For former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Shawn Barber’s 41st birthday, his wife bought him tickets to see Def Leppard at the Hard Rock Casino for $626.04.The day of the concert — March 29, 2008 — the babysitter canceled.Apparently, the best option Barber could come up with was to fill out a…
In September, Joshua Kusnick — the son of convicted Scott Rothstein associate Howard Kusnick — sued local attorney and sports agency owner Darren Heitner, claiming he made libelous comments on his blog about Joshua Kusnick’s sports agency and the elder Kusnick’s role in the company.Now, Heitner says that lawsuit has…
A Boynton Beach woman allowed the father of her 3-year-old girl to take the child for a weekend visit, but seeing as it’s now Tuesday, the cops are thinking the father is headed for Mexico.According to Stephanie Slater of the Boynton Beach Police Department, 26-year-old Feliz de la Cruz Lopez…
It’s official. Frank Biden, brother of the man second in line for the White House, is listed on state documents as president of the for-profit Mavericks in Education Florida charter school chain based in Fort Lauderdale.Last month, when New Times broke the story about Biden’s involvement with Mavericks, he was…
It’s not every day that an 82-year-old man (now 83) calls the cops to tell them he just chugged some ammonia and beat his 77-year-old girlfriend to death with a battery, but according to a jury, October 7, 2010, was one of those days.The jury found Alfred Infosino guilty of…
After allegedly tossing rocks at cops sitting inside their patrol cars, 18-year-old Sean Quinlan was hit with the most poorly named law in the Florida Statutes — “throwing a deadly missile.”Quinlan isn’t even the first alleged rock-tosser this month to be hit with the charge — a felony that could…
Say you’re a defense lawyer. How do you prepare to try a case in which your client signed away his Miranda rights and confessed to a crime?In the case of Toussain Puddie, the TSA screener who took home Rick Case’s pen (detailed in our most recent cover story), denying guilt…
A 20-year-old man was shot and killed at a Dania Beach street party early Saturday morning, and the Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking for both the alleged shooter and a “person of interest” wanted for questioning.Dijon Brown, a Hollywood resident, was shot multiple times and died at the scene around 1:30…
Expecting that some sort of confrontation might take place when he picked up his son from his estranged mother-in-law’s house, 39-year-old Salvatore Miglino started the video recorder on his iPhone.Sure enough, the cops say she shot him.Cheryl Hepner, 66, is now in jail on an attempted first-degree murder charge, and…
The Florida Bar has filed a complaint against former Broward Judge Ana Gardiner over what the bar calls a “significant personal relationship” between her and a prosecutor who was trying a capital murder case she was presiding over in 2007.A jury recommended a death sentence for Omar Loureiro on May…
Mavericks in Education Florida, the Fort Lauderdale-based charter school chain promoted by Frank Biden, has ties to another for-profit charter school company that has been highly controversial in Ohio.Mark Thimmig, the founding CEO of Mavericks, is the former CEO of Akron, Ohio-based White Hat Management. Founded in 1998, White Hat…
Lamont Mayweather has been identified by the Broward Sheriff’s Office as one of two men involved in a January murder on a Deerfield Beach golf course.Lataurus Randall, 35, was golfing with his cousin in Deerfield Beach on January 13 when two armed men wearing masks popped out of some bushes…
If you fancy a little ’90s nostalgia with your lap dance, be sure to stop by T’s Lounge in West Palm Beach this week to catch the featured dancer. Amy Fisher, who was Jersey Shore trashy before it was cool, is bringing her stripping talents to South Florida. For those too…
When you hit a certain age — let’s call it 18 — it’s illegal to chase 15-year-old girls. Stalking is pretty much always illegal.Aysar Aktimur, 49, apparently missed those memos, according to what the Boca Raton Police Department has to say.The cops say Aktimur would follow the teenaged girl around…
Clinton Travis Drake, 19, was arrested yesterday by the Cape Coral Police Department on Monday, accused of bludgeoning his 84-year-old grandfather to death with a hammer. This is now the second hammer-murder of a relative allegedly carried out by a teenaged family member, after 17-year-old Port St. Lucie resident Tyler…
It’s been more than four years since Andrew Meyer’s famous “Don’t tase me, bro” moment at the University of Florida, but on Friday, bro, Darrel Horne wanted the Taser.According to Brandon Haught of the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, Horne’s moment came after diving naked into a lake in an attempt…
State records show that teachers at two Mavericks High public charter schools in Miami-Dade County earned less than $5,000 a year in 2010 and that many did not receive benefits.According to records submitted to the Florida Department of Education, 14 teachers at the Homestead campus of Mavericks earned $3,350 to…
Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Kevin Pisano was arrested at 11:20 p.m. yesterday after allegedly delivering prescription pills — while in his police uniform, sitting in his marked police car — to a confidential informant across the street from the New Times office.Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Travis Mandell says the department’s…
Former Miami Dolphins defensive lineman Igor Olshansky was arrested yesterday afternoon — the day after he was waived by the team — becoming the second former Fin to be arrested this week, after ex-wide receiver David Boston was popped for allegedly punching a woman.Olshansky, 29, was one of 280 people…
Gee, what could go wrong when you and your buddy just smoked some weed in your car, and with the remaining ounce still in the car, you order a “blunt and some herbs” at the Burger King drive-through?Apparently it’s enough for the cops to get involved.According to the Volusia County…
After getting kicked off a county bus for rapping/yelling with a healthy dose of profanity on November 18, the cops say 19-year-old Demetrius Vidale threw a rock at the windshield of the bus, shattering it.Vidale’s mother turned him in to the Broward Sheriff’s Office last night after seeing the video…
We’re not sure what the worst part of Amado Cardenas’ alleged burglary attempt is — the fact that he broke into the wrong apartment or the fact that the woman who lived there tried to wake him up the next morning because he’d passed out on the floor.According to the…
