“Where’s the crime?” — that’s the unfortunate refrain you hear from law enforcement and prosecutors when it comes to fortunetelling crimes and psychic scammers. As we documented last year in an in-depth investigation, too often these fraudsters construct elaborate schemes targeting emotionally fragile folks. When the veil drops, victims go…
Everyone’s seen the moms who treat their children like really high-maintenance pomeranians and drag them around shopping malls on leashes. That is, however sadly, a thing. What’s definitely not a thing is branding your children with a hot stick like cattle. Nope. Not even a little bit. That’s what Port…
A West Palm Beach psychic claims the $10,000 in cash a client had given her to pray over was burned up at a church altar. The psychic, Sonya Gallego, was given cash after she promised the client that the money would be returned once it had been prayed over in…
Apparently, laser pointers are huge problem for both local law enforcement and the FBI. Nope, not your high school physics teacher who just realized she had a red LED light on her forehead the entire time some smart-ass was asking when the class would be “learning about lasers.” Not your…
In 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a huge legal settlement with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that meant the agency needed to decide whether to put 757 different animals on the endangered species list. They bragged, using animals that would pull at people’s heartstrings, touting photos of…
When your nickname is “Fat Boy,” you might as well, uh, roll with it. Christopher Mitchell, a 450-pound Volusia County man, was pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt on Friday. Although he told officers he was too large to strap himself in, he and passenger Kethian Roberts were acting…
South Floridians love their tricked-out, high-end rides, including those sport utility vehicles that are always hogging two spaces in the Publix parking lot. But more than anything, it looks like South Floridians like stealing SUVs, according to a new analysis released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau. The new numbers…
When you’re entering middle age and working at a strip club, you have to know that your window for gainful employment is quickly closing. It must be incredibly stressful to watch your money-making looks just slip through your fingers like so many particles of sand. But just because you’re pushing…
A jury of six men and six women have recommended that James Herard, the former gang member convicted for the brutal 2008 Thanksgiving Day Dunkin’ Donuts robbery in Tamarac, be sentenced to death. Herard, 24, has already been sentenced to multiple counts of life imprisonment for the death of Kiem…
Former embattled Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner has been disbarred from practicing law by the Florida Supreme Court. Back in 2008, New Times broke the story of Gardiner’s improper sexual relationship with then-prosecutor and Assistant State Attorney Howard Scheinberg during a death penalty trial. Gardiner and Scheinberg had both been…
More than 50 Boynton Beach Police officers are protesting outside of City Hall before Tuesday afternoon’s commission meeting, demanding that City Manager Lori LaVerriere resign. The officers are protesting what they say are overdue raises. Negotiations for those raises have been a source of conflict for several months. The officers’…
“You want to fuck with me?” the voice was heard saying, as the sound of scuffling and crashing debris echoed throughout the courtroom from behind the closed door. “Do you?!” the voice repeated as more slams could be heard. “All right!” the other voice screamed out. The judge, who apparently…
Italo Morales is on the run. The 27-year-old from Honduras is trying to scrape up the cash to sneak through the border from Mexico to El Paso, Texas. After that, he plans on speeding through the southern United States on his way to Florida…
Broward County circuit judge, and misdemeanor drug court judge, Gisele Pollack, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in early May, is asking to be paid during her suspension. Pollack, 56, has admitted last year she’d shown up to work drunk before. According to Red Broward, when…
Broward Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal had taken Ambien before for ramming her SUV into a parked police cruiser in the parking lot of Broward County courthouse on Tuesday. She was arrested and booked into the Broward main jail on a DUI charge. According to the police report, Rosenthal admitted to…
The girlfriend of Miami Police Officer Carl Patrick, who was fatally shot at his Pembroke Pines home, has been booked into the main Broward County jail on a second-degree murder charge. Tiniko Thompson was arrested Wednesday shortly after a warrant for her arrest was issued, and she was booked into…
Detectives working a case of a Jupiter woman who allegedly killed her ex-partner’s 2-year-old daughter and attempted to kill the girl’s 10-year-old brother are investigating a note left by the woman that references, among other things, a Bible verse on child sacrifice. Kimberly Dawn Lucas was arrested and is being…
Broward Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal rammed her black BMW SUV into a car in the Broward County courthouse parking lot on Tuesday morning. Unfortunately for Rosenthal, the car she struck happened to be a parked BSO squad car. Even more unfortunate, she was allegedly drunk. According to BSO, the incident…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office DUI Task Force will be out task-forcing Memorial Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, along with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. BSO will have a Breath Alcohol Testing unit located along U.S. 1 and SE 17th Street Causeway in…
Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us, and the Fort Lauderdale Police Department has announced road closures, in preparation for the Great American Beach Party. They’re also warning folks that they’ll be out in force this weekend, making sure people don’t act a fool. Police will be erecting barricades throughout…
“It’s my experience that most physicians are poorly educated when it comes to the anatomy of the normal male genitalia,” says Atlanta-based trial attorney and civil mediator, David Llewellyn. Llewellyn, who specializes in medical malpractice, particularly in the areas of genital injury, circumcision damage, and wrongful circumcision, for Johnson &…
The world is filled with bitter little men who talk tough in legal filings, and Chris Sevier is a champ among them. Last month, the chronically annoying self-described “former Judge Advocate and combat veteran” tried to insert himself into a federal court case to see if Florida will acknowledge gay…
