Police say 29-year-old James Newman and 18-year-old James Misleveck escaped from a Wisconsin correctional facility last week, then stole cars and a shotgun and kidnapped a woman from a casino. They were then allegedly spotted at a robbery in Hillsborough County on Sunday, thousands of miles away.After a high-speed chase…
Former Deerfield Beach High School football standout Steven Feagin was accused in 2008 of raping a woman in Pompano Beach — charges that he got out of when the alleged victim started accusing people specifically exonerated by DNA evidence and saying the FBI was covering something up.That case, however, did…
Update, 1 p.m.: Added just-released information about the victims and suspects.A man is in critical condition after being shot in his Boynton Beach motel room, police report, and the two suspects wanted in the robbery escaped before police could arrive.Police say 45-year-old Neil Rogers is the owner of Florida Sewer…
See also: Jennifer Carroll Lesbian Fling Case: Five of the Weirdest Unanswered Questions.Carletha Cole has not been shy about her accusations against Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll regarding Carroll’s alleged lesbian rendezvous with aide Bibi Ramos — but now prosecutors are saying she’s gotta shut up.”Attorneys for the defendant have spoken…
If you somehow haven’t heard, 12 people were killed last night at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, just outside of Denver. Forty other people are estimated to have been wounded, and nobody knows why. Much will be written about the victims, though probably less…
Do you recognize this woman? Have you worked with her? Has one of her large, bulgy eyeballs brushed against you at a bus stop? The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is looking for her, because they say a car was burglarized and she committed check fraud using the person’s identity…
See also “Dash to Dubai: An FBI Fugitive Explains Why She Kidnapped Her Daughter and Fled Fort Lauderdale”Leslie Delbecq is a fugitive. She has a most-wanted profile, as do her parents.Since kidnapping her daughter from Fort Lauderdale in August of 2010 and fleeing to Dubai, Delbecq has been pursued by…
Delray Beach 20-year-old Vitaly Zdorovetskiy raised eyebrows last month when he traipsed around Miami pretending to be a face-eating zombie. He posted a second, less timely prank last week in which he, dressed in a suit, makes a Boca man think his briefcase is about to explode. The Boca man…
See also “Octomom to Be Sued for Keeping Her Clothes On”This past weekend, Nadya “Octomom” Suleman donned a schoolgirl outfit and paraded around stage at the Playhouse South, a Hallandale Beach strip joint.But according to Gossip Extra, a weird legal drama unfolded between Suleman’s two performances that night.A process server…
A jury has found 17-year-old Wayne Treacy guilty of attempted first-degree murder for using steel-toed boots to attack 15-year-old Josie Lou Ratley after she sent him a text making fun of his “dead brother.”Treacy had reportedly discovered the body of his older brother several months before the attack; he had…
Good news, Florida druggies! You’re no longer burdened by that whole “innocent until proven guilty” thing — the Florida Supreme Court last week upheld a 2002 law that forces some defendants caught with drugs to prove their innocence, rather than placing the onus on prosecutors to prove anything. Phew!Oh, wait…
See also “Genetically Modified Bugs Glow Red and Self-Destruct, but Can They Keep Away Disease?” and “Petition Against GM Mosquitoes Has Nearly 100,000 Signatures”The International Business Times on Monday morning published an article about the potential release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Key West. Unfortunately, the first sentence is a…
Investigators say BSO Deputy Gerald Wengert beat up a 17-year-old and had a police dog chew on him because Wengert’s girlfriend told him to.The incident in question happened December 1, 2010: 17-year-old Mark Visconti was driving on Stirling Road in Cooper City after school when he and a passenger spotted…
Prosecutors say Port St. Lucie 17-year-old Tyler Hadley killed his parents last July. They say he sneaked up on his mother while she was on the computer, then beat her head in with a hammer. When his dad came in to see what was going on, police say they locked…
See also: the latest on Aguiar’s disappearance, and the lawsuit against Aguiar spurred by this natural-gas deal.In 2003, Texas geologist John Amoruso had a hunch that there was a lot of natural gas, and big money, in a previously unexplored geological area about midway between Houston and Dallas.It was a…
Fort Lauderdale Police have released some new details from their investigation of Guma Aguiar’s disappearance. They have narrowed down the time he left his house in Fort Lauderdale to about 6:57 p.m. and say he almost certainly boarded the boat alone.According to a release from Det. Travis Mandell, a witness…
Last Friday night, NBC’s Dateline aired an episode based on “My Father’s Bones,” a New Times cover story about the murder of David Jackson and his son’s efforts to find him. It’s one of the screwiest, most unbelievably family tales of recent Florida history, full of twists.After the jump, we’ve…
He sent money to a lecherous Rabbi, his wife asked for a divorce, opponents wanted his mental-health records, and then he sailed off into the dark.Ever since Guma Aguiar disappeared at sea, his mother and her fiancé have been trying to gain control of his many millions in assets, scattered…
See also “Genetically Modified Bugs Glow Red and Self-Destruct, but Can They Keep Away Disease?”A petition against the experimental release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Key West has garnered more than 95,000 signatures. In the past 24 hours, more than 10,000 people have signed it.But if the petition hits its…
See also “Reggae Great Buju Banton Is Locked Up on Drug Charges. Was He Entrapped?” and “Buju Banton’s Legal Team Blasts Feds”Buju Banton’s attorney on Tuesday filed a motion with the Middle District of Florida requesting that the incarcerated reggae star be granted a new trial.The filing follows a recent…
There’s been a lot of drama — too much, really — surrounding Nadya “Octomom” Suleman’s alleged contracts to strip at South Florida gentlemen’s clubs — first she was going to do a five-night engagement at T’s Lounge Palm Beach, then she got mad and changed her mind, and then, according…
An outbreak of tuberculosis has spread from Jacksonville to as far south as Miami and was kept secret from the public, according to an expose by the Palm Beach Post. The CDC team investigating the spread said it is the worst it’s investigated in 20 years. At the time of…
