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Boynton Beach Man Sexually Assaults Stripper, Police Say

An exotic dancer is recovering after suffering through a horrible series of events at the hands of a Boynton Beach man, police say. Thomas R. Fitzsimmons, 50, is accused of sexually assaulting the 39-year old stripper -- whose name is being withheld -- at gunpoint, while psychologically torturing h ... More >>

Hilton Hotels Founder's Grandson Arrested on Domestic Battery Charges

According to a police report, Conrad N. Hilton, the 53-year-old grandson of the Hilton Hotel chain founder, Conrad "Connie" Hilton, was arrested on a charge of domestic battery. He's also apparently a deadbeat when it comes to paying a restaurant bill too.

Florida Woman Steals Jewels, Gives World Greatest Mug Shot Ever

Apparently JCPenny department stores don't pay enough to afford cars, because a woman who worked for them had to rob their jewelry to pay for her repossessed car. According to Boynton Beach police, 25-year-old Chelsey Adele Edwards stole thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry from the JCPenney dep ... More >>

Palm Beach Gardens Man Threatened Another Man With Sword, According to Cops

Michael Seacrest got into an argument with Adrijon Hoti in the early morning hours on Thursday. Apparently Hoti was angry at Seacrest for taking a jacket that wasn't his. A heated argument ensued, and Hoti stepped up to Seacrest and allegedly made verbal threats. Seacrest didn't like a dude bein ... More >>

Man Takes Woman On Date, Breaks Into Her Neighbor's House

Sean G took a young lady he met on Tagged out on a date. The two went out and presumably had a lovely time together. At the end of the night, Sean G drove his date to her house, before driving home, like a true gentleman. But not before he allegedly broke into her neighbors house, put a gun ... More >>

DEA Agents Arrest 17 During Prescription Drug Sting in Boynton Beach

Seventeen people were arrested in Boynton Beach by Federal agents for suspicion of using stolen prescription pads to get drugs and then sell them. The arrests occurred Thursday afternoon when Drug Enforcement Administration agents swept in and booked several men on state drug charges, according to ... More >>

Jupiter Dentist Wrote Fake Oxycodone Prescriptions for Patients and Ingested Them, According to Cops

Christopher Petterson, a 67-year-old Jupiter dentist, is facing drug trafficking and fraud charges for writing up fake prescriptions under his patients' names and then filling them at pharmacies for himself, according to police. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says the jig was up when the office ... More >>

Man Arrested For Having Heroin on Lap Tells Cops He Has No Idea How It Got There

Shawn Day and his pal Patrick Webster pulled into the parking lot of the Budget Inn at 1600 N. Federal Hwy. in a 1995 Mitsubishi. As they did, cops noticed that they might be up to no good. And the cops were right. The area is known as a busy place to buy and sell drugs. As a woman walked up to t ... More >>

Polo Mogul John Goodman to Stay in Jail Through Thanksgiving

Well, at long last it looks like John Goodman's douche caught up to him, and he is finally going to spend some time in the slammer. The International Polo Club owner, who has been under house arrest on a DUI manslaughter charge for killing 23-year-old Scott Wilson back in February 2010 with his ca ... More >>

West Palm Beach Man Accused of Attacking Wife With Scissors

A West Palm beach couple got into an argument about the husband's failure to get his vehicle registered. Things quickly escalated. And by escalated, we mean the husband, one Joseph B. Duval, 37, attacked his wife with a pair of scissors.

Thieves Arrested After Bragging on Facebook

A pair of alleged armed robbers were caught when one of their victims spotted them on a Facebook page bragging about their crimes, according to police. The photos on the Facebook profile show one of them in various poses with open wads of cash spread out.  The name of the profile page: Crime ... More >>

Man Robs Mexican Restaurant but Orders Soft Tacos First

According to his girlfriend, Bryan Perez took her car to get dinner at popular Lake Worth Mexican restaurant Tacos Al Carbon on Tuesday night. It should have taken him about five to ten minutes to get the food. Instead, Perez was away for more than half an hour. When he finally got back home, he ... More >>

Belle Glade Man Arrested for Not Telling Girl He Had Oral Sex With That He Is HIV-Positive

Earl D. Coney Jr. is accused of having oral sex with a 16-year-old girl without telling her he is HIV-positive. On August 28, Coney apparently picked the girl up from her home and brought her to his place, where he expressed a desire to have oral sex with her. She initially spurned his advances, ... More >>

Belle Glade Faces Its Demons After a Senseless Murder

Victor Scott Borchert Arrested for Allegedly Threatening Woman With Ninja Turtle Weapon, Fleeing Drunkenly on Moped

​People manage to find all kinds of creative ways to menace folks. Forty-year-old Victor Scott Borchert was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office yesterday evening and accused of menacing a woman with a gun and a Japanese sai, the three-pronged weapon of choice of Raphael, the red Tee ... More >>

The Accusations Against Boynton Beach Mayor Jose Rodriguez

​We made a brief post last night announcing the arrest of Boynton Beach Mayor Jose Rodriguez on three criminal charges -- including one felony -- and now that we've had a chance to check out the probable-cause affidavit, we'll let you know what happened.According to the report from the Palm Beach ... More >>

