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Helicopter Carrying Members of Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission Crashes in Everglades

A helicopter carrying staff members of the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission has crashed in the Everglades. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, the chopper went down near the Palm Beach/Broward County line.

Googly Eyed Lady Wanted in West Palm Bank Fraud

Do you recognize this woman? Have you worked with her? Has one of her large, bulgy eyeballs brushed against you at a bus stop? The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office is looking for her, because they say a car was burglarized and she committed check fraud using the person's identity.

Another Suspect Shoots at Palm Beach County Police, Dies

Last week, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office shot three people in six days -- two of those people shot at police, and one of them shot a lieutenant and a police dog.This week, the Boynton Beach Police have trouble of their own.Boynton Beach officers spotted what they suspected to be a ... More >>

Twins Shot While Driving in Belle Glade

Two 22-year-old brothers were shot just before 1 a.m. while driving in Belle Glade, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. One of the men was found near the intersection of SW Fifth Street and SW B Place, and the other was several blocks away in the passenger seat of the brothers' car. ... More >>

PBSO Just Shot Its Third Person in Six Days

It's getting pretty intense up there in Palm Beach County -- for the third time since the weekend, sheriff's deputies have shot a suspect.A fight between "a group of females" evolved into a fight between several men at the First and 10 Sports Bar shortly after 5 this morning, and a man was shot and ... More >>

Do You Recognize This Lady Accused of Cashing Stolen Checks From Palm Beach County?

The charming woman pictured at right is accused of stealing checks out of two cars in Wellington and Royal Palm Beach on March 24. From the looks of those wide eyes and her death grip on the steering wheel, she spends a lot of money on caffeinated beverages.I've requested more information (which ban ... More >>

Police Say This Guy on a Razor Scooter Robbed a 97-Year-Old Woman

On April 12, a 97-year-old woman was out with her 85-year-old sister, doing what old folks do. Police didn't say what they were doing, exactly -- probably drinking milk shakes and talking about Herbert Hoover or how crazy air travel is or whatever people talk about when they're pretty much made of d ... More >>

PBSO Would Really Like to Catch the Guy Robbing Burger Kings in a Barack Obama Mask

​Somewhere in Palm Beach County, there is a man with red gloves, a Barack Obama mask, a silver handgun, and a pile of money that smells like French fries.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office sent out another news release yesterday about the string of four fast-food robberies that started in Dece ... More >>

Police Searching for Dennis Palmer, Disabled Western Palm Beach County Man

​The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office sent out a message late last night asking for help finding 48-year-old South Bay man Dennis Palmer, who officials said has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old and was last seen walking "walking west bound from Palm Beach Road toward the cane field in South ... More >>

PBSO Conducts West Palm Trailer Park Prostitution Sting, Releases Price List

​The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office arrested 17 people Thursday in "an enforcement operation targeting street level prostitution" in the Plantation Mobile Home Park in West Palm Beach, according to a news release.The release also included a dissemination log of the arrests, but the spreadsheet was sp ... More >>

Snooze Theatre Reopens: Top Ten Snooze Slogan Suggestions

SHOW TONIGHT: Weird Wives, Low Level Lazer Radiation, and more at the Snooze! ​You may have heard by word of mouth (the Snooze Theatre's most popular marketing method) that it's a big Wayne's World "game on!" once again. Jordan Pettingill and C.J. Jankow are moving forward after a month or ... More >>

Snooze Theatre Raided by Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office

​Essential local DIY live-music venue the Snooze Theatre had its Monday-evening entertainment cut short by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office this week. The Lake Park venue, which was previously a blues club called the Orange Door, has been open for a little more than half a year. This is repo ... More >>

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

​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 the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Ramirez-Jaimes, 2 ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

[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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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