California video artist Scott Gairdner (ScottGairdner.com) has captured the ethos of Florida’s issues with sex offenders — sleeping under bridges and on park benches, or, in the bungalow across the street from you — pretty well in his video “The Sex Offender Shuffle.”…
For anyone with lingering doubts about Dalia Dippolito’s alleged plot to have her husband killed, this is required viewing.Dippolito doesn’t realize her longtime friend has become a confidential informant for the police, and his car is wired with surveillance equipment. At the end of their conversation,she gives him $1,200 to…
Benton Lineau is the name of the man who was driving a gold Lincoln Navigator last night, when he was shot in the chest, say Boynton Beach Police. The 23-year-old, who crashed into a home on the 2000 block of Northeast 3rd Street, died later at Delray Trauma Center.Police were…
Last year, we brought you the case of Ronald Murphy, a convicted sex offender who, for nearly two months, was legally confined to a bench outside of his parole officer’s building in Delray Beach. In 1998, Murphy was convicted of raping a woman on, of all places, a park bench…
If it’s not completely clear, the clip above shows a 76-pound male greyhound named BB’s Story Book (referred to by the announcer as “the five”) falling in the first turn of a race at Mardi Gras Racetrack and Gaming Center in Hallandale Beach, getting up, running the wrong way on…
When the DEA raided a Parkland grow house at 7773 NW 124th Terrace on September 12, 2007 — was Stephen Febonio’s body crammed into a freezer in that very garage? Or had the freezer been moved out just days earlier, while the DEA had the house under surveillance? Documents related…
Jean-Carlo Baptist told police that he was tired and trying to sleep after working a night job, when his 11-week-old daughter wouldn’t stop crying. His wife was working at Walgreens at the time. Baptist had told paramedics that his daughter had fallen out of bed, but after questioning by Boynton…
Andrea Huerfano is understandably scared. In about five months, the U.S. government will separate her from her mother and brother in Coral Springs and send her to a country where she knows nobody. The 23-year-old FSU graduate is scheduled to be deported to Colombia when a six-month “stay of removal”…
Police say the alleged thieves watched their victims, stalking them for hours sometimes. They waited for people to leave their cars to do things like go to the gym, or pump gas, or pick a kid up from daycare. They broke into one car at a cemetery while the owners…
Lately, we’ve been looking at the case of Stephen Febonio: The man’s body was recovered buried in a freezer at an abandoned Delray Beach marijuana grow house last March. Febonio was owed about $10,000 for some drywall he’d installed at another grow house in Parkland — a half-million-dollar family home…
Thomas Jones, an officer with the Boynton Beach Police Department, has been fired following his arrest for domestic battery in January of last year. Jones was acquitted in a jury trial in April, but in a memo released today, Boynton Beach City Manager Kurt Bressner explained that the “legal standard…
When his wife was arrested for allegedly plotting to have him killed last August, Boynton Beach resident Michael Dippolito said he was shocked. He told police that he and Dalia Dippolito were on a “fast-track” relationship and got along so well that “we were together 24/7,” he told Matt Lauer…
Discovery documents released in the case of Brandon Deyo, the 23-year-old Jupiter man arrested in December on charges of transmitting child pornography, reveal that Deyo had been downloading the porn in large batches overnight at the house of a friend’s parents in Jupiter. The predilection for young children seems to…
The 60 Minutes segment was called “A Crack in the Vault.” That “vault” contained all the billions and billions that wealthy Americans stowed in Swiss bank accounts, with the assistance of UBS, in order to cheat on taxes. And the person who cracked the vault was Bradley Birkenfeld, who gave…
… then either your Cobra’s already been swiped or this pack of thieves is working on it. From the press release:It’s unclear why the thieves are choosing the souped-up Mustangs and how they located four of them in the same upscale neighborhood in southeast Pompano Beach. Some of the four…
A news release that sounds like the opening scene from a movie inspired by a Marvel Comics series, from Boynton Beach Police:Police have responded to a bomb threat at Winn Dixie at 1620 S. Federal Highway. A man called the store to say he was going to blow up the…
Gerald Hemp is a totally ’80s bad guy — the kind you’d expect to encounter on Miami Vice. But it’s not just because Hemp was known to ferry huge shipments of cocaine by private plane. What made Hemp special was his facility for shifting identities and slipping out of prisons.Raised…
If you’ve been following the Scott Rothstein case at all, this forthcoming guilty plea had all the suspense of a Harlem Globetrotters game. Yes, the guy who voluntarily flew back from Morocco, who was quite obviously speaking to federal prosecutors about what evidence he could offer in exchange for a…
How many free steak dinners does it take to corrupt a chief of police? The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is “still weighing” whether to investigate Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley’s relationship with Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein. The stink arose over claims that Adderley was so enmeshed with Rothstein…
Capturing the Deyos In 2003, District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley sentenced David Deyo, 43, in a Palm Beach County courtroom to a whopping 17½ years in prison. Deyo hadn’t murdered or kidnapped anybody; he hadn’t robbed a bank at gunpoint — but the judge threw the book at him. Deyo,…
A 27-year-old man from Deerfield Beach is suspected of using razor blades to cut through screens, then spying on women as they undressed “while sexually gratifying himself,” according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.Deputies responded to a call on Monday night from a 37-year-old woman who lives on NW 49th Street…
There’s been much speculation about the private life of Dalia Dippolito — her lovers, her cosmetically-enhanced body, her lust for cash — ever since she was arrested in August for allegedly plotting to have her husband killed.According to the confidential informant who first alerted the Boynton Beach police to Dippolito’s…
