Members of the Boynton Beach Police Department were caught on cell-phone video using excessive force on two seventh-graders they pulled off a school bus for bad behavior. The two videos, uploaded to LiveLeak.com, show one officer putting one of the students in a chokehold and another officer kicking the other…
Update, 11 a.m.: The appeals court has granted the emergency order. A copy of the ruling is posted below. Original story: A Florida mother is hoping the Fourth District Court of Appeals will intervene and stop a court order that her 3-year-old son be circumcised. Heather Hironimus of Boynton Beach…
A Broward attorney who was charged with operating a multimillion-dollar fraud, is on the lam and is considered armed and dangerous, according to the FBI. Michael Ralph Casey, 67, who practiced law in Fort Lauderdale, was indicted on federal mail and wire fraud conspiracy charges for his alleged involvement in…
On May 1, a customer entered a Pompano Beach Subway looking nervous. He paced back and forth across the eatery’s lobby before asking employee Joaquin Zapata to ring him up for a soda and chips. Apparently changing his mind at the register, he then inquired instead about the price of…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office DUI Task Force will be out task-forcing on Friday and Saturday with a DUI checkpoint scheduled from 9 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Saturday. The DUI checkpoint will be set up at 380 S. Federal Highway in Deerfield Beach. Officers from the BSO as well as…
Last week, it was a Broward judge. This week, it’s a Broward prosecutor. Molena Mompoint, a Broward State Attorney’s Office prosecutor from Fort Lauderdale, was arrested Monday evening on a possession-of-methamphetamine charge. It’s the second time within a week someone who is tasked with practicing and enforcing the law was…
Of all the murders that have been committed over the past five years, almost 100 were committed by people who were registered users of Stormfront, a West Palm Beach-based website for “white nationalists,” according to a report released April 17 by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC says that…
Broward County circuit judge, and misdemeanor drug court judge, Gisele Pollack, who has had a history of substance abuse, including one time when she arrived to work drunk, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence early Friday morning in Plantation. Pollack, who just a month ago took leave…
A video uncovered by CBS 12 shows Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies beating, tasing, and pepper-spraying an alleged suspect. The deputies say the man resisted arrest after the deputies pulled him over on the night of November 28, 2013. Of particular note is that one of the officers is Deputy…
Former West Palm Beach Police Officer Dewitt McDonald pleaded guilty to selling illegal drugs to fellow police officers while on duty. According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, McDonald, 45, was running two separate businesses selling anabolic steroids and other prescription drugs while also…
Two Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies are under investigation for alleged brutality after a gas station’s surveillance video captured them slamming a man to the ground when trying to detain him, breaking bones in his face in the process. BSO Internal Affairs is investigating deputies Justin Lambert and Mike Manresa for…
In October 2012, the Judicial Qualifications Commission’s investigative panel filed formal charges against Palm Beach County Judge Barry M. Cohen for using his bench as, in their words, a “bully pulpit” and “a neutral and detached magistrate.” The findings came after the outspoken judge made some comments about racial profiling…
Boynton Beach Police are warning the public that a man may be calling senior citizens and pretending to be a lieutenant with the Palm beach Sheriff’s Office. He may be tricking people into believing that they owe money for failing to stop at red lights. In a statement, police said…
It’s one thing to lose your beloved cat. It’s another to find Fluffy in a state of… uh… incompletion. Up in Central Florida, one neighborhood is being rocked by a spree of dismembered animals. And you know how the old saying goes: One cat cut in half is just bad…
Back in December, Axel Esteban Inostroza crashed his girlfriend’s black 2003 Mustang into a bicyclist in Fort Lauderdale and proceeded to drive for two miles with the cyclist lodged in the car’s rear window. Inostroza then drove into the woods and dumped the cyclist — who was still alive –…
Crime is down in Broward County. This, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. BSO saw drops in crime throughout 2013. Broward saw a 13 percent drop in violent crimes, and while there were a few more adults arrested, juvenile arrests were down almost…
To some neighborhoods of Fort Lauderdale, Larry Daughtery was known as the local ice cream man. Yesterday he was introduced to jurors as an ice-cold murderer. If what Broward prosecutors are saying is true, Daughtery’s tale is like a real-life and way-less-campy version of the Clint Howard flick Ice Cream…
She was 46 to his 82. Perhaps that’s why Michelle Nicholas was so appealing to John Deam. After eloping in the Keys, the wealthy older gentleman bought his beau a 2006 Lexus and a $13,000 Rolex. That probably endeared him a little more to her. Nicholas and Deam might have…
In the summer of 2011, Boynton Beach cop David Britto — a former Marine and 2010 Officer of the Year — was arrested on charges of possession and conspiring to traffic methamphetamine. Authorities suspected him of running a drug ring with several other men. But Britto famously cut off an…
Kimanie King, the 18-year-old senior at Piper High School who was arrested for stabbing another student on Thursday, appeared at his first court hearing Friday morning. King is facing attempted murder and possession of a weapon on school grounds charges. During the hearing, William Barry Paul, King’s attorney, said that…
Today a 28-year-old Royal Palm Beach man will appear before a federal judge. According to prosecutors, Jesse Lewis was responsible for nothing less than a reign of terror involving sex-trafficked homeless women, running them out of Hollywood and Dania Beach motels. Dubbing himself “King” and demanding his women call him…
A Loxahatchee woman is facing charges after fraudulently collecting roughly $377,000 in food stamps, housing assistance, and Medicaid. The woman had been pulling off the scam since 2003, using two separate social security numbers and a dozen aliases. Since then, she’d been collecting monthly assistance checks and living large on…
