A federal lawsuit filed this week claims that U.S. marshals acted recklessly when they opened fire in a Boynton Beach parking lot last year and shot an innocent woman five times. Attorney Ronald Guralnick tells New Times that he’s seeking $10 million in compensation for his client, Janira Calderin. According to court documents,…
Pizza is the great divider that will bring our nation down, apparently. A Davie man was arrested for throwing a slice of pizza at his ex-wife. Police say they arrested 54-year-old Jerry Najman Monday and charged him with battery after a fight with his ex, Sasha Najman, ended with his…
A woman was accused of making threats against a federal employee during a recorded phone call. But, it turns out, it was all just a big misunderstanding, and she was just trying to figure out who put a voodoo curse on her husband. And the judge bought it. Hooray, voodoo!…
Well now, this is awful. Jupiter Police Officer Bruce St. Laurent, who was riding in a motorcade for President Obama as the president was on his way to the Palm Beach County Convention Center yesterday, was struck and killed by a vehicle. According to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman…
Also: Woman sues Riviera Beach for police harassment; Drug testing is a wasteMike Hunter, a man who used to work for Riviera Beach running the public-access TV channel, is suing the city over a drug test. He took the test, was told the results were negative, then decided it had been…
Oh, teenagers. Two Port St. Lucie teen boys wanted to buy stuff at a their neighborhood Walmart but just didn’t have any money. So they hatched a fail-safe plan. One dude robs the store, and the other dude poses as a cop to arrest him. Boom. Heist. Of. The. Century…
Last week, Isaias Lerner-Biber, a South Florida cardiologist who worked with the South Broward Physicians Group in Coconut Creek, was arrested for beating a dog to death with a hammer. He was released from jail on Wednesday. The very next day, he shot himself in the head. Lerner-Biber had been…
See also “Bahamian Men Sink Boat While Smuggling Six People Into Florida, Including A Drug Dealer”Speeding through a manatee zone is no joke, especially if your boat is stuffed with weed and illegal aliens.At the end of August, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission stopped a 24′ boat operated by…
Broward State Attorney Mike Satz, who has held the office for 837 years and counting, has rarely faced a serious challenger in his reelection bids. This November, he’ll be running against Republican Jim Lewis, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer who most recently ran (unsuccessfully) for attorney general.The main talking point of…
Myles Dowling of Newton Massachusetts was arrested for robbing a PNC Bank in Boca Raton last week, according to an FBI criminal complaint filed in federal court. The complaint says Dowling demanded money from the tellers using a black revolver handgun, and then took off in a four-door 2000 Honda…
Earl D. Coney Jr. is accused of having oral sex with a 16-year-old girl without telling her he is HIV-positive. On August 28, Coney apparently picked the girl up from her home and brought her to his place, where he expressed a desire to have oral sex with her. She…
Cops may have found the car involved in this sad hit-and-run case. On Monday, Rita Chiero was using a walker to get around her gated senior living community when a vehicle hit her from behind, killing the 86-year-old grandmother. The driver fled the scene. But on Wednesday, Davie police say…
Boynton Beach Police say a woman who called them Tuesday to report her husband had attacked her was actually the one who did the attacking. Natacha Jean-Baptiste, 41, was arrested after cops showed up responding to her call, only to find that she allegedly hit her husband in the face…
“The urinal is too high,” says Douglas Schapiro, a pudgy lawyer dressed casually in a red polo shirt. He’s squished into the men’s room of Mi Fondita Mexicana Y Café in Hollywood fiddling with a measuring tape. “It has to be 17 inches from the floor. This is 24 inches.”From…
We got several reports around 2:30 this afternoon of a gunman on Broward College’s Davie Campus. A spokesman for the school said he had been told of an “armed intruder somewhere on campus.”Turns out it was somebody pulling a gun during an argument in the parking lot.According to Davie PD…
Better get a candy lineup ready. Delvis Rodriguez-Ramos, a 21-year-old homeless man, was sentenced to 180 days in jail for stealing a Twix and a Snickers from an Ocala, Florida, store. The total price for both candies: $2. We’re not sure which is the bigger outrage here: the punishment, or…
Last March, we told you about a guy who was robbing Palm Beach County Burger Kings and McDonald’s restaurants with a gun while wearing an Obama mask.Well, according to Riviera Beach police, the masked bandit has been caught. And, as it turns out, it’s not actually the president but a…
The body of a 22-year-old man was found in the middle of the road in Delray early this morning, and now cops say they have three people in custody. Responding to a call, Delray police discovered the body of Dustin Deckard in the 1100 block of SW Tenth Street at…
See also, Abuse Allegation Against John Bowman, and Charles Harper Pleads Guilty to Stalking,More than a year and a half ago, delinquent foster child Charles Harper came forward with allegations that an ex-foster dad whom he was stalking had sexually abused him.That foster dad just happened to be John Bowman, a sitting…
Pro tip: if you’re hosting a party, avoid chucking oranges at the neighbors after they complain about how much noise you’re making. You might end up with BSO deputies screaming and throwing you into the ficus hedge.That’s what Eric Spalding of Cooper City says happened, in a lawsuit filed in…
Incarcerated reggae star Buju Banton has switched attorneys and hired Chokwe Lumumba to continue his fight against federal drug and gun charges. A Tampa jury found Buju guilty last year of two drug-related charges and a gun charge. The trial judge, however, tossed the gun charge and sentenced the musician to…
The sugar-cane fields of Belle Glade have long been a stopover for migrant workers who earn measly wages in exchange for weeks of backbreaking labor in oppressive conditions.A new lawsuit filed against Cape Coral-based Sunrise Labor Corp. provides a detailed portrait of physical and psychological abuse of migrant workers, from allegations of sexual abuse to a…
