An argument at a Lauderdale Lakes bar early this morning led to 12 people being shot, two of whom died, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.The BSO’s Dani Moschella tells New Times they got a call at 3:19 a.m. about a shooting at the South Rock Lounge Bar & Grill,…
Richard Rubin — husband of former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who still faces seven felony charges of her own — was sentenced this morning to ten months in federal prison.Rubin, 66, pleaded guilty in April to federal tax evasion after failing to report $100,000 in fees he received from…
Harry Sargeant III — the energy mogul, Delray Beach billionaire, and former Florida Republican Party finance chairman — is under investigation by the Department of Justice to determine whether his oil company bribed the country of Jordan for an exclusive shipping line through the country.In case you’re unaware, this is…
Now for some bad news. A popular antidepressant and antinausea med for cancer patients, as well as other vital drugs, might have been “adulterated” in the factory, according to a recent Broward County Civil Court filing. …
Bestiality is still legal in Florida for now, but everyone can agree that underage sex trafficking is not. Ashton Kutcher has been spouting off numbers in his latest media campaign, claiming there are 100,000 to 300,000 children in America forced into prostitution each year. He’s wrong.We know because we spent…
Are you aware of a “game” that involves splitting a bottle of vodka and pushing a drunken person who can’t swim into a river?Neither was the jury that convicted Billy Tyner of a manslaughter charge yesterday.Defense attorneys for Tyner, 48, contended that their defendant had pushed 28-year-old Robert Lee Merritt…
The day a trial ends and jury deliberations are set to begin isn’t a good time to let the judge know that almost the entire jury has been sleeping throughout the trial.That’s what the Palm Beach Post reports happened today, as jurors were about to receive deliberating instructions in the…
If you know anybody who drives a 2000 to 2002 maroon Jaguar S-Type and the car is missing a few front-end parts — as if the car had recently killed a bicyclist by launching him over some train tracks — the Broward Sheriff’s Office would like to know about it.The…
A few minutes before I met Pembroke Pines Detective Donna Velazquez for the first time, she sent me a text message: “I have asked the victim’s mother, Judy Carlson, to join us.” We were meeting to discuss the murder of David Jackson, which eventually became the center of a feature…
There are a few ways 58-year-old convicted child rapist Jonathan Steinberg could’ve gotten his overdue rent check, but allegedly lighting his tenant on fire apparently wasn’t such a good idea.Boynton Beach cops say Steinberg was in an argument with 52-year-old Ronald Rohde over rent money yesterday evening on the 1600…
Hollywood cops spent much of Sunday trying to find the parents of a 3-year-old boy whom a man found wandering around on the street.At least 4.5 hours later, the boy’s aunt called the cops to report him missing, and child welfare investigators decided it was safe for the boy to…
Ivo Diaz, a former ultrasound technician at Fort Lauderdale’s Holy Cross Hospital, pleaded guilty late last week to sexually assaulting a woman while she was undergoing an ultrasound in 2009.Diaz, now 43, will serve five years in prison and 12 years of sex-offender probation as part of a plea agreement.He…
Many observers have wondered why Dalia Dippolito chose a reality television defense to explain why she plotted to have her husband killed. Her attorney argued that Dalia’s attempt to hire a hit man was part of an elaborate ruse designed to make her husband, Michael, a TV star (like the…
Ronald Falzini III, the 19-year-old man the cops say ran over a 73-year-old woman in her west Boca Raton neighborhood — which left her body parts strewn across the front yards of several houses in May — has been charged in the woman’s death, according to the Palm Beach County…
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw clearly did not get the memo about local cops hating Gov. Rick Scott. While the Broward County Police Benevolent Association is organizing a massive party for its members to protest Scott and ditch the Florida Republican Party, Bradshaw is singing Scott’s praises.Bradshaw, a registered…
A sixth employee of the Broward County’s jailing system was arrested, this time for allegedly showing up to work with a care package including Newport cigarettes and some blow for an inmate.Tavares Damian West, 34, allegedly brought in a bag with headphones and batteries as well as the aforementioned smokes…
This week’s feature story tells the staggering, sprawling tale of a young father who was allegedly lured to a hotel and murdered in 1988 before his body was dumped in a shallow grave at the edge of Pembroke Pines. We’d recommend you give it a read before continuing here if…
Kenneth Andrew Craig — who cops say skipped court 12 years ago after being caught allegedly doing perverted things with young boys in a Deerfield Beach motel room — was arrested in Rio de Janeiro.The U.S. Marshals Service says Craig, now 42, was arrested earlier in the week by Brazilian…
A Hollywood man with dementia wandered away from his Wilton Manors nursing home never to return. Richard Morlock was killed by an oncoming locomotive when he sat down on a train track in September, and now his son is suing that nursing home. Keith Morlock claims that Greystone Healthcare Management…
A 13-year-old girl who sounded like a total badass last week because she kicked off an attempted rapist now tells the cops she made it up, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.The cops say investigators had no reason to doubt her story after she told them, but investigators eventually found…
Keep drinking, kids. Mommy needs to pass her drug test.That’s the essence of what the cops say 35-year-old Angela D. Henderson was arrested on child abuse and drug charges for.Jupiter cops say Henderson’s kids were texting their father, informing them that their mother shut the water off to her house’s…
A former madam to the stars who supplied porn actresses and Playboy models to Tiger Woods for threesomes was arrested in South Florida this week. Michelle Braun, 33, is suspected of running a Fort Lauderdale-based boiler-room operation that sold a total $402,000 in phony stock to 39 small, unsuspecting investors.Braun…
