What do judges have under their robes? The hundreds of calls and texts that onetime Broward prosecutor Howard Scheinberg, rumored to have had a close personal relationship with former Circuit Court Judge Ana Gardiner, suggest that Scheinberg might have found an answer to this age-old mystery. To be fair, nobody…
In late January, we reported allegations of past sexual abuse by Broward County Circuit Judge John Bowman. The accusations came from Charles Harper, a troubled 18-year-old whom the judge had adopted as a young child after the boy passed through his courtroom. Last we heard, Harper gave a statement to…
Howard Kusnick, a former lawyer at Scott Rothstein’s now-defunct law firm, pleaded guilty yesterday to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.Kusnick, a 58-year-old Tamarac resident, is accused of defrauding two clients of the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm by pretending to file litigation in their favor and…
Danna Bogdanoff, the 19-year-old daughter of Fort Lauderdale-based State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, was arrested on four felony charges in Miami-Date County late last week.The police report hasn’t yet been released, but according to our sister paper to the south, Miami New Times, Bogdanoff faces felony charges of third-degree grand theft,…
Jason Proskurin apparently doesn’t like people disrespecting his breakfast cereal — that’s why he told the cops he slapped his girlfriend early this morning, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.Proskurin, 26, woke up at his Boynton Beach apartment around 3 a.m. today to get ready for…
Apparently it’s getting tough for the state to continue prosecuting someone for criminal transmission of HIV when its suspect isn’t HIV-positive.Daniel Hay Lewis — accused by police of attempting to bite a cop in the process of trying to steal $12,000 worth of garden products from a Home Depot on…
Fort Lauderdale might be on the hook for more than $6 million for pissing off a hotel developer, according to a recently filed lawsuit. Cortez Property Management LLC says that the city is legally in the wrong — because it won’t rubberstamp a 151-room resort slated for 2926 Cortez St…
The cops are looking for a man who they say climbed through the bedroom window of a North Lauderdale home and raped an 84-year-old woman last night.The woman told police she was watching television at her house around 10 p.m. yesterday when the man knocked on her front door.She told…
Would you trust Broward judges to supply compromising information about themselves? That’s what they’re being asked to do now, essentially…A few weeks ago, we wrote about outgoing Broward County Chief Judge Victor Tobin leaving his post to join a foreclosure law firm that stands to benefit from policies he crafted.Among…
Funny thing about lawyers.If you don’t pay them, they can sue you really, really easily because they are lawyers and kinda sorta trained to do that type of stuff…
Brit-killing dunce Ryan LeVin is headed up the river for a bit, although unrelated to making roadkill out of two men with his Porsche.LeVin is scheduled to turn himself over to the cops in Chicago this morning due to a parole violation related to pummeling three other people with his…
Miramar police have launched an investigation into whether officers disrespected a city commissioner — on tape.It all started when Miramar Commissioner Alexandra Davis stopped by the police station on Good Friday to pick up tickets for a Caribbean festival.Davis’ tickets weren’t ready, so she called the police chief. She didn’t…
If you don’t want the cops finding the 2,000 pounds of weed you left in your van, don’t park it across multiple parking spots like a douchebag.Now the cops want to know who that douchebag is.”Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are looking for the rightful owner of 38 bales of marijuana…
Daniel Hay Lewis,a Hallandale Beach resident charged with criminal transmission of HIV after allegedly trying to bite a police officer while being arrested for shoplifting, doesn’t actually have HIV, according to his public defender.After allegedly trying to steal $12,000 worth of garden products from a Home Depot on May 30,…
Michi Nogami-Marshall, the wife of Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall, was arrested at her husband’s house this morning, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.Part of her pre-trial release after allegedly stabbing her husband in April was to stay 500 feet away from his Southwest Ranches house and have no contact…
Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute, the high-volume plastic surgery office in Lauderhill that was the subject of last week’s New Times cover story, does not take criticism lightly. In a blog posted on the company’s website today, Strax officials insist that their discount prices do not translate into a lower…
The death of Ian Owen Atkinson — the 19-year-old man found dead on the doorstep of his Lauderhill home Thursday morning — has been declared a homicide, police say.Atkinson’s uncle had gone to the house in the 7000 block of Sienna Ridge Lane around 7 a.m. Thursday to find the…
Last month, the Florida Legislature passed a landmark plan to privatize nearly all of the prisons in the southern part of the state, including those in Broward and Palm Beach counties. The bill was a thinly veiled stimulus package for the private prison industry, which last year gave nearly $1…
A retired Davie police officer is suing his former employer and the town for more than 100 grand, claiming they schtupped him out of disability benefits after he had a heart attack on the job, according to a recently filed lawsuit.Michael Necolletos, an 11-year veteran of the Davie P.D., filed…
Boca Raton police say Scott Romberger was supposed to be a “responsible party” who would bring in his medicated friend to the dentist’s office for surgery. That didn’t happen.The cops say while Romberger, 30, was driving the 20-year-old woman to her dentist appointment, he admitted to the woman that he…
Police have identified the body that was discovered on a Fort Lauderdale beach this morning.Nolan Morrand, a 46-year-old Miramar resident, was found washed up on the beach wearing only jeans around 6:40 a.m., according to the Sun-Sentinel.Police had cordoned off the area where Morran’s body was found this morning –…
Pop quiz.You’re a legislator, and you’ve got a chance to vote on a bill that would protect kids from deadly brain injuries at no additional cost to the state…
