It seems an odd target of a violent crime, but a Pompano Beach party supply company called Rides, Slides, and Games was set ablaze by five arsonists — or as the Broward Sheriff’s office calls them, “firebugs” — on Sunday night. Five males, all with their faces covered, poured gasoline…
Rambo, remember to text us about your weapons before you get to class.Oh, come on! Has it really come to this? The Broward School District is counting on students to text message security threats? From the article: But after the Nov. 12 shooting, Broward Superintendent Jim Notter — an avid…
This act, and variations of it, will no longer be performing at Greenbrier RestaurantAt a smoky pub on Powerline Road in Pompano Beach called Greenbrier Restaurant, there’s a long-standing, much cherished tradition known only to the regulars and to their servers: A patron stacks his cash tips in just such…
Meet Orlando Rafeal Dager, 24, from Southwest Ranches. He was arrested late Tuesday night with eight bags of marijuana in his 2003 Toyota Camry. This is shocking only because Dager has been a substitute teacher at Cypress Bay High School in Weston (where the kids can afford all sorts of…
On a day people in other parts of the world were paying ransom to pirates, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department was cold bustin’ em. Just ask 20-year-old Latesha Raines, of Miami, and 37-year-old Alora Berrian, of Lauderhill, who were arrested yesterday by FLPD at at a house allegedly stocked with more…
You will get caught. From the “Really Coulda Seen This Coming” South Florida crime files, we have 32-year-old Fort Lauderdale detective Jorge Reyes, who was assigned to a special task force aimed at breaking up money-laundering rings. Such a job is vital to bringing down all sorts of criminal enterprises,…
Today we learned that Florida is exporting guns for crimes in other states, and it appears Fort Lauderdale is also exporting armed robbers for crimes in other Florida cities.Three Fort Lauderdale men are among a foursome arrested in connection with the distinctly Grinch-ian crime of knocking over a credit union…
A study published last month by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group lead by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, says that not only do lax gun laws lead to more murders, higher crime rates, and more law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, guns from those states…
A wide receiver adept at catching passes in traffic isn’t very good at driving a car in it. At least not according to a Tamarac woman who says the suspended New York Giant and Lighthouse Point resident Plaxico Burress rear-ended her while he was driving on the Florida Turnpike. Compared…
I just learned a new and brilliant noun from urbandictionary.com. The word is Ponzi Crawl: A pub crawl that adds a new person to buy a round at each location. Each new person is promised that they will get free drinks at all the future bars if they buy this…
The Weston Democrat and minority leader of the Florida House has had a hellish holiday season. A week ago, Sands opened Monday’s edition of the Palm Beach Post to a story about how he allegedly used Democrats’ willingness to give to the Florida Democratic Party as a basis for deciding…
Hey everybody. I’ve been away (in Jupiter. No, the planet!) and now I’m trying to find out how my $50 billion investment is going. Except the web site of my broker Bernie Madoff seems to be down. Something about a court-ordered liquidation? That doesn’t sound good.Ha, ha, just kidding. I…
Today is the ninth day that Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan (pictured above), a 31-year-old Iranian woman, has stood in front of a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale wearing brown scrubs and white plastic government-issued flip-flops. In a move that has been described as bold, crazy, or both, the polite, petite detainee…
Well, it sure is nice to clear this case from the file room! Ottis Toole killed Adam Walsh, says Hollywood Police Chief Chad Wagner, citing approximately zero nuggets of new information.This is either some great detective work… or it’s a police chief eager to close an infamous, mangled, 27-year-old child abduction…
Part of the trouble with stating one’s political case via graffiti is that there’s only so much wall with which to write. Then one has to use big letters so that the message can be seen at a great distance. Well, you can imagine how it’s tempting to resort to…
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In December 2007, New York Yankees World Series hero Jim Leyritz allegedly got sloshed at his 44th birthday party, ran a red light in Fort Lauderdale, then plowed into the Mitsubishi Montero of 30-year-old Freida Ann Veitch, killing the mother of two. In December 2008 he’s looking for a job…
Joe the Plumber is over. America needs a new working class hero. Meet Joe the Vagrant, the deranged man who expectorates with uncanny accuracy and astute political judgment. This morning, as lobbyist Ron Book left the Broward Government Center, fresh from shepherding an embattled, ill-conceived development through the county commission,…
They’ve been known as the Dunkin’ Bandits, and Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti tried to cast them as cold-blooded thugs, but maybe the Dunkin No-Nuts would be the most appropriate name for this band of spineless poseurs who got their rocks off shooting random, unarmed people.Turns out these are not even…
Speaking about the ill-fated efforts of the Dunkin’ Donuts suspects to board a ship bound for Bermuda, a trip for which they would have needed passports they didn’t have and which was a stupid choice anyway because the Bahamas would have arrested and extradited them. Nudge. That’s your cue, Al.”They…
James Herard. You’ve just been charged with shooting up Dunkin’ Donutses with your buddies and you’re facing life in prison. What do you have to say for yourself?Video here. Listen closely, and you’ll hear Herard barking, DMX style, at Judge John Hurley. The best part is toward the end, when…
Hey, South Florida, I know a six-foot-five, 230-pound troubled wide receiver who needs a hug. Come on. By South Florida troublemaker standards, Plaxico Burress is a pussycat. Can we keep him? Huh, can we? There aren’t too many places with open arms for the big guy these days. On top of…
