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He Dunnit (No, He Dunnit!)

Michael Ray Roberts has avoided serious prison time by ratting out his partners. So far.

By Eric Alan Barton
Oct 20, 2005

Michael Ray Roberts was just nine miles out of West Palm Beach on August 1 when he spotted what no drug smuggler ever wants to see. Painted across the hull of a ship on the horizon was the Coast Guard's blood-red stripe, a terrifying sight for a man with 400...
An' Jushtiss f'r All!

The Luckiest Perps

By Eric Alan Barton
Sep 8, 2005

September 19, 2004, didn't seem to be Marcie Lynn Musgrave's lucky day. The petite blond, two months shy of her 21st birthday, had just spent the night partying on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach. As she headed home in her car, an off-duty cop followed. He had noted that,...
Saint Aaron

Living like a pauper himself, a young man from Broward is trying to save Haiti's children

By Eric Alan Barton
Jul 21, 2005

Somewhere down a maze of rutted dirt roads in a rundown Port-au-Prince neighborhood, past the red gate that keeps out the armed thugs, and through a courtyard of packed gravel, a 23-year-old guy from Broward County steps through the doorway of the sanctuary he created. Aaron Jackson looks out of...
The Next Ex-Mayor

After two years in office, West Palm Beach Mayor Frankel has little to show except blocked streets

By Eric Alan Barton
Jun 9, 2005

As she ducks into a peach-colored skyscraper in downtown West Palm Beach, Lois Frankel suffers a moment of confusion. "I have no idea what this is. Do you know what this is for?" Frankel, the city's imperious mayor, punches the penthouse button in the elevator, trying to remember the nature...
Bullet Bob

Smooth-talking philanthropist Bob Montgomery has a dark side you don't want to see

By Eric Alan Barton
Apr 28, 2005

It was ten 'til five on a Wednesday evening when Lisa Sanchez's supervisor at the State Farm office in West Palm Beach asked for a volunteer to drop off some documents. The stop was on her way home, so Sanchez, a personal injury adjuster, raised her hand. She had no...

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