A Broward County grand jury has indicted the man who gunned down David Herr, the 36-year-old tow truck driver that tried to tow his illegally parked vehicle several weeks ago. According to a BSO report, the man, 31-year-old Triston Johnson of Lauderdale Lakes, pulled a gun and shot Herr several…
In what might be construed as a victory for defiant kids everywhere, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a teenage girl who refused to give her name to a cop after he arrived to bust up a gathering of kids with red, glossy eyes and…
A Broward Health nurse allegedly sexually abused a female patient by forcing her to perform oral sex on him twice. Fort Lauderdale police arrested David Paul Lazarus, 42, after the victim says he drugged her and forced her to perform the sexual acts, with intent on abusing her a third…
In this week’s print edition of New Times, you’ll find a feature story on the warring opinions over Florida’s sex offender registry. It’s also not the only piece of journalism around town this week diving into the issue. Over the last three days the Sun-Sentinel has dropped a large-scale investigation…
“I really don’t feel like I live the life of a typical sex offender,” Damian Garcia said on a recent evening on the back patio of his house in Lake Worth. With his small frame crumbled in a deck chain, the 31-year-old hispanic guy puffs on an electronic cigarette while…
A Palm Beach County man allegedly murdered his roommate, dismembered the body, and then brought a friend over to see the corpse. According to police, Scott Tobiassen, 49, a man described as violent (ya don’t say!), and who brags about his fighting ability, murdered his roommate, Gerard Longo, 48, cut…
Jason Simione, the Dania Beach man accused of trying to hire a hit man to off his family and infant son, and for making threats about President Obama, apparently was all ready in case World War III broke out. After Simione was arrested, investigators found his home stockpiled with weapons,…
A follow-up from an old story: Collette O’ Neill (formerly Spears) claimed that in December 2009, Riviera Beach Police officers knocked on her door while she was in bed and said they wanted her to let them her house and into her backyard. A single woman, she said they could…
Late Friday night, two Southwest Ranches men climbed into their Hyundai Sonata after a dinner with friends when a red Ferrari 430 Scuderia came out of nowhere and rear-ended their car, spinning it out of control on I-75, just north of Norhwest 138th Street in Miami-Dade County. When the Sonata…
Yesterday, one of the truly batshit crazy/sad stories of would-be domestic murder broke out in South Florida after police broadcast the arrest of Jason Simione. The 39-year-old Dania Beach man was taken into custody after allegedly trying to sic Salvadoran hit men on his own estranged wife and baby. Throw…
Jason D. Simione, a 39-year-old Dania Beach man, allegedly stockpiled bomb-making materials, sniper rifles, and ammunition, threatened President Barack Obama and sought to hire a hit man to murder his own wife and infant child. Simione’s wife, Megumi Simione, 28, reportedly contacted the Broward Sheriff’s Office on Friday, and told…
Derek Medina, who allegedly killed his wife in South Miami and posted pictures of her corpse on Facebook, has an unhinged and strange YouTube footprint, according to a survey of the 143 videos he’s uploaded. They range from showing Medina singing a Bill Withers’ song in the car, to Googling…
It’s a big fat understatement to say it’s been a tough week for Dirty Blondes. Ever since video leaked of the Fort Lauderdale beach bar’s security delivering a vicious Rodney King-style slamming to patrons, the establishment has been fielding a lot of ill will. Nowhere is that more evident than…
A Lake Worth woman is facing over a hundred animal cruelty charges after Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control officials raided her home and found 137 cats living in horrid conditions. Officials also found six dead cats in the woman’s freezer. All 137 cats found in the residence had…
Eighteen-year-old Steven Rutty was found shot dead by his stepfather in the bathroom of their family’s Lauderale Lakes home on Monday. The home was ransacked, but there were no signs of forced entry. According to some neighbors, the door to the bathroom appeared to have been kicked in. Rutty appeared…
Boynton Beach police have released surveillance video of two unidentified men who allegedly broke into a home and robbed around $3 million worth in jewelry. On July 2, a silver four-door sedan pulled up to a home, and one of the men jumped out and rang the doorbell. Later, the…
Three masked burglars arrived to their intended target, a Pompano Beach warehouse, with just one thing in mind: smash their way into the building by any means necessary, expertly disable the building’s alarms, and steal several briefcases filled with gold bullion. And by “several briefcases filled with gold bullion,” we…
Federal prosecutors won’t be charging Buju Banton jury foreman Terri Wright with criminal contempt charges, even though a New Times report revealed that Wright admitted to misconduct. Thanks to that New Times report, a federal judge in Tampa tossed out one of two convictions that sent Banton to prison in…
One of the bouncers who savagely battered a Dirty Blonde’s patron and incited sweeping outrage across South Florida has been arrested, Fort Lauderdale police reported this morning. Authorities have charged Arnald Thomas Darrah, 29, of Oakland Park, with one felony count of battery. See also: – Instagram Captures Dirty Blondes’…
Florida is (again) scheduled to kill a man who many say is too sick to die. John Errol Ferguson — a 65-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who claims he is the “prince of God,” has powers from the sun, and will be resurrected after death to foil a communist plot against America…
A Florida man was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Brooklyn federal court Thursday after he was found guilty of being part of plot to murder Long Island Judge Joseph Bianco and prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz, then preserve their heads in formaldehyde as souvenirs. Dejvid Mirkovic, 38, of Lake…
For the past year, a pastor at a Boca Raton church has been serving up the good word from the pulpit while higher-ups in the faith look into allegations that he was sexually involved with a teenager in the 1980s. Kirk A. McCormick has been a pastor for the past…
