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Armed Man Demands Happy Ending at West Palm Massage Parlor

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says a guy who looked like the one on the right showed up for an appointment Saturday afternoon at a massage parlor on Belvedere Road and forced the masseuse, at gunpoint, to perform oral sex on him. Apparently unsatisfied, he then allegedly yanked he ... More >>

Busted! PBSO Arrests Happy Ending Suspect

Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeThere he is, folks, the guy that PBSO says forced a West Palm Beach masseuse to perform oral sex on him. His name is Gerald Hansen -- spelled just like the surname of the host of the Dateline show To Catch a Predator. Coincidence? U.S. Marshals nabbed G ... More >>

A Bunker in Boca

High prices. Impressive gadgets. Even when it comes to terrorism, Boca is tops.

The Duh in Dalia: What She Could Have Learned About Hiring a Hitman in South Florida

Photo: Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeDalia Dippolito​There are a great many lessons to be learned from the sad story of Dalia Dippolito, the Boynton Beach woman who's accused of paying a hitman (who was actually an undercover agent) to kill her husband.The first is that you shouldn't marry someone on ... More >>

24-Style Diary of a Palm Beach Sheriff's Anti-Climactic Water Rescue Mission

Flickr: davidousTake the day off, Jack.​A few minutes past midnight today, August 19, and the crisis begins. The clock starts. An excerpt from the first bulletin by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office:Dawn Roberts and her roommate decided to go fishing at Phil Foster Park. As soon as they arrived at ... More >>

Stings So Good! But How Will We Con Criminals Next Time?

Flickr: quickcuffed"Welcome to Al's! Let me show you to your cell. Can I tell you about our special on bologna sandwiches?"​Operation Show Me the Money was a big hit for the Fort Lauderdale Police, who invited people with outstanding warrants to collect stimulus checks only to be arrested. In this ... More >>

Who Is Stealing Palm Beach County's Lawnmowers?

Flickr: NotleySomewhere someone is building a landscaping arsenal with stolen equipment.​All this worrying about serial cat killers and serial horse killers has led us to overlook the very serial nature of how lawn-care equipment has been vanishing from North Palm Beach County.The latest one occur ... More >>

Suspect in Triple Murder Arrested

Photo: Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeBruce Strachan​The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office is reporting the arrest of Bruce Strachan, the ex-con wanted in connection with a triple murder this past weekend in Lake Worth. He was arrested less than an hour ago in Delray Beach without incident.Strachan, 25, wil ... More >>

Name Released of Palm Beach Sheriff's Aide Killed in Crash

Photo: Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeCarl Willis​Carl Willis is the name of the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office community aide killed in a crash Tuesday. Here's the release from PBSO:It is with deep regret and great sadness that Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, District 14 (Lake Worth) informs you of ... More >>

Hey, Laser Geeks: Stop Playing Star Wars at the Palm Beach Airport

Flckr user: pedrosimoes7Keep your lasers out of my eyes!​More than 20 times in the past year, pranksters have shone a green laser beam into the cockpits of planes landing at Palm Beach International Airport, attempting to blind the pilots. No planes have crashed, but at least one pilot was injured ... More >>

Morning Juice: Broward School Board Considers Nuclear Fallout; "Smell-a-Vision" Maybe Bad Idea

​The news this morning in South Florida:At last night's Broward County School Board meeting, members discussed a refresher course on ethics. So... like that safety meeting the Soviets had after the meltdown at Chernobyl? [Miami Herald]Crist is going to demand the state review loopholes that allow ... More >>

Oh #%&@! Cars Are Talking to Loxahatchee Schoolchildren.

Flickr: Loren JavierKids: Do not talk to cars, especially when you're gobbling psychedelics.​Hot off the wire from the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office: There have been several suspicious incidents in the area of Osceola Creek Middle School, Loxahatchee in the last week or so. We have two vehicles tha ... More >>

Can You Guess This Stripper's Age?

Photo: Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office​On the right, pictured beneath the unforgiving fluorescent light in the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, that's Ann Marie Fletcher, a dancer at Platinum Showgirls. Or at least she was a dancer as recently as October 30, when the Boynton Beach club was raided b ... More >>

Morning Juice: Commuter Train Bill on Track for Signature; Rothstein Banker Hopes Deniability Is Plausible

​A look at what's in the news on this morning in South Florida:Frank Spinosa, the TD bank executive who handled Scott Rothstein's investor funds, was fired last month and his attorney says Spinosa's name was falsified in fraudulent documents provided to investors. [Sun-Sentinel]Broward parents' pr ... More >>

Wellington Man Dies in Van Accident on Day Before 21st Birthday

The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has just released the name of the man who was killed this morning in a one-vehicle accident on Perimeter Road in West Palm Beach. His name is Kyle Reese Chiet, a 20-year-old from Wellington who would have turned 21 tomorrow.According to the incident report, Chiet was ... More >>

Wellington Man Dies in Car Accident, One Day Before 21st Birthday

The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has just released the name of the man who was killed this morning in a one-vehicle accident on Perimeter Road in West Palm Beach. His name is Kyle Reese Chiet, a 20-year-old from Wellington who would have turned 21 tomorrow.According to the incident report, Chiet was ... More >>

