Laderic Brown has only been an adult for 23 months, but he already has a dozen criminal cases in Palm Beach County courts — and that doesn’t include the charges of home invasion, kidnapping, ramming a police cruiser and leading cops on a high-speed freeway chase, which ended in his…
The question central to a potential criminal case against Richard Lippner — the 38-year-old Fort Lauderdale man in whose apartment both Brianna Negron, 23, and Casey DiStefano, 20, died four months apart — will likely be whether he provided Casey the drugs that killed her.Casey moved to South Florida from…
In May, paramedics were called to Richard Lippner’s Fort Lauderdale condo, where they found a young woman, 20-year-old Casey DiStefano, unconscious on the floor. It was the second time this had happened in four months. She wasn’t breathing; her lips were blue. Lippner told police she had a history of…
This spring’s murder of L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams brought to light a harsh truth about AIDS among African-American men. For many in South Florida, sex on the down-low is a deadly gamble.According to Riviera Beach police reports, Williams’ lover, Lawrence Hunt, 20, allegedly shot the teacher because…
A short time ago, Manny Periu was one of Broward County’s brashest bail bondsmen, as you can see in this Juice post from August 13. But documents in the felony case against Periu allege that he brokered $3,000 in cocaine deals with undercover federal agents.And now an ex-boss is telling…
Several local police departments are bringing in extra money by auctioning off the goods left in their evidence rooms. Police auctions have long been a great place to “steal back” some nice loot cheap (plus there’s always a chance it has cocaine hidden inside), but a new website, PropertyRoom.com, now…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has just released a photograph of the man suspected of a role in the August 13 murder of Dave Montney in Pompano Beach.I’ve uploaded the surveillance video. Check it out after the jump. Here’s an excerpt from the BSO release:The lifeless body of the 59-year-old victim…
Turns out last week’s Juice post about bondsman Manny Periu was not his first brush with local news infamy. In June 2008, Periu and his bail bonds partner were featured in this exclusive CBS4 report about how they unknowingly ferried around a bank robber after bailing him out — for suspected…
Debra Villegas, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme, will not be sentenced on Friday as planned.Rothstein’s former right-hand woman has two more months of freedom, thanks to summer vacation scheduling conflicts and her lawyer’s insistence that she’s working “diligently” to…
A Weston-based company called Smoking Everywhere wanted an executive who could go to battle against the FDA and U.S. Customs, which had teamed up to ban the import of e-cigarettes. But by hiring Ray Story in 2008, Smoking Everywhere may have got more than it bargained for. Story — who…
Two years before he was allegedly murdered by a lover, middle school teacher Calvin Williams twice called Riviera Beach police to his apartment to respond to violent domestic disputes.The first call came on the night of September 25, 2008. Williams, then 39, told the dispatcher that his 19-year-old roommate, Tirrelle…
In the weeks that followed the announcement last September that Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher had been busted for taking bribes in an FBI sting, several of her colleagues got anxious. So did the school district administration. “The FBI was asking a lot of questions of members of the…
For a man who claims to be a victim, Stephen Smith has behaved very strangely. The webmaster seized the domains of Broward Circuit Court Judge Peter Skolnik, then accused the judge of cheating him out of his work product — yet Smith has refused to meet with a campaign activist…
By day, he was Mr. Williams, the handsome, six-foot-four-inch teacher at L.C. Swain Middle School, always ready with a smile and a word of encouragement for the kids who struggled most.Calvin Williams, 41, was certified to teach special education and had a bachelor’s degree in social work. He began his…
Last year, we brought you the story of three Boynton Beach men charged with operating a large-scale, Michael Vick-esque dogfighting ring. Paul Green, Ricky Norfus, and Samuel Denson were arrested in September 2007 and went to trial on felony charges, each facing up to 15 years in prison.But the first…
Richard Lippner, the Fort Lauderdale socialite who dated both Brianna Negron and Casey DiStefano before they died, was seeing both women at the same time.Lippner, a regular at several nightclubs in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, dated Brianna on and off for several years. She moved out of Lippner’s Fort Lauderdale…
L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams, 41, was allegedly shot and killed this May by a lover who believed Williams had HIV.The lover, Lawrence Hunt, 20, told police he fired his gun because Williams was attempting to rape him. Hunt now sits in the Palm Beach County jail awaiting…
The Miami Beach woman known as the “Beauty Bandit” allegedly furnished a false identification to a Fort Lauderdale cosmetic surgeon in hopes of stealing the skin treatment she received last month, according to a news release by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.Maria Elizabeth Chrysson is the alleged Beauty Bandit’s real…
If slain L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams had HIV, as police reports suggest, his bosses at the Palm Beach County school district did not have to know. Teachers’ personal health information is protected by federal law. “They are not required to disclose their status,” says district public affairs specialist…
The friends and families of two young women are still pondering the mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths.Brianna Negron, 23, a lifelong resident of South Florida, passed away in January. Casey DiStefano, 20, who moved to Miami from Union, New Jersey, after graduating high school, died in May. Both women were…
It was a landlord’s worst nightmare. The tenants who never paid the rent or the light bill on time were finally evicted from Maria Rosa’s house on Branch Street in Hollywood, but they left behind an unsolicited gift: two pit bulls.Both dogs were “muy peligrosos” — very dangerous, says the…
Was Narcy Novack a fan of film noir, by any chance? Because if what federal prosecutors say is true, then she’s a real-life femme fatale with murder schemes and diabolical motives nearly identical to those of Barbara Stanwyck’s character in the classic film noir Double Indemnity.If you haven’t seen that…
