

Bucking the health food tide: This middle school says, "Let 'em eat dougnuts."

Suspected Duck Murderers Nabbed

Bringing TV Glitter to Our Town

Stacey Honowitz yaks it up on the evening talk-show circuit

Letters for March 16-23, 2006

Tailpipe

Smokin' Hot

Light the Fusion

Out of the frying pan, into North Lauderdale

In the Name of Mr. Burns

Exxxxxcellent!

The Snitch

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

Swimming Against the Tide

Hallandale Beach's black community, ignored for years, loses another round

Reliable Connection

Tafari Music provides the reggae hookup

Canker Sore

State workers are cutting down homeowners' citrus trees to save Florida's fruit industry. It's a South Florida chain saw massacre.

The Official City Spiel

Is North Lauderdale the"City of Tomorrow"? Is Wilton Manors the "Island City"? A lesson in city seals as salesmanship.

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