File this one under “Parent’s Worst Nightmare.” Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of a registered sex offender from Plantation who was working at a water park in Deerfield Beach. Corey Hipscher allegedly told the parents that, due to a boat’s “weight limit,” he couldn’t bring any other adults…
Marty Popelsky is the latest Deerfield Beach commissioner to wander into the crosshairs of the city’s ethics-obsessed blogger, Chaz Stevens. The man behind Acts of Sedition tells Juice that later today, he’ll publish a post that details a flagrant abuse of power by Popelsky. He’ll then blast that post across…
flickr.com Johnny Cash: Dressed in Black We’ve written about the local media’s awkward refusal to mention the race of violent, uncaptured suspects in police stories a few times. (Here and here.) It’s odd that a newspaper would inform its readers how violent an individual might be and mention what that…
With the news full of moon landings, former Florida Gov. Bob Martinez recalls a far-less-triumphant moment in the American space program. In this month’s Florida Trend, Martinez describes how he was on the campaign trail, hustling for votes in South Florida on the day in 1986 when the Space Shuttle…
Schadenfreude-starved followers of the Palm Beach pirate may be delighted to hear this, from an inmate at Madoff’s prison in Butner, North Carolina, courtesy the New York Post:”Some of the guys were talking about smacking him around a little, just to get the notoriety of it.”But don’t get your hopes…
At today’s Broward County School Board meeting, Board Member Phyllis Hope proposed an odd resolution. Let Hope tell you about it: Really quick, really quick, I am putting a resolution in recognition of Michael Jackson, who we know passed away recently. Hopefully that resolution will reflect Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s [resolution], which recognizes…
One can imagine how a financial crook can form a sentimental attachment to his most extravagant purchase: an item that managed to be both outrageously expensive and hopelessly impractical, which for those reasons became a metaphor for his self-destructive excess: the yacht.Mark Pomerantz is the attorney who — with the…
How many illegally overloaded jets does a company have to crash to get credit for slowing business among Manhattan jet-setters? Seriously. Two weeks after the second executive from Fort Lauderdale’s Platinum Jet Management entered a guilty plea to charges that the company allowed unqualified pilots and unsafe jets to fly…
Those of us who grew up with online banking and debit cards have been more than a little unsettled by the bank failures of the past several months. We’re accustomed to dealing with faceless, computerized corporate giants that text us with account updates and give us free airline miles for…
With the Broward Sheriff’s Office in the process of being cut, sheriff’s detention deputies are complaining about low staffing levels in the county’s jail facilities. In a May 20 letter to Sheriff Al Lamberti, deputies representing the Federation of Public Employees (FOPE) wrote that staffing levels are falling in the…
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are searching South Florida for the human being who belongs to the finger who robbed a 7-Eleven in Pompano Beach. The BSO release does not say exactly what, if anything, was on the tip of that finger that made it so menacing as to cause cashiers…
We reported a few weeks ago that Deon Thomas, the University of Illinois basketball program’s all-time leading scorer who settled briefly in Pembroke Pines, was taking a job as the coach of a community college near St. Louis. And now Thomas tells Juice that he’s taking some of the region’s…
I never thought I would say this, but I actually feel sorry for Wayne Huizenga. Don’t get me wrong: A decent amount of what’s wrong with this county falls at Wayne’s feet. But this latest arrest of his son, Robert Ray, is just sad. It’s become clear that Robert Ray Huizenga has…
Oh, but the sun is no match for this Prince of Darkness. Jeffrey Epstein, the world’s wealthiest registered sex offender, no longer has to spend nights in a stockade, where since October he’s been in a work release program, reports Jose Lambiet at Page 2 Live.Rather, he returns to his…
It’s adorable how our Canadian visitors are always gobsmacked by what they find in South Florida. This columnist found an astronaut. Or, to adopt his reverent tone: He found a human who has traversed an un-earthly celestial body but whose feet now obey the terrestrial pull of this planet. The…
As the bearer of so much bad news for the North Broward Hospital District, we should acknowledge its recent note of favorable publicity. Despite recent scandals about the commissioners’ ethics, their district is in far better financial shape than the public health care district in Miami-Dade, Jackson Health System, the…
It’s one of those obvious but still necessary tasks: Now that the Florida housing market has been revealed as one giant scam, someone had to document exactly how it happened. So that after we all get buried by debt, Pompeii-style, some future archeologists can piece together our culture, then display…
The lead story on this morning’s Sun-Sentinel front page, “Crowded Schools and Empty Seats,” was little more than a board response to my Friday post that exposed the bogus and potentially fraudulent building boom at the School Board that has left the district essentially broke and with 35,000 empty seats to boot. You can always tell by the response…
Nobody wants to admit it, but if the federal government is going to make fraud-busting its new “War on [hot topic],” then it’s going to deal another blow to the South Florida economy.It’s just that fraud’s what we’re good at! Take the case of Christopher Maury. The West Palm man…
When Home and Garden TV goes looking for its next Design Star, it tends to find one in South Florida. The same program that made Hollywood cop Mike Verdugo a reality star has selected Nathan Galui of Palm Beach Gardens as a contestant for the show’s fourth season.You can see…
The headline for the most popular story on the Sun-Sentinel site reads “Some sicko actually videotaped a naked Erin Andrews through a peephole.” It’s about a viral (apparently literally in some cases) of the ESPN sideline commentator and world-class hottie naked in her hotel room. Shot through a keyhole. That’s sounds like some…
Here at Juice, we decided to make the talents of television personality Mike “Bogey” Boguslawski the worst-kept secret in the South Florida media world. And it worked. Since that post, the righteously apoplectic consumer advocate says he’s been fielding inquiries. His first local foray will be a radio show, Bogey’s…