Sex Offender Charged in Year-Old Murder; Cops Point to DNA, Recorded Call, Poo Smell

​Sex offender James Harmon was charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Pahokee woman nearly a year ago.Among the evidence is a recorded phone call, some DNA, and a witness recalling that the dude "smelt like shit."According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office police report, a pedest ... More >>

Second Suspect Arrested in Jimmy McMillan's Death Identified by Alleged Shooter's Mom

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrested a second suspect in the death of Belle Glade grocery store owner Jimmy McMillan, after he was identified by the mother of the alleged shooter.Jonathan Jones now joins Corey Graham Jr. in the Palm Beach County Jail on charges related to McMillan's death ... More >>

Lake Worth High School Teacher Todd Bush Accused of Trying to Pay $120 for Sex With Kid

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeTodd Wilson Bush​Todd Wilson Bush is a teacher and assistant football coach at Lake Worth High School.He also allegedly agreed to pay a woman -- who was actually a police detective -- $120 to have her 12-year-old daughter perform oral sex on him behind a strip ... More >>

David Boston Reminds Everyone He Exists After Allegedly Getting Drunk and Punching a Woman

​Ever wonder what happened to former Miami Dolphins wide receiver David Boston? Well, we can tell you what happened to him last night -- he was arrested by Boca Raton cops after he allegedly got drunk and punched a female friend twice in the forehead, causing a wound that had to be closed up with ... More >>

Gene Stimmler's Alleged Penis Comments Led to Police Finding a Dead Cougar in His Freezer

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeGene Stimmler​When the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office received a report about a landlord-tenant dispute that involved 73-year-old Gene Stimmler allegedly talking about his penis to a 15-year-old boy, a sheriff's deputy had some questions for him.Then the deput ... More >>

William Dabbs Charged With Murdering His Boss in a Home Depot Parking Lot

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeWilliam Dabbs​The Boynton Beach Police Department announced today that 54-year-old William Dabbs was charged with first-degree murder, nearly two weeks after his boss was found dead in a Home Depot parking lot.According to a police report, the cops responded to a ... More >>

David Hartstein Charged in Billiard-Ball Attack on Two Men, Ages 91 and 79

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeAlleged pool-ball head-basher David Hartstein.​When David Hartstein thought a 91-year-old man stole stuff from his locker, he allegedly tried to settle that by trying to bash the man's head in with a billiard ball.When a 79-year-old man tried to stop the attack, p ... More >>

Tarvis Wilson Convicted of Shooting Boynton Beach Cop and Four Other Felonies

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeTarvis Wilson​Tarvis Wilson is going to prison for a while after a jury convicted him yesterday of shooting a Boynton Beach cop in the chest, as well as the crimes he committed before that, including trying to shoot other people and leading a police chase through ... More >>

Riviera Beach Cop Criminally Charged After Shoving, Pointing Taser at Kid, PBSO Says

goblackchicken.com​Riviera Beach Police Officer Cherline Cornelius decided to break up a fight between two kids, ages 9 and 12, by shoving the older kid, pointing a Taser at him, and nearly pulling a gun on a camp counselor attempting to intervene, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Offi ... More >>

Cynthia Castoro Tried to Deny Killing Two Men With a Car, Despite the Flesh in Her Windshield

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeCynthia Castoro​It's hard to deny you just ran over three construction workers with your car -- killing two of them -- while you're driving drunk and high, especially when their blood, flesh, and pieces of their orange vests are embedded into your windshield.Cynth ... More >>

Christopher Tears Thought He Sent a Picture of His Penis to 16-Year-Old Boy -- It Was the Cops

​Police say 42-year-old Lake Worth resident Christopher Tears was at home watching his two children last week -- while he was chatting about how he wanted to "mess around" with who he thought was a 16-year-old boy he was chatting with online.As always, the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Chi ... More >>

Brian Clancy Brought Vodka and Condoms to Give "a Ride" to Teenaged Boy, Police Say

​Fort Lauderdale resident Brian Clancy had terrible timing when he allegedly started chatting up a 15-year-old boy on the internet.When the parents of a 13-year-old kid called the cops claiming an adult was trying to have sex with their child, the Palm Beach County Sexual Predator Enforcement Unit ... More >>

Cops: Man Attempted to Abduct Woman Over Cigarette, Then Knifed Another Man Over $1

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeAndrew Florvil​Andrew Florvil was turned down while begging for a cigarette and $1 last night, and he may have overreacted a bit.According to Delray Beach police, a nanny was going on a walk over a bridge around the 3800 block of South Lake Drive when she was appr ... More >>

Frederick Wade Finds Out the Young Girl He Met Online Is, of Course, a Cop

PBSOFrederick G. Wade​It's 2011, and people are still chatting up people they believe to be kids on the internet for sex.The latest of the bunch, allegedly, is Frederick G. Wade, who was pretty sure he was about to have sex with a young teenaged girl he met online.Of course, that teenaged girl was ... More >>

