In a story that is equal parts heartbreaking, confounding, and just a friggin’ nightmare to parents with kids of all ages, two Pasco County teens were arrested Tuesday on child-porn charges. The charges comes after one of them allegedly videotaped the other having sex with a girl on their high…
Our intrepid former editor Eric Barton has left New Times’ gulag-like cubicle farm gilded corner office, but he continues to blog over on his own site, Barefoot Mailman. Missing his wit, we sneak a lil looksee over there once in a while to read his musings about Fort Lauderdale and the world…
One of the more made-for-TV courtroom dramas to roll out of Broward recently involves Rose Marks. The matriarch of a Fort Lauderdale family of fortunetellers, Marks schemed $25 million from a best-selling romance novelist and other victims, or so say federal prosecutors. The psychic herself has been proclaiming innocence since…
Last week, we gave you a heads-up about some new legislation in Tallahassee that might throw up roadblocks for recreational smokers. Rep. Darryl Rouson has put up a bill that will ban the sale of bongs and glass smoking pieces throughout the Sunshine State. Florida’s Legislature has come down hard…
The epic partisan clusterfrick in Washington known as sequestration is sure to put the squeeze on government budgets down the line. But an immediate impact on Uncle Sam’s spending is already registering in military circles — specifically, deployment. What does that mean? Basically it means the neighborhood drug dealer is…
By now, you’ve surely seen Police Women of Broward County, the Cops-style TV show authorized by past Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. The show had its share of problems when defendants claimed that they’d been unfairly arrested for pure entertainment value. The public defender’s office handled 11 such cases; most were…
Sgt. Gary Morales was shot and killed Thursday morning during a routine traffic stop in St. Lucie. The 35-year-old husband and father, who had served on the force for 13 years, was shot multiple times and succumbed to his wounds at a Fort Pierce hospital not long after. Police say…
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives think that former Coral Springs firefighter Santiago Gonzalez maybe, possibly, might have been part of the infamous Pain & Gain killings (now a major motion picture starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, based on a New Times story). On Monday, Gonzalez,…
John Nevins, a Hollywood Police Department sergeant who retired in April 2012 after serving on the force for 30 years, is under investigation for allegedly ganking as much as $175,000 from an evidence locker. He also allegedly took about $200 worth of office supplies from the department storeroom. According to…
Back in November, we told you about how Christopher Castillo of Melbourne, Florida, was so mad at President Obama for wanting to implement a health-care law that he took to Facebook and threatened to hunt down the president and watch him die. See also: Florida Man Arrested for Multiple Threats…
Chuck Malkus really wants you to hate Scott Rothstein. Describing the disgraced and hilariously ostentatious Rothstein, Malkus uses phrases like “orgy of fraud” and “one big rotting tapestry” and — our favorite — the “Pandora’s Box that is Scott’s brain.” Malkus’ book about Rothstein, Ultimate Ponzi, was released last week…
At some point, a Carol City-bred corrections officers named William Leonard Roberts II stepped inside a phone booth and popped out as Rick Ross, a slow-jawing hip-hop He-Man. Although the Bawse preaches a drug-slinging, drive-by braggadocio, the gangster lifestyle — as the media and haters have been quick to point…
Authorities seized a boat Thursday morning reportedly stolen from Broward County that apparently had a huge shipment of drugs. A boatload of drugs, if you will (sorry). Law enforcement sources are saying that about 1,000 pounds of drugs were seized…
So like we were totally in traffic court the other day and who comes up as the presiding robe on my docket but ugh omg Judge Sanders — right, the same creep-o who was jamming up my Facebook page with friend requests last spring break. I know, totally f-king awkward,…
A bakery truck traveling on an overpass above I-95 at State Road 84 crashed before dawn and left the cab dangling over the edge. The driver was transported to Broward General Medical Center, and the passenger was reportedly dead. …
Back in April of 2009, Heath Miller, a popular band teacher at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting four of his eighth-grade female students. See also: A Popular Band Teacher Killed a Man, Then Was Accused of Raping His Own Students…
True the Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots organization whose mission seems to be to keep election integrity, is suing the St. Lucie County and Florida Supervisor of Elections after they supposedly botched the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount back in November. Specifically, the group is looking to get election authorities to…
Even though she’s been out of custody and ducking underground for the last year and a half, it’s been a busy few weeks for America’s most hated parental unit. The latest updates came with a one-two punch: first, word that an appellant court had decided to drop two of the…
It didn’t take long for rapper Rick Ross to come out and comment about almost being shot earlier this week. Although his comments came via a rap verse (listen to the rhyme after the jump). Meanwhile, police recovered 18 bullet casings at the Las Olas Boulevard site where Ross and…
The information swirling around about the Rick Ross shooting right now is fat on rumor, light on facts. But among the speculation passing from mouth to mouth is that the gunfire directed at the rap mogul was connected to his well-publicized beef with the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago-based gangbanger outfit…
Since his arrest on dubious drug charges back in 2009, reggae superstar Buju Banton has been caught up in a rolling legal circus. His first federal trial closed with hung jury. A second ended with a guilty verdict and a ten-year sentence; the follow-up appeals go-around might land the defendant…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has confirmed that the Bawse was behind the wheel of the Rolls-Royce that crashed into a downtown storefront following gunfire on Monday morning. The police have also ID’d who was riding shotgun: Shateria L. Moragne-el. A quick dip into the backwaters of pop-culture gossip shows…
