Watch this video of an assault and car theft that occurred at a BP gas station in Pompano Beach. Maybe I’m jaded, but it’s at least a little comical how the man in the wifebeater comes out of the mini-mart, hugging a 12-pack of Corona, only to see that some…
No, this one didn’t involve Scott Rothstein. It was the lonely, forlorn creature to the left, who came to the SunTrust at 501 E. Las Olas this morning, then waited patiently for other customers to leave. This is from the Fort Lauderdale Police news release:Once he was alone in the…
The stabbings that occurred October 26, during a presentation by a Nazi historian at the Ritz-Carlton were a one-sided affair, it seems. That is, Christopher Nachtman stabbed John Kopko — multiple times. And now the attorney for Kopko suspects that the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office is considering a charge…
After arresting a young black man last night in Sara Sims Park, two white Boynton Beach Police officers faced down an angry crowd threatening violence.According to the incident report, officers were patrolling the park based on its history of drug-related crimes. Around 7 last night, they say they saw a…
It’s bad enough to have to work when you’re 82 years old. It’s worse when you have to work as a greeter at a place like BJ’s Wholesale. And it’s phenomenally shitty that the job also placed 82-year-old George Sobol in the unenviable position of trying to stop a computer…
The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office is still examining the evidence in the October 26 stabbing at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, but as we wait to see whether prosecutors will file charges, we’re learning more about exactly what happened during the speech by Nazi historian David Irving. That altercation involved…
Tyrone Pinkney, a 23-year-old who was released from prison in September, looks like he’ll be heading back. He’s been arrested by police and charged in the November 9 shooting of Demetrus Sutton on Seacrest Boulevard.According to the probable-cause affidavit, Sutton, 32, had been in an argument with two women –…
Broward police are looking for a bandit with “notably bad breath” who stuck up a bank in Tamarac Monday. The man, definitely not armed with Listerine, robbed the TD Bank, asking a teller to fill a trick-or-treat bag while motioning to his waistband. A gun was not in eye shot…
In a brief telephone conversation this afternoon, Nazi historian David Irving confirmed that his websites and private email account were attacked by hackers opposed to his writings of World War II. He told me that he’s been in contact with the FBI in hopes of bringing the hackers to justice…
David Irving, a British historian with controversial views of the Holocaust, whose speaking engagement last month in Manalapan was marred by a stabbing between neo-Nazis, has had his websites attacked and his email hacked by a group claiming “anti-fascist” motives.It happened on Friday, apparently, just a day before Irving’s speech…
On November 4, the day after alleged Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein returned from his trip to Morocco, a special party was held at the Westin Fort Lauderdale. Its attendance list reads like a who’s who of political heavy-hitters in Broward.The local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization that…
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 by police. Were it not, maybe Fletcher…
In a post Friday I quoted a former dancer who claimed that clubowner Matt Barrow was conscientious about the law and that he strictly forbade both drugs and sex with customers. She expressed doubt about investigators’ claims that Barrow and club managers were aware of and profited from the dancers’…
Just what the Rothstein investigation needed: a big dose of public pressure by people who don’t have a clue about the case but have some weird emotional need to see the already disgraced attorney slightly more humbled by being placed in a jail cell. That’s what you’ve got in today’s…
This week I spoke with a former dancer at Platinum Showgirls, the gentleman’s club in Boynton Beach that was raided on the night of October 30. That raid came after a sting by undercover officers who claimed they found drug-dealing and prostitution.The dancer, who knows club management and several current…
Roldry Philia, a 34-year-old Delray Beach Police officer, was arrested late last night on charges of beating his wife. The probable cause affidavit released by the Boynton Beach Police Department does not mention the name of Philia’s wife, just that she’s 24 years old. She told police that she’d been…
A parked car, a shooting in the early morning hours: The death of Michael Frank, a 22-year-old from Lighthouse Point, sounded like it was drug-related, and that’s what Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are reporting, now that they’ve arrested Filipe Cruz, the man they believe killed Frank around 2 a.m. Thursday…
A 22-year-old man was murdered early this morning in Pompano Beach. Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives say that Michael Frank, a Lighthouse Point resident, was sitting in the passenger seat of his friend’s car around 2 a.m. when someone walked up and fired at him. It occurred in the 200 block…
One of the great ironies of Scott Rothstein’s legacy in Broward County is the way he painted himself as such as a humanitarian. This spring, his Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm was a major sponsor of the Soref Jewish Community Center’s Humanitarians of the Year event. The soiree, held at…
On a semiweekly basis, we like to have fun at the Panhandle’s expense, and this week our victim is the very pitiable Kimberly Negron. The Fort Walton Beach resident has a depressing job and, according to local police, hatched an even more depressing criminal enterprise. From the Northwest Florida Daily…
An article in today’s Miami Herald about the method Scott Rothstein used to bilk his pal Ed Morse out of millions sounds like it came straight out of some Nigerian scammer’s playbook. 419 fraud, also known as “advance fee” fraud, requires that victims wire money in advance to obtain a…
Boynton Beach Police are hoping this newly released video of a Britney Spears look-alike purse snatcher and her accomplice help nab the pair. Shortly after this scene, the young woman in the foreground exercises her sticky fingers, boldly grabbing the Kate Spade purse belonging to a 79-year-old woman who was…
