Michael John Cefola had been driving for days, transporting cargo in his vehicle all the way from California. Maybe it was the lack of sleep, or maybe it was just carelessness. But Cefola couldn’t keep his blue Chevy four-door from swerving in and out of the lane on a Gainesville…
Colin and Andrea Chisholm certainly did not look like Scottish royalty at the Broward County Courthouse this morning. The wealthy Minnesota couple who insist on being referred to as “Lord and Lady” were dressed in the same blue prison tunics as the plebs who surrounded them. As they approached the…
When 101 Cantina — the same popular bar made famous first in Gainesville — opened in June 2013, FAU students were happy to patronize the place. On March 17, the Sun Sentinel reported that since its inception, 98 arrests have been made on 101 Cantina’s premises and that the vast…
There’s a hurricane of bass pounding inside Club Cinema, which, close to midnight on a recent weekend, is a sweaty blender of 2,500 teens dancing as Canadian producer Exicison’s set hits lift off. Green lasers stab through the dark in the Pompano Beach club. Shirtless kids grind against girls tricked…
Sir Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Lady Andrea Chisholm, the extravagant Minnesota couple who lived for a time in Palm Beach on a $1.2 million yacht, are on the lam from authorities. They’re also not royalty, and their extravagant lifestyle was earned fraudulently, a criminal complaint alleges. Colin, 62,…
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office was part of a state-wide Organized Retail Crime task force that helped nab a massive retail theft ring. According to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, 16 people were arrested in the $15 million statewide shoplifting ring after a year-long investigation. The Organized Retail Crime task…
Amanda McClure, the woman accused of driving drunk and killing Patriot Guard Rider John Regan on I-95 near Palm Beach Gardens in September, is back in jail. McClure, 25, of Palm City, was arrested Saturday night on charges of violating her probation, according to Palm Beach County Jail records. At…
If George Orwell and Stan Lee sat down to dream up a superdevice for trashing personal freedom and privacy, they’d probably come up with something like the Stingray. The device, manufactured in Melbourne, Florida, allows police to target suspects based on their cell phone signals. If that isn’t enough to…
Speakeasies began sprouting up in the 1920s when a ban on alcohol prompted the sale of bootlegged liquor in clandestine bars. Nowadays your chances of stumbling into a speakeasy have significantly decreased, since Prohibition ended in the ’30s. But last Monday, Fort Lauderdale Police shut down the closest thing to…
New Times began calling Florida Highway Patrol in late February for an update on Kayla Mendoza’s criminal investigation. After all, it had been almost four months since Mendoza Tweeted “2 Drunk 2 Care,” went behind the wheel, and caused a head-on collision that killed 21-year-old best friends Marisa Catronio and…
The attorney for Elroy Phillips is determined to have his client set free for what has amounted to an egregious and distorted miscarriage of the law. Phillips, the 47-year-old West Palm Beach resident, has already spent the better part of a decade in prison for what he says is a…
The lives of three young women, all in their early 20s, unexpectedly intersected on the westbound lanes of the Sawgrass Expressway last November 17. Twenty-one-year-old best friends Marisa Catronio and Kaitlyn Ferrante were in a red Toyota heading west at 1:45 a.m. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Kayla Mendoza approached driving her boyfriend’s…
Flagler High School Principal Peter Nicholson has been arrested after allegedly raping a female employee at the charter school. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit detectives, Nicholson, 55, sexually assaulted the victim back on October 26 during working hours at the school, located on 1951 W. Copans Road…
As if herpes and irritable seagulls weren’t enough, Fort Lauderdale spring breakers can now add another potential hazard to their list of things to avoid on the beach. “Bathing in Nude Condition” is against the law in Fort Lauderdale. This is the exact phrase used by a cop on a…
Last week, our sister paper had a story about a Florida man so terrified of spiders, he decided to get a giant tattoo of one on his face. As a sort of inked-up reverse psychology that he’ll probably regret when he’s an old man. Or when he tries to grow…
On Tuesday, a West Palm Beach federal jury heard all about a Margate man’s masterful plot to try and murder his lover’s husband by blowing him up with a homemade iPhone-controlled car bomb he learned how to build from watching YouTube. Shockingly, things did not go according to plan. Richard…
Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a huge d-bag. John McNally, 43, is no friend to the elderly, and he probably hates dogs, little kids, baseball, the Olympics, and America too. The Boca Raton resident was out driving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter on Sunday when he flipped his…
Police are still awaiting the autopsy results of Weston native and FSU student, Ryan Uhre, whose body was discovered on the rooftop of a building in Tallahassee on Wednesday after he had vanished for nearly two weeks. Uhre’s disappearance has been a high-profile case, hitting close to home and coming…
Tyler Hadley, the 17-year old Port St. Lucie man who killed both of his parents with a hammer, and then immediately threw a house party, has changed his plea to no contest on Wednesday. The plea means Hadley could face 25 years-to-life in prison. Prosecutors, meanwhile, say that they might…
The voices coming from the television in room 108 of the Grand Hotel in Dania Beach told Carlos Cadavid to murder his girlfriend. That’s what Cadavid, 23, told homicide detectives after he fessed up to shooting to death his girlfriend of four days on Valentine’s Day. After he shot and…
A woman says a worker on a Holland America cruise ship raped her, beat her up, and tried to throw her into the ocean on Valentine’s Day. The MS Nieuw Amsterdam had departed from Port Everglades and was sailing off the coast of Roatan, Honduras when the attack happened. According…
Back in 2009, a series of boneheaded decisions landed Mark Anthony Myrie — known in patchouli-soaked dorm rooms and Caribbean dance halls as reggae star Buju Banton — in federal custody. He faced charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm in…
