Former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion has agreed to enter a guilty plea in the federal corruption case against him.UPDATE: Just got off the phone with Eggelletion’s former colleague, Commissioner John Rodstrom. “I think it’s just a tragedy,” he said of Eggelletion’s fall. “It’s bad for everybody — bad for…
The Boynton Beach Police Department just released the probable cause affidavit in yesterday’s deadly hit and run. Leticia Flores, 28, is accused of accidentally killing 10-year-old Darness Brown, then leaving the scene.Flores, who is being held on $1 million bond, lives on SW Ninth Avenue, just a block away from…
Ethics, Shmethics. As this week’s feature story reminds us, Palm Beach’s reputation as “Corruption County” has been well earned. Two years after lawyer Bill Boose and county commissioner Tony Masilotti went to prison, we’re finally getting around to creating an ethics watchdog that might have a few teeth left in…
As word spread that Scott Rothstein’s associates might be charged in the federal investigation for circumventing campaign finance laws, it must have made a whole lot of Broward folks anxious. If you work for a developer or for any firm that depends on government contracts or that’s lobbying for a…
The wheels of justice often turn at an agonizingly slow pace. Two years after 29-year-old BSO officer Maury Hernandez was shot in the head by a felon on parole, his lawyer, Lance Block, sent the first formal complaint and two discovery requests to the Broward Clerk’s office last month –…
It’s been a while since the United States apprehended a fugitive on this scale — maybe not since Saddam Hussein was found crouching in his spider hole. Richard Goldstein of Hollywood and Charles Lennon of Coral Springs are accused of collaborating in a plot to steal the precious bottle of…
Gary Don O’Neal, a 43-year-old man arrested Tuesday night on disorderly conduct charges, hanged himself in a Wilton Manors holding cell while he awaited transfer to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail.From the release just issued by the Wilton Manors Police Department, it’s not clear when O’Neal was found dead…
Sources with knowledge of a major Broward County corruption investigation say that Spencer Levine, appointed last April to the Fourth District Court of Appeals, has retained a criminal defense attorney to help him answer prosecutors’ questions.Mind you, this isn’t the Scott Rothstein investigation. Rather, it’s the investigation by the Broward…
If you get to one of South Florida’s poker rooms early in the day, you might witness something pretty odd. Around opening time (for the casinos that aren’t 24 hours yet) at the $5/$10 no-limit tables, you might find a group of regular players going all in on every hand…
Eleven days before she was arrested for allegedly attempting to have her husband killed, Dalia Dippolito was exchanging romantic text messages with another man who was waiting for her to come visit him at a local Marriott.The man, who has a California phone number, is identified only as “Mike” on…
If you haven’t already seen this, Panther defenseman Keith Ballard was frustrated after the team let in what would prove to be the game-winning goal. He went to break his stick over the goal. Instead, he swiped his teammate, Tomas Vokoun’s, ear. Then blood, writhing, Vokoun carried off on a…
Of all the local nonprofit organizations that have been stung by recent investment scandals, Holy Cross Medical Center wins the Triple Crown. Or is it the Grand Slam? Check out the list of medical facilities on the main campus.There’s the Michael and Diane Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center, honoring donations that…
A couple of years ago, we ran a feature story about GlobeTel, a company that was supposedly going to deploy blimp-like satellites across the country and beam down internet signals. There were a few problems with the scheme: building hi-tech airships seemed a job more suited for big aerotech companies…
Man, but we’ve got some violent teenagers around here. Broward Sheriff’s Office reports that 17-year-old Terry Moore has been bragging about gunning down Antonio Parker, 20, who was shot dead Sunday evening near the back door of his home on Southwest 7th Avenue in Dania Beach. Now sheriff’s investigators are…
That’s Jordan Valdez, who was a 16-year-old cheerleader driving her SUV home from practice through Tampa streets last February 8 when she struck and killed homeless woman, Melissa Sjostrom. Sjostrom’s biological mother, Connie Wheeler, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, wanted Valdez to be charged as an adult and get 30…
Think of it as a Ponzi scheme with a heart of gold. Instead of taking one person’s money to pay yourself and another investor, Circa Jewelry has taken its own money ($50,000 to be exact) to buy a bracelet that belonged to the Madoffs, and now plans to sell it…
For single men who go to singles bars, then drink till they’re charming: Opportunity knocks on the streets of Boynton Beach. Actually, that’s not a knock so much as a… police siren? Those flashing lights must mean this one wants it bad. Was it your tricked-out car? Your deafening taste…
Nu’Keese Richardson has been at the center of controversy since first-year University of Tennessee football coach, Lane Kiffin, began recruiting the Pahokee product in the off season. His most recent–and serious–trouble came earlier this month as Richardson and two other Volunteer players were arrested for attempted armed robbery and (rightfully)…
Not to say that we don’t appreciate the men and women who volunteer to serve their country in the War Against Terrorism, but maybe this Marine Reserve unit in West Palm has the soldiers a bit too keyed up. On November 11, a member of that unit, Jasen Bruce, was…
If you were on U.S. 1 in Broward County about 2 p.m. today, chances are you saw the caravan of speeding tow trucks racing south, mixed in with a number of BSO cruisers, lights flashing, sirens blaring.There were at least 30 trucks in total and a half-dozen or so police…
Antonio Brandon Parker, 20, was shot and killed last night near the back door of his home on SW Seventh Avenue in Dania Beach. His grandmother and younger siblings heard the gunshots. Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators are looking for two men who are suspects in the shooting.BSO release is here…
As every other movie attests, being an FBI agent is exciting! Except in a place like in Wichita, Kansas, where crime-busting business is so slow that agents apparently have time to take their investigative leads from their fax machine. And that’s how they met one of your Boca Raton neighbors,…
