Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are searching South Florida for the human being who belongs to the finger who robbed a 7-Eleven in Pompano Beach. The BSO release does not say exactly what, if anything, was on the tip of that finger that made it so menacing as to cause cashiers…
Oh, but the sun is no match for this Prince of Darkness. Jeffrey Epstein, the world’s wealthiest registered sex offender, no longer has to spend nights in a stockade, where since October he’s been in a work release program, reports Jose Lambiet at Page 2 Live.Rather, he returns to his…
It’s one of those obvious but still necessary tasks: Now that the Florida housing market has been revealed as one giant scam, someone had to document exactly how it happened. So that after we all get buried by debt, Pompeii-style, some future archeologists can piece together our culture, then display…
Nobody wants to admit it, but if the federal government is going to make fraud-busting its new “War on [hot topic],” then it’s going to deal another blow to the South Florida economy.It’s just that fraud’s what we’re good at! Take the case of Christopher Maury. The West Palm man…
Still no word on exactly why Benjamin Schwartz gunned down his two neighbors on Friday before killing himself, but an investigation of the case confirmed that particular chain of events. From the Broward Sheriff’s Office release:Ballistics tests done on evidence collected from the two adjacent condominium units confirmed the scenario,…
Like a crappy movie sequel franchise, it seems the souped-up, tricked-out import cars driven recklessly by immature teens and even more stunted 20- and 30-somethings are here to stay. As are tourists, who — you may have noticed — like to drive slow enough to savor their South Florida getaway…
The alleged shark is named Pamela Lynn Csolkovits. A Broward Sheriff’s Office statement says she admitted to stealing some $200,000 from her fellow residents of the Surf Rider Condominium Association on Ocean Boulevard in Pompano Beach. An audit allegedly found that the actual losses were more than twice that. From…
This Osama doesn’t live in a cave (that we know of), but like his namesake, Osama El-Atari has vanished just before the long arm of the law could get him in its clutches . The son of Jordanian immigrants, El-Atari bought the Original Steakhouse & Sports Theatre franchise, which until…
To piggyback on a Fred Grimm column in the Herald and a Smashed Frog blog post — as well as the article that started it all, in our sister paper — I’ll venture a prediction that recent concerns about draconian laws regulating sex offenders will have the opposite effect on…
I don’t reckon there’s many of you who remember Oliver Sipple. He was the troubled gay man who never wanted to be famous — and wasn’t, really — even though he deserved to be. If for no other reason than for his knack for accidental encounters with major historical figures…
MCNA Dental Plans, a benefits system based in Fort Lauderdale, wanted a $20 million contract from the managed care group that administers Medicaid spending in Kentucky. State Sen. Julie Denton, a former dental hygienist, wanted a job. They both got what they wanted.Now I’m not saying that there was a…
Meet Travis McGee, the world’s next aspiring action hero. They can’t all leap from the pages of fiction into celluloid as gracefully Ian Fleming’s James Bond, but what the hell? The studios love the prospect of a franchise, and with 21 novels available for adaptation into screenplays, they could churn…
There are lots of stories about people living in homes with Chinese drywall and being unsure who to blame. The developers blame the suppliers, who blame the Chinese manufacturers who built the defective wall board. But Christine Miller, she knows exactly who the bad guy is. It’s her landlord: State…
The internet is abuzz with rumors that Phil Fasciana, guitarist for death metal band Malevolent Creation, shot and killed a man during an attempted robbery in or around Fort Lauderdale. There are also counterrumors that the story is unverifiable and that Fasciana is a lying “douche turd.” The Juice attempts…
It’s been five months since 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappeared from the bedroom of her family’s trailer home in Satsuma, a rural community north of Ocala National Forest. Haleigh, with her blond hair and eager smile, captured the attention of the Nancy Grace media brigades just after the memorial service for…
It’s 5 p.m. on a Tuesday. You’re drunk, and trying mightily to push your car out of a water-filled ditch. Now, you have to explain to some cop that your day job is working at a prison?Alas, this was the sad plight of Lisa Mae Hawkins, arrested this week on…
Delray Beach City Commissioners took an heroic stance Tuesday when they voted into law a packet of ordinances designed to curb nuisance rentals in single family neighborhoods. Or not. “They’re basically political cowards pandering to the bigoted, stereotypical sentiments of certain vocal constituents,” West Palm attorney Jim Green said of…
via Flagler County Sheriff’s OfficeThe male-to-female transsexual sent to jail after a client’s botched cosmetic procedure ended in death was arrested again this morning. Flagler County cops and Florida Department of Health raided the quiet, two-story home of Donnie Hendrix at 8 a.m. They collared her for operating medicine without…
The metropolitan daily papers in South Florida continue to awkwardly avoid mentioning race when describing criminal suspects on the loose, seemingly without consideration for whether doing so might actually aid in apprehending some of them. I wrote about a few examples of this two weeks ago, but the practice continues. In a…
The heat index climbed over 110 last month and we’ve had more rain than you could shake a wet cat at — two factors likely to get everybody feeling ornery. Judging from the number of weird animal incidents this week, that includes our furry, feathered, and scaled friends around the…
Here’s a story that brings home just how morbid this housing crisis can be: Heather Newnam of Tamarac shot herself yesterday instead of letting cops evict her for failing to pay her rent.It’s a depressing tale, but perhaps what’s more depressing is reading what amounts to Newnam’s final public words…
