Gregory Brummitt and Sandy Bulla, both from Johnson City, Tennessee, have been arrested by Broward Sheriff’s Office for allegedly robbing and killing Bulla’s ex-husband at a Red Roof Inn on April 29.Brummitt, 20, and Bulla, 35, made the trip to South Florida for the usual reason that draws folks from…
Two years after he was arrested for allegedly strangling attorney Melissa Britt Lewis and dumping her body in a canal, Tony Villegas has been deemed incompetent to stand trial.Al Milian, one of two attorneys representing Tony, declined to explain why Tony’s mental health has suddenly become an issue or when…
Now that Debra Villegas has been charged with money laundering in connection with Scott Rothstein’s massive Ponzi scheme, her finances are getting a closer look. One venture that has raised some eyebrows is the corporation she formed with her best friend, Melissa Britt Lewis. In March 2008, right after Melissa…
Marta Giraldo says the sound of heavy pounding on her front door woke her up Thursday morning at 6:19. Giraldo stumbled from bed in her pajamas and ran to the door. “Where are you going, mi amor?” her husband, Clovis DaSilva, mumbled sleepily. “Open the door! Police!” Giraldo heard. But…
It hasn’t been a great week for Fort Lauderdale police. First the Pulp picked up a video of a dude getting arrested for the hideous crime of requesting a cop’s badge number. The guy’s girlfriend caught the whole unnecessary fiasco on her cel phone. And this week the Juice talked…
Florida’s legislators, in their great wisdom, today passed a bill requiring women to get an ultrasound exam before exercising their constitutional right to have an abortion.In addition to paying for the exam, most women will have to listen to a doctor’s description of the fetus.Clearly, our elected leaders don’t think…
A Lake Worth resident named Iver Siu has been named as the suspected driver in last week’s hit-and-run on State Road 84 that left a 13-year-old boy in critical condition.That boy, who has not been named, was crossing the westbound lanes of State Road 84 just before 4 p.m. on…
John Goodman, the multimillionaire owner of the International Polo Club Palm Beach, was so drunk the night of a fatal car crash this February that he “fell down for no apparent reason,” according to a lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court today.Goodman also fled the scene and made…
Truth is stranger than fiction and reality shows are always more interesting when the cameras go dark. That’s definitely the case with Big Brother, the execrable CBS show that forces an obnoxious group of people to be imprisoned within a camera-filled home. The winner of Big Brother 9 was Adam…
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives believe they’ve solved Yalitza Garcia’s murder. The 24-year-old Deerfield Beach woman disappeared July 2, 2009, from an apartment she used to share with her boyfriend, Jason Allen, 32, who now lives Plant City.According to friends and neighbors interviewed by detectives, Allen and Garcia had a “turbulent”…
State Rep. Darryl Rouson, a Democrat from St. Petersburg, wants to ban glass water pipes (bongs) in Florida. He has proposed and backed several bills that would effectively shut down stores that sell these products. His first bill, which never made it to a vote, would have put a 25…
Note to Fort Lauderdale native Samuel Collins: When trying to destroy the evidence of your marijuana habit, best to take the pot out of the baggie before devouring it with your double cheeseburger. From the St. Pete Times:When a Pasco sheriff’s deputy approached the window of Samuel Collins’ Honda Del…
The night attorney Melissa Britt Lewis was killed in March 2008, Debra Villegas was at the Round Up Country Western Club in Davie, she told the Plantation police in a sworn interview. She was hanging out with a group of friends that included the man who would become her new…
This morning, Debra Villegas, the law firm employee who allegedly helped disgraced lawyer Scott Rothstein run his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, pled not guilty to a charge of money laundering in federal court in Fort Lauderdale — a move that observers say was just a formality. Villegas’s next court appearance…
This week’s New Times feature story is an-depth look at the murder of Melissa Britt Lewis, a young attorney at the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Alder firm who was killed more than a year before Rothstein’s massive Ponzi scheme imploded. Melissa’s best friend, Debra Villegas, is in a federal courtroom today facing…
Earlier this week, we brought you the news of what appeared to be a string of violence in Belle Glade. In the span of ten days, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reported a dead body found in the street, a stabbing, and an alleged burglary/homicide at a convenience store.For…
Jessica Lobig tried to juggle parenting with a prescription drug habit, and that combination has landed her in jail. The probable-cause affidavit says that just before midnight Thursday, Boynton Beach Police found the 24-year-old mother passed out in her 2007 Honda pickup truck, sweating profusely, with tin foil on her…
Around 3:55 this afternoon, we got another hit-and-run case in Fort Lauderdale. Sounds like this case will be easier to break than the others, thanks to a motorist who chased down the suspect. From the Fort Lauderdale police news release:Investigators have learned that a 2001 Dodge van was traveling westbound…
Marc Williams has a tragic habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. On April 26, 1992, a 17-year-old Williams joined a couple of teenaged friends in a very sloppy criminal plot to rob a taxi driver. (They claimed a television news segment was their inspiration.) But…
A forensic auditor told the Deerfield Beach Commission last night that he found fault with nearly every transaction he analyzed between the city and the recipients of public housing dollars. But for the purposes of this post, I’ll highlight the one case that has a little bit of everything: the…
An alleged burglary and homicide in Belle Glade yesterday afternoon was the third in a string of violent crimes in the impoverished city in the past ten days.According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, a man in a black hoodie and a ski mask shot and killed an employee…
In honor of 4/20, now “universally known as the annual date of celebration for those with pot smoking countercultural pride,” the Daily Beast has ranked the top 40 most toked-up cities across America. And it comes as only a mild surprise that our state capital, Tallahassee, scored second, bested only…
