On March 5, 2008, the day Melissa Britt Lewis was killed, her best friend, Debra Villegas, had scheduled a deposition in her divorce from her allegedly abusive husband, Tony Villegas.Debra had kicked Tony out of the house more than a year earlier, but their divorce proceedings had been progressing slowly…
Make room in Broward for one more bowtie-wearing senior. Justice John Paul Stevens announced this morning his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, just 11 days shy of his 90th birthday.As Juice reported in October, Stevens is a snowbird, migrating every November to his winter home on the Fort Lauderdale…
Even after weeks of media coverage and national attention, two graduate film students at the University of Florida might not be able to graduate in a few weeks because of a documentary they are making about Haiti. School officials have ruled that the film made by Roman Safiullin of Fort…
UPDATE: As if this case needed to give another reminder that nobody is really safe, murder victim Joseph Morrissey lived next door to a Plantation police officer in the Secluded Garden neighborhood, which is within four blocks of the Plantation Police Department. The officer was apparently off-duty at the time, and…
A glance at the headlines for this Friday morning:Randy Tunidor is the name of the 21-year-old man who is being held on a probation violation charge but is a “person of interest” in the Tuesday-morning murder of Nova Southeastern University Professor Joseph Morrissey. It appears the attack was not random;…
A few weeks ago, Puppy Palace in Hollywood was the site of a large animal rights demonstration and a simultaneous counterprotest. One side decried puppy mills and held signs that attempted to explain how many dogs go unadopted and die when people purchase expensive, commercially bred puppies. One man even…
Who played matchmaker between the City of Hallandale Beach and a businessman with a porn-filled portfolio? Whomever it was, he did a whale of a job. Back in March, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency gave a $125,000 loan to Digital Outernet Inc., a billboard company run by the same man…
On the night her best friend was murdered in March 2008, Debra Villegas was partying with friends at the Round Up Country Western Club in Davie.This wasn’t unusual for Debra, the former chief operating officer at the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm. The native Texan enjoyed line dancing, and told…
Imagine getting a text from your 9th grade algebra teacher: “Ur homework is due in 45 min!!” No, this is not a nightmare, and yes, you are wearing pants.As part of a revision of the district’s technology plan, school technology officials recommended to the Palm Beach County school board yesterday…
A Chicago-based Private Investigator who owns a vacation home in Broward, Chris Bauer says he spends his leisure time when he comes to Florida “people watching” on Las Olas or at downtown art shows. In other words, Bauer’s always at least halfway on the job. He has said he can…
Lake Worth blogger Lynn Anderson has reported that slain Nova cancer researcher Joseph Morrissey was a Lake Worth high alumnus who graduated in 1981. Anderson quotes from Morrissey’s yearbook profile that his ambition was to “get rich quick and spend a lot of money.” She also notes that the 46-year-old…
We showed you the offending video a few days ago, and it landed right in the wheelhouse of MSNBC’s fire-breathing liberal Keith Olbermann. This moment of infamy should help West burnish his right-wing ideologue credentials, but the former Army lieutenant colonel will need to move toward the center if he’s…
John DeGroot’s eponymous blog has been threatened with legal action over his use of the district’s corporate seal. In a letter emailed Wednesday, an attorney for the North Broward Hospital District ordered DeGroot to stop using the nonprofit corporation’s logo and remove the image from his blog.In the context of…
UPDATE VI: In the video above is the Tundidor residence in Plantation, which was owned by Morrissey and where the homicide victim lived until a year and a half ago. I spoke to some neighbors, and they said that they hadn’t seen the suspect, Randy Tundidor, there but that his father, mother, grandmother,…
Courtesy Chaz Stevens, that’s video from this week’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission in which Sylvia Poitier says that ethics oversight is “fluff.” Technically, it was fluff. It’s just not anymore, which is why Poitier may be in trouble over her ties to nonprofits that received tax dollars…
A look at what’s happening in local news this Thursday morning:Police believe they’ve solved the mystery of who killed Yvonne Oulton on Easter. Her husband, Robert Oulton, a prominent man in the local poker playing community, constructed an alibi that didn’t jibe with surveillance videos, and he has been arrested…
A whole lot of people in Broward County who have seen the damage done by Ponzi-scheming lawyer Scott Rothstein are now asking one question: When are we going to see more arrests? In perpetrating his $1.2 billion scam, Rothstein certainly had help. There is a slew of suspects, including bank…
A Fort Lauderdale 911 operator took the call. “They are beating my son!” a woman screamed. “They are going to kill my son!” “Ma’am, slow down. Who is beating your son?” the operator responded. “The poliiiice!” The words were an agonized wail. “I tried to talk to them, and the…
When the video was playing in the federal courtroom Monday showing Fitzroy Salesman taking $3,000 cash from an undercover FBI agent, I looked over at Salesman at the defense table and had one thought. Joe Eggelletion must be really pissed at this guy. It was Salesman, after all, who provided the gateway for the…
On the night that Yvonne Oulton was found dead in her minivan a few blocks from the Isle Casino in Pompano Beach, her husband, Robert, cooperated with investigators. But after reviewing video evidence, Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives learned that his story didn’t check out. And with that, Robert Oulton stopped…