Morning Juice: Standoff With Palm Beach Deputy in Delray; Canes Lose to World's Finest University

​As we wind down 2009, a glance through the local headlines:In the Acreage, the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office had a lengthy standoff with one of its own, 41-year-old Gary Gionnatti, who deputies feared had weapons and allegedly made threats to use them on himself. [Palm Beach Post]Not even the Coral ... More >>

Morning Juice: Break in 25-Year-old Murder Case in Jupiter; Ethics Panel Driving Hard Bargain in Broward

​Your daily glance at the headlines in South Florida:The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office closed a 25-year-old cold case yesterday with the help of DNA evidence that linked a Fort Myers man to the 1984 murder of Vickie Lynne Long in Jupiter. The suspect, Todd Clayton Campbell, was 22 and lived on the s ... More >>

Methodical Police Work Leads to Capture of Drug Store Cowboys

Photo: Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeJoseph Serkosky​This was a straightforward criminal plot: The bad guys wanted drugs. A pain clinic wall blocked their access to said drugs. So they destroyed that wall. (1) Smash; (2) Grab. Almost elegant in its simplicity. And the score was huge: some 56,000 pill ... More >>

Accused Child Molestor in Boynton May Have Had Multiple Victims

Photo: Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeHullfish​Chad Hullfish told Boynton Beach Police detectives that he molested his 8-year-old niece and that he may have also had illegal contact with his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter, according to a probable cause affidavit released today. In that document, Hul ... More >>

Morning Juice: Foreman Family Hits Jackpot in Davie; Palm Beach Sheriff Tracking Rapist

​The local news this morning:In a deal that looks like a politically motivated rip-off, the town of Davie fast-tracked a $12.5 million purchase of the Foreman family's vacated Palma Nova mobile home park. It took a fat chunk out of the city's rainy day fund. [Sun-Sentinel]Broward Judge Susan Lebow ... More >>

Victims Named in Lake Worth Shootout

Photo: Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeBrooke Harris​Local police just released the names of four young people involved in a shooting between two cars early Sunday morning in Lake Worth. Brooke Harris, a 19-year-old from Boynton Beach, was driving one car. She was shot once in the back. The Palm Beach ... More >>

FAU Student Reported Missing

Courtesy of Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.​A 26-year-old Florida Atlantic University student who lives in West Palm Beach has been reported missing. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Frantzdy Cherisma has not been seen at home, school, or work in eight days. There's been no ... 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 >>

Who Belongs to This Plunging Neckline? (Palm Beach Sheriff Wants to Know)

Photo: PBSO​The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office doesn't have the same flair for giving its criminal suspects colorful nicknames as Broward Sheriff's Office, but maybe we can help. In this surveillance photo you can see two women wanted for using a stolen credit card to make purchases at Target and Bes ... More >>

Morning Juice: LeBron Feeling Heat; Frankel Takes Page From FDR

​A spin through the local headlines this Thursday morning:LeBron James is said to be "leaning" toward joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on a potentially unbeatable Miami Heat team that will be pure evil. [ESPN]Former Miramar commissioner Fitzroy Salesman will be sentenced today after his convicti ... More >>

Palm Beach County's Serial Rapist Will Get America's Most Wanted Treatment

Sketch: PBSO / P. Moody​He has raped at least four women during a 9-month period, according to investigators with the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, which is still looking for the man. Tomorrow night, viewers of America's Most Wanted get to take a crack at it. The show airs Saturday at 9 on WSVN-7.O ... More >>

[UPDATEDx2] PBSO Deputy Shoots, Kills Man at Boynton Beach Strip Mall

Flickr​We've got a breaking story in suburban Boynton Beach where just after 6 a.m., a Palm Beach Sheriff's Office deputy had a confrontation that ended in a man's shooting death.At the moment, details are sketchy, but it appears the deputy was responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle at the ... More >>

Bank Robber in Lake Worth Pours Gas on Teller's Counter

Flickr​A gun apparently wasn't threat enough for a bank robber who struck Wednesday afternoon at the SunTrust location on South Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office reports that the gunman also poured gasoline on the counter of the teller's window.Presumably, the man's poin ... More >>

Spate of SoFla Bank Robberies is Dramatic, but Not Unusual

​This past week saw a series of headline-friendly bank robberies in South Florida. Two of them involved bomb threats scribbled on notes, in which the offenders were arrested within minutes of the attempted robberies. The most recent, at the BankAtlantic branch on Fairway Drive in Deerfield, was mo ... More >>

Mug-Shot Monday: Celebrity Look-Alikes

Welcome to our first mug-shot Monday. We've scrolled through more than 700 mug shots from the last week and found four people who bare striking resemblances to certain celebrities. Our hope is that this weekly post will be enough to take away your Monday blues, if only for a few seconds. Check out o ... More >>

