Lobster season in Florida runs from August 6 through March 31. The lobster-tail bag limit for the season is six per person, per day. But apparently two men decided that lobster season is right now and that the lobster-tail bag limit is none. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife, two…
This week’s feature story in the dead tree edition of New Times gives you a crash course in the world of fortunetelling fraud. Inside, you’ll get a basic field guide on the emotional games, legerdemain, and mindfuckery used to convince otherwise rational folks to willingly part with their money. Sure,…
If you thought your hump day was bad, David Subil is here to make you feel better. Subil, 42, was taken into custody Wednesday after accruing more charges than a Lindsay Lohan family reunion. The Miami resident was apprehended in Pompano Beach after allegedly claiming to be in charge of…
It’s not exactly like catching John Dillinger, but cops have reportedly nabbed an escaped prisoner with a long history of doing bad stuff.Martin County Sheriffs Office officers caught escaped prisoner Christopher Reyna Thursday afternoon after they stopped the Ford Crown Victoria he was riding in on U.S. 1 near Jensen…
Back in January, Denise McCoy was arrested for allegedly running a prostitution ring with another woman through Sara’s Entertainment escort service. Denise is married to Samuel McCoy, who happens to be a nine-year veteran of the Boca Raton Police Department. And due to his wife’s charges, McCoy, 31, has resigned…
Uh. Day Two of this short week just might be harder to get through than Tuesday. Right? After that glorious three-day weekend, it’s a death march just getting back into the everyday swing. Powering on the ol’ desktop, pouring a cup of the office black-tar coffee, buttoning the cardigan against…
Since 2006, attorney and courthouse muckraker William “Bill” Gelin has been shaking up the judiciary on his popular site, JAA Blog. Whether sounding off about potential corruption and racism in the courthouse ruling class, or even its work habits, the 46-year-old Oakland Park attorney hasn’t held back his opinions. But…
This just in from the Broward Sheriff’s Office: At 6:41 a.m. on May 5, “a man who orchestrated a murder on Interstate 95 ‘pocket dialed’ 911 just before [a] fatal shooting. On a recorded line, Scott Simon can be heard telling someone else that he’s going to follow the victim…
Jose Canseco, batshit former MLB player, steroid a aficionado and noted time traveler, took to Twitter today to announce that he had been charged with rape. The first tweet read as Canseco breaking the news to his own rape accusation, which is all kinds of mettamoron: “Breaking news this is…
Shirley Ann Duncan was given over $1,000 in donations, including housewares, clothes and furniture, thanks to the selfless generosity of a Port Charlotte church when she told them that her four sons were killed in combat overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. The church even held a memorial service for the…
The mother of a 13-year old student at Lauderhill Middle School is suing the School Board of Broward County after a teacher at the school engaged in sexual activity with the boy when he was a student in her 8th grade class. In 2009, teacher Kristin Sullivan began engaging in…
An exotic dancer is recovering after suffering through a horrible series of events at the hands of a Boynton Beach man, police say. Thomas R. Fitzsimmons, 50, is accused of sexually assaulting the 39-year old stripper — whose name is being withheld — at gunpoint, while psychologically torturing her with…
“It didn’t go the way it was supposed to.” That was the news from a clearly-disappointed Gary Karp about his trip last week to the Bahamas. After spending a decade squeezing out every tiny scrap of information possible in the still-unsolved murder of his daughter, Karp was hoping a Hail…
Earlier this week, trial began for a Broward couple who allegedly imprisoned wayward and young women, drugged them, and then forced them to work as prostitutes — under the constant threat of beatings. The accused 34-year-old ringleader, Mackenley Desire, who prosecutors say directed his 20-year-old wife, Genet Rembert, to beat…
Some deputies at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office might be going the A-Rod route (allegedly!) and getting jacked up with illegal steroids, according to a Gossip Extra report. The report says that the FBI and the DEA are conducting a major investigation into the possible juicing of some of…
Two South Florida identity thieves the feds have been trying to nab were caught after one of them couldn’t resist Instagraming a picture of his food at Morton’s the Steakhouse in Fort Lauderdale. Nathaniel Troy Maye, 44, who claims to have stolen 700,000 identities, and his lady friend, Tiwanna Tenise…
Let’s say yo. . . err . . . no, your friend, happened to illegally download some porn over the last year or so. Now, your friend knew he was breaking the law when he did it. And sure, it’s gross, but he was sad and cripplingly lonely and they…
According to the news crews over at Channel 10, a reporting team was filming in the street outside of a private residence Tuesday night when a man — since identified as 33-year-old Louis Dominic Paolino III — came out of the house wielding a knife. He began slicing electric cords,…
Gary Karp again is taking over the reins. As he has countless times in the decade since his teenaged daughter, Marissa, was found dead in the Everglades, yesterday the Broward man held a news conference, reminding South Florida about the unsolved case. The recent occasion was Karp’s trip this week…
After weeks of anticipation, it looks like John Goodman is going to get another trial. The “polo mogul” — which, if you translate that into middle-class English, means rich dude with nothing better to do all day — wasn’t given a fair shake in his original courtroom appearance, a Palm…
On a sultry evening in early March, Robert Cournoyer met a beautiful mysterious woman at an upscale restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. She was exotic, possibly Hispanic, in her late 20s, and very much into him. She said her name was Crystal. Cournoyer would invite Crystal to his home to continue…
Samuel Little is not the guy you’d want to bump into alone in a dark alley. A hulking former boxer armed with a cold glare, on paper he’s a career criminal with a rap sheet stretching across 24 states. Police now believe Little was actually a vicious serial killer who…
