Last night just before midnight, Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT forces surrounded a house in Oakland Park. Initial reports had it that there was an armed individual bunkered down inside. The situation wound down without any dramatic raid or shots fired, but the big surprise was the ID of the guy:…
One of the crime news items of the day yesterday was the brazen break-in into a Pembroke Pines Jared jewelry store. And now there seems to be a bit of a twist in the case. Namely, that one of the officers who were called in after the break-in was reported…
Detectives are set to announce who they believe to be the suspect in the 1989 disappearance of Tiffany Sessions, a University of Florida student. The Sessions case has been one of Florida’s most notorious unsolved crimes, but now the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office is poised to announce that Paul Rowles,…
Over the weekend, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement made a troubling announcement that could throw thousands of criminal drug cases into question. According to the department, a rogue chemist working at a crime lab in the Panhandle stole pain pills in large quantities from the Pensacola Regional Crime Laboratory…
Nothing quite kicked a hole in the social fabric of South Florida than the pill mil craze of the early aughts. Back during the boom, it seemed like every strip mall in the tri-county area packed a pain clinic where you could scoop up weapons-grade pharmaceuticals. Now, after a crack…
Legally speaking, you’re able to poke a camera at a cop. You (should) know this by now, and for sure cops (really should) know it by now. Carlos Miller, the blogger behind Photography Is Not a Crime, and his crew of activist shutterbugs are on a mission to hammer that…
A female JetBlue flight attendant was arrested for smuggling chocolate candy-shaped heroin into Florida from South America. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were tipped off that the flight attendant had been smuggling smack on board flights, and were able to nab her when she tried bringing in more from Colombia…
Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello, who, along with Anthony “Little Tony” Ferrari, had been accused of having Miami Subs founder Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis rubbed out in a Mob-style hit, has been given a new trial date after his original trial was granted a mistrial. Big Tony’s defense lawyer had comedown with…
The time does fly. It was just a year ago today that the thug life fantasies of one of rap’s biggest names (not to mention biggest guts, not to mention biggest bullshit artists?) came to life in a blast of gunfire on Fort Lauderdale’s poshest street. Rick Ross (aka Ricky…
Evidently there’s a sticky-fingered hustler out there who has a taste for only the finest spirits. That, or just some poor smuck had a hot date for New Year’s Eve this year and was desperate to impress. Whatever the reason, someone rang in 2014 with a high-priced liquor store snatch…
The two men took turns waling on Jeffrey Worstell. A gold chain danced against the skinny one’s white tank top as he beat the 29-year-old mechanic senseless with a nickel-plated .357 Smith & Wesson. When the skinny guy needed a breather, his partner — a hefty six-foot man in a…
Over the weekend, police busted up a sold-out dance party at Club Cinema in Pompano Beach. The club — already smack in the middle of a dust-up with the city — was reportedly raided by almost 30 BSO officers as over 2,500 people watched from the dance floor. They hauled…
In the height of the holiday season, two young men shoved hundreds of pairs of panties into large shopping bags at Victoria’s Secret in Sawgrass Mills Mall, then rolled their loot out of the store in a shopping cart. On November 23, the pair got away with 300 Dream Angel…
When Boca Raton Police Officer Lora McHugh entered Sandra Snow’s bedroom around 4:30 p.m. on July 22, 2008, she found the plump 62-year-old lying face up on the bed, a green blanket pulled to her neck. Snow was dead. The officer checked for signs of foul play but found none…
Video footage of a Hollywood teen being held down by her friends and beaten before she was allegedly raped has been obtained by the media. The disturbing video, captured on a cell phone, shows Patricia Montes, 15, and Erica Avery, 16, brutally punching and kicking the victim and threatening her…
We all have our special ways of ringing in the new year. Some of us huddle up with family and friends, drinking bubbly and toasting new endeavors. Some of us gargle bourbon alone in our studio apartments while listening to Sade. According to police, Paul David Culbreth — a registered…
Though the conditions of this sun-soaked December afternoon hardly called for it, Ericson Harrell was happy to fetch his mask. In the past year, since this North Miami Beach cop “evolved” into something he calls an “oath keeper,” he’s always had his mask at hand — just in case. “There’s…
Legal blogs are abuzz with chatter saying that Gisele Pollack, a Broward County judge, came to work drunk Tuesday, causing such a scene that Chief Judge Peter Weinstein had to be called out of a meeting to deal with the matter. Pollack is said to have come into work Tuesday…
Retired Miami Dolphins star Ricky Williams is alleging in court that his former financial adviser ripped him off to the tune of $6 million. According to a lawsuit filed in Houston, Williams trusted Fort Lauderdale-based Peggy Fulford with almost all of the money he made since 2007 — more than…
2013 just hasn’t been Florida Atlantic University’s year. With James Tracy, professors stomping Jesus, and the naming rights handed over to a prison system, the school has just fielded one scandal after another. And now we have “JERKING_BUD.” Yesterday, police announced 40-year-old Seth Thompson had been arrested on charges of…
Oh, look at this. George Zimmerman is going get away with an alleged crime again. Again. Again. Zimmerman was busted last month for an alleged domestic disturbance with his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe. According to some 911 audio, Scheibe had the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office come to her home and arrest…
A family feud turned ugly last night in West Palm Beach, where a standoff between stepfather and son ended in bloodshed and a dramatic SWAT standoff. A 55-year-old man is accused of slashing up his son and wife before turning the blade on himself. So far, reports can pinpoint only…
