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Couple Arrested for Having Sex on the Beach

A Boynton Beach man and his special lady friend were arrested after cops caught them having sex on a Manalapan beach. The result was lewd behavior and indecent exposure charges for both, as well as a couple of fantastic mug shots that tell the tale of their crime.

Realtor Julian Frankel, Charged With Sexting Child, Remains Committed to Blogging About Real Estate

There are certain things one shouldn't do immediately after netting charges that are abhorrent and humiliating, à la bestiality or anything involving children. Like, say, blogging about real estate. Even if you're a realtor. The clients can wait. We promise.

Transgender and Womyn's Action Camp GEO Group Protesters Released From Jail

The four women from Trans and Womyn's Action Camp (TWAC) who were arrested Tuesday morning after they chained themselves to the doors of the GEO Group corporate headquarters, were released from the Palm Beach County Jail Wednesday.See also:-Four Arrested in Protest at GEO Headquarters: Activists Fr ... More >>

Florida Woman Used Dead Dog's Prescriptions to Score Drugs

A Wilton Manors woman found a new and innovative way to get her hands on some drugs. She used her dog's prescriptions from the Floresta Animal Hospital in Boynton Beach to get her hands on 240 hydrocodone and acetaminophen pills between July and November 2012. Her dog didn't seem to mind. Because ... More >>

Florida Man Swallows 960 Grams of Cocaine, Passes Out, Gets Arrested

Turns out that swallowing craploads of cocaine is a bad idea on multiple levels. Sixty-five-year-old Norman Mosch wanted to smuggle cocaine out of Jamaica. A LOT of cocaine. So, he decided to swallow pellets packed with cocaine to do so. A LOT of pellets. But, as it turns out, using your own ... More >>

Fake Doctor Arrested After Krazy Glue Surgeries In West Palm Motel

Calvin Butler is in Palm Beach County Jail on a $100,000 bond, after being arrested Tuesday night and charged with practicing medicine without a license. The medicine Butler practiced?Injecting silicone into patients' asses in a West Palm Beach motel and closing the wounds with Krazy Glue. Because ... More >>

Alarm Installer Accused of Robbing Customer

An guy hired to install alarms to protect homes stands accused of robbing a customer's home where he was installing an alarm. A 50-year-old Boca Raton woman allegedly caught Jason Michael Adams, 37, a worker for an alarm installation company, robbing her of $40,000 worth of jewels and other valuab ... 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 >>

Serial Dust Cleaner Huffer Dies in TJ Maxx Parking Lot

A man police picked up three separate times for huffing dust cleaner in public has died, making this both the weirdest and saddest sentence you'll read all day. Patrick Henderson's decomposing body was found lying face-down in the backseat of a Ford Explorer in the parking lot of a T.J. Maxx in Boy ... More >>

Naked Marijuana Grower Attacks Police Car in Delray Beach

Delray Beach Police were called when a man was seen running around his neighborhood, and throwing random things out of his house into his outside plants. Among the things the man threw at the outside plants: a ladder, a CO2 tank, and some credit cards. Also, the outside plants were marijuana. Als ... More >>

Polo Mogul John Goodman Back in Jail After Allegedly Messing With Ankle Monitor

This very rich purveyor of the world's wealthiest game just doesn't seem to want to accept his situation. When his car slammed into another, killing 23-year-old Scott Wilson late one night in February 2010, he ran away and hid in a barn before calling authorities.See also:- Our feature story on Good ... More >>

Camille Brown Charged With Trying to Extort Claire's Founder

Camille Brown was arrested and charged with extortion after she demanded the family that founded the Pembroke Pines-based Claire's stores pay her millions. Brown claimed she had embarrassing documents in her possession and said she would go public unless the Rowland Schaefer family forked over ... More >>

