Two months ago, teenager Charles Gay managed to cut off his ankle bracelet and leave Broward County in hopes of never facing charges of violating probation in connection with a 2007 manslaughter conviction.On Thursday, the 19-year-old Gay was arrested by federal marshals who had tracked him to New Jersey, according…
A man who lives at 701 SW 18th Court in Fort Lauderdale has been charged with possession of child pornography after investigators found more than 100 videos and images on his computer that showed children being sexually abused.According to the release by Fort Lauderdale police, Frank Richardson has lived in…
A 21-year-old man beat an elderly man to death Friday after a dispute over who was entitled to use a fuel pump at a BP station in Lauderdale Lakes. According to the news release by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the younger man, Ryan Wilson of Lauderhill, was trying to back into…
Way back in October, this blog used the Tom Ridge terrorist threat chart to rank Broward County’s power couples according to the threat they posed to the integrity of local government. The duo of Richard Rubin and Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin posed an “elevated” risk of committing corruption; and indeed Wasserman-Rubin…
Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin appears to be the latest elected county official to face corruption charges. As usual, Bob Norman has the scoop. Check out his post on Pulp…
South Florida is arguably the health-care fraud capital of the U.S. There’s so much fraud, it’s hard to blame the crook who reasons that stealing merely a million dollars won’t put him on the radar of federal law enforcement. Health-care fraud is the fastest way to Easy Street. Just ask…
With a nickname like Buxom Bandit, it’s hard to stay out of sight. So it goes for Samara Seward, accused of stealing the identity of a couple of Broward teachers, a crime for which she’s already been incarcerated. From the BSO release:Following a tip, Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives searched for…
Correction: A previous version of this article suggested that Jeff Overcash may have resigned because of an Internal Affairs investigation. Overcash had announced his intention to resign prior to the video tape incident.Jeff Overcash, the Fort Lauderdale police officer who arrested Brennan Hamilton, resigned Tuesday, one day after giving a…
It’s one thing to break one of the Ten Commandments — in this case, Thou Shalt Not Steal. It’s another thing to break that commandment by stealing from a church — in this case, the St. John the Baptist Church on Bayview Drive in Fort Lauderdale.But this burglar turned a…
After months of public debate, legislation, a lawsuit, and the outgoing governor’s stamp of approval, the Florida ban on bong sales takes effect tomorrow. So you’d guess every head shop in the state would be having huge blowout sales today, right?Not so much. It seems the smoke hasn’t completely cleared…
Six years ago, if you wanted to play poker in a casino in Florida, you were playing small-stakes limit poker. Each bet was $2 to $4, and unless you only had a few bucks left, you never said the words “all in.” Then the state adopted no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em,…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is getting mighty ambitious with its corruption investigation. The Sun-Sentinel is reporting that County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger is a target of agency investigators who are looking at deals that her husband’s company made with Broward ten years ago. That husband, Gerry Gunzburger, has been dead for…
Multimillionaire polo mogul John Goodman has taken a lot of heat for leaving the scene of the Wellington car crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson this February. But interview records from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office investigation show that the founder of the International Polo Club Palm Beach wasn’t…
No, that’s not the Buxom Bandit in question. But it is a buxom woman running, which might help you all to recognize the Buxom Bandit, who is officially “on the run” according to Broward Sheriff’s Office. She even has a name — Samara Leneece Seward. The news release says that…
A Pompano Beach man has been arrested in connection with the shooting and killing of a tree-trimmer in 2004. The suspect, Michael Ange-Silien, is 22 years old, meaning that he had only recently turned 17 when, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Ange-Silien murdered his neighbor, 44-year-old Dennis Bolender.The news…
Fort Lauderdale police have named Michael Nunn, 44, as the man who was the basis for a SWAT team standoff that began late last night and ended early this morning. According to a department news release, Nunn had been in his room all day while his roommates were preparing to…
On the cold February morning when horse trainer Lisa Pembleton woke to find a tequila-breathed, disheveled man in her camper asking for help, she was in for plenty of surprises.Pembleton, 26, soon learned that the man, multimillionaire polo mogul John Goodman, had been in a serious car crash near the…
The Sean Healy ponzi scheme crossed so many state lines that postal inspectors had to get involved in the prosecution. He started out in New York, lived and spent in Weston, and funneled money from Pennsylvania. But Healy has finally been sent to a federal prison to serve his 188…
After allegedly causing a fatal, drunken car crash in February that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson, polo mogul John Goodman disappeared from Wellington for awhile.For three months, the multimillionaire founder of the International Polo Club Palm Beach was staying in posh Miami hotels, free to enjoy the finer comforts of life…
Scene: Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Monday, something like way-too-early o’clock in the American Airlines terminal. I had just plotted out the finer details of the nap I was going to take on my flight back to Palm Beach when I decided to go to Starbucks. Hot apple cider puts me…
Kennith Kellum is the name of the 21-year-old Broward Jail inmate who was found dead from hanging Monday afternoon.The Broward Sheriff’s Office reports that Kellum committed suicide by fashioning a noose from his bed sheets.Maybe its my imagination, but in Kellum’s photo, he has what looks like a neck wound,…
Any seasoned drunkard knows the drill: If you’re in a car accident and you’ve been partying, go have another beer. By the time the cops test your breath, they won’t be able to prove when you had the offending drink.John Goodman, 46, the multimillionaire trust fund heir and Wellington polo…
