A 27-year-old man from Hollywood died from gunshot wounds this weekend after he was shot during a struggle with another man in Lake City. But detectives are only recently pieced together the sequence of events that led to his death, according to the Gainesville Sun.Police believe that the Hollywood man,…
[jump] A few days after the stolen remains story ran, the Sun-Sentinel published a short story about a gas station robbery in Boca Raton. The robber didn’t get the safe open, and didn’t hurt anyone, but did get away with the cash in the register. If you’re looking for this…
Thirteen years after watching her nephew get convicted of murdering his step grandfather, Gloria Jean Williams from West Palm Beach has stepped forward to testify that the real killer is her own mother, Mae Daisy Latty.Alphonso Latty, 59, was murdered at his home in Orlando in October 1994. An article…
Faith Bisasor, 49, and her 15-year-old son Davion Bishop are two of the three people who were found dead yesterday at 9581 Encino Street in Miramar, both apparently victims of gunshot wounds.The Miramar Police Department released their names a few minutes ago. The name of the third victim has still…
When living as a fugitive of justice, especially one who has escaped from prison, it’s advisable to stay away from convenience store cameras. But Palm Beach Sheriff’s deputies say Scott Bosley, last seen in June 2008 fleeing the Loxahatchee Road Prison, couldn’t resist the invitation of liquor stores with rooftop…
Wednesday marks the seven-year anniversary of the murder of Melissa Karp, a 17-year-old runaway whose body was found in the Everglades by a fisherman on August 19, 2002. Broward Sheriff’s investigators are still trying to find the person who shot her to death, and tomorrow they’re going to hold at…
A BSO deputy who was shot in the head in 2007 by a convicted felon on parole has notified the state of his intent to file suit against the Department of Corrections: The felon who shot 29-year-old officer Maury Hernandez during a routine traffic stop owned a handgun that his…
Fort Lauderdale police are investigating a possible suicide on the beach near Sunrise Boulevard and A1A this morning. Details are extremely scarce at this point, but here’s what Sgt. Patrick Hart says they know:Police got a call reporting that a person had been found on the beach. When officers arrived,…
Just spoke with Tania Rues, spokeswoman for the Miramar Police Department. She says that in about an hour, she’ll give a statement about the slayings on Encino Street. Rues expects to then release the number of dead and shed at least a little more light on what remains a very…
Several people have been found dead at a home on Encino Street in Miramar, along with at least one survivor who is at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. Still no word on a suspect, a motive, nor the cause of death or even an exact number of those killed. We’re…
A 35-year-old man from Lake Worth was stabbed to death early this morning near Second Avenue North and North A Street, according to a news release by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office.Richard J. Daniels, a 33-year-old man, also of Lake Worth has been arrested in the death of James H…
Two men suspected of robbing a 71-year-old man last night in Fort Lauderdale led police on a 30-mile high-speed pursuit into Palm Beach County before being arrested near Woolbright Road in Boynton Beach.Kyle Smith, 23, and Ivan Camacho, 24, are in custody on charges of armed robbery and resisting arrest…
After 20-year-old Karari Ritchie was arrested Tuesday in the homicide case of a Taco Bell manager, Broward Sheriff’s detectives say he told them about a partner from Miami — but that was a red herring. Detectives believe he was trying to protect his older brother, Tesfaye Ritchie, but they say…
Shortly after health care consultant Joseph Cobo was appointed by the governor to the board of the North Broward Hospital District in September 2007, the new commissioner allegedly approached the district’s general counsel with a bold request. Laura Seidman alleges that Cobo told her “that he and ‘some other commissioners’…
Manhattan accountant Frank DiPascali confessed this week to his role in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, and he just might be the snitch that federal prosecutors have been waiting for. In particular, two Madoff associates in South Florida, Michael Bienes and Frank Avellino appear to have cause for anxiety.DiPascali’s intimate…
Driving a cab is hard enough work without your fare knifing you after he arrives at his destination. So let’s all help Hollywood Police get the guy in the picture. Squint if you have to.Judging by the news release, it doesn’t seem that the stabber made off with any money,…
What’s with Boynton Beach suddenly becoming a hot spot for South Florida crime? Early yesterday, a couple of exhausted Canadian tourists trying to drive through the night to South Beach, pulled off on I-95 at Boynton Beach Boulevard, then parked at a closed gas station so they could switch drivers,…
If you’ve got world-class athletic talent and a full ride at a top school like the University of Michigan, you probably want to avoid friends from South Florida who answer to the name, “Tragic.”That’s the nickname of the drug dealer to whom former Deerfield Beach football star Justin Feagin allegedly…
Online, he’s known as Glue Factory Bob. Also, Dog Food Dale — either a sidekick or an alter ego. Or a twin, if the photographs he posted in his blog profile (left) are real, but they’re probably a joke. So, too, did his blog seem like a joke after it…
Former Florida Highway Patrolman Christopher Maul tells the St. Pete Times he was fired in June because he “didn’t write enough tickets.” FHP supervisors say that was one among other productivity issues. They deny that there’s a quota.Though there’s no mention of Maul’s filing suit against FHP, it sounds like…
Several weeks after his child sex abuse case was featured on America’s Most Wanted, Roshard Whitehead of West Palm Beach was found in Lexington, Kentucky. And not a moment too soon, according to a report by WPBF, which says federal marshals found him living with four children.In mid-January police wondered…
John Kopras, formerly of Pembroke Pines, entered a guilty plea in Fort Lauderdale’s federal court Thursday to charges that he raided the Social Security accounts of a cousin who was mentally disabled.According to the federal prosecutor’s news release, Kopras set up trust accounts at Wachovia Bank that were supposed to…