Arrest Made After Argument Over Chips Turns Into Domestic Assault

A Greenacres man is facing domestic assault charges after an argument over using paper clips to close a bag of potato chips got physical. According to the arrest report, the awesomely named Rockerfeller Excellent and an unidentified woman got into a brouhaha after the woman's 14-year-old daughter a ... More >>

Cops: Woman Hit Husband With a Brick and Then Called Police to Report She Was Attacked

Boynton Beach Police say a woman who called them Tuesday to report her husband had attacked her was actually the one who did the attacking. Natacha Jean-Baptiste, 41, was arrested after cops showed up responding to her call, only to find that she allegedly hit her husband in the face with a brick. ... More >>

Man Attacks Girlfriend With Hammer When She Tries To Get Him To Vote

A Lake Worth man really didn't feel like voting in Tuesday's primaries. He allegedly attacked his girlfriend with a hammer when she tried to convince him to do so.Police arrived at the home of the woman -whom police declined to name -- a half hour before polls closed Tuesday evening on a call that s ... More >>

Accused Drug Trafficker Karl Gross Gets Shot, Won't Press Charges

Last night around 10:45, 30-year-old Karl Gross was sitting on a porch on Ocean Drive in Boynton Beach when someone shot him. He was taken to the hospital, as people with bullets in them so frequently are, and it was discovered he had an outstanding warrant for drug trafficking."So," writes Boynton ... More >>

Mavericks High Has Lowest FCAT Reading Score in Palm Beach; Tied for Second-Worst in Broward

Aside from the kids in the Palm Beach County jail, tenth grade students at Mavericks High in Palm Springs fared worse on the FCAT reading test than any of their peers in the county, according to data released last week by the state Department Education. Only 7 percent of the 54 students who took the ... More >>

Michael McAuliffe Went Fishing for Corruption in Riviera Beach, Went Home Empty-Handed

He rode into the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office promising to fight corruption, but in Riviera Beach, Michael McAuliffe failed spectacularly.Three years ago, McAuliffe charged three Riviera cops with felonies ranging from official misconduct to tipping off a murder suspect about an impending arre ... More >>

Police: 12-Year-Old Brings Gun to Charter School of Boynton Beach; Belligerent Teacher Arrested

​The Charter School of Boynton Beach was locked down this morning after a 12-year-old student was arrested on weapons charges for allegedly bringing a gun to school. He said he found a gun and "brought it to school to scare another student who he was having a disagreement with," according to ... More >>

Occupy Member Arrested in Boca Raton Has a Bit of a History Doing Publicity Stunts

​For one of the three Occupy protesters arrested yesterday in Boca Raton, this is at least her fourth publicity stunt involving police -- one of those incidents involving her wearing clown makeup and having to be forcibly removed from a tree.That's 31-year-old Ana Rodriguez who was hit with charge ... More >>

Alleged Accomplice in Jimmy McMillan's Death Has Faced Murder Charges Before

Jonathan Jones was arrested on Tuesday as an alleged accomplice in the murder of Belle Glade grocery store owner Jimmy McMillan, as an "accessory after the fact."At 20 years old, this is now the second time Jones has been booked into the Palm Beach County Jail in relation to a murder.In October 2010 ... More >>

Palm Beach County Officials Announce More Kids Arrested in High-School Narc Operation

That's nice kids, now go to jail.​The Palm Beach State Attorney's Office, the Palm Beach County School District's police chief, along with other law-enforcement officials were proud to announce today that they've arrested more kids."Operation D Minus" nabbed 12 students for drug charges this t ... More >>

Aysar Aktimur, 49, Allegedly Likes Following a 15-Year-Old Girl Every Day

PBSOAysar Aktimur, who allegedly followed around a 15-year-old girl for a couple of months.​When you hit a certain age -- let's call it 18 -- it's illegal to chase 15-year-old girls. Stalking is pretty much always illegal.Aysar Aktimur, 49, apparently missed those memos, according to what the Boca ... More >>

