PBSO: Sorry For the Beatings. Here, Have Some Bikes!

In a heartwarming display of goodwill, Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies tomorrow plan to distribute 45 free bikes to kids in Belle Glade. It’s a lovely gesture, sure to be appreciated by children in a city plagued by crime and poverty. Only, the timing is a bit unfortunate.The bike giveaway…

BSO Report: Foul Play in Death of Taco Bell Manager

Tikkitress Johnson, the 39-year-old manager of a Taco Bell on Oakland Park Boulevard did not die this morning from an accidental fall. Rather, Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives believe she was murdered. From the BSO release: Just before 9 am, Oakland Park Fire Rescue was dispatched to a reported fall injury…

Name Released in Cab Driver Stabbing

Saint Sanveur Michel is the name of the cab driver who was stabbed yesterday in Hollywood. The aggressor in the incident, which occurred near North 69th Avenue and Charleston Street before 11 a.m., is still at large. Hollywood Police describe him as a Hispanic male in his twenties who was…

Cliff Hanger: Worker Tells of Subterfuge by Port Everglades Firm

After people are convicted of felonies, they have to wear orange jumpsuits. After Cliff Berry, Inc., was convicted of a felony, it also made a wardrobe change — into shirts bearing the brand new logo of Everglades Waste Removal Services.Or at least that’s the outfit en vogue at the company’s…

Deputy Do-Wrong, Take Two

For the second time this week, Broward Sheriff’s deputies have booked one of their own. Gladys Dauphin, a detention deputy at BSO’s main jail in downtown Fort Lauderdale, is accused of striking an inmate in the head with her handheld radio. She’s also accused of filing a false report of…

UBS Case: Who’s Public Enemy No. 1?

A settlement between federal prosecutors and UBS, accused of helping America’s wealthy cheat Uncle Sam out of his taxes, appears likely to be struck tomorrow in Miami’s federal court. The deal — brokered through intense negotiations by diplomats — is not likely to produce the names of the approximately 52,000…

A Caper That’s Genius for Its Simplicity

Jewel thieves tend to over-think the heist, often with disastrous results — as you might remember from Before the Devil Knows Your Dead. A thief who hit Galleria Mall yesterday did not make this mistake. He simply walked into Zales and… let’s let the Fort Lauderdale Police Department take it…

A Department Or a Demolition Derby?

Just as cats get nine lives, Hollywood Police officers get 9 wrecks. Or at least that appears the case with Officer Joel Francisco, who averaged almost one per year over an 11-year career, according to a review of his personnel file by the Sun-Sentinel.Francisco and his cohorts are going to…

Hollywood Man Charged With Murder After Shaking Girlfriend’s Baby

Cecil Weekes was scheduled to take a polygraph examination today in connection with the mysterious death of his girlfriend’s baby. Instead, he’s in a Broward County Jail because he allegedly confessed yesterday to shaking the child on June 12, the night she was found not breathing. Eleven-month-old Angeliah Duncan died…

Godly Truck Used for Evil Errand

It’s one thing to boost a truck from a church. It’s another thing altogether to then use the church’s truck to steal from landscapers. But the Palm Beach’s Sheriff’s Office is reporting that the two incidents over the past three days in Jupiter are related.The truck disappeared from Calvary Chapel…

Broward Deputy Charged With Sex Crimes

A grueling summer for the Broward Sheriff”s Office just got worse. The agency arrested one of its own this morning on charges he sexually exploited illegal immigrants. Here’s the agency’s news release:A Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy who disgraced his badge by preying on illegal residents was arrested Monday morning on…

Family Claims Body of 1983 Murder Victim

In 1983, a female body was found in a vacant field in Pompano Beach. But no family had reported the woman missing. It wasn’t till 2008 that the fingerprints were matched to those of a young woman who had multiple arrests in Broward County: Tina Moore. Or at least that…

Things Not to Do on a Condo Staircase

That’s the sketch of an alleged flasher who struck in Lauderdale Lakes a few days ago. Broward Sheriff’s deputies want your help finding him. But is this really a flasher? Or an unlucky guy caught having a private moment in a public place? Here’s the BSO release:At around noon on…

Canadian Snowbird Facing Ponzi Charges

Yet another part-time resident of Palm Beach County is facing allegations of financial fraud. Earl Jones, who ran an investment firm based in Montreal, but who since 1992 has had a condo in Boca Raton, is accused of a $50 million Ponzi scheme, mostly with Canadian investors.Jones had been missing…

Fraud Expert From Fort Lauderdale Linked to Stanford Case

Thomas Cash, who lives in Fort Lauderdale but who for years has been the chairman of Kroll, Inc., the risk consulting firm in Miami, resigned from that position last week amid allegations that he helped mislead investors who sustained losses in the alleged Ponzi scheme for which Allen Stanford has…

Embattled Hospital Commissioner Considering Legal Defense Fund

North Broward Hospital District Commissioner Joseph Cobo, the subject of a pending criminal investigation for allegedly using his public position to help business in his private consulting firm, has asked the district’s legal department for permission to establish a legal defense fund.The answer, which Juice obtained through a public records…

Killer of 16-Year-Old Hollywood Girl Sentenced

An Anderson, South Carolina, man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison after he entered a guilty plea to the April 2007 murder of Talia Ashley, a 16-year-old runaway from Hollywood.Anderson’s Independent Mail reports that Stanley Dehart, now 30, confessed to hitting Ashley with a rock, then burning a…