This week’s New Times cover story chronicles the adventures of a Fort Lauderdale bail bondsman, William Staubs, AKA “Cobra,” who fell into a world of trouble when he started searching for a missing 5-year-old from Putnam County, Haleigh Cummings. But before he began looking for Haleigh, Cobra briefly searched for…
She’s young, beautiful, and married to a rich heir destined for a career in politics, but if Anna Pettersson-Loeb’s friends were jealous of her before, they’re not today. By virtue of her husband’s high profile as a candidate for Florida Senate, Pettersson-Loeb’s arrest on DUI charges is newsworthy. Buddy Nevins…
corporate homepage, the compandy says “LA Fitness: Where Fitness is a Way of Life.” At the Fort Lauderdale location, a block north of the intersection of Oakland Park Blvd and Federal Highway, apparently tiny bits of shattered glass from car windows is also a way of life. After a break-in there this weekend, the…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of Bruce Strachan, the ex-con wanted in connection with a triple murder this past weekend in Lake Worth. He was arrested less than an hour ago in Delray Beach without incident.Strachan, 25, will be charged with first degree murder in the…
All this worrying about serial cat killers and serial horse killers has led us to overlook the very serial nature of how lawn-care equipment has been vanishing from North Palm Beach County.The latest one occurred before dawn broke, between 4:40 and 5 this morning at the Lake Worth Public Works…
So after the first four episodes of Broward’s double-X chromosome cop show, the main characters are getting a little more fleshed out. We’ve seen Detective Andrea Penoyer scream at crack heads, mother her son (sometimes seconds before screaming at crack heads), go to the beach in a hot pink bikini…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department just issued a news release saying that someone tried to rob the Bank of America at 3030 Davie Boulevard, near with intersection with SW 31st Ave.That’s the bank pictured above, as seen from SW 31st. Police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sousa says that a suspect is…
Operation Show Me the Money was a big hit for the Fort Lauderdale Police, who invited people with outstanding warrants to collect stimulus checks only to be arrested. In this fashion, they corralled 76 bad guys. Not bad, but cops can’t rely on stimulus checks every year, so we’ll need…
Green may be the new buzzword in political and development circles. But green is also the new black for South Florida criminals when it comes to sartorial choices this summer. Fashion-forward scammers are tossing those dowdy stocking masks and dark T-shirts in favor of emerald baseball caps, grass-green getaway cars,…
Dominique Duval, the 23-year-old woman from Lauderhill who was allegedly abducted in Fort Lauderdale yesterday evening, was found shot late last night. She later died of a gunshot wound to the neck. From the release by Hollywood PD: On Wednesday, August 26, 2009, at approximately 11:20 p.m., detectives from Hollywood’s…
Fort Lauderdale Police are looking for the rusty Mercedes that 25-year-old Antoine Joseph allegedly used to kidnap an ex-girlfriend, Dominique Duval, 23, last night in north Fort Lauderdale. From Sgt. Frank Sousa’s news release: Preliminary investigation has revealed that the victim was leaving her place of employment when her ex-boyfriend,…
Jorge “Angel” Villamizar-Ayala, wanted in the November 2004 slaying of Bianca Sierra in Pompano Beach, was arrested Friday in Brownsville, Texas, after a television viewer phoned police with the tip. Here’s the news release from Broward Sheriff’s Office:Bianca Sierra’s young son and daughter were the ones who found her body…
Shirley Cunningham Jr., an attorney based in Kentucky but who kept a penthouse apartment in the Waverly condominium in downtown Fort Lauderdale, will spend the next 20 years in a federal prison after being convicted of defrauding clients in a class-action suit against makers of the diet drug fen-phen.Along with…
The week after the gayest dog ever was stolen in Wilton Manors by a man with the gayest tattoo ever, the case is a national sensation — following the original Sun-Sentinel article, there’s this Huffington Post article and then this one in the New York Post. Yet the case remains…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has a rather weird streak for ridiculing its criminal suspects in advance of apprehending them. Like in this release from a few minutes ago:A casually dressed man who looked like he should have been watching golf from his recliner instead robbed a Citibank Saturday afternoon, and…
Despite its august name, the Harvard Learning Centers in Boca Raton was not exactly the Ivy League. Nor was the criminal conspiracy for which its president, Donald Patten was convicted Friday. It seems Patten issued stock from that company, then used the proceeds to pay back “debts” to people very…
When even criminals value frugality, you know the economy has truly hit bottom. Lauderdale friends Timothy Seamore and Sebrina Smith allegedly went on a shopping spree in Palm Beach County yesterday, passing forged checks and using stolen credit cards. But the couple’s retail choices were so thrifty, they might have…
A bicyclist sustained life-threatening injuries this morning in an accident that occurred on West Davie Boulevard. A Fort Lauderdale Police news release says that a Toyota Scion involved in the accident was driven by Taisha Gonzalez from Coconut Creek.According to police, Gonzalez was driving north on SW 27th Avenue, turning…
Just in from Broward Sheriff’s Office: A masked man brandishing a handgun threw a store clerk over a counter during a robbery Monday night as the criminal demanded cash from the register. The clerk was not seriously injured, but detectives are anxious to catch the suspect before he hurts someone.Detectives…
Four Broward County residents were arrested at a hotel in Elkridge, Maryland, after police there found evidence suggesting they were part of an identity-theft ring.The arrests, which occurred August 10, were not without incident. The Columbia Flier reports that three of the suspects pulled up to the Best Western hotel…
Lake Worth Blogger Lynn Anderson finds an uncanny resemblance between Squeaky Fromme, who was released from prison last week after serving 39 years of a life sentence for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford, and our own activist city commissioner, Lake Worth’s Cara Jennings, currently serving her own four-year sentence…