Todd and Dena Ellis Charged With Perjury After Allegedly Making Up a Story to Get a New Judge

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeTodd Ellis (left) and Dena Ellis​Todd and Dena Ellis found out how not to get a new judge in their tenant-landlord dispute case by being hit with perjury charges after allegedly making up a story about how the judge's husband clocked Todd Ellis when they were kids ... More >>

Markell Hollis, Boynton Beach Burglary/Car Chase Suspect, Turns Himself In

Florida Department of CorrectionsMarkell Hollis is now in jail.​The Boynton Beach Police Department says 22-year-old Markell Hollis -- who escaped police after an alleged burglary and car chase on Tuesday -- turned himself in at the Palm Beach County Jail last night.Hollis, who police said "should ... More >>

Lake Worth Man Charged in December Crash That Killed an 80-Year-Old Woman

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeJoseph Sterlicchi​A 55-year-old Lake Worth man has been charged with DUI manslaughter and two counts of causing injury while driving under the influence for a December car crash that killed an 80-year-old woman, according to the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office. ... More >>

Former Rep. Tim Mahoney Faces DUI Charge After Being Found Sleeping in His Car

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeFormer Rep. Tim Mahoney​Former South Florida Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney faces a DUI charge after Palm Beach Gardens cops found him sleeping one off in his car early Saturday morning.As you may remember, Mahoney had a tough time with purported sex scandals ... More >>

UPDATED: BSO Sgt., Wife, Hit With Oxy Trafficking Charges

Associated Press Wild Art: Rick Scott's omnipresent security guards (in what one reader called "Blackwater-style" beige vests) couldn't protect him from the catcalls and boos hurled at him by the crowd at this parade in Tallahassee.UPDATED: The pill mill problem in Broward County may have ju ... More >>

DCF Officials Could Have Saved Girl Found Dead In Truck Along I-95

Palm Beach County JailJorge Barahona​Jorge Barahona's truck was discovered at about 5:30 a.m. Monday morning. It was more than 14 hours before police discovered the corpse of a young girl, wrapped in plastic in the back of the truck. As we're learning now, that wasn't the first time authorities mi ... More >>

Palm Beach County Jail Guard Derrick Daniels Charged With Arranging Prisoner Fight

Daniels found himself on the wrong side of jail bars.​​Palm Beach County Jail Deputy Derrick Antonio Daniels was arrested Wednesday on charges of arranging an organized fight between... no, not dogs or cocks -- but two of his own high-risk inmates.Daniels was placed on paid leave and booked into ... More >>

Sheri Carter, Escort Allegedly Shot by Jimmy Dac Ho, Dies in Hospital

Jimmy Dac Ho​Boynton Beach police have announced that Sheri Carter, 29, the woman working as an escort who was allegedly shot in the neck and abdomen by FAU police officer Jimmy Dac Ho, died this morning around 8:35 a.m. Ho has been charged with murder.Carter was being treated at Delray Medical Ce ... More >>

UPDATED: Woman Dies During Sex; Boyfriend Dumps Body Behind Mellow Mushroom

PBSOMuringer was arrested yesterday.​Asphyxiation turns your girlfriend on. So one day, during a particularly intense session, you wrap a hand around her throat and press hard. She passes out, which isn't so rare. But you're angry because her bluish skin has interrupted the mood. You slam out of t ... More >>

Man Charged with Child Neglect After Leaving 4-Year-Old at Home with his Aunts

When is child neglect not actually child neglect?PBSORomilus Duvelsaint​On Monday evening, Romilus Duvelsaint left his house on Whitehall Drive in Boynton Beach to run some errands. He left his four-year-old son with his two aunts, Mirlande and Piercina Duvelsaint. Before he shut the door, he shou ... More >>

Don't Ask, Don't Tell Crimes and HIV

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeLawrence Hunt has been charged with second-degree murder.​L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams, 41, was allegedly shot and killed this May by a lover who believed Williams had HIV.The lover, Lawrence Hunt, 20, told police he fired his gun because Willi ... More >>

