Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country — the drugs, the sex, the gambling — is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl. But nothing ruins the perfect party week like someone dying or going to jail. So this week, we’ll be presenting The Juice…
Irving Goldstein is in jail today, accused of being impaired when he struck Keith and Penny Grumer on Tuesday night at the corner of Weston Hills Boulevard and Weston Hills Drive. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting that Goldstein abandoned his car after the accident. Deputies later found him wandering…
Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country–the drugs, the sex, the gambling–is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl. But nothing ruins the perfect party week like someone dying or going to jail. So this week we’ll be presenting The Juice Vice Guide to South…
Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country–the drugs, the sex, the gambling–is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl. But nothing ruins the perfect party week like someone dying or going to jail. So this week we’ll be presenting The Juice Vice Guide to South…
Eric Emmanuel, a 35-year-old man from Pembroke Pines, is being charged in what’s said to be the biggest marijuana bust in Pennsylvania history. He and Stanley Baptiste, of Winter Garden, were arrested this weekend on a stretch of freeway east of the state capital, Harrisburg. Police found 6,500 pounds of…
Chad Hullfish told Boynton Beach Police detectives that he molested his 8-year-old niece and that he may have also had illegal contact with his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter, according to a probable cause affidavit released today. In that document, Hullfish blames the incidents on the strain of having to change his…
Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country–the drugs, the sex, the gambling–is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl. But nothing ruins the perfect party week like someone dying or going to jail. So this week we’ll be presenting The Juice’s Vice Guide to South…
Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country–the drugs, the sex, the gambling–is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl. But nothing ruins the perfect party week like someone dying or going to jail. So this week we’ll be presenting The Juice Vice Guide to South…
It’s tough to imagine how one goes from drinking and partying with friends to breaking into a neighbor’s house wielding a gun, but that is the path Palm Beach County sheriff’s detectives say Robert Rashard Tomlin, 22, followed the night before he was killed by former band teacher Heath Miller.Tomlin’s…
Of all the things to steal and of all the times to steal it, Gerrell Hall made some poor choices. The 22-year-old has been arrested by Boynton Beach Police for having stolen a container full of cash designated for Haiti relief.Police relied on surveillance video in identifying Hall as the…
Earlier today, we warned folks about the dangers of calling 911 from the freeway with a fabricated story of being in danger when the real motive is to get a ride to Miami. Another lesson for aspiring criminals: It’s hard to make a clean getaway when the Cadillac you stole…
Alexi Giannoulias is the favorite to win the Democratic nomination for Senate in Illinois, but first he’ll have to beat back some pesky questions about his time as a chief loan officer at Broadway Bank. Among them: a $12.9 million green light he gave to a South Florida businessman, Michael…
Stupidity isn’t a crime, except in cases like Jose Armando Rodrigues. The 32-year-old man dialed 911 this morning from the shoulder of I-95. According to the police report, Rodrigues told the operator that someone was trying to kill him.After Boynton Beach Police found Rodrigues leaning against the freeway divider wall,…
These things are inevitable: death, taxes, and prostitutes coming to town for the Super Bowl.For a large number of escorts willing to travel, this week represents the annual call to cash, the ritualistic midwinter trip to whatever American city upon which the National Football League has so graciously bestowed its…
Before taking a job as band teacher at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens — where he would later be accused of raping and molesting eighth-grade students — Heath Miller worked briefly as a substitute teacher at Glades Central Community High School, his alma mater. It’s unclear from…
The State of Massachusetts’ probation officers allowed Sonny Peixoto to move to South Florida in 2004, despite his having just entered a guilty plea to vehicular homicide. The move made it possible for him to meet — then murder — Amity Kozak in 2007 in a West Palm Beach high-rise…
Former band teacher Heath Miller gained infamy last April for allegedly raping and molesting students in his classroom at H.L. Watkins Middle school in Palm Beach Gardens.But two months before he made headlines for those crimes, he also shot and killed an armed intruder who broke into his Wellington home.Miller…
A national anti-dog-racing group has officially requested that the Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigate whether the state has the authority to revoke the license of Ursula O’Donnell, the greyhound trainer arrested in 2002 on felony animal abuse charges related to a massive greyhound graveyard police discovered just over…
The story of the speeding BSO police cruiser that killed 14-year-old Cara Catlin last Saturday in Oakland Park is hauntingly similar to the case of Eric Brody, the 18-year-old boy who 12 years ago turned into the oncoming path of a Broward sheriff’s deputy named Christopher Thieman on his way…
This was a straightforward criminal plot: The bad guys wanted drugs. A pain clinic wall blocked their access to said drugs. So they destroyed that wall. (1) Smash; (2) Grab. Almost elegant in its simplicity. And the score was huge: some 56,000 pills of hydrocodone, oxycodone, and other prescription-strength painkillers…
Last week, we broke you the news that a woman arrested on felony animal cruelty charges was still working as a greyhound trainer in Florida. In 2002, Ursula O’Donnell sent greyhounds in her care from Palm Beach, Naples, and Orlando to an Alabama man who shot and buried them, according…
At least three dogs were involved in the Febonio murder saga. “You can’t make this shit up,” Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Detective Sean Oliver must have muttered to himself at least once during the course of his two-year investigation into the murder of Stephen Febonio.Discovery documents made available to the…
