Last week, we brought the saga of Andrea Huerfano, a 23-year-old FSU grad from Coral Springs who ran a red light and is now facing deportation. A swarm of activists, lawyers, and students across the country have taken up Andrea’s cause. Yesterday afternoon, those supporters got good news. Andrea was…
No end in sight for a couple of terrifying criminal trends: violent teenagers and homeless victims. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of two teens, Harry Velez (age 17) and Brady John Fisher (19), in the murder of Eustoquio Lopez, a 40-year-old homeless man who was shot early…
About six weeks after a Honduran man, Elvin Sanchez, was found murdered in a residential neighborhood of Deerfield Beach, the man suspected of killing him is in custody. That suspect is 22-year-old Ronald Rivera, who was working as a carpenter in Birmingham, Alabama.From the Broward Sheriff’s Office news release:Elvin Sanchez’s…
Christiano Leonardo Gloria, 29, has been arrested for allegedly playing a role in what state investigators say was a five-year scheme to defraud the IRS and launder the money. The check-cashing-store operator faces 110 charges.It’s a perplexing case, so I won’t even try to simplify what’s in the news release,…
DNA test results show that Michael Dippolito is the father of an 11-year-old boy who lives west of Boca Raton, according to a confidential source. The child’s mother, Karen Tanne, alleges in a paternity suit that Dippolito abandoned her when the child was an infant, and has never paid child…
Commenters on this blog have been asking about Michael Dippolito’s arrest record in his native Philadelphia. At this point, we don’t know much, except that there is an active bench warrant, issued in 1993, after Dippolito was arrested by the Philadelphia police for possession of a controlled substance (drug), and…
This February 4, Yakoub Levy would have had his 10-year anniversary as a fugitive from justice. Instead, the man wanted in a 2000 homicide in Fort Lauderdale will spend it in a jail cell. The Fort Lauderdale Police are reporting that Levy, one of three suspects in a killing that…
[Updated with quote from a source who knows Rothstein, after the jump.]Fort Lauderdale residents pay for Police Chief Frank Adderley’s cell phone calls. And so Fort Lauderdale residents are entitled to look at his cell phone bills, especially in light of his having been spotted with Scott Rothstein at the…
Let’s do a quick review of recent law enforcement visits to the suburban West Palm Beach nightclub El Toro Loco:This past January, 17-year-old Maciel Martin Videla was in the club when he was lured outside, allegedly by his girlfriend, on the pretext of a drug deal, only to be stabbed…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is reporting that a man broke into a woman’s car early this morning. After the woman came outside to investigate the alarm, the thief sexually assaulted her, say police.Javerros Wright, 22, was arrested in connection with the incident, which occurred along NW Third Avenue between…
Earlier today, I posted claims made by attorneys representing alleged sex abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein in which they alleged that Epstein attorneys have been crude and unprofessional in their questions during pretrial depositions. But as you can see in the video below, it’s been rough on both sides of…
Every month, George Nemeth gets a check in the mail from the Florida Department of Corrections. Sometimes it’s for $8, sometimes $9.12. Once, the amount spiked to $10.18.At this rate, it will be 167 years before Nemeth recovers the $20,000 he lost in Michael Dippolito’s investment scam. “He got the…
As trials approach in the civil suits against Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, a legal strategy is beginning to take shape. His high-priced attorneys appear intent on forcing Epstein’s alleged victims to relive their most traumatic sexual experiences.Of course, a certain amount of that is unavoidable in cases where sex…
At noon on Tuesday, there was one man waiting, seated quietly on the curb outside the new Chick-Fil-A on Federal Highway in Pompano Beach. By 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, there were already 20 more people. By 6 a.m., nearly 200 people were waiting in line just for the chance to be…
If there’s a lawyer in South Florida in a position to hustle big cash settlements out of billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, that lawyer is Adam Horowitz, who represents seven women who have filed suit against the billionaire, seeking damages based on claims he sexually molested them. That makes Horowitz…
A recent Florida State University graduate and political activist is being held at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach and faces deportation to Colombia.Andrea Huerfano, who graduated from FSU in 2008 with an international studies degree and now lives in Coral Springs, moved to the United States with her…
Long before he made headlines as the victim of his wife’s alleged plot to have him killed, Michael Dippolito had a scheme of his own.From a Boca Raton apartment, he ran a telemarketing business that preyed on strangers as far away as Ohio, Illinois, and California, convincing them to invest…
According to a scoop in yesterday’s edition of the Broward Bulldog, he’s the businessman who went undercover to help FBI agents lure corrupt Broward County officials, like Josephus Eggelletion, who will be entering his guilty plea in a money-laundering case tomorrow.Judging by Dan Christensen’s article, Lochrie has worked mostly the…
Joel CastilloWe’re beginning to feel sorry for the public relations department of Miami Gardens’ Florida Memorial University. As this week’s feature story on the violence-plagued school — think shootings, carjackings, home invasions, and a near-riot — went to print, the first reports of a fresh stabbing on campus began to…
Since Monday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office has been circulating the video below in hopes of catching the man who ransacked a pawn store in Lauderdale Lakes on December 4. But while Juice is usually the first media outlet in South Florida to lend BSO a bad-guy-apprehending assist, we decided to…
Most weekends, at the corner of Oakland Park and Federal Highway, there are some colorful protests. This is a regular spot for self-proclaimed “tea partiers” to tell the world (and the luxury cars going to and from Galt Ocean Mile) about their conservative beliefs (like Obama is a socialist Muslim…
Eleven years before he married the woman who allegedly tried to have him killed, Michael Dippolito admits he “may have” fathered a son with another woman who lives west of Boca Raton.According to a paternity suit filed by the child’s mother, Karen Tanne, Dippolito acknowledged that he was the father…
