The principal of the Mavericks High charter school in Palm Springs is not certified to teach in Florida, according to the State Department of Education.Thomas Lockett runs a school that serves roughly 500 at-risk students and promises to help them earn enough credits to graduate. Yet he does not have…
UPDATE: The shootee is 17-year-old Andre Chowtie. He’s being transferred to juvie today and will be charged with auto theft, reckless driving, and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, police say.The area of the New Times office has been a hotbed of activity for the Fort Lauderdale cops recently,…
The Department of Justice should have filed a response to Buju Banton’s appeal on Friday, but as has been the government’s style throughout the more than two-year-long saga, it’s dragging its heels. Now federal prosecutors have until February 10 to counter arguments made in the hulking, 17,000-word appeal. …
Reggae star Buju Banton, who was sentenced this past June to ten years on federal drug charges, isn’t in the best financial shape. A bank recently foreclosed on his Tamarac duplex, and he’s got a hefty legal tab to work off after going through two trials, the first of which…
Only in Palm Beach is such a pairing possible. State Attorney Michael McAuliffe is abandoning his bid for a second term as the county’s top prosecutor in order to work for Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire.According to the Palm Beach Post, McAuliffe plans to join the legal team at…
Two women and a 6-month-old boy were found dead inside a Lauderdale Lakes apartment on Sunday, and the cops aren’t being too generous with details.Twenty-five-year-old Natasha Plummer and her roommate, 21-year-old Octavia Barnett, were the two women found dead, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.Carlton Stringer Jr., Plummer’s 6-month-old boy,…
Was it the West Palm Beach cop-beating scandal? The steady exodus of prosecutors from his office? Or perhaps his spotty luck prosecuting corruption in the Riviera Beach Police Department?Michael McAuliffe cited none of these setbacks in his official statement this morning saying he won’t be seeking a second term as…
The 83-year-old gentleman who called the cops to let them know he just “drank ammonia” and beat his 77-year-old girlfriend to death with a flashlight battery is going to prison for a while.A jury found Alfred Infosino guilty last month of second-degree murder in the beating death of Rita Chirel,…
Sex offender James Harmon was charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Pahokee woman nearly a year ago.Among the evidence is a recorded phone call, some DNA, and a witness recalling that the dude “smelt like shit.”According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office police report, a pedestrian…
An 18-year-old man was arrested on four charges Tuesday — including attempted murder — nearly a month after he got into a fight outside a Fort Lauderdale convenience store.The cops say Clarence Hall tossed a brick at a car windshield, causing the driver of that car to lose control, and…
Last year, a Boynton Beach cop beeped her horn in the parking garage.David Coffey, also a Boynton Beach cop, got scared from that beep and decided to retaliate by sneaking up behind her a month later and blasting his Taser next to her head, causing her to be treated for…
Jonathan Jones was arrested on Tuesday as an alleged accomplice in the murder of Belle Glade grocery store owner Jimmy McMillan, as an “accessory after the fact.”At 20 years old, this is now the second time Jones has been booked into the Palm Beach County Jail in relation to a…
It looks like Sylvia Poitier’s time at the Broward County Jail is limited to her quick photo-shoot back in April.Poitier was sentenced yesterday to a year of probation, a $1,000 fine, 200 hours of community service for those four counts of falsifying public records she was found guilty of in…
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrested a second suspect in the death of Belle Glade grocery store owner Jimmy McMillan, after he was identified by the mother of the alleged shooter.Jonathan Jones now joins Corey Graham Jr. in the Palm Beach County Jail on charges related to McMillan’s death…
A day after Johnny Wright was shot and killed by cops during an undercover gun buy, his two alleged accomplices are now in jail on murder charges.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Wright, 23, was shot yesterday afternoon after allegedly pointing a gun at the cops during an “illegal gun…
A 23-year-old man was shot and killed by cops yesterday after allegedly pointing a gun at an undercover deputy from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, according to the sheriff’s office.The BSO says a task force consisting of sheriff’s deputies, municipal cops, and federal agents had set up a deal to buy…
As part of a plea deal, former Lantana cop Mark Ott was sentenced to just three years in prison (out of a possible 45) for robbing three men, specifically, Hispanic men.According to his arrest report, Ott was targeting Hispanic men that “he thought were illegal immigrants,” and would steal money…
Here’s one way of ending an armed robbery when the guy with the gun is 5-foot-5, 128 pounds — sit on him.That’s what happened with 18-year-old Brandon Hollis’ armed robbery attempt yesterday, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.According to the BSO, Hollis set up a transaction with a man on…
Talk about an untimely occasion to steal cash from a family — while you’re loading their dead family member into a van to take him to the funeral home.That’s what the Broward Sheriff’s Office says 56-year-old Armando Sardina did on Thursday afternoon, while he was supposed to be picking up…
For the national media, Dalia Dippolito’s murder-for-hire saga is the gift that keeps on giving. Boynton Beach’s most infamous newlywed has been convicted of plotting to have her husband whacked, and is now on house arrest while appealing that conviction. Yet national TV crime shows are still getting plenty of mileage…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office says it believes it knows who killed a 34-year-old man at a West Park warehouse last month, but investigators don’t know where he is.The sheriff’s office says 35-year-old Nalio Williams is the suspect in the shooting death of Raimundo Modia, who showed up to the warehouse…
It’s been nearly four years since Melissa Britt Lewis, a 39-year-old Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler attorney, was found murdered, her body dumped in a Plantation canal. The man charged with killing her avoided trial for years because he was initially deemed mentally incompetent. Tony Villegas, 48, was finally supposed to face…
