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 spelled “dissemenation log,” which, believe…
There were developments in multiple prominent South Florida criminal cases over the weekend. Sorry to start your week off on a down note, but here’s a quick sample of the news you may have missed:Set free: Lineten Belizaire, the 21-year-old Miami man accused of killing three people (including a 6-month-old child)…
Congressman Allen West used Facebook on Friday to criticize President Barack Obama’s attempts to “seem tough,” telling Obama he should “stop with the Osama Bin Laden line” because “US Navy SEALS double-tapped that rascal.”One would think West would be more enthusiastic about a commander in chief’s unwavering orders to ramp…
Drug tests for everybody! The Florida House passed HB 1205 today, voting 79-37 to modify the state’s Drug-Free Workplace Act to allow public agencies to randomly drug-test any of their employees for absolutely no reason.Despite the lengthy legal challenges associated with Gov. Rick Scott’s orders to drug-test state welfare recipients…
There are still four contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, all desperately trying to pander to voters by crusading for relief from women, gays, minorities, the poor, immigrants, atheists, government workers, and anyone who believes in scientific discoveries made after the 17th Century.It can be hard to decide whom to…
The Florida House passed HB 277 yesterday, moving a bill on to the Senate that not only tells doctors what they need to tell their patients but forces them to tell their patients things that, according to doctors who actually know stuff, just aren’t true.Although the bill also includes a…
Welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times’ Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition…
Joyous news, proselytizers of the world — if Gov. Rick Scott signs the bill that the Florida House passed moments ago, Florida public school districts will now totally have the ability to allow prayer in public schools.The bill, SB 98, doesn’t explicitly allow prayer in schools, but it does say school…
A 36-year-old Fort Lake Worth man in the hospital with a bullet wound to the head is facing first-degree murder charges after allegedly killing his wife early this morning.Police say Paul Daniels got in an argument with his wife, 27-year-old Donna Daniels, shortly before 2:30 this morning. The Daniels’ daughter…
The situation regarding the financial management of the City of Lauderdale Lakes is a complicated one. But while two reports from the Broward Office of the Inspector General have yet to be finalized, there’s one thing that’s clear: There are no good vibes coming out of that city.The OIG delivered…
The man in right field for the Miami Marlins has “Stanton” written on the back of his jersey, but the name on his baseball cards will be changing, according to the Associated Press.The Home Run Artist Formerly Known as Mike Stanton would like it to be known that he wishes…
We wrote earlier today about the latest settlements going to investors in Scott Rothstein’s $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme; investors were awarded $130 million and lawyers at least another $50 million from T.D. Bank and Gibraltar Bank & Trust Co. The previous post covered Rothstein’s description of how Gibraltar was complicit…
The Charter School of Boynton Beach was locked down this morning after a 12-year-old student was arrested on weapons charges for allegedly bringing a gun to school. He said he found a gun and “brought it to school to scare another student who he was having a disagreement with,” according to…
Update: Also check out part 2, on Rothstein’s accusations on the role of T.D. Bank in the scheme.Both T.D. Bank and Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust Co. have settled with a group of investors in Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme and will pay them $130 million, according to the Miami Herald…
UPDATE, 10:04 a.m.: Police say she was found unharmed about 6 a.m. today. She hid in an abandoned house when she saw all the police activity in her neighborhood. Original post, 5:55 a.m.:Lake Worth 12-year-old Tatiana Huffman walked away from her house at 329 S. M St. in Lake Worth…
The Pulp’s cultural advisory department tells me that the Hunger Games books are a big deal and that Readers of Fiction are excited about the movie premiering March 23. If you are one of those people, you’ve got a chance to meet three of the stars at the Westfield Broward Mall in Plantation…
Palm City air conditioner salesman David Frederick Hayden was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for receiving child pornography over the internet, and it was Palm Beach County Schools Det. Stephen Santos who helped put him there.It started in late March last year, when Santos was “working in an undercover…
Yesterday we brought you a video by SoFloDude86, a guy from South Florida who ditched online dating websites in favor of a custom-made YouTube dating video of him rapping.Turns out the romantic rhyme-wrangler is 26-year-old Scott Heide, a consultant and grad student from Boca Raton. The video is for real…
The Palm Beach County School District approved a $225,000-a-year contract for Superintendent Wayne Gent last week. Gent was named interim superintendent last year after parents booted Art Johnson from the spot; now he’s got the permanent gig. Oh — and another $66,000-per-year pension that he gets for retiring in 2010,…
When Congressman Allen West starts talking about Islam, people whose livelihoods depend on pageviews usually break out their camcorders, because the odds are pretty good someone’s going to get really offended.But West has posted several Facebook messages about the recent uproar over the burning of several Qu’rans… and his “tell…
Chaz Stevens isn’t shy about stirring up trouble. His most recent target has been the wild financial mismanagement of the City of Lauderdale Lakes, which in recent days has been revealed to have used all kinds of crazy, stupid accounting techniques to balance a budget that was, in reality, about…
The first suspect, on the far left, is wanted in connection to an attempted burglary in West Park — a woman discovered the man in her dining room around 9 a.m. Friday, according to police; as she screamed, the man “continued to approach,” and she ran out the front door…