Slain Teacher Not Required to Tell School His HIV Status

Calvin Williams was allegedly killed by his lover.​If slain L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams had HIV, as police reports suggest, his bosses at the Palm Beach County school district did not have to know. Teachers' personal health information is protected by federal law. "They a ... More >>

Kelvin Terry, NJ Parolee Granted Trip to WPB, Ends Up Stabbing Wife He Once Kidnapped

  Kelvin Terry got permission to travel 1,200 miles to see his wife. He allegedly ended up stabbing her with a butcher knife.​One of the pithiest psychological catch phrases must be this gem: "Past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior." Unfortunately, the New Jersey Parole ... More >>

Polo Mogul's Tactic in Crash Case: Delay, Delay, Delay

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeIt could be more than a year before Goodman's case goes to trial.​Yesterday, a judge refused Wellington polo mogul John Goodman's request to delay the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him for the car accident that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson.But Palm Beach ... More >>

UPDATED: Polo Club Founder Arrested, Charged With DUI

Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office​John Goodman, the multimillionaire founder of the International Polo Club in Wellington, was booked into the Palm Beach County jail early this morning, charged with DUI and vehicular homicide.His arrest comes three months after Goodman allegedly plowed his Bentle ... More >>

Morning Juice: John Goodman Jailed; West Palm Stripper Busted for Armed Robbery

​Here's what's news this morning in Broward and Palm Beach:Wellington polo mogul John Goodman is in a Palm Beach County jail this morning, charged with vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in connection with the February crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson. [Palm Beach Post]Construction ... More >>

Palm Beach Child Pornographers Brandon and David Deyo: Like Father, Like Son?

Dr. Jill Levenson says sexually deviant behavior can be learned.​Capturing the Deyos In 2003, District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley sentenced David Deyo, 43, in a Palm Beach County courtroom to a whopping 17½ years in prison. Deyo hadn't murdered or kidnapped anybody; he hadn't robbed a bank at gunpo ... More >>

Tough Holiday Season for Parents of Boynton Man Found Buried in Freezer

Stephen Febonio, in a Monroe County mug shot.​Stephen Febonio's parents may not feel like they have much to be thankful for this holiday season. Stephen's 76-year-old father, Edwin, who lives in Boynton Beach with his wife, Margaret, is a retired police detective from Peabody, Massachusetts. But i ... More >>

Mailman Gets DUI After Passing Out on Route

Flickr: ncbronteCliff Claven endorses mouthwash as a mailman's way out of a DUI. Just don't drink the whole bottle.​Just after noon today, Boynton Beach Police responded to a report that a mailman was slumped over the wheel of his mail truck. Cops say that the mailman, Kevin Michael Crocilla, then ... More >>

Palm Beach Cops Finally Nab Serial "Withdrawal Bandit"

Withdrawal Bandit: A familiar face​Serial bank robbery was one of South Florida's favorite new sports this summer, and the game turned out to be surprisingly polite and thankfully bloodless. Police announced today that they've taken one pair of our local Bonnie & Clydes off the street. An unus ... More >>

A Refund for the Rip-Off Cab Ride

Photo by Lisa RabAfter a customer complained, West Coast Taxi sent a refund.Palm Beach County government may be rife with corruption and short on cash, but it recently managed to help one citizen with a vital task: getting a refund for an ill-fated cab ride.Last month, we introduced you to the sad t ... More >>

On Drinking, Driving, and the Cabbie That Waits Outside the Palm Beach County Jail

Photo by Lisa RabOutside the Palm Beach County Jail, transportation options are slim.After spending eight hours in a jail cell recovering from a night of ill-conceived drinking, getting ripped off by the cabbie that drives you home would seem to add insult to injury. But that's what a 30-year-old wo ... More >>

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