South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle’s petition asking for a stay of execution was denied today by the Florida Supreme Court.His scheduled date with death remains September 28, 2011, at 4 p.m.Valle’s lawyers filed the petition late last week, claiming a Florida law prevented Valle’s attorneys from representing him in…
Alleged meth trafficker/federal fugitive David Britto has officially been fired from the Boynton Beach Police Department.Police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater tells the Pulp that the former cop was investigated by the department’s internal affairs section as soon as they learned Britto had cut off his ankle monitor, which was on August…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is currently investigating a shooting last night that left one man dead.According to Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Travis Mandell, the shooting took place around 9:50 p.m. yesterday in the 1100 block of NE 16th Court.Mandell says that when officers arrived at the scene of the…
The cops say 74-year-old Dr. Stanley Cohen had been writing prescriptions for painkillers in his wife’s name that he would personally pick up from pharmacies for months.Aside from the large amount of painkillers he or his wife apparently needed, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office happened to discover that Dr…
After a grand jury indicted 17-year-old Tyler Hadley last week on two counts of first-degree murder in the hammer killings of his parents, the St. Lucie County State Attorney’s Office released hundreds of documents in the case, including pictures from the crime scene.As a little refresher course, police say Hadley…
The lawyers for South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle have filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court over clemency proceedings for Valle and have asked the court to stay Valle’s scheduled execution… again.Valle, 61, has been given a date to die three times now — currently scheduled for September…
Here’s what Robert “Bo” Martin Duval and Christopher Cork Scroggins found out a few days ago: Having a sack full o’ baby alligators is a felony.According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, two of their officers were doing surveillance at the Montverde boat ramp on Lake Apopka in…
Aniel Escobar’s girlfriend came over to his West Palm Beach home last September with her twin sister and 1-year-old kid after Escobar had requested $250 to pay his electric bill.Instead, they showed up to the house and found Escobar with a ten-inch knife, threatening to kill all of them, and…
When the Pulp tried to ask Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti a question about campaign donations on his Facebook page last month, the sheriff responded sternly, unfriended our editor, and removed the post. In his initial response, he wrote, “This is my personal Facebook page and you are disrespecting my prior…
Janiber “Jane” Andrade Vieira — mother of Boynton Beach cop/alleged meth trafficker/federal fugitive David Britto — was indicted by a grand jury on charges that she helped her son escape to Brazil, according to documents filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Contempt of court — one of the three charges Vieira…
RaceTrac, an Atlanta-based gas behemoth known for its gut-busting soda fountains, has gotten slammed with another slip-and-fall lawsuit, some two months after a local couple filed suit against the 320-store petroleum conglomerate. Isaura Velez walked into a Hollywood RaceTrac store in October 2010 but claims that she slipped, fell, and…
After two 11-year-old girls got into a fight at a bus stop last week, the cops say the four older sisters of one of the girls came to join in on the action.As shown on a video surveillance tape released last night by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the four sisters…
The Boynton Beach Police Department says 22-year-old Markell Hollis — who escaped police after an alleged burglary and car chase on Tuesday — turned himself in at the Palm Beach County Jail last night.Hollis, who police said “should be considered armed and very dangerous,” allegedly burglarized a house on the…
Jose Zepeda, a 38-year-old math teacher at a Key Largo school, turned himself in to police today after a warrant was issued for his arrest on a battery charge.That battery allegedly included regularly putting his hands on the thighs of a 12-year-old female student and, on one occasion, trying to…
A man walked into a Fort Lauderdale Subway store last night and asked the two employees if they sold $2 sandwiches.The employees said they didn’t, so the guy demanded cash and shot both of them.The Broward Sheriff’s Office says this happened around 10:30 p.m. yesterday in the 2800 block of…
Dr. Alberto Sant Antonio, a Weston physician whose patient stopped breathing during a liposuction procedure this summer, is temporarily banned from performing office surgeries in Florida.The Florida Department of Health issued an emergency restriction on Sant Antonio’s medical license on July 14, a month after 38-year-old Maria Shortall died following a…
Good news for Kafka fans: Turns out, the group of lawyers charged with policing the rest of Florida’s 90,000 lawyers can get sued (by even more lawyers), just like the rest of us. William Luongo, a local accountant formerly employed by the Florida Bar, claims that the organization harassed and…
For the third time, convicted South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle has been given a date to die.This time, it’s been scheduled for September 28, 2011, at 4 p.m. at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.Gov. Rick Scott signed off on the lethal…
All three of the Boynton Beach Police officers injured during Officer Rachel Loy’s third car crash have been released from the hospital — including Loy herself — but one of the suspects from the burglary they were responding to is still missing.Boynton Beach Police Sgt. Suzanne Gitto said yesterday afternoon…
Police say they went to Francisco Rojas’ house in Port St. Lucie on Sunday after his wife called 911 saying her husband was drunk in the garage trying to pull a tooth out of his mouth with pliers.Apparently, Rojas, 49, didn’t like the fact that the cops interrupted him while…
The Boynton Beach cop who was driving herself and two other cops toward the scene of fleeing burglary suspects before crashing into a pole — landing all three of them in the hospital — happens to have a history of crashing her car into things, according to her discipline record.The…
UPDATE: Dalia Dippolito posted the $500,000 bond on Monday and is now on house arrest at her mother’s home in Boynton Beach. She’ll remain there while appealing her conviction for solicitation to commit murder.August 11, 2011: After calling her “pure evil” and sentencing her to 20 years in the slammer,…
