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  Deputy Jailed as Broward Sheriff Vows to "Fix" Embattled Department

  November 6 at 1:32 p.m.

  BSO is in the spotlight again, as Sheriff Gregory Tony this past Tuesday announced the arrest of Dep. Willard Miller after a school surveillance video showed him assaulting a teen girl at a special-needs school in Pompano Beach.

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  Despite Common Belief, Floridians Can't Always Get a Free Public Defender

  October 29 at 10:40 a.m.

  With no remaining options, Lazaro Rodriguez could only beg Miami-Dade County Judge Andrew Hague for mercy. But his pleas were in vain. Hague was yelling at him now — in English, a language Rodriguez barely understood.

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  Retroactive Gain-Time Bill Would Reform Florida's Harsh Prison Sentencing Laws

  October 15 at 11:10 a.m.

  Two "gain-time" bills making their way through the Florida Legislature would reform the state's harsh minimum sentencing laws — a move experts say would promote good behavior and public safety while saving the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

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  Broward Man Pleads Guilty After Kidnapping, Torturing Plastic Surgeon

  September 27 at 8:29 a.m.

  Just before 4 a.m. January 15, a Miami-Dade man woke up in his car outside a strip club with bruises on his face, his extremities bound, and his hands gruesomely burned.

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  Here's What to Expect From the Dan Markel Murder Trial

  September 23 at 9:33 a.m.

  Several days after his May 2016 arrest for the murder of Dan Markel, Sigfredo Garcia made a jailhouse phone call to Kathy Magbanua, his former girlfriend and the mother of two of his children. He told her he would "be out soon and [would] either file a lawsuit or 'get the hell out of dodge' and leave everything behind them," according to an FBI transcript of the call.

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  Miramar Drug Dealer Charged with Murder in Fentanyl Overdose Case

  September 20 at 9:47 a.m.

  Today 58-year-old Bernard Gonzalez became the first person in Broward County to be charged with murder for selling fentanyl to a person who later overdosed.