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…
Police shootings are often kept in a shroud of secrecy until an investigation is completed – and in Broward County, those investigations can take several years. But in Hallandale Beach, the city paid a $150,000 wrongful death settlement in October, 2014 to the family of an unarmed man who was…
Hialeah cop who killed two police dogs in Davie by leaving them in the car all day is facing the wrath of a dog-loving public who is appalled that somebody, especially a cop, could commit such a heinous crime. However, Officer Nelson Enriquez won’t face charges of murdering a police…
Proof that Broward is the pill mill capital of the world: more arrests are being made. Within a six-month period in 2010, a doctor and seven of her employees at the now defunct Real Care Medical Group in Plantation, bought more than 430,000 oxycodone pills from wholesalers and sold them…
Edward Morton heard a knock on his door at around 10 p.m. Tuesday evening. When Morton answered the door, someone shot him in the face. Boynton Beach Police say Morton, 27, was taken to Delray Medical Center where he died. According to Boynton Beach Police, a man described as…
In the 1930’s, propaganda flicks like Reefer Madness tricked a significant part of the American population into believing that smoking marijuana turned one into a blood-hungry rapist who, after smoking a joint, went on the prowl for clean-cut victims. We know know that’s bullshit. So could the same one day…
It was supposed to be easy. Edouard Rene Joseph was a combat vet, Desert Storm, so he had trimmed the situation down to simple mission objectives: Get into the country, pick up the kids, leave the country. One day, tops. No big deal. “It’s not,” he would muse years later,…
On a cool summer evening on January 8, 2012, 34-year-old Gregory Ehlers, Jr. exited a Best Buy in Aventura with a few items he didn’t pay for. Aventura cops chased him at first, but that store is located just a few blocks from the line that divides Miami-Dade from Broward…
In Hallandale Beach, police officers are being paid salaries far above the national average, despite being a department riddled with controversial shootings, beatings, and huge payouts to victims of police brutality. And for cops involved in those payouts, subsequent promotions and awards are not uncommon. The City of Hallandale Beach…
Two men walked out of the afternoon glare, and into the home of a disabled woman and murdered her kittens in front of her before ransacking the house and taking a safe. The men also reportedly threw the woman to the ground, sliced her up with broken shards glass, and…
Authorities and law enforcement are still scratching their heads to explain to recent deaths of two students at the New College of Florida in Sarasota last week — including one victim from Boca Raton. Although it will take about six weeks for toxicology reports to come in, Sarasota investigators are…
If you got a DUI since 1997 and never heard back about a court date, you might have a now-fired prosecutor to thank. Assistant State Attorney Dave Weigel, a courtroom veteran of 29 years, was fired from the Broward State Attorney’s office for failing to process 177 DUI cases and…
The big news out of East Tennessee over the last three months has involved the federal takedown of a massive pill mill ring, with prosecutors alleging that up to 50 individuals were involved in moving prescriptions for high-powered medications like oxycodone. Sitting at the center of the alleged criminal enterprise: a…
Before Hallandale Beach executed a deadly SWAT raid that took the life of Howard Bowe, an unarmed 34-year-old father of three, the search warrant had to be signed by a judge. In Bowe’s case, the warrant was signed by Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who has her own connection to suspected drug…
Somebody shot George Zimmerman in the face and the internet laughed. That’s to be expected, given that Zimmerman isn’t exactly the most loved man in the country (although he definitely has his fans). But the Florida man who seems to keep getting in trouble ever since he was acquitted of…
The Grey Lady has discovered Florida Man. In an essay about Florida’s most famous export after cocaine and oranges, the Times sets out to discover the deeper meaning behind Florida Man with support from writers Dan Barry and Carl Hiassen as well as filmmaker Billy Corben. And while these Florida…
For some bizarre reason, people still very much harbor a morbid curiosity for the whereabouts and goings on of Casey Anthony, Florida woman who who was found not guilty on murder charges related to the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. And now it appears that she’s resurfaced and, according to…
One of the principal figures behind a so-called Jamaican lottery scam has been found guilty on several counts, becoming the first to be convicted in a massive FBI probe of the graft with deep Broward ties. Sanjay Ashani Williams, a 25-year-old from Montego Bay, Jamaica, was found guilty of one…
Now that former NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez is on his way to a life sentence for murder, more legal matter tied to the ex-player’s violent lifestyle are starting to come to light. One situation — a shooting of a Hernandez friend in South Florida after a night at Tootsie’s Cabaret —…
Jayvon Woolfork is the lone suspect in the brutal gang rape of a Hollywood teen not to have been offered a plea deal. Last month, Patricia Montes, 17, and Erica Avery, 17, took plea deals and on Wednesday, Lanel Singleton, 19, and Dwight Henry, 18, also took plea deals, pleading guilty to…
