On the way to the beach two Fridays ago, I witnessed a Florida Highway Patrol officer interacting with a homeless man near the ramp to get on and off I-95 in Boynton Beach. As the officer drove away, I pulled over into a nearby parking lot, sought out the homeless…
Based on New Times’ reporting, a federal judge in Tampa last week tossed out one of two convictions that sent reggae giant Buju Banton to prison in 2011. The decision — which hinged on juror misconduct dug up by the newspaper — is just the latest plot twist since the…
Radio station 97.7 FM played Mexican music and advertised Hispanic businesses in the Marion County area. Only problem is that it was being run by two guys in a mobile home. And that makes it illegal. According to Marion County deputies, two men were illegally operating a radio station. Unfortunately,…
Tyree Lincoln Smith, a Florida man who allegedly beat a homeless Connecticut man to death with an axe, and then ate his eyeball and parts of his brain, is having his fate decided by a three-judge panel starting this week. At the time of his arrest in January 2012, Smith…
Two employees at the Fort Lauderdale branch of treatment facility for troubled youths are under investigation for having inappropriate relationships with a student, New Times has learned. This afternoon, a representative for AMIkids confirmed that the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice was investigating the staffers, described as a full-time employee…
If you were not glued to C-SPAN on Saturday, June 29, you might have missed the fun footage of a judicial conference for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that took place in West Virginia. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was there being interviewed and said that “my favorite…
Last week, we told you the horrifying news of a man who strangled his pit-bull puppy, sliced it into pieces, and cooked it for dinner. Thomas Elliot Huggins, a 25-year-old Tampa man, was arrested and booked in the Hillsborough County Jail on animal cruelty charges Friday. See also: Florida Man…
Two Putnam County Sheriff’s Office deputies are out of a job after pulling some shenanigans and ballyhoo at a local bar that included one of them whipping out his literal gun during a fight, and the other one whipping out his figurative gun in the restroom with a lady. According…
Ernest Wallace, the man who turned himself in Friday in connection to the Aaron Hernandez murder case in Massachusetts, was denied bail on Saturday and is expected to face extradition at some point in the near future. Wallace, 41, is alleged to have been present with the former New England…
Update, 4:39 p.m. : Gil Bueno, a public information officer with the city of Miramar, says that “today at around 1:20 p.m. Ernest Wallace walked in to the police department to turn himself in.” Wallace said that “he saw it somewhere on TV that he was wanted.” “He invoked his…
Today in Tampa, federal Judge James Moody made a dramatic decision in the ongoing legal drama of Buju Banton. The bench tossed a gun conviction that the federal government stuck on the reggae superstar, mainly thanks to New Times having reported on the highly illegal extracurricular activities of one of…
What started with a routine police stop on Christmas Day 2008 ended with a backseat beating. Short and simple, that’s the ugly account Maria Paul lays out in a recently filed federal lawsuit targeting the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. But it turns out the cop Paul ran into was…
Many people have been caught with their pants down. Many people have been caught drunk, with their pants down. But how many people have been caught drunk driving with their pants down? Natalie Delgado has. The 20-year-old Pompano resident was arrested in the early-morning hours Wednesday after being pulled over…
A Port St. Lucie soccer coach was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old player. According to an affidavit released Wednesday, Joseph Christopher Gianquitti, 44, engaged in sexual contact with the minor for a number of months, beginning when he was 15…
First off: Sure, we’ve been there. You push that many words per week out into the world, you’re going to see a couple of typos and mistakes. But last week’s Sun Sentinel carried a pretty glaring error in its print edition. And it’s noteworthy not so much because the recent…
Key Largo resident Kari Dangler was so incensed when she couldn’t find her vodka last week, she turned to the next best option. A gun. Dangler, 51, allegedly pointed that gun at the source of her anguish, her roommate, who had hidden her liquor. Clearly, the roommate was well aware…
If you were having difficulty getting through to 911 earlier this month, you may have had an issue at the same time as Talitha Myrvil. If you found it frustrating to get a response from authorities while you were witnessing a carjacking or attempting to prevent grown men from dropkicking…
The day before Boca Raton attorney Timothy McCabe disappeared with more than $3 million of his Boca Raton firm’s money, he sent a cryptic email to his wife: “You never knew what I was doing, but after the bank took our properties I made a series of very bad business…
The big national news item the last few days has been the controversy involving the National Security Agency’s surveillance of millions of cellphone users in the U.S. And while most Americans are outraged at the possible invasion of privacy by the U.S. government, at least one guy is banking on…
Long before the prison guard was executed in the botched jailbreak and William Van Poyck, blood-streaked and clutching a pistol, zipped his Cadillac through West Palm Beach blasting several slugs into pursuing cop cars, there were clues of the impending chaos. Van Poyck — who was sentenced to death in…
While putting together this week’s cover story on the world of fortunetelling fraud, some of the information we gathered ended up on the cutting-room floor. Still, it’s interesting stuff worth your eyeballs and brain waves. The main area we didn’t have the space to explore was the dynamic currently playing…
Former Miramar Police Capt. Juan De Los Rios, a 28-year veteran with the force, was sentenced to four years in prison and five years’ sexual offender probation on Friday after being convicted of forcing a teenaged girl to strip naked during a traffic stop in 2012. In June of last…
