Someone fired a gun outside Club BAM in Fort Lauderdale early Wednesday morning, scattering panicked club goers and leaving one man dead. According to Broward County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy patrolling the area of Club BAM, located in the 2800 block of West Broward Boulevard, heard the shots fired at…
Police shootings have been on a front-burner all year, from the ugly quick drawn in Cleveland, Ohio that led to the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, to the shots fired that took the life recently of Corey Jones in Palm Beach Gardens. Expect them to be on the front-burner moving…
Flakka has been making headlines across the United States lately and has been most prevalent in Florida, specifically Broward County, where there has been a 45 percent increase in flakka cases over the past year. Flakka’s popularity has spread particularly into the urban areas, thanks to it being extremely inexpensive and…
It’s been two years since three Broward Sherriff’s Officers shot Jermaine McBean, a 33-year-old African American computer engineer who was walking home with an air gun balanced on his shoulders. The officers maintained that they ordered McBean to turn around and that he then pointed the air gun at them…
Life easily could have been over for James Joseph Richardson in 1967. A black orange picker from Arcadia, in central Florida, he was convicted that year of the gruesome murders of his seven children – murders he didn’t commit. It would take more than two decades of false imprisonment before…
On a mild evening in early August, John Pate and Sally Elizabeth Evans’ Volkswagen Passat climbs the hills outside the lush Valle Arriba golf club in Caracas. The 70-year-old Pate, a tall, fair-skinned lawyer with red hair, glasses, and a soft face, had just finished his usual Sunday dinner at…
Like a game of a whack-a-mole, the Broward-spawned Felony Lane Gang just doesn’t go away. Made up of sneaky crews that work parking lots and bank drive-thus across America, the loose federation of criminals is more joined by area code and game plan than an actual organized hierarchy. As we…
On July 27, 1981, the mother of 6-year-old Adam Walsh left him in the toy section of the Sears department store in the Hollywood Mall while she went to look for a lamp. Weeks later, his severed head was found in a canal in Vero Beach. In 1983, convicted serial…
On a rainy Thursday morning in August, Tangela Sears parks her Mitsubishi SUV in front of a small yellow house on a quiet street in Liberty City. Her grandfather bought the home about six decades ago. Sears was raised there. She raised her own son David there, too, and had…
The Middle East — and specifically Iran — has probably been lodged in your news feed nonstop for the past couple of weeks. With Congress brawling over President Obama’s nuclear deal and the possibility of normalized relations with the Islamic Republic, old debates are being argued anew, geopolitical slights revived…
For more than 30 years now, eager-beaver federal prosecutors caught up in drug war hysteria have been reaching for whatever laws they have on the books to punish drug offenders. Often that’s meant handing out harsh sentences to low-level offenders, resulting in law and order that’s way more stick than…
Two hours before her redeye Greyhound was scheduled to snort out of the lot, Valerie Bozeman walked into the bus station in Oakland, California. She was traveling light: $93 in her pocket, a tote bag full of underwear and toothpaste courtesy of the Bureau of Prisons, and the blessings of…
Monalisa Weber remembers a 16-year-old boy standing in a Broward courtroom with a blank stare. He had broken his probation. A judge asked the boy why he didn’t attend the mandatory boot camp, and when the boy didn’t answer, the judge sentenced him to prison. “The streets raised him. You…
A Jamaican woman was caught with mounds of cocaine inside her bra as she tried to walk through customs like it was all good. The woman was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on August 2, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The woman was…
In 1983, a young Boy Scout met with two of his scout leaders, and some other scouts, at TY Park in Hollywood. The boy, now a 40-year-old man, says that the scout masters gave him and other scouts alcohol, showed them pornography, and had them run around naked. The scout…
John Singer went on a burglary spree throughout Broward and Palm Beach where he stole what police call “an arsenal of weapons,” which he then tried to sell at a gun show. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office Report, Singer — who has has been arrested 17 times in the…
A panel on Gamergate, the highly controversial debate over sexism and journalism in the video game world, had to be canceled Saturday after bomb threats. But planners of the panel at Little Havana’s Koubek Center, part of Miami-Dade College, didn’t skip a beat. They headed outside to the carport at…
The father of a dead baby whose remains were discovered in the back yard of a Hallandale Beach home in 2013 has agreed to take a plea deal. Calvin Melvin, 29, has been charged with two counts of child neglect and three counts of giving false information to law enforcement officials…
A school child psychologist from Tennessee was arrested on child pornography charges in Hollywood Tuesday night. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office report, Richard Pitcock, 51, was busted sharing child porn images from the St. Maurice Inn, located on 314 Michigan Street in Hollywood. The South Florida Internet Crimes Against…
This past May, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s decision and ruled that police did not violate Quartavious Davis’ Fourth Amendment rights preventing unreasonable search and seizure when they failed to get a warrant to use cell-phone records as the sole evidence to convict him in…
A man named Harlem Suarez, also reportedly known as Almlak Benitez, sympathized with the Islamic State and wanted to bomb a Key West Beach , according to a criminal complaint unsealed today in federal court in Miami. Department of Justice officials said he was charged with attempting to use a…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office runs on a budget of almost a half billion dollars, with Sheriff Ric Bradshaw asking for $471 million next year. And apparently, part of that money is necessary so PBSO can hang out on Twitter and harass young females who just want to get a…
