Police Union Says Lauderdale Cop’s Firing Was Unjust

The Fraternal Order of Police have asked the Fort Lauderdale Police Department to reconsider its decision in May to fire reserve officer John Wezkiewicz following an internal affairs investigation into his treatment of a suspect being booked at police headquarters.”We certainly think he should be reinstated,” says FOP President Jack…

Florida’s Eight Most Wanted Sexual Predators

It takes an especially brutal sex crime to qualify a sex offender as a “predator.” The Florida Department of Law Enforcement currently lists eight sexual predators who have absconded — meaning they’re not living at the address in the sex offender registry. Based on the FDLE website, the predator who’s been…

Suspect in Teacher’s Murder Was Also Accused of Robbery

The man accused of fatally shooting his alleged lover, L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams, is no hardened criminal, but he has been accused of violence before.Three years ago, when he was in 11th grade at Palm Beach Gardens High School, Lawrence Hunt was arrested for strong-arm robbery.On February…

90-Year-Old Poet in California Makes a Plea to Charlie Crist

For the past two years, Doris Sutton, a 90-year-old poet living in California, has dedicated herself to getting a father out of a Florida prison. In 2004, Antonio Balta, then 27, left his 9-month-old daughter alone in the car outside the Gulfstream racetrack in Hallandale Beach. The baby died, and…

Website Designer Accuses Judge Skolnik Campaign of Being Cheap, Nasty

Broward Judge Peter B. Skolnik has had his campaign website taken down based on allegations by the web designer that Skolnik’s people have refused to pay for their bills and made threats against the design firm.On the right, that’s the image that’s currently dominating the front page of JudgeSkolnik2010.com. And…

Ten Things Clients Hate About Escorts

Calling up an escort is supposed to usher in an hour or two (or, hell, 20 minutes) of pleasure and release. It’s not supposed to cause headaches. Sometimes instead of getting a happy ending, you feel chafed — and not in a good way. Or at least those are some…

The Blimps Come Home to Roost for GlobeTel

​Three years ago, this paper presented a story about a Pembroke Pines company with a pie-in-the-sky plan.GlobeTel wanted to construct a bunch of blimps (pictured, left) that would float around and beam down a torrent of HiDef, five-bars, wham-bam-speedy phone and internet no matter how far you’d roamed outside your…

Barefoot Bandit’s Boat Back From the Bahamas

[jump] The captain of the Becker, Tom Guarino, sounded excited to get close to the Barefoot Bandit’s nefarious exploits.”The crew and I have been very intrigued by the Barefoot Bandit; to have the opporunity to have a small part in his high-profile case is awesome! We were just finishing up…

Interpol — in Fort Lauderdale?

[jump] Nah — the Florida Sheriff’s Association is holding a big convention down at the Marriot Harbor Beach today.Guests include Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp, Attorney General Bill McCollum, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson, and Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of Interpol. Not the band, the…

Weed Seekers Need Online Update — Stat!

​Wanted — a few potheads who can get some research done and can form a few articulate sentences about their experiences. Webehigh.com, an international website that directs would-be stoners to the nearest dealer, whether that be in Bangladesh, Lithuania, or Papua New Guinea, is seriously bereft of South Florida locations where…