A defense attorney has a question: If it’s “justice” for his 16-year-old client to get 23 years in prison for shooting a retired police dog, what should happen to police officers who shoot civilian dogs? The subject of our feature story this week is Ivins Rosier, a juvenile who was…
A reptile store owner was arrested for slapping his employees with a bearded dragon lizard. And you hate your boss when he gives you gruff about stuff. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report, Benjamin Siegel, 40, owner of Ben Siegel Reptiles Inc. in Delray Beach, was arrested on…
The Delray Beach Police Department is currently investigating Shatara K. Shatara, an off-duty PBSO deputy who shot and killed his own son last week. But don’t expect to see any updates about the case on the department’s Facebook page — every statement related to the case has been removed from…
Update: All of the posts related to the Shatara shooting on the Delray Beach Police Department’s Facebook page have been removed. But we have inserted screenshots of those now-missing posts in the story below. Almost a week after off-duty PBSO Deputy Shatara K. Shatara shot and killed his 21-year-old son,…
Update: Two days after the shooting, the Delray Beach Police Department confirmed that the victim, Khamis Shatara, is the son of PBSO Deputy Shatara K. Shatara. An off-duty PBSO deputy shot and killed one of his own relatives on Christmas Eve, but police are mum on details, releasing only minimum…
A string of armed robberies have been going down in Las Olas lately, according to an announcement from Las Olas Village, a group that describes itself as an “urban renewal project dedicated to revitalizing a key section” of the area. The group is calling for a bigger police presence in…
A retired NYPD cop who moved down to South Florida after fighting crime in the Big Apple has been arrested for raping a teenage girl in Boynton Beach. On Thursday, Daniel Guadalupe, 56, who is reportedly a former member of New York’s finest, was arrested by the Palm Beach County…
Marckenson Chery, the 29-year-old Fort Lauderdale man who had cyber-sex sessions on Skype with a 15-year-old girl from San Francisco has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. Last April, Chery, who went by the Skype name “Swag likeus Robinson,” admitted to authorities that he met the girl online…
It has been five long years since reggae super-star Buju Banton was busted by law enforcement in a shady operation that resulted in a ten-year prison sentence. The Grammy winner — born Mark Myrie — has maintained his innocence, and as we documented in a 2012 feature, it appears Banton…
It takes varying degrees of balls to sling any kind of drugs. Even your down-the-block teenaged weed hustler is working on some equation of eff-the-system brashness plus a healthy dose of stupidity. But to try to smuggle drugs into the Broward County Jail? That just might belong more to the…
For Boyd Corbin, the long slog is over. After more than two years, five lawyers, and one quixotic mayoral campaign, the Wilton Manors resident has finally resolved the criminal charges filed against him after a 2012 Halloween brawl at Georgie’s Alibi. Corbin, dressed as a tiki-torch-wielding Ku Klux Klansman, faced…
Adam Meyer, the president and chief executive officer of sports betting consulting firm Real Money Sports Inc., has been indicted on federal fraud, racketeering, extortion, and brandishing-a-firearm charges by a federal grand jury in Milwaukee after allegedly orchestrating an elaborate plot that scammed the victim of millions over several years…
As with his first trial, convicted polo magnate John Goodman’s retrial wasn’t without drama. Among the bigger issues was over a Vermont con man who offered to screw up the trial for big cash. The man, James Perron, 48, allegedly texted a witness and Goodman confidant Kris Kampsen saying he’d…
A Royal Palm Beach man who called himself “King” was convicted of pimping women, keeping their money, and beating them when they didn’t do as he said, sometimes even using a hair iron. He got 37 years in federal prison. Jesse Lewis, 28, was sentenced to 30 years in federal…
In December 2011, Jared Bretherick and his family were tooling around Orlando when the visitors from Indiana were cut off in a road rage incident. According to reports, a driver named Derek Dunning almost sideswiped the car Bretherick’s father was driving. Dunning allegedly slammed his car to a halt, got…
Undercover Sunrise Police officers posing as drug dealers have been luring people down to South Florida with the promise of cocaine deals and have apprehended several suspects — one of them, a New York Police officer who was once named “Officer of the Year” at his precinct. According to reports,…
When Clausel Pierre pulled into a parking space at a Deerfield Beach shoe store in January 2011, he didn’t expect to get into an altercation with an off-duty BSO officer for not giving up the spot. But according to a lawsuit last month, that’s exactly what happened, so he’s suing…
Update: Moore has been captured. According to the FBI, Moore was caught at the Mangonia Park Tri-Rail station in West Palm Beach at around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. Moore is being held in federal custody and is facing federal charges. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning. Original…
The woman who alleges she was raped at gunpoint by a Boynton Beach Police officer has filed a lawsuit that holds no punches against the beleaguered police department. Back in October, Boynton Beach Police Officer Stephen Maiorino was charged with armed sexual battery, armed kidnapping, and unlawful compensation or reward…
Polo mogul John Goodman has been convicted — twice — after being found guilty — twice — for DUI manslaughter in the 2010 death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson. Two weeks ago, Goodman was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison — the same sentence he received the first time he…
A Christian high school teacher caught having sex with a 14-year-old student plans to plead guilty this week and could face up to 20 years in prison. But his attorneys are asking for leniency, claiming their client is just a hopeless romantic. Eric Beasley, 25, was a biology teacher at…
We’ve all had those small-change domestic spats with our roommates that end up blowing into big deals. Where’s my favorite hoodie? Why didn’t you DVR this week’s Big Bang Theory? Shut the fucking refrigerator door. You know the drill. Unfortunately for a pair of Palm Beach County senior citizens, a…
