Looks like state employees aren’t the only ones who will have to pee in a cup before they get a check.On Thursday, a bill that would require welfare recipients to pass a drug test before they could receive state benefits advanced in the Florida Legislature. The proposed law also requires…
“Omg have a total weirdo in my bathroom a little scared,” Sheri Carter texted to her boyfriend, Mark, on January 31. “Like think he’s on…” she didn’t finish the sentence.Carter was working in her Boynton Beach home as an independent escort. The man in the bathroom, police say, was Jimmy…
Update: Police recently released a sketch of the suspect.It doesn’t get much lower than this. On Tuesday night, an unidentified goon busted into the Pompano home of 88-year-old Pearl Patrinos, punched her in the face, stole some jewelry, and threatened to kill her if she didn’t give him money. He…
The Pembroke Pine police have investigated this beating, which we first reported on January 7. Read more after the jump.Regla Cazañas holds up a picture of her 17-year-old son’s swollen face. His pale skin is marred by wine-colored bruises and covered with an oxygen mask. On January 1, he was…
Sexting: The process whereby one individual sends naughty pictures to another via text message. Why don’t you want your 15-year-old daughter sexting booby-pics to her boyfriend? Because he might spread them around. The boyfriends of 15-year-old girls are notoriously immature.Why doesn’t the state want your 15-year-old daughter sexting booby-pics to…
Somewhere between two abortion bills and anti pill mill legislation, the Senate Health Regulation Committee, later today, will take up a proposed law that prohibits doctors from asking their patients about gun ownership and could fine them up to $100,000 if they do so. The bizarre piece of legislation passed…
Well, I hope Wendy Portillo is pleased with herself.Three years ago, the WPB teacher got on the bad side of one bad mutha named Melissa Barton, when she abused Mrs. Barton’s autistic child in the classroom. After a year of paid leave, Portillo compounded the offense by returning to work…
In the second South Florida pill mill bust this week, federal prosecutors charged 57-year-old Dr. Selwyn Carrington, of Miami, with illegally distributing massive amounts of narcotic pills through two different pain clinics. The feds nabbed Carrington on Friday, just one day after local authorities arrested Delray pill peddler, Dr. Barry…
U.S. Marshals surrounded 48-year-old Lyndell Davis as he did yard work in front of a Tallahassee home on Wednesday, and arrested him for the rape and robbery of a 16-year-old girl in Miami, which he allegedly committed 23 years ago. On May 23, 1988, the teenage victim had noticed…
Following an investigation by the Palm Beach state attorney, Delray pain management doctor, Dr. Barry Schultz, 54, was arrested Thursday and charged with trafficking Oxycodone and unlawful prescription of a controlled substance…
“This is a person who was suicidal, he wanted to kill himself and he decided to have a deputy do it,” BSO spokeswoman Dani Moschella told a TV news station shortly after the death of James M. “Matt” Perdue, who was 42.But behind every police shooting, there is a story:…
Here’s the score in America; if you’ve ever “waged a violent campaign” against a communist leader, then you’re a “cold-war veteran” and totally not a terrorist. And if you’ve publicly admitted that you “organized a wave of bombings” in that communist country, that’s cool; just don’t lie to a judge…
With all the rhetoric about jobs and a balanced budget, you may not realize the pile of anti-abortion legislation clogging the state government’s agenda. But as abortion battles sweep across the country, Florida fights from the front line with 18 abortion bills pending in the state legislature. Last week, the…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is referring to a man shot by deputies in Hollywood on Sunday as “agitated” and “suicidal,” but has not released information about his mental condition that would confirm what his intentions were when he allegedly threatened to shoot a cop, evaded deputies in a vehicle chase,…
Florida is number one again. The state that holds the championship belt in oxycodone consumption now leads the U.S. in fraudulent tax returns filed from prison. Perhaps our prisoners are trying to emulate the leadership traits of Captain Medicaid Fraud, aka Gov. Rick Scott. Florida inmates filed 8,777 phony claims…
Yesterday, 34-year-old Dana Alan Carvello was sitting on his porch in Boca Raton, perhaps smoking a doob, when he was allegedly accosted by several men. They beat him about the head and dragged him into his home, where, according to the Palm Beach Post, the men “tied him up,” stashed…
Maybe three deaths a day isn’t enough in Florida. An average of three people killed per day is a puny little statistic compared to the seven daily deaths caused by the tsunami of prescription drugs that flooded Florida over the last decade. Nevertheless, drunk driving kills about three Floridians per…
We’ve told you about Rick Scott’s new ban on felon voting rights, which returns Florida to a racist era of stamping out African-American votes. Many people have suggested that by prohibiting felons from voting for five years after completing their sentences, Scott is trying to cut down on Democratic voting…
The Florida Clemency Board’s decision last week to reinstate an archaic felon voting ban has set off a storm of protest. The new rule, which requires nonviolent felons to wait five years after completing their sentences to apply for voting rights, can easily be seen as a tool to disenfranchise…
Hey, I’m shocked too. Of course, there could be surprises lurking in the legislation, which won’t be completely viewable till next week. But the goal sounds noble.The legislation is the “Global Combat Zone Recognition Act,” and its stated purpose is to ensure “that men and women targeted specifically because they…
“Priorities?” begins David Grimm’s deliciously droll editorial in the Miami Herald. “You ask about legislative priorities? Obviously, you refer to the insidious threat of pasture paparazzi — the surreptitious skulks threatening unwitting barn animals.”Indeed, it appears that “pasture paparazzi” are a legislative priority, at least for State Sen. Jim Norman…
This week’s New Times cover story is an in-depth look at the corruption scandal that has rocked the Riviera Beach Police Department in the past two years. Veteran Detective Lee Ann Schneider is now awaiting trial for allegedly helping a supervisor pad his overtime, while Sgt. Michael Dodson has been…
