The Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking for a two-man band of thieves who purloined roughly $6,000 worth of cigarettes from Aunt Molly’s convenience store in North Lauderdale last week.Investigators say that the duo struck around noon on March 5. One thief distracted the clerk while the other went into an…
In December 2008, Gloria Battle prepared a grant request for a nonprofit agency seeking funds from the Community Development Block Grant. Three months later, her organization won that $12,000 grant, thanks in part to a vote from Battle, who had been appointed to the City Commission in the period between.The…
A 23-year-old man has been arrested by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office in the early Thursday-morning stabbing of a security guard at El Toro Loco. The West Palm Beach-area tavern has been the site of numerous violent encounters over the past year.According to the police report, the suspect is William…
That’s the spot on East Las Olas Boulevard two women were crossing last night, around 7:30, when they were struck by a dark-colored SUV. According to the Fort Lauderdale police report, the driver fled the scene, heading east toward the beach.One of the victims, 65-year-old Carolyn Bianco, sustained a life-threatening…
When building a case against Tony Villegas for the murder of Melissa Britt Lewis, Plantation Police investigators alleged that he was an abusive husband who blamed Lewis for his divorce from Debra Villegas, Lewis’ best friend.Yet Debra herself wasn’t convinced that made him a killer — at least not in…
Strong words from Marco Rubio during a phone interview with Glenn Beck. Looks like he’s grabbing the football tossed to him by the New York Times, which published this article about the colossal rip-off engineered by Charlie Crist’s administration for the purchase of U.S. Sugar land.Crist’s almost making it too…
Charles McCall’s South Florida retirement plans will take a ten-year hiatus now that former pharmaceutical executive has been convicted of securities fraud by a San Francisco court and sentenced to federal prison.A former chairman of McKesson, the nation’s largest distributor of prescription drugs, which is based in San Francisco, the…
The PBSO booking blotter tells a routinely depressing story about Friday’s “Operation Cheap Trick,” the Sheriff’s Office sting that netted four prostitutes and 18 good-time guys who hit up the wrong girl at the wrong time: They solicited lady police officers dressed like tramps. According to a PBSO news release,…
A Deerfield Beach woman got stunning news this morning. The woman (who asked not to be named) has been receiving unemployment benefits from the state for a few months now. But today, she was told her benefits are done. She was told she had a job working at an accounting…
As speculation swirls about a possible plea deal for Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein’s assistant, Debra Villegas, the Juice has obtained court documents that reveal more about Villegas’ friendship with Melissa Britt Lewis.Lewis, an attorney with Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, was found strangled and murdered two years ago. Debra’s estranged husband, Tony…
In the early morning of this past Tuesday, a white Ford Crown Victoria pulled up in front of a home on NE Third Terrace in Oakland Park. Whoever was in that car started firing shots into the home as a woman, her adult son, and a roommate ducked for cover…
Sure, all those coffeehouses, Gay Marts, and laser hair-removal clinics may make Fort Lauderdale or Wilton Manors look like a mecca for aging queer snowbirds. And Lake Worth was voted most gay-friendly city of its size years ago. But this handy scorecard from eQualityGiving.com tells the real story: It totally…
This week’s New Times feature story tells the strange tale of Heath Miller, a popular Palm Beach Gardens band teacher who killed a man, then was accused of raping his own middle school students.For those who want more details about Miller, here’s a roundup of the best Juice blogs on…
Edwin Febonio says it didn’t pain him to see his son’s alleged murderer in court this morning. “I wanted to see him,” Febonio said simply, referring to Jose Alfaro, who stood shackled, wearing a gray and blue prison uniform just feet from where Febonio was sitting with his friend Michael…
Back in June 2000, a man named David Joseph ran into a hotel lobby in Oakland Park, screaming that his cousin had been shot. He just didn’t stick around to be questioned by investigators. His cousin, Vernon Williams, died from gunshot wounds. The Holiday Inn room in which Williams died…
Shortly after the doors closed last night at the Best Buy on North Federal Highway, a U-Haul truck driver decided to open them back up. Fort Lauderdale cops are looking for three men who rammed a truck into the store’s south door, then ransacked the store of laptops and iPods.From…
House Rep. Joe Gibbons of Hallandale Beach says he will ask Gov. Charlie Crist to commute the sentence of a man sentenced to 20 years after the death of his infant daughter. In 2007, as a rookie representative in the Florida House, the first piece of legislation Gibbons passed was a…
The Fox boys, Donald and Earnest, must have heard the legends of the land where painkiller prescriptions grow on trees. The Central Ohio pair allegedly paid a visit to one of our local pill mills, in Hollywood. From the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette:Doctors at a pain clinic signed off on those prescriptions…
Monday night was full of surprises for Jasper Morland Jr. It appears the 29-year-old Deerfield man had romance on his mind when he booked a room at the Super 8 in Pompano Beach. A fine place for an intimate evening with a woman he met in an online chatroom.But before…
It seems like a fairly straightforward case. On October 26, during a speech by Nazi historian David Irving at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, a man named Christopher Nachtman invited another member of the audience, John Kopko, outside the banquet hall to settle a disagreement. Nachtman pulled a knife and stabbed…
This afternoon, the Palm Beach County School Board will vote on whether to fire two H.L. Watkins Middle School teachers who admitted to having sex with former band teacher Heath Miller on school grounds.As this week’s New Times feature story explains, these affairs came to light after Miller was arrested…
I sympathize with people like Linda Casey, who was traumatized by her discovery of her daughter’s dead body in the driveway of her North Carolina home, then mortified when the local news played her 911 call in a telecast. But that is still the lesser of two evils.If such 911…
