UPDATE, 10:04 a.m.: Police say she was found unharmed about 6 a.m. today. She hid in an abandoned house when she saw all the police activity in her neighborhood. Original post, 5:55 a.m.:Lake Worth 12-year-old Tatiana Huffman walked away from her house at 329 S. M St. in Lake Worth…
The first suspect, on the far left, is wanted in connection to an attempted burglary in West Park — a woman discovered the man in her dining room around 9 a.m. Friday, according to police; as she screamed, the man “continued to approach,” and she ran out the front door…
If you missed last night’s Lauderdale-by-the-Sea fundraiser with Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, you’ve got another shot to hang out with the Gray Mustache from 11 a.m. to noon tomorrow at Gino’s Italian Market, at 5729 Johnson St. in Hollywood. He doesn’t like us very much, but maybe you’ll have more luck.Also,…
Lauderdale Lakes is in some hot water, and not all of it is old news.A preliminary report dated yesterday outlines the findings of the Broward Office of the Inspector General regarding the “gross mismanagement of public funds” in Lauderdale Lakes. The OIG says preliminary reports aren’t public record until the…
The details just keeps getting darker and darker in the case of William DeJesus, the man who executed a Canadian snowbird at a Deerfield Beach RV park and stabbed his own wife and two young sons before killing himself.One son, a 9-year-old with autism, died; his 7-year-old son spent a…
UPDATE: Read about the School Board’s vote after the jump.Mavericks in Education Florida should not be allowed to open three more charter high schools in Palm Beach County, school district officials say, because the for-profit company’s claims about its academic achievements can’t be verified.The recommendation for denial — which will…
Last October, a mother and her 3-year-old daughter were plucked from a Pembroke Park lake after the woman swerved into the lake while reportedly being hit by her husband. When divers went into the lake later to recover the car, they “bumped” into another, according to Local 10.Yesterday, Broward Sheriff’s…
Update, 3:50 p.m.: We’ve added a list of the top four racist YouTube rants by stupid young people, if you’re interested.Santaluces High School in Lantana has some extra police officers today, according to the Palm Beach Post, after two white teenagers from the school posted an online video of themselves…
Set your DVRs, everybody. BroCo’s back on America’s Most Wanted.Tonight’s 9 o’clock show on Lifetime will feature the Broward Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Squad, according to a police news release, and will feature the search for 39-year-old Fritz Alisme, accused of multiple counts of sexual battery on a child. The squad…
Three years ago, we brought you the story of Richard Edison, a South Florida plastic surgeon who ran a practice at which five patients had died during routine procedures. Once, he left a sponge in a woman’s breast and said she’d left it there herself. The patient went on to call…
Fourteen years after a speeding Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy left 18-year-old Eric Brody with permanent, debilitating brain damage, it looks like the Florida Legislature is getting close to paying Brody’s family the money it’s owed — OK, actually about a third of the money it’s owed.A court found the Broward Sheriff’s…
Last January, Oakland Park’s Marin Stroia was facing a divorce filing, foreclosure, and charges of contempt of court when he walked into the Broward County Courthouse, pointed a gun at himself, and threatened to kill himself.After a jury found him guilty of armed trespass and reckless display of a weapon, he…
Dr. Arthur Jordan, an expert witness paid $300 per hour by federal prosecutors to testify in a number of pill mill cases, has a bizarre criminal past that the government kept secret for years. The new information could be used to appeal a slew of pill mill convictions throughout the…
In October 2009, 15-year-old Michael Brewer was set on fire by classmates who were mad that he’d called police about a bike theft. Yesterday, two of those accused pleaded no contest to charges of second-degree attempted murder, according to the Sun-Sentinel, and will be dealing with the Florida justice system…
Last year, when Gov. Rick Scott and his cabinet enacted an archaic ban on the voting rights of ex-felons, supporters called the ban colorblind. They said making nonviolent felons wait five years after completing their sentences to apply for the right to vote again had nothing to do with Florida’s…
Not much to report here yet, but what has been released so far is that a man was shot and killed by a Broward County sheriff’s deputy around 6:30 last night.Police were called to an apartment building on the 800 block of SE 22nd Avenue last night, where they found…
On Friday, the Department of Justice filed an aggressive response to Buju Banton’s appeal and continued to write off the fact that the drug case was built by a deceitful snitch with tremendous financial incentive to entrap people — as detailed in last week’s cover story.The DOJ also filed its own appeal of…
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Thompson is dead after staging what one spokeswoman said was “like an ambush” on police Friday.Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies were called shortly after 4 p.m. with reports of a man in West Palm Beach’s PBC Credit Union parking lot shooting a rifle into the air. When police arrived,…
There weren’t many details available Friday about the Deerfield Park RV-park standoff that left three dead and two critically injured, but as police discover more, the story gets stranger and stranger.The incident appears to have started Thursday evening, when 41-year-old Volusia County man William De Jesus drove his wife and…
Mavericks High in Homestead was rocked by violence and grief this week. First, 16-year-old Danny Cruz was shot and killed by a police officer at a Homestead gas station. Then another Mavericks student, 17-year-old Jeremy Perez, was accused of bringing a gun to school “for protection.” On Tuesday, Perez was…
Sixteen-year-old Michael Robertson was in the 3600 block of Kewanee Drive in Lantana, police say, when the boy who killed him walked up. The boy accused Robertson of stealing his bike; the two argued. Robertson made fun of the boy. He told Robertson he was going home to get a…
Details are slowly emerging about a Deerfield Park hostage situation in which a man killed another person in an R.V. park, then took his own family hostage and killed himself and his 9-year-old son.Someone reported a shooting to police at 6:20 p.m. Thursday, and by the time deputies arrived, a…
