You remember the story of Guerdwich Montimer, the 22-year-old graduate of Dillard High School who allegedly posed as a 16-year-old junior high basketball player — and had sex with a teenaged girl — in Odessa, Texas, the setting for the book, movie, and television show Friday Night Lights.No court date…
Former Tamarac Commissioner Marc Sultanof will turn himself in to the Broward County Jail tomorrow on state corruption charges regarding his involvement with dirty developers Bruce and Shawn Chait and possibly other matters, two informed and reliable sources tell me. Sultanof is one of five Tamarac commissioners who voted in favor of the Chaits’…
Charles Valerie lived a short, sad life. According to a report just issued by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Valerie killed himself at the county jail just before 11 last night by fashioning a noose from his bed sheet and hanging himself from the ceiling. He was 33 years old.According to…
It is a sad day for Fort Lauderdale’s stoners.Responding to “complaints from patrons,” Broward Sheriff’s Office personnel, working in concert with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, seized 5,691 pieces of drug paraphernalia from kiosks at Fort Lauderdale’s Swap-Shop. Signs on the kiosks suggested that the paraphernalia — which included glass pipes,…
In scenic Frenchman’s Landing, they came for the ducks.The ducks were captured — probably in a standard trap that resembles a soccer goal — and brought to the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League. And they were killed.Their probable crimes? Noise and poop.This was April 2009. Today, the Frenchman’s Landing residents…
A recent lawsuit alleging sexual assault and physical abuse of inmates at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines is the latest in a string of abuse accusations lodged against the facility’s owner.For-profit prison operator Youth Services International, based in Sarasota, was once a subsidiary of Correctional Services…
There are more shots on the Broward Cleansweep blog, including a couple that show Kraft chatting with candidate Thomas and his wife at the debate, which was held at the All County Music store in Tamarac. Kraft doesn’t appear to be letting those pesky felony corruption charges slow her down…
A well-known figure in the Scott Rothstein saga has applied for a job with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Considering Rothstein’s former sway with the FLPD, do you think he has a shot? Inside we’ll answer that question. …
Matthew Bent, Denver Colorado Jarvis, and Jesus Mendez are three sixteen-year-olds charged with attempted murder for their alleged roles in setting their schoolmate Michael Brewer on fire more than a year ago. Today they appeared in court — in sight of Brewer for the first time since he was doused…
Broward County School Board records show that on October 10, 2008, then-School Board Member Stephanie Kraft and lobbytist Neil Sterling exchanged four phone calls in the afternoon. On that same day it was announced that the insurance committee on which Kraft was sitting had chosen Vista Healthplan, one of Sterling’s clients,…
It was just ten months ago that Shane Thompson flew out to California to become Jason Creed. He left Florida, where he had lived for all of his 19 years, to do his first gay porn movie. Afterward, he shot a video interview with the GayLifeNetwork about his interests, which…
Flickr: spookyriggsIt’s the land of Bernie Madoff, Scott Rothstein, prescription drug overdoses, concealed carry, extortion, Mob money, gang violence, and more… but Florida sheriffs have a new menace on their hands. The case of the sagging pants.”It’s a fashion thing,” the Fort Pierce Tribune quotes 27-year-old Antwuane Goodman as saying…
Allen West, Florida’s controversial and tea-party-backed candidate for Congress, was accused recently by NBC News of being connected to the Outlaws motorcycle gang.The Huffington Post reported Monday that West’s campaign fired back. They claim the Outlaws do “not accept blacks, Jews or gays.” While they might not initiate West as…
flickr.comNever bring a gun to a sandwich fight.Steve Lebrun, a manager at the Miami Subs on Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, had an amazing encounter with a robber on Sunday evening, according to police. The suspect, Devane Jenkins, entered the restaurant at 661 W. Sunrise Blvd. on Sunday at 8:18…
Wilton Manors policeRobert GrigelaitisA few weeks ago, Andrew VonStein, a realtor in the central Ohio town of Twin Lakes, was found shot to death in a ranch-style house he was hoping to sell. Now police are looking for the suspect in South Florida.Wilton Manors police are asking the public for…
Surveillance shot via NBC MiamiClick to enlarge.Occasionally, on a very rare and special day, a crime demonstrates almost enviable prowess in feminine grace and agility. Well, South Floridians, today became one of those momentous occasions as a surveillance video surfaced of a woman and her accomplices robbing almost $4,000 worth…
flickr user: Mark CogginsAre the other kids safe?A lawsuit filed earlier this month accuses the operator of Thompson Academy, a juvenile detention facility in Pembroke Pines, of turning a blind eye to sexual assaults, physical abuse, and intimidation of its young residents by staff members.The Pembroke Pines police, the Department…
This is a good shot of some of the alleged co-conspirators in the Scott Rothstein fiasco. Russ Adler and Steve Lippman were knee-deep in the mess. Grant Smith, who stands next to Rothstein, seems to have kept his hands relatively clean, however. Unlike Adler and Lippman, Smith was one of the RRA attorneys cleared…
flickr.comThough most of the scene had been cleaned up by this weekend, the patrons and employees of Beach Place were still discussing the shocking murder-suicide that took place there, in front of at least a dozen witnesses, in broad daylight last Wednesday.One man was standing right outside Maui Nix Surf…
Time to talk about Amendment 8 real quick. Vote for it. Amendment 8 is the one that is going to give Florida school boards a little more flexibility on class sizes that were mandated by the 2002 class-size amendment. Since then, the Legislature has appropriated about $18 billion to fund…
The apparently illegal leak of classified FBI information regarding Broward County School Board member Phyllis Hope isn’t the first time the school district has been caught in a political mess involving confidential information. The last time it happened, it cost taxpayers a protracted legal battle and an $850,000 verdict in court. That’s how much a…
This week’s print product features a cover story about the heartbreaking but increasingly common phenomenon of child hyperthermia — kids sweltering to death in hot cars. The article tells the story of Antonio Balta, who is six years into a 20-year sentence for accidentally killing his 9-month-old daughter. As disturbing…