Convicted Rapist Landlord Doesn't Get His Rent Check on Time, Allegedly Lights Tenant on Fire

Florida Department of Law EnforcementJonathan Marc Steinberg​There are a few ways 58-year-old convicted child rapist Jonathan Steinberg could've gotten his overdue rent check, but allegedly lighting his tenant on fire apparently wasn't such a good idea.Boynton Beach cops say Steinberg was in an ar ... More >>

Lake Worth Man Allegedly Beats Up His Mom, 74, After She Refuses to Fork Over Drug Money

PBSOMichael Darin Gordon​If you're at the point where you need to punch your 74-year-old mother and crack her pelvis because she won't give you money to buy drugs, you might be a drug addict.That's what the friends of 43-year-old Michael Darin Gordon told the cops they saw him do to his mother whi ... More >>

West Palm Beach Man Accused Of Taking Hammer To Girlfriend's Head

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeRoberto Montanez​"It's Hammer Time" probably wouldn't be a good catchphrase for 40-year-old Roberto Montanez.That's because the cops say Montanez decided to take a hammer to his girlfriend's head early this morning, landing her in the hospital.A passing motori ... More >>

Atlantis' Alleged Dog-Throat-Slitter Goes Missing

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeKenneth Russell Hall​Have you seen the Atlantis man who may or may not have slit the throat of his own dog recently?Neither have the Palm Beach County courts -- which is a problem.There's now a warrant out for the arrest of 40-year-old Kenneth Hall after he skippe ... More >>

Atlantis Dog-Throat-Slitter Shows Up to Court, Gets Shipped Off to Prison

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeKenneth Russell Hall​Kenneth Hall -- the Atlantis man who slit his dog's throat and skipped out on his court date yesterday -- showed up to the courtroom this morning to enter a plea agreement and be hauled off to prison.Last year, one of Hall's friends told t ... More >>

Boynton Beach Police Follow Trail of Weed Crumbs to "Bubba" and 39 Other Pot Plants

Boynton Beach PoliceA few of the pot plants allegedly belonging to amateur horticulturist Jesse Duncans.​If you happen to have 40 pot plants growing in your apartment, you're probably going to get caught if you leave a trail of cannabis crumbs inside your place for the cops to follow.According to ... More >>

Tea Party Founder's Hidden Arrest

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeMug shot of Tea Party leader Danita Kilcullen.​That organized band of angry, gun-toting, Bible-quoting older white people -- otherwise known as the Tea Party -- has often crossed the bounds of appropriateness as it pushes for its right-wing agenda. But kickin ... More >>

Calvin Williams Murder: Potential HIV Infection Would Not Justify Shooting, Prosecutor Says

PBSOLawrence Hunt has been charged with second-degree murder.​The murder of Riviera Beach middle school teacher Calvin Williams this spring raised a tangle of legal and ethical questions. One of the most troubling: Does the threat of contracting HIV justify killing someone?Lawrence Hunt, 20,  ... More >>

Teacher Calvin Williams Had Two Domestic Disputes Before Murder

Calvins Williams called police twice about another lover.​Two years before he was allegedly murdered by a lover, middle school teacher Calvin Williams twice called Riviera Beach police to his apartment to respond to violent domestic disputes.The first call came on the night of September 25, 2008. ... More >>

Suspect in Teacher's Murder Was Also Accused of Robbery

PBSOLawrence Hunt is now charged with second-degree murder.​The man accused of fatally shooting his alleged lover, L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams, is no hardened criminal, but he has been accused of violence before.Three years ago, when he was in 11th grade at Palm Beach Gardens ... More >>

Will a Multimillionaire Polo Mogul Be Punished for a Fatal Drunken Accident?

Details on Slain Teacher's Alleged Sexual Assault

PBSOHunt was charged with second-degree murder for shooting Williams.​The morning he was shot and killed, L.C. Swain Middle School special-ed teacher Calvin Williams, 41, allegedly showed up drunk at a lover's house, looking for a hookup.Between 1 and 2:30 a.m. on May 14, Williams invited Lawrence ... More >>

Suspect in Teacher Slaying Claims Sexual Assault, Echoing Accusation of Former Student

PBSOLawrence Hunt was charged with second-degree murder.​Riviera Beach police have finally arrested a suspect in the slaying of popular L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams. But the second-degree murder charge against Lawrence Hunt, 20, only raises more questions about the sexual cond ... More >>

A Popular Band Teacher Killed a Man, Then Was Accused of Raping His Own Students

Man Calls 911 to Get a Ride Home

Stupidity isn't a crime, except in cases like Jose Armando Rodrigues. The 32-year-old man dialed 911 this morning from the shoulder of I-95. According to the police report, Rodrigues told the operator that someone was trying to kill him.After Boynton Beach Police found Rodrigues leaning against the ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale builder gets no-bid contract to build new Marlins stadium

Protect the Abuser

The Twelve Tribes sect defends its own -- aiding accused child molesters

A Hill of Beans

War Crime

A Russian émigré falls victim to the battle in Iraq