As we reported last week, MMA standout Thiago Silva was taken into Broward Sheriff’s Office custody on Friday following a violent lover’s quarrel that allegedly ended in a SWAT standoff. The fallout for the Brazilian-born fighter has hit quick: The day of the arrest, UFC snipped all contractual ties with…
A Brooklyn guy who fell in love with the wilderness of off-road South Florida, Matthew Schwartz was alarmed to learn last spring of plans for oil drilling on the edge of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. The group he leads, the South Florida Wildlands Association, joined with others to…
A Weston native, 23-year-old Ryan Uhre, went missing early last week in his college town of Tallahassee. Though Uhre graduated Florida State University in December of last year, he is still enrolled in classes this semester, working toward law school…
The George Zimmerman-DMX boxing match that was set to set fire to our national conscience for good taste and integrity once and for all was canceled over the weekend by celebrity boxing promoter Damon Feldman. But now a new promoter has emerged and is he is he taking the Zimmerman…
Missouri star defensive end Michael Sam announced that he’s gay Sunday night. And, since then, the internet has been buzzing about what this could potentially do to the NFL once Sam, who is the reigning SEC Defensive Player of the Year, is drafted in April. For the most part, players…
The Miami Dolphins suck. And because they suck, they’ve had a hard time selling season tickets to the masses who refuse to pay big bucks to a perpetually mediocre team with no real direction or hope. They’ve pissed off a lot of people with the way they run their organization…
A little past 2 a.m. Sunday, Jada Wright was driving south on the I-275 in Tampa. When she looked over in the northbound lanes on the other side of the concrete barrier, she saw a white Ford Expedition traveling parallel to her on the wrong side of the highway. “What…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
For the second time in days, Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies found themselves having to try to detain a naked erratic man who not only acted violently but was also nearly impossible to take down. On Saturday, cops needed a police dog, batons, and a Taser to subdue a 17-year-old…
The strain of marijuana known as “Charlotte’s Web” is closer to becoming legal in Florida, after House Criminal Justice Chairman Matt Gaetz of Fort Walton Beach filed a measure to make it so. Last month, state representatives held a legislative hearing on getting Charlotte’s Web legalized. The CW extract is…
Last night just before midnight, Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT forces surrounded a house in Oakland Park. Initial reports had it that there was an armed individual bunkered down inside. The situation wound down without any dramatic raid or shots fired, but the big surprise was the ID of the guy:…
Civil and voting rights groups hosting a panel discussion in Lantana this weekend hope it will kick off a renewed discussion of Florida’s restriction of felons’ voting rights. An additional penalty on citizens who have otherwise paid their debt to society, the restriction has left one in ten voting-age Floridians…
Several candidates for Palm Beach County and Lake Worth municipal offices have taken money from a Political Action Committee largely funded by gambling interests. The money went to Melissa McKinlay, candidate for County Commission ($1,000); Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo ($500) and City Commissioner Andy Amoroso ($500); and School Board…
Great news, internet! Video surveillance of Justin Bieber being processed by Miami Beach cops after his arrest a couple of weeks ago has surfaced. SO STOP YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW SO YOU CAN WATCH IT. The video shows the young pop star taking off his shoes and socks and his…
One of the crime news items of the day yesterday was the brazen break-in into a Pembroke Pines Jared jewelry store. And now there seems to be a bit of a twist in the case. Namely, that one of the officers who were called in after the break-in was reported…
Detectives are set to announce who they believe to be the suspect in the 1989 disappearance of Tiffany Sessions, a University of Florida student. The Sessions case has been one of Florida’s most notorious unsolved crimes, but now the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office is poised to announce that Paul Rowles,…
Polk County police found what is probably the most Florida thing during a search following an arrest on Tuesday. And by “the most Florida thing,” we mean, an illegal fish, a weed plant, hundreds of grams of meth, twin 10-month-old babies lying near the baggies, and two frozen alligators. We…
In South Florida, the roads are a lawless morass where turn signals are optional and drivers seek a blood vendetta against anyone who tailgates too closely. People are stalked, shot, and killed. By now, Floridians know to toot their horn at their own risk because from the rear-view mirror, it’s…
Over the weekend, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement made a troubling announcement that could throw thousands of criminal drug cases into question. According to the department, a rogue chemist working at a crime lab in the Panhandle stole pain pills in large quantities from the Pensacola Regional Crime Laboratory…
A Broward school bus driver was arrested Tuesday for allegedly groping the breasts of a 14-year-old special-needs girl. According to the arrest report by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened in the parking lot of Olsen Middle School at 330 SE 11th Terrace on the afternoon of December 17…
Don Whittington charged up to a desk inside a gargantuan Fort Lauderdale warehouse built from blue corrugated metal. He was seething. “You’re a bitch,” he hissed at the receptionist. Then, the five-foot-11 Whittington, who was once a championship racecar driver before earning an 18-month federal prison sentence for involvement with…
Looks like someone bagged themselves a big friggin’ python in the Everglades. Bobby Hill, a python control agent who works for the South Florida Water Management District, caught the 18-foot behemoth Tuesday afternoon. It’s the second 18-footer found in the past year, which remains a world record. Which means that,…
