Jayvon Woolfork is the lone suspect in the brutal gang rape of a Hollywood teen not to have been offered a plea deal. Last month, Patricia Montes, 17, and Erica Avery, 17, took plea deals and on Wednesday, Lanel Singleton, 19, and Dwight Henry, 18, also took plea deals, pleading guilty to…
Two BSO deputies are facing charges for brutally beating a man at a gas station last year and then lying about it in the arrest report. Those lies might have gone unchallenged if it wasn’t for the surveillance camera that caught the entire incident on camera. The Broward state attorney’s…
The Florida man federal prosecutors say was “hell-bent” on shipping guns to convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Belle Glade resident Oscar Hernandez Jr. — who is not related to Aaron — pleaded guilty in January to three counts of lying to a…
Going to prison in Florida no longer means you can’t keep it kosher. After more than ten years of lawsuits, a federal court ruled that the Florida Department of Corrections must meet the dietary restrictions of prisoners who desire a rabbi-approved meal. The FDOC had already been providing kosher meals…
The City of Hallandale Beach wants one of its own police officers and his union to pay attorney’s fees for the person who successfully sued them in a civil rights case involving excessive force. The incident happened in 2009 when Kenneth Salazar made a left turn on Hallandale Beach Boulevard…
The Florida Department of Children and Families released a comprehensive report on Tuesday that found the state’s child protections agencies dropped the ball in catching what it calls a “long pattern of substance misuse, generalized neglect and physical injury” to Ahziya Osceola. Following the tragic death of the three-year-old in…
Analiz Osceola pleaded not guilty to aggravated manslaughter charges in Broward Circuit court on Wednesday morning. Osceola was charged after her 3-year-old stepson Ahziya was found dead wrapped in garbage bags and stuffed in a box inside her home in March. Additionally, Osceola’s request to have her bond reduced from $230,000 to…
In an action called, “Expose the Slaveholders,” activist group the Dream Defenders is in Boca Raton today to protest GEO Group, the Boca-based private prison corporation, which is having its annual shareholders meeting this week. For the past few years, protesters have demonstrated in Boca for GEO Group’s shareholders meeting,…
Local activists last week protested Boca Raton-based GEO Group for abuses in the highly profitable private prisons it runs. Meanwhile, the company is under scrutiny by the Department of Justice for wasting at least $3 million while operating a troubled rural Texas prison that has seen riots and death in…
Palm Beach County taxpayers have shelled out more than $28,000 for PBSO deputy Shatara Shatara to be on a paid leave during the past four months as Delray Beach police continue to investigate why the cop shot and killed his own son this past Christmas Eve. Shatara shot his 21-year-old…
The FBI has been providing flawed hair analysis for decades and Florida is the state with the most defendants affected, with at least 10 of those ending up on death row and at least one execution. According to a report by the Washington Post, the hair analysis was overstated by…
Just after dawn, a gray van pulled up to Maria’s mustard-yellow house on the western edge of Immokalee, just a few blocks from the acres of tomatoes that draw tens of thousands of migrant workers to this remote town in Southwest Florida. Maria got into the van and sat next…
Back in early February, a Lake Worth man stripped naked, climbed up on top of his apartment building with a handgun, and began to threaten to shoot himself and others. After hours of negotiating with the man, authorities say the man admitted to them that he was high on flakka…
A federal judge magistrate ordered that Palm Beach eye doctor Salomon Melgen be detained before trial. Melgen, who was was indicted on Thursday for Medicare fraud, has been called a flight risk by prosecutors. Melgen is tied to New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez’s corruption scandal after the eye doctor allegedly…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office announced that they have arrested a 14-year-old kid for the double-homicide shooting deaths of two Boynton Beach men. In the early morning hours last Monday, Ricky Taylor Miner, 23, and Andrew Vincent Laudano, 21, were found shot dead inside a Dodge Charger off Verona Lakes Boulevard…
Alleged shoplifters tried to use their five-finger discount at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Palm Beach Gardens earlier today and eventually got arrested. The cops released a press release about arresting the shoplifters, but they apparently didn’t do anything about the gun-toting bystander who might have committed a more…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Deputy William D. Wheeler wrapped his hands around an inmate’s neck and threw his head up against the walls inside the medical unit of the Palm Beach County Detention Center in Belle Glade. Wheeler had kept a nurse from seeing the inmate’s medical wristband before trying…
Former Florida Gator and New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of first degree murder. The former star tight end had been charged with killing Odin Lloyd in June 2013. Lloyd, who had been dating Hernandez’s fiancee’s sister, was shot six times in an industrial park near Hernandez’s…
A Salvadoran immigrant detained at a GEO Group facility in California died from cancer only three days after being admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with cancer. And now an immigrant advocacy group is calling for an investigation into the death, which they say happened after several weeks of warning…
Palm Beach Police nabbed two women in a prostitution ring being held at The Breakers hotel in West Palm. According to probable cause affidavits, the Palm Beach Police Department’s Organized Crime, Vice & Narcotics Unit set up the sting via the website Backpage.com. Undercover agents answered an ad in the…
Brent Betterly of Oakland Park, one of three men associated with Occupy Fort Lauderdale who were arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges in 2012 on their way to a NATO protest, is being let out of state prison in Illinois this Thursday, his supporters have said. They are raising money…
Fort Lauderdale businessman George Levin brought more money into Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme than anyone else involved with the convicted ex-lawyer. And now, Levin himself has been convicted by a federal grand jury. On Wednesday, the jury found Levin liable for fraud in his roll with Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme. In…
