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Woman in Viral Anti-Semitic Rant Killed Homeless Veteran in 2015 Hit-and-Run

By Jessica Lipscomb
Feb 3, 2021

While footage of the incident is now going viral, this isn't the first time police have investigated a car crash caused by Socolov.
Everything We Know About the Sunrise FBI Shooting So Far UPDATED

By Alexi C. Cardona
Feb 3, 2021

The gunman has not been identified.
Broward Prosecutors Help Cut Prison Time for 23 People Serving Long Drug Sentences

By Naomi Feinstein
Aug 17, 2020

The Innocence Project and the Broward State Attorney's Office helped recommend reduced prison sentences for 23 Broward defendants.
Cop Arrested for Overtime Fraud Openly Tweeted About "Terrorizing Broward County"

By Alex DeLuca
Jul 13, 2020

One tweet shows Silberberg boast about "Terrorizing broward county" while enjoying some doughnut-related job perks.
Instagrammer Who Harassed Parkland Families Going to Federal Prison

By Jessica Lipscomb
Mar 3, 2020

Before trial, Fleury's federal public defenders attempted to classify his comments as free speech.
Jury Acquits Man Accused of Trafficking Cocaine Via Fort Lauderdale Airbnb

By Dave Tellez
Feb 18, 2020

After he was arrested in Fort Lauderdale at a $4,000-a-night Airbnb rental housing 900 pounds of cocaine, Gregorio Martinez is a free man.
Florida Fraudsters Take Out Plastic Surgery Loans in the Names of the Dead

By Izzy Kapnick
Feb 13, 2020

The total amount in plastic surgery loans confirmed or suspected as fraudulent exceeded a half-million dollars.
Bill Pushing Crackdown on Public Nudity Likely to Hit Homeless and Mentally Ill

By Manuel Madrid
Feb 10, 2020

Supporters of the legislation say police need the power to stop repeat offenders, while critics warn it could lead to the unnecessary criminalization of homeless people.
Cops Are Once Again Outside Antonio Brown's South Florida Home

By Jerry Iannelli
Jan 21, 2020

News cameras are circling above his home in Hollywood Oaks after he allegedly assaulted someone.
Trayvon Martin Attorney Demands Justice for Black Teen Who Died in Broward Police Chase

By Manuel Madrid
Jan 2, 2020

Crump, who represented Trayvon Martin's family, will take on Martin's case.
New Documentary Suggests Sunrise Police Taser Shock Led to Black Teen's Drowning

By Manuel Madrid
Dec 4, 2019

Whether Martin's drowning was accidental is the defining question.
Convicted West Palm Beach Killer Still Says He Was Sleepwalking

By Michael Majchrowicz
Nov 26, 2019

After his arrest in the stabbing death of his roommate Brooke Preston, Randy Herman Jr. had a bizarre defense.
FBI Says Former Student Plotted ISIS Attack to Kill Broward College Dean

By Jerry Iannelli
Nov 25, 2019

According to the FBI, Salman Rashid tried to contact ISIS to recruit someone to use explosives to kill deans at Broward College and Miami Dade College.
Miami-Dade Prosecutors Hit Kodak Black With Two New Gun Charges

By Jerry Iannelli
Nov 15, 2019

Mere days after receiving more than three years in prison after lying on a gun background-check form, South Florida rapper (and accused rapist) Kodak Black is facing two additional felony gun charges after Miami-Dade prosecutors unsealed a new case against him. The Miami Herald first reported this afternoon that Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has hit Black with two felony counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.
True to His Nixon Tattoo, Roger Stone Is Officially a Crook

By Jess Nelson
Nov 15, 2019

Stone was found guilty on seven counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing the investigation into Russian interference of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Feds Say Delray Man Targeted Foster Children as Recruits in Sex-Trafficking Scheme

By Manuel Madrid
Nov 15, 2019

Offering fancy clothes and luxury cars as bait to recruit vulnerable girls into years of prostitution, William Foster used South Florida as a home base for an expansive sex trafficking operation for at least 15 years, federal agents alleged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in the Southern District of Florida.
Deputy Jailed as Broward Sheriff Vows to "Fix" Embattled Department

By Saraana Jamraj
Nov 6, 2019

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

By Jerry Iannelli
Oct 29, 2019

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

By Jess Nelson
Oct 15, 2019

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.
Broward Man Pleads Guilty After Kidnapping, Torturing Plastic Surgeon

By Alexi C. Cardona
Sep 27, 2019

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.