Reuben Stacy, a 37-year-old black man, hangs from a tree on Old Davie Road in Fort Lauderdale, blood trickling down his body and dripping off his toes. Behind him, a white girl, about 7 years old, looks on, a strange smile on her face as she takes in the sight…
One of the first high school polo teams is getting started at a high-priced high school owned by one of the billionaire Koch brothers — and the students are going to practice at “Wall Street Farm.” Palm Beach resident William Koch, younger brother of the Republican kingmakers Charles and David…
The 2012 shooting of 24-year-old Seth Adams at the hands of a Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputy has received new interest as a civil investigation by the family’s attorney has renewed doubts about the police narrative of what led to the fatal encounter. PBSO’s story is that Sgt. Michael Custer,…
Don’t worry that local police departments are getting special training from the federal government to deal with “civil disturbances” — it’s merely to protect your freedom of speech. That’s what BSO and several other police departments are saying about a program they’re participating in that is offered by the Department…
Check out our interviews with the other Ft. Lauderdale mayoral candidates Earl Rynerson and Chris Brennan. Mayor Jack Seiler got his first taste of national attention last year, but it wasn’t the way he wanted it. After news stories of 90-year-old do-gooder Arnold Abbott getting arrested for violating the city’s…
Several blogs have published a story that accuses Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of telling Boynton Beach residents they should run over protesters who are blocking roadways if they feel their life might be threatened. But PBSO forcefully denied Bradshaw made the over-the-top comments. In fact, he didn’t even…
Remember those wild and crazy BSO deputies who were suspected of leaving a West Palm Beach strip club and then shooting at a nearby Walgreens? Well, one of those deputies has turned himself in on charges of “discharging a firearm from a vehicle” — a second-degree felony. Deputy Norman Stepelton,…
It might be several months before the autopsy results of Khamis Shatara, the 21-year-old shot and killed by his off-duty PBSO deputy father on Christmas Eve, are released to the public. That’s because the death is being investigated as an “officer-involved shooting” even though the elder Shatara was at home…
A brutal sex trafficking ring that was first busted in 1998 is finally coming to an official close with the last two leaders of the multinational network pleading guilty in federal court. Alberto Cadena-Sosa, a 46-year-old Mexican national, was sentenced to 15 years after pleading guilty to conspiring and holding…
In two short news stories, there was so much shade thrown at Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene, the former U.S. Senate candidate might have to invest a few hundred million in solar power just to believe sunlight still exists. Greene was over in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum,…
Sunshine, beaches, alligators, corruption — you name it, Florida’s got it. But now there’s another reason to love this place: We have the 12th cheapest marijuana in the country. The average price of pot in Florida goes for $9.09 per gram, according to stats compiled by The Economist, which compared…
It was December 13, 2012, when 40-year-old Sunjee Louissaint, a soft-spoken woman with gentle eyes, looked across the front yard of her West Palm Beach home and saw two green-and-gold-striped Palm Beach County Sheriff’s cruisers. Two deputies had pinned her 17-year-old son, Devin, to the ground. She heard a bang…
Next month, Rick Scott will win the distinction of “Florida’s Most Deadly Governor” when he surpasses Jeb Bush in the number of executions under his watch since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Since taking office in 2011, Scott has signed 21 death warrants — the same number Bush…
After getting hacked by cyber activist group Anonymous last month for its homeless laws, the City of Fort Lauderdale beefed up its cyber security network with a hefty $430,000 worth of improvements. But city officials say it wasn’t the Anonymous attack that made them spend almost half a million dollars…
Back on January 5 at 3:37 a.m., a shot was fired in front of the Walgreens on Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Road in West Palm Beach. PBSO confirmed then that a shot was fired but didn’t release any details. But this week, Florida Cop Watch reported something a little more…
Deputy Shatara K. Shatara shot and killed his 21-year-old son, Khamis, in his Delray Beach apartment last Christmas Eve. Other than that, not much is known about the shooter or the investigation, which is being conducted by the Delray Beach Police Department. But Deputy Shatara’s personnel file reveals he had…
Donald Trump says the Palm Beach International Airport is routing planes over his Mar-a-Lago club just to spite the millionaire mogul, so he’s suing the county for a whopping $100 million. In the lawsuit, filed last week in Palm Beach County court, the toupee-rocking real estate caricature says the planes…
Everybody knows Florida likes to lock people up. It’s the state with the third-highest prison population in the country that has the world’s highest prison population. But some recent data analysis by the Washington Post points out an interesting fact: Nearly every county in the Sunshine State has more than…
Remember when Alan Dershowitz was just a defense attorney defending a filthy-rich client from accusations of pedophilia and pimping instead of being accused of such acts himself? Well, back in 2006, when he was known just as a lawyer doing his job, Dershowitz tried to discredit one of the girls…
Two penny-pinching coupon-clippers paid a meager $16.7 milllion for a beachside estate — a measly $300,001 less than the most expensive home ever sold in Broward County. James and Jo-Anne Campbell are the thrifty deal-seekers who purchased the budget-friendly fixer-upper on 1093 Hillsboro Mile in Hillsboro Beach, according to property…
A defense attorney has a question: If it’s “justice” for his 16-year-old client to get 23 years in prison for shooting a retired police dog, what should happen to police officers who shoot civilian dogs? The subject of our feature story this week is Ivins Rosier, a juvenile who was…
On a Sunday evening in November 2012, three teenagers crept up to the sliding glass door at the back of the Palm Beach home belonging to Robert Boody, a Florida highway patrolman they knew was out on the job. On the other side of the glass, a vicious, cantankerous German…
