Two years ago, Lawrence Hunt told police he killed his lover, Calvin Williams, because he feared Williams was about to rape him and give him HIV. If the case had gone to trial, family and friends of both men would have been dragged through a public airing of intimate secrets. Did…
Police arrested a couple on Tuesday after a child in their care was found to have what police called a “grotesquely deformed” hand as a result of untreated burns that left her missing an entire finger and parts of two other fingers. Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Travis Mandell said he…
Update, 1:56 p.m.: In a new post, we look into whether Chevelier is a Maryland hip-hop artist with a criminal record.Fort Lauderdale Police went to a home on Saturday to investigate reports that children at the house were being tortured. There, they encountered 22-year-old Irma Mustamu and a young child…
Update, 2:17 p.m.: Added comment from Hurley’s judicial assistant.Update: 3:05 p.m.: Added comment from the president of Women In Distress.Plantation’s Joseph Bray is accused of pushing his wife onto a couch, putting his hand across her neck, and raising his fist to punch her. He was arrested and went before Fort…
For nearly three years, Heath Miller sat in jail without facing a jury. In April 2009, the once-popular band teacher at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens was charged with sexually assaulting four of his eighth-grade, female students. His arrest came as a shock to many in the…
UPDATE, 2/8/12: Both Norman and Reich are off the hook — state’s attorney spokesman Ron Ishoy says “The Parkland property owners… have agreed that the issuance of a trespass warning to the two journalists is the appropriate course of action in this case. Those warnings are expected to be issued…
Alex Johnson — a main character in this week’s cover story about the conviction of Buju Banton — on Monday further delayed his bankruptcy hearing. On the surface, there’s nothing extraordinary about that; many Americans have turned to bankruptcy proceedings, which can stretch months if not years. But Johnson isn’t…
On April 23, 2011, months before she was hired as assistant principal at the Mavericks High charter school in Palm Springs, Tisa Brandon was videotaped hanging out with teenagers at Denny’s in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. At the time, Brandon was dean of Liberty High School in…
Update, 2/2: Added comment from Baugh’s lawyer.Marlon Baugh’s federal court documents are practically a how-to guide on money laundering and mortgage fraud. The guy was a scam artist. He worked in Hallandale Beach for National Foreclosure Centers, a business that also went by the name Home Savers. He helped run…
Wellington multimillionaire John Goodman knows he might be going away for a while. The founder of the International Polo Club is facing multiple criminal charges for allegedly driving drunk and causing the car accident that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson in 2010. He has pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide, DUI…
Cops told us late last month that they were looking for 19-year-old Burnie Reed, who they believe was arguing with his pregnant ex-girlfriend in the street, then shot the woman’s sister in the head when she tried to step in. Police say Reed then chased down his ex, shot her…
The state Senate passed SB 98 this afternoon by a 31-8 margin, paving the way for public school districts to allow student prayer in school. The bill would allow “student volunteers to deliver inspirational messages, including but not limited to, prayers of invocation or benediction,” according to a legislative summary…
Marvin Broadway had a team, according to police, and attempted to rob a man behind the Gold Buyers store on the 5100 block of North Federal Highway. Unless the idea was to get arrested not wearing any clothes, the robbery did not go according to plan.With a lookout nearby and…
Rich people do strange things to protect their money. Wellington polo mogul John Goodman went so far as to adopt his 42-year-old girlfriend to preserve his family’s fortune. Which means, legally, he’s his girlfriend’s dad, and… well, you get the idea.Why would a multimillionaire do such a thing? Goodman, 48,…
People manage to find all kinds of creative ways to menace folks. Forty-year-old Victor Scott Borchert was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office yesterday evening and accused of menacing a woman with a gun and a Japanese sai, the three-pronged weapon of choice of Raphael, the red Teenage…
Here’s the leadership team at Mavericks High School in Palm Springs: Principal Thomas Lockett is not certified to teach in Florida and has a background in pharmaceutical sales. Assistant Principal Tisa Brandon came to Palm Springs from the Osceola County School District, where she was investigated for alleged “unethical behavior”…
Deputy Sheriff Michael Collister was hired by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in 1983. He served on the SWAT team, won awards, saved lives. In May 2010, after 27 years on the force, he was diagnosed with stage-IV bile duct cancer — essentially a death sentence. According to police, his friend…
Semie Robinson seems to have a habit of leaving his DNA at Pompano Beach crime scenes.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Robinson, 30, has been implicated in the November murder of 53-year-old Russell Buddie outside Buddie’s Pompano Beach air-conditioning business after leaving his DNA at the scene.The cops didn’t exactly…
UPDATE: The man killed by Schlanger was Craig Legget. Police say the altercation stemmed from “a prior civil matter regarding the destruction of Leggett’s personal property by Schlanger’s son.”Fort Lauderdale police say a former city employee shot and killed a man in the lobby of a condo building yesterday, then…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is on the hunt for a “slithering thief” who “shimmied under a semitruck” in West Park and made off with a truck’s computer system. The BSO is also apparently embracing alliteration like never before.The guy needed less than two minutes to get under the truck, which…
Father’s Day isn’t until June, but a strong candidate for father of the year has emerged in 20-year-old Lineten Belizaire, whom police arrested early Sunday in connection with last week’s triple homicide in Lauderdale Lakes.Police say Belizaire shot and killed 21-year-old Octavia Barnett, 25-year-old Natasha Plummer, and Plummer’s 6-month-old son…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is currently searching for 19-year-old Burnie Reed, who the cops say shot both his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her older sister in the head Saturday night.Chutney McNair, who’s pregnant with Reed’s child, has since been released from the hospital, but her older sister, Bianca McNair, died…
