Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Geoffrey Brown injured his leg Saturday night after he and his partner interrupted a burglary at an unoccupied Southwest Ranches home. But a BSO news release indicates Brown was released later that night. One of the suspected burglars was not so lucky…
Polo mogul John Goodman asked a friend if she wanted to accompany him to get cocaine, and she refused shortly before Goodman left a Wellington bar alone and allegedly caused a fatal car crash this February, the woman told investigators.Stacey Shore of West Palm Beach was drinking at the Players…
A decade ago, a family feud forced Wellington polo mogul John Goodman to step down as overseer of a trust fund meant to benefit his nieces and nephews.The legal spat provides a rare window into the private life of Goodman, 46, the multimillionaire founder of the International Polo Club Palm…
Sometimes one bust leads to another. Broward Sheriff’s Office hopes that the bust seen in this video helps them apprehend a full-figured woman who has been victimizing Broward teachers.On May 27, the woman dubbed the “Buxom Bandit” is believed to have grabbed a wallet belonging to Latoya Wallace-Morrison, a third-grade…
The Florida Department of Children and Families has terminated its investigation into allegations that two teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach made traumatizing remarks to students during a classroom discussion in March, according to a report in the South Florida Times.The incident started with a claim by…
“God Can Judge Me,” says the tattoo on Jovon Gibson’s neck, but it looks like a Broward County judge will get the first crack. The 22-year-old from Miami has been arrested for the murder of Richard Burke, 48, of Wellington, last April.The Broward Sheriff’s Office release contains few details of…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office doesn’t have the same flair for giving its criminal suspects colorful nicknames as the Broward Sheriff’s Office, but maybe we can help. In this surveillance photo, you can see two women wanted for using a stolen credit card to make purchases at Target and Best…
When Debra Villegas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering last week, one detail in her testimony stood out. Villegas, the former chief operating officer at Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, told Judge William Zloch that she originally thought the legal settlement documents she prepared for Scott Rothstein were legitimate. But…
I guess it’s too much to expect aspiring actors to make their money the honest way, by performing Hamlet on the sidewalk, where passersby could put a tip in a jar. Rather, they’re plying their trade in a North Lauderdale Mobil station, where on Memorial Day a three-man troupe created…
Denise O’Neill’s 1995 murder case will be the subject of Friday night’s episode of Forensic Files, a program on the cable network TruTV. Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives figure to have a starring role.The show highlights cases in which investigators have to build a case on the forensic evidence they find…
Debra Villegas, Scott Rothstein’s right-hand woman at his defunct law firm, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering this afternoon at a hastily rescheduled federal court hearing.Beginning in February 2008, Villegas admitted she fabricated documents for bogus legal settlements, which Rothstein used to lure investors in his massive Ponzi…
That’s Kayla Manson in her appearance yesterday on NBC’s Today Show. At the very end of the video, host Meredith Viera asks the 13-year-old Manson what text messages she saw by Wayne Treacy, the 15-year-old accused of trying to murder Manson’s best friend Josie Lou Ratley.Manson says, “The [text] where…
It looks like the holy water sprinkling was the least of the legal problems of two Blanche Ely High School teachers. Leslie Rainier and Djuna Robinson are accused of ordering Haitian students to stand by the trash can to signify the inferiority of Haitian people.The complaint, which was made to…
As she prepares to plead guilty to money-laundering in connection with Scott Rothstein’s massive Ponzi scheme, Debra Villegas has already forfeited a house and car that Rothstein bought her. Villegas, former chief operating officer at Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, has handed over her $475,000 house in Weston and her 2009 Maserati…
Hyman Taylor, the star center for the 2005 Cardinal Gibbons High School basketball team, was murdered Tuesday evening outside an Ikea store in Emeryville, California, on the outskirts of Oakland. Taylor attended the University of San Francisco on a basketball scholarship.According to this report in the San Francisco Chronicle, police…
Now that Scott Rothstein has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the question is whether he’ll actually serve all of it. The answer is likely no, but his best-case scenario still may not save him from dying in prison. Legal experts say Rothstein has…
Scott Rothstein will spend 50 years in prison, a federal judge decided this morning. The sentence ends a seven-month saga since Rothstein’s empire crumbled. Once one of South Florida’s most politically connected lawyers, he swindled more than a billion dollars in perhaps the biggest fraud case in Florida history. Below…
Yesterday, a Fort Lauderdale-based yacht captain was boating about 12.5 miles offshore from Port Everglades when he and his passengers noticed the oil slick pictured above. According to the captain, the slick was about a half-mile long. It was unlike anything he had seen in years on the water. He…
The morning he was shot and killed, L.C. Swain Middle School special-ed teacher Calvin Williams, 41, allegedly showed up drunk at a lover’s house, looking for a hookup.Between 1 and 2:30 a.m. on May 14, Williams invited Lawrence Hunt, 20, back to his apartment in Riviera Beach, according to a…
[jump] Joel Steinger and Scott Rothstein wanted Crist’s help in their Ponzi schemes; Crist obliged. George LeMieux wanted to get political power and vast wealth through his law firm Gunster Yoakley; Crist was happy to help. Jim Greer and Harry Sargeant wanted Crist’s help to gain more power — and…
Riviera Beach police have finally arrested a suspect in the slaying of popular L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams. But the second-degree murder charge against Lawrence Hunt, 20, only raises more questions about the sexual conduct of the teacher, who was shot and killed last month. Hunt told police…
This past December, Juice chronicled the bloody year at El Toro Loco, a cantina on South Military Trail Road in suburban West Palm Beach. But as you can see in this corrected version of the post, we had mistakenly ascribed one of the recent shootings to El Toro Loco when…
