For all the hand-wringing over the North Koreas and Irans of the world, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single nation whose diabolical deeds have done more to undermine the U.S.’s global standing than the world’s peace-loving champions of neutrality. The case against UBS in Fort Lauderdale’s federal court has…
That’s the trailer for Police Women of Broward County (Why not Al’s Angels?), which makes its debut next Friday on TLC. Because if you’re going to launch a reality series on cops, place your chips on the county that birthed the 20-year-old reality series.The cable network has video intros of…
I’m not as sure as letter-to-the-editor writer Richard Frisbie is that the case of Florida v. Brayman makes a fair comparison to the one between Cambridge police and Prof. Henry Louis Gates. But it’s worth mentioning if only to celebrate the verbosity of late Broward Circuit Court Judge John J…
Oh, this is getting ugly. We told you about Corey Hipscher last week. The 37-year-old somehow managed to get a job at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach despite being a registered sex offender. A 10-year-old girl says he groped her. And her story sounded familiar to at least two…
GEO Group and Stanford Group: two very rich businesses with offices in Boca Raton, which have both recently caught flak for acting unethically in their respective industries. Totally unrelated, except for one cruel twist of fate: Allen Stanford, awaiting trial on charges of committing a $7 billion fraud, currently finds…
So the sweet old lady can call bullshit on the Canadian con men who have been targeting Tamarac seniors, according to Broward Sheriff’s Office:Scam artists working out of Canada are contacting seniors and pretending to be their “Grandchildren”. These scammers state that they are stranded, in jail or have been…
Come on, Joe Cotchett! You had 270 minutes with the financial Osama Bin Laden and you can’t even give us a hint about what you learned about his lieutenants? Following the San Francisco attorney’s jailhouse heart-to-heartstone with Madoff, Cotchett talked to ABC News, and maybe they’re holding back the good…
Bad news for Madoff associates — some of whom reside in Broward and Palm Beach counties — who were hoping Bernie would take his secrets to the grave. Hot from the AP wire:A lawyer for victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme says the financier told him during a 4 1/2-hour…
The Office of the Vice President just announced how it would divvy up a billion dollars in grant money for the hiring of cops. Broward and Palm Beach cities listed below:Boynton Beach: Eight officers for $1,948,352Delray Beach: Six officers for $1,360,164Fort Lauderdale: Twelve officers for $3,243,444Hallandale Beach: Five officers for…
Jeffrey Willis, 41, is the name of the inmate who was found dead last week at the Broward Sheriff’s Office main jail. On the right, his booking photo.Here’s the BSO release:The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause and manner of death. Detectives have confirmed that the death…
At least since Bonnie and Clyde, criminals have been fashion trendsetters. Now an unidentified thief appears to be seeking similar icon status, days after wearing a “POLICE” T-shirt to an armed robbery in Pompano Beach.The BSO news release tells of a 35-year-old woman named Frances Baker who was at her…
The next U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida will be either David Buckner, Willy Ferrer, or Daryl Trawick. They were selected by the Judicial Nomination Commission after interviews this month of 16. All three finalists are members of Miami’s legal community — Buckner in private practice, Ferrer in…
No name, no age, no cause of death. All that Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting for the moment is that their deputies found an inmate dead in his cell at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale, around 7 p.m. The inmate had been in the cell alone. Here’s the release…
A few weeks ago, New Times brought you the story of our own black-market cigarette king, Roman Vidal. The feds accused the gray-haired Cutler Bay resident of funneling millions of illegal smokes through the Port of Miami to England and Ireland. Worse, investigators say that Vidal’s profits went to a group…
The marginally palatable prospect of a Subway sandwich is largely to blame for the escape of two thieves from the Seminole Travel Center in Weston, pictured above. The success of the robbery itself? Well, that you can blame on the unlocked safe in the owner’s office.A Broward Sheriff’s Office release…
After reading New Times’ cover story about a rape at Palm Beach’s most exclusive country club, you may still have questions about this strange criminal case. It’s a complicated one, involving two employees who lived and worked at the Everglades Club — a white cook named Melissa and her alleged…
Karen Berry got into private investigation the hard way: Somebody was stalking her, and she decided to take matters into her own capable hands. The 25-year Sunrise resident was working as property manager for a condo in Davie in the early ’90s, living alone while her military husband was overseas…
File this one under “Parent’s Worst Nightmare.” Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of a registered sex offender from Plantation who was working at a water park in Deerfield Beach. Corey Hipscher allegedly told the parents that, due to a boat’s “weight limit,” he couldn’t bring any other adults…
flickr.com Johnny Cash: Dressed in Black We’ve written about the local media’s awkward refusal to mention the race of violent, uncaptured suspects in police stories a few times. (Here and here.) It’s odd that a newspaper would inform its readers how violent an individual might be and mention what that…
Schadenfreude-starved followers of the Palm Beach pirate may be delighted to hear this, from an inmate at Madoff’s prison in Butner, North Carolina, courtesy the New York Post:”Some of the guys were talking about smacking him around a little, just to get the notoriety of it.”But don’t get your hopes…
One can imagine how a financial crook can form a sentimental attachment to his most extravagant purchase: an item that managed to be both outrageously expensive and hopelessly impractical, which for those reasons became a metaphor for his self-destructive excess: the yacht.Mark Pomerantz is the attorney who — with the…
How many illegally overloaded jets does a company have to crash to get credit for slowing business among Manhattan jet-setters? Seriously. Two weeks after the second executive from Fort Lauderdale’s Platinum Jet Management entered a guilty plea to charges that the company allowed unqualified pilots and unsafe jets to fly…
