For writing “$0.00” instead of “$16,482.75” under the “second job” column of her mortgage application, Palm Beach County employee Sylvia Loretta Sharps could face up to 35 years in prison, according to the State Attorney’s Office.Sharps — who most recently worked with the county as coordinator for the economic development…
Three Boynton Beach police officers were hospitalized after getting into a car crash while responding to the area of a car chase involving burglary suspects, authorities say.Boynton Beach Police Sgt. Suzanne Gitto says police were responding to a residential burglary on the 2600 block of NE Fourth Court when they…
The 911 call phoned in by the wife of former MLB All-Star and performance-enhancing drug user Manny Ramirez has been released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. According to a police report released late last night by the BSO, Ramirez’s wife called the cops around 4:30 p.m., saying Ramirez had hit…
“I don’t feel like I did anything wrong,” maintains Toussain Puddie, the 30-year-old former TSA screener who took home Rick Case’s pen and now faces grand-theft charges at the behest of Case and his family.After our coverage of Puddie and his lawyer preparing to face the heavy charges, the State…
Former World Series MVP and performance-enhancing drug user Manny Ramirez was arrested in Weston yesterday on a domestic-violence charge.According to a police report released late last night by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Ramirez’s wife called the cops around 4:30 p.m., saying Ramirez had hit her in the face and caused…
About a year after former Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner resigned from her post amid a Judicial Qualifications Commission inquiry over allegations of a relationship with a former prosecutor, she’s now reported to be engaged to the lawyer who defended her through the investigation.According to GossipExtra’s Jose Lambiet, David Bogenschutz –…
An off-duty Florida Highway Patrol trooper says he was on his way to a 9/11 ceremony with his wife and kid when they were interrupted by 31-year-old Julio Mompeller, who was allegedly standing through the sunroof of a car and exposing his penis on the highway.According to Monroe County Sheriff’s…
A Davie scuba diver was found dead around 5 p.m. Sunday, about one mile south of the Dania Beach pier, the Broward Sheriff’s Office has just reported.Cops say that 62-year old Robert Hocke went missing at 1:14 p.m, after signaling to his dive buddy that he was running low on…
Last week, the Pulp reported on a recent federal ruling that slammed Nova Southeastern University for illegal union busting. While the National Labor Relation Board’s Aug. 26 decision — stemming from a four-year legal battle between the private college and the Service Employees International Union’s South Florida locals — is a…
A Miami-Dade woman says that the soup she bought from Subway scalded her thigh, hip, and buttocks so extensively that she had to rush to the hospital — and undergo emergency treatment for second-degree burns, according to a recently filed lawsuit. On July 30, Claudia Vargas purchased soup and a…
Maria Del Carmen Diaz died on May 7, 1981 at the age of 8 years old. Maria Del Carmen Diaz has also made $283,464.35 as a teller at a Palm Beach County Wells Fargo bank as of August 19 of this year.That would be because the Maria Del Carmen Diaz…
A cocktail waitress at a Hialeah strip club says she was unjustly fired — for refusing to give massages to customers, according to a recently filed lawsuit.Lysa R. Jacobstein, of Hollywood, says that she had always been an “exemplary employee” at PT’s Showclub, formerly known as Platinum Plus. Reprimands began…
Welcome to the age of Twilight, where 22-year-old Josephine Smith thinks she’s a vampire and allegedly bit a 69-year-old homeless man sleeping outside a Hooters restaurant.According to an arrest affidavit from the St. Petersburg Police Department, the elderly gentleman was sleeping outside the Hooters around midnight yesterday when Smith got…
Sexual assault charges against Steven Feagin — the former Deerfield Beach High School football standout who went on to play running back at the University of Illinois — were dropped due to the credibility of the alleged victim, according to a closeout memo from the Broward State Attorney’s Office.Feagin, now…
Boynton Beach police are looking for a guy who made an ass out of himself stealing $1,300 worth of cigarettes from a Walgreens on Monday.The cops say the man went into the store with a woman who distracted the clerk of the store by asking where the wart medicine was.As…
Roseann Spera Arces decided to settle a minor car accident in a bank parking lot by beating up the other woman for being Jewish. That would be a felony.Arces, 49, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months’ probation, instead of the maximum prison term of five years for…
Boynton Beach cop/alleged meth trafficker/federal fugitive David Britto has been on the run since August 24, and according to a filing submitted yesterday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Britto hopped on a flight to Brazil that same day.In a motion filed in federal court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Fels,…
A lovers’ quarrel recently turned bloody and deadly, when a Pompano Beach man was stabbed and killed by his girlfriend over reported cheating, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.The BSO has just said that Eumeka Mathis, 34, drove a knife into Patrick Walton’s neck around 2:30 p.m. Saturday.Mathis has reportedly…
A Broward woman says that her former employer, American Medical Central, gave her flak for being Jewish — going so far as to reprimand her for eating a banana at work — a recently filed lawsuit claims.That woman, Sheryl Ackerman, was employed as a social worker at the North Shore…
Cliff W. Reynolds — who went by “peter_rabbit57” in Yahoo! chat rooms — spent about five months talking dirty and sending kiddie porn to an undercover Boynton Beach cop over the web.That kiddie porn part is why Reynolds was sentenced yesterday to 7.5 years in prison, but the other details…
After hopping into a woman’s car at a red light and trying to rape her in Delray Beach in 2009, Marcus Christian McFadden is headed to prison.For his 31st birthday yesterday, McFadden received a 30-year prison sentence from a Palm Beach County judge.According to an arrest affidavit, McFadden got into…
A Fort Lauderdale man says he accidentally shot and killed his 17-year-old brother over the weekend as the boy was helping his older brother close down the gas station he worked at, police say.Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Travis Mandell says 27-year-old Felix Phelps called 911 around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, saying…
