A lot of crime news today, but it’s not every Friday somebody gets indicted on charges he mailed white powder to government offices.The FBI says that’s exactly what Justin Burton Lane did sometime between Christmas and New Year’s — there isn’t a lot of information available yet, but we know Lane…
A panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Thursday shot down Grammy-winning reggae artist Buju Banton’s appeal on federal drug charges. The judges also reversed the lower court’s decision to throw out a gun charge. Now the same judge who decided there wasn’t enough evidence to hold Buju accountable…
Documents released this morning show that George Zimmerman admitting that he did not call 911 when he saw Trayvon Martin “casually walking in the rain looking into houses” — he called the Sanford Police non-emergency line — and then says Martin cursed and threatened his life numerous times.Zimmerman also admits…
Fort Lauderdale 18-year-old Victor “Duffleman” Finn is having a bad couple of weeks. Between June 11 and 19, he was accused of making bomb threats, mugging a woman, and throwing asphalt through a rehab center’s window. Now, he’s in jail.On June 11, he allegedly called a rehab center where his…
Nicole Okrzesik, the 23-year-old accused of strangling Juliana Mensch with her boyfriend in March, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on Monday and has had her trial tentatively set for August 6. She could face the death penalty.Though we reported that the original trial, with co-defendant James Ayers, was set…
If you’ve always wanted to work for a company with a shady academic track record and legal headaches, here’s your chance. Mavericks High in Palm Springs, the newest in a chain of for-profit charter schools headed by Vice President Joe Biden’s brother, is holding a job fair next Monday. According to…
UPDATE, 1:25 p.m.: Sabin was found dead today in a lake behind his apartment complex.Original post, 9 a.m.:Samuel Sabin is 9 years old, about 4’7 and 90 pounds. Police say he went missing yesterday, and are asking for help finding the Oakland Park boy.He was last seen yesterday evening playing…
Around 8 p.m. on May 30, someone attacked a man on the 2500 block of Northwest 8th Street in Franklin Park, according to police. The robber put the man in a chokehold and held what the victim believes was a boxcutter to his throat. The robber demanded money then ran away…
South Florida let out a collective “buhhhhh” when we found out “Octomom” Nadya Suleman was scheduled for a five-night stripping engagement at T’s Lounge in West Palm Beach. Well, Suleman heard that buhhhhh, along with a few mildly insulting statements made by random T’s Lounge employees on local TV, and she…
When Broward Sheriff’s Deputy David Wimberley arrested 44-year-old Troy Baldeo in a Tamarac 7-Eleven in 2010, he filed reports that said Baldeo was yelling with clenched fists and should be charged with trespassing, resisting arrest, and assault on an officer.Once prosecutors saw the convenience store video, however, different charges were…
A million-dollar scheme in Palm Beach involving bogus government toilet-paper regulation is slowly… unraveling.Three men pleaded guilty earlier this month to conspiracy charged linked to their involvement with FBK Products LLC, which sold a septic tank treatment they claimed helped break down “second generation” toilet paper that was being mandated…
Police are looking for a blue pickup truck or SUV in connection with a hit and run that killed 17-year-old Gabriel Amaya last night.The Broward Sheriff’s Office reports that Amaya was riding his bike east on Prospect Road around 9:40 last night when a GMC or Chevrolet truck hit his…
Fort Lauderdale police are looking for a white male shown in surveillance footage from a Hustler store in connection with a May 20 strong-armed robbery.The man waited outside the store at 1500 E. Sunrise Blvd., talking on his phone around 11:15 p.m. — he stood near the door and robbed…
Police are still investigating the details, but they said yesterday evening that an “ailing” 82-year-old woman found shot to death in her Tamarac home was killed by her 86-year-old husband, who then killed himself.Someone police described as “the couple’s caretaker” heard gunshots shortly before 6 a.m. yesterday and ran outside…
According to this week’s New Times, the best place to spy on cops in Palm Beach County is a website called PBSOTalk.com. It’s the rare spot on the interwebs where police officers can gripe about high-profile murder cases and pill-popping lieutenants without fear of losing their jobs.Founded by former PBSO…
A former Deerfield Beach High School football star was convicted today of the rape of a woman who was attending the University of Illinois, where he also played football. It took the jury less than an hour to find him guilty.Prosecutors said 42-year-old Steve Feagin raped a UI senior at gunpoint…
Last week, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office shot three people in six days — two of those people shot at police, and one of them shot a lieutenant and a police dog.This week, the Boynton Beach Police have trouble of their own.Boynton Beach officers spotted what they suspected to be a…
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of John Michael Romero Mendoza, a 26-year-old Boca Raton resident who was allegedly trolling the iPhone app BoyAhoy in search of teenaged boys to have sex with. For those not in the know, BoyAhoy is the self-proclaimed “fastest growing gay dating app”…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has just put out a surveillance video showing an unidentified salami swiper driving away with a tractor-trailer containing $150,000 of meat destined for a grocery distributor.Police say a white truck pulled up behind the semi just before 8 a.m. on May 29. The driver went inside…
Update 3, 6/12: Mondesir is now in jail; the victim is still in the hospital, and the couple’s child is with a family member, per BBPD.Update 2, 11:40 a.m.: Added details of the crime to the bottom of the post, including details that were incorrectly reported by police earlier in…
There’s been plenty said about the sexual orientation of former Gov. Charlie Crist, but if you’ve been seeing headlines the past few days similar to the Huffington Post’s “Charlie Crist Gay? Former Governor Allegedly Paid Men to Cover Up Affairs,” take them with a grain of salt. The allegations aren’t…
Broward Sheriff’s Office Lt. Eric Wright turned himself in on Friday on charges of fraud and 14 counts of grand theft after he was accused of working side jobs while he was technically on duty as a supervisor at least ten times between August 2010 and May 2011.In addition to…
