On Monday, the Coral Springs Police Department gave NBC 6 reporter Keith Jones some “behind the scenes” training on what it’s like to face real-life situations experienced by police officers on a daily basis. And in almost every situation, the reporter faced violent and belligerent person and either kills or…
A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit to go forward claiming that Boca Raton-based GEO Group, the nation’s largest federal contractor of private immigration detention facilities, is guilty of violating human trafficking laws by forcing detainees to perform manual labor for a meager $1 per day or no pay at…
On Yelp, a commenter praised the Taco Bell at 1830 South Federal Highway: “For anyone visiting Fort Lauderdale, I would highly recommend that they make sure to experience Taco Bell not only for the nourishment but also for an experience they won’t soon forget,” Dave. M. from Washington wrote. His…
Teofil Brank, the gay porn actor who performs under the name Jarec Wentworth, has been found guilty of extorting Palm Beach tycoon, magicJack executive, and Republican political activist Donald Burns of $1.5 million. Brank, 25, had threatened to expose Burns over their relationship unless the millionaire forked over money and an…
Catherine Pileggi, the Fort Lauderdale woman convicted for murdering her 70-year-old multimillionaire boyfriend, Ron Vinci, has been sentenced to 25-years in prison. The murder investigation, which was the subject of a New Times feature, was initially handled sloppily. But during the trial, the defense argued that Vinci was a drunk,…
On November 14, 2014, three men flew a 1976 Gulfstream II jet from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport to Venezuela, making stops in the Cayman Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago. The jet returned to Fort Lauderdale nine days later, stuffed with over 485 pounds worth of cocaine — a load worth…
Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello, who, along with Anthony “Little Tony” Ferrari, had been accused of having Miami Subs founder Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis rubbed out in a Mob-style hit was convicted of first-degree murder and guilty of murder conspiracy Wednesday in the 2001 killing of Boulis. Ferrari was was found guilty for his…
On September 27, 2012, 73-year-old security guard Earl Brown was working the night-watchman shift at International Global Meats, a meat-processing plant in Lauderhill, when he noticed somebody trying to steal junk metal on the property. Wanting to be safe, Brown called police for help in apprehending the suspect. But when…
Florida is one of thirteen states that fail to meet the US constitutional standards on the use of lethal force by law enforcement officers, according to a report by Amnesty International. The report, “Deadly Force: Police Use of Lethal Force in the United States,” blasted all 50 states in the…
Florida ranks third in the nation when it comes to the number of people killed by police, which sounds accurate since this is the third most populous state in the country. But when looked at per capita, Florida is actually a little better – this year, at least – according…
The parent of a Broward County Boy Scout who objected to a parent leader showing hardcore porn to kids received a letter from the South Florida Boy Scout Council warning him that he will be kicked out unless he stopped making the accusations. Last week, Mark Kern, a former parent-volunteer…
A Boy Scout parent volunteer was arrested by Sunrise Police last week for showing several minors, ranging in ages from 8 to 16, hardcore pornography on his cell phone while at a church fundraiser. And a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy who volunteers for the troop and is friends with the…
Is the story about a Florida mom whose kids were taken away because she let her 11-year-old play in the yard unsupervised true? Lenore Skenazy, the writer behind the “Free-Range Kids” movement, which advocates for giving kids more space and freedom to roam instead of constant surveillance and supervision, wrote…
On a January evening back in 2012, Willis Morgan, a retired pressroom supervisor at the Miami Herald, was trying to get a few winks in at his Hallandale Beach home before heading to his part-time concierge job. But the 64-year-old was jolted awake when he heard the startling screams of…
Last month a Deerfield Beach disabled woman’s kittens were killed by men who then beat the woman, cut her with broken glass, and robbed her safe. Following the crime, BSO announced that Crime Stoppers would pay anyone up to $3,000 for a tip that would lead to an arrest. And…
After a Hialeah cop left his two K-9 partners in a hot car all day, killing them, PETA is advocating for police departments to install heat alarms in K-9 unit vehicles. The animal rights organization says several K-9s die every year from being left in hot police cars. On the…
According to numbers released by the Delray Beach Police Department Tuesday, if you did heroin in the beachside town last month and are still alive, consider yourself lucky. Delray Beach cops say seventeen people overdosed and three people died while chasing the dragon in May. Those numbers account for the…
Stephen Budd, the former Rosarian Academy Elementary School teacher accused of child molestation, has been found guilty on all counts on Tuesday. Budd, 53, has been sentenced to serve three consecutive life sentences, and another 15 years. In 2003, Budd was arrested as he was leaving his West Palm Beach apartment after…
Last month, grand juries cleared two police shooting cases that were brought to them by the state attorney’s office in Broward County, including a case in which an elderly security guard was killed after he had called police to report a suspicious person. In September, 2012, Earl David Brown, 73,…
The week before he was killed by a brick-wielding, 400-pound mental patient, Terry Young told his mother not to worry. It was a Saturday in late April 2013. Bettye White, a retired elementary-school principal, had made her weekly trip to see to her 53-year-old son at the Liberty City Hope…
When the shots rang out, they came in flurries. The pops drowned out the music echoing through the Spot, a Caribbean restaurant in Liberty City that by midnight had transformed into a nightclub where dozens of local young people, some in middle school, flirted and rubbed sweaty bodies in the…
In the world of psychic scammers — fake mystics and fortune tellers who use New Agey mystical babble and a variety of old school tricks to con money from vulnerable victims — there is a strong pipeline connecting New York City to South Florida. Often, as we have documented in…
