By 2014, the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) and Broward State Attorney’s Office had learned of misconduct allegations against former BSO crime lab analyst Kelli McDonald. That year, New Times broke the news that multiple cases handled by McDonald had either tainted or missing drug evidence.
There won’t be any movies made about the multimillion-dollar scam sold by Boca Raton resident Scott Strochak. No Leonardo DiCaprio depictions, no adaptions by Martin Scorsese, and no big-money Netflix deal. In truth, Strochak’s alleged scheme amounts to small potatoes when it comes to ill-gotten riches in South Florida, and even smaller in the larger world of financial chicanery. Still, $3.8 million is nothing to balk at.
A jury in Broward Circuit Court found Kenneth Frank, of Pompano Beach, guilty of 16 charges related to practicing law without a license.
Every summer, people of the Jewish faith commemorate the day of Tisha B’Av by fasting and mourning. The date memorializes the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem centuries ago. In modern times, Tisha B’Av has become an annual opportunity for activism or charitable acts — a time to practice tikkun olam, the Jewish teaching of “repairing the world.”
Pembroke Pines officials said the city will not promote this weekend’s gun show amid cries from protesters for the city to cancel its contract with Florida Gun Shows.
State Attorney Mike Satz has been the top prosecutor in Broward County since 1976. He’s somehow won every single reelection bid, every four years, for the past 43 years. In that time, the criminal-justice world has changed around him.
In 2017, James Merrill of Massachusetts was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a massive pyramid scheme that fleeced roughly 1.8 million people out of more than $3 billion. Merrill and his partner, Carlos Wanzeler, made off like bandits with millions in illegitimate gains they dumped into 21 South Florida properties.
President Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Alex Acosta, used to be Miami’s top federal prosecutor. In his previous role, Acosta gave billionaire pedophile and alleged child rapist Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal so lenient it straight-up violated the law. Thanks to Acosta, Epstein was pretty much allowed to skate by despite the fact he had repeatedly been accused of raping children…
Two Broward deputies have been criminally charged after they were caught on video slamming a high school student to the ground outside Tamarac on April 18, the Broward County State Attorney’s Office announced today.
“It’s like a modern-day concentration camp.” ICE detainee Karamjit Singh says his time in Glade County Detention Center has brought him to the verge of suicide.
Scot Peterson, the Broward Sheriff’s Office school resource officer who failed to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the February 14, 2018 massacre, was fired today and arrested on 11 criminal charges related to his conduct the day of the shooting.
“Hold on a second — there’s someone I don’t recognize in my driveway.” Dan Markel, a Florida State University law professor and one of America’s most eminent legal scholars, was chatting idly on his cell phone as he drove up to his Tallahassee home. The morning was bright and a…
A mural honoring Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting victim Joaquin “Guac” Oliver was defaced today in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Devil horns were spray-painted on Oliver’s likeness.
Former Hallandale Police Officer Yan Kleyman was sentenced to 90 days in jail and four years of probation today after he illegally pawned Hallandale Beach Police Department-owned weapons and equipment including a semiautomatic rifle and laser sights.
Another black teen has come forward accusing a different BSO cop of slamming him to the ground. The mother of 17-year-old Jordan Bennett went public Monday with a video showing a deputy holding the teen to the floor of the cafeteria at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
In the fall of 1993, on the island of Palm Beach, future U.S. president Donald J. Trump became friends with Leslie Greyling, an illegal immigrant and accused con artist who is a fugitive from the law. Back then, the local sections of the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily…
Former Palm Beach Gardens Police Officer Nouman Raja, the first Florida cop convicted for an on-duty killing since 1989, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for the death of Corey Jones. Raja fatally shot Jones, a 31-year-old local drummer, on the side of I-95 in October 2015.
In a stunning and disturbing appearance at the Tamarac City Commission today, Broward Sheriff Greg Tony blew up at the elected officials on the dais — rejecting their call to remove from duty an officer who was involved in the brutal beating of a teenager.
The attorney who represented the families of Trayvon Marton and Michael Brown has now taken on the case of Delucca Rolle, the Tamarac teen who was slammed to the ground and pepper-sprayed in the face outside a McDonald’s last Thursday, April 18. “It is unconscionable what we’ve seen happen to…
Lately, Donald Trump fans have enjoyed attacking left-leaning Americans. Last year, for instance, Miami-area resident Cesar Sayoc sent pipe bombs to prominent liberals across the nation and went to jail. Today another South Florida man was arrested, this time for allegedly threatening to kill four Democrats.
A new analysis by the American Addiction Centers determined there have been 877 meth labs in Florida over the past decade. The company has released an interactive map for people to see how far they live from sites formerly used to manufacture methamphetamine.
He was deeply isolated from the world, scored below 100 on IQ tests, was listed as developmentally delayed, and was diagnosed with ADHD, but newly released personal writings show that 20-year-old Parkland mass murderer Nikolas Cruz has mastered the talking points of President Donald Trump.