Letter: A Whistleblower's Farewell to the Riviera Beach Police Squad

​This week's New Times cover story is an in-depth look at the corruption scandal that has rocked the Riviera Beach Police Department in the past two years. Veteran Detective Lee Ann Schneider is now awaiting trial for allegedly helping a supervisor pad his overtime, while Sgt. Michael Dodson has b ... More >>

Terrible Packaging Skills Induce Boynton Beach Bomb Scare

Boynton Beach Police DepartmentHere's the nonbomb that showed up at World Savings bank's mail center today.​Apparently a cardboard box semi-sealed by Scotch tape with wires hanging out is all it takes for someone to be pretty sure they just got a bomb in the mail.Boynton Beach police spokeswoman S ... More >>

Jupiter Farms Woman Thinks People May Be Eating Her Family's Pets

freakingnews.com​If your family's pet goats go missing and your first inclination is that somebody ate them, you might live in Jupiter Farms.But that's what Stephanie Tesley tells the Palm Beach Post she believes happened, apparently very distraught over her family's missing goats."I know a lot of ... More >>

Two Charged After Allegedly Mowing Over 15-Year-Old Girl's Leg At Juno Beach

cruelkev2.blogspot.comJaws, almost a similar story​It's all fun and games driving a boat in a designated swimming area until you allegedly cause a 15-year-old girl's leg to be partially amputated.That's why two 16-year-old boys were charged in the February boating accident, according to the Pa ... More >>

False Weed Is Back and Legal -- for Now

forum.grasscity.comThat is allegedly real weed, but it's also in an alligator's mouth.​Synthetic marijuana, spice, fake weed -- whatever you want to call it. It's back.The feds but the kibosh on the nonweed a few months ago, banning the five chemicals that were producing THC-like effects.Now, manu ... More >>

Rick Scott Distributes List of Accomplishments

At a news conference last week at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Gov. Rick Scott's aides left a gift on the chairs of everyone in the audience: a list of Scott's accomplishments for the year. Just in case anyone had forgotten. Take a look -- these items speak for themselves.My favorites: "L ... More >>

PBSO Looking for a Couple of Rapists, Including One Violent Serial Rapist

PBSOWho has two thumbs and is a suspected rapist? That guy.​If you know a guy who may or may not have raped four women and looks a lot like the dude in the picture to the right, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office would like to know about that.Detectives from PBSO are looking for the "very viol ... More >>

Teenager Driving Stolen BMW Killed by Karma Police: Friend Was Playing With Gun, Cops Say

​A 15-year-old kid who allegedly stole a BMW with his friends was shot and killed this morning by one of his accomplices, who was playing with a gun in the back seat of the car, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.The cops say they think the three boys, all juveniles, were cruising ... More >>

Two Boys, Ages 14 and 16, May Be Charged as Adults in Accidental Killing of Their Accomplice

​The State Attorney's Office is considering whether to charge two boys -- ages 14 and 16 -- as adults after police say one of them accidentally shot and killed their wheelman yesterday as the trio was allegedly about to embark on a crime spree in Boynton Beach.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Offic ... More >>

Palm Tran Employee on Why She Stole $11,000 of County Property: Boss Was a "Gay Pervert"

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeMelissa Siladke, who allegedly stole $11,000 worth of county property because of her "gay pervert" boss.​The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office was a little curious as to why Melissa Siladke allegedly stole $11,196.45 of taxpayer coin while she was an employee ... More >>

Roseann Arces Gets Probation for Assaulting "Jewish Bitch" After Backing Into Her Car

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeRoseann Spera Arces​Roseann Spera Arces decided to settle a minor car accident in a bank parking lot by beating up the other woman for being Jewish. That would be a felony.Arces, 49, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months' probation, instead of the ... More >>

West Palm Beach Head Shop Workers Busted for Allegedly Selling Fake Weed

Not weed. But still not legal.​The main problem with selling the false weed commonly known as "spice" -- it's illegal too.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrested 37-year-old Monica Lee, owner of the Hidden Treasure Smoke Shop in West Palm Beach, and one of her employees, 27-year-old Hope S ... More >>

Cattle Thieves on the Loose in Wellington; Abducted Bovine Count Up to Six

zazzle.comAliens: NOT the suspects.​The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is looking for a pair of dudes who jacked six heads o' cattle from a Wellington property.The agricultural-crimes unit at the Sheriff's Office says three bulls and three cows were taken from the northeast corner of 50th Stre ... More >>

Cops: DUI Suspect Says He Doesn't Remember Causing "Fireball" Crash That Killed Woman

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeEdson Ramirez-Jaimes​After Edson Ramirez-Jaimes allegedly blew through some red lights and crashed into an SUV, causing a "fireball" and killing the driver on Christmas Eve, the cops say he told them he never even remembered driving.According to documents from ... More >>

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

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeAna Rodriguez​For one of the three "Occupy" protestors 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 ... More >>

PBSO Needs Help Identifying Pedestrian Killed in Belle Glade; They Have an Eerie Drawing

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeI swear I saw it blink.​Palm Beach officials are asking for help identifying a man who was killed in Belle Glade on January 8 when he ran in front of a Chrysler sedan just before 8 p.m.The crash happened at the intersection of First Street and South Main Street; t ... More >>