As the city of Boston reels from yesterday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon and the rest of the world wonders what the hell is wrong with people, police continue to look for a killer (or killers) whose atrocious act of violence did little than to terrify runners (runners of all…
Last week Gary Karp was on the phone with John Curcio, the Broward Sheriff’s Office detective now investigating the death of Karp’s daughter, Marissa. The men touch base often, endlessly groping through the dark spots in a case file that’s been gathering dust for more than a decade. This time,…
Looks like the Florida Sheriffs Task Force’s crackdown on underaged drinking during spring break was a success. And by success, we mean craploads of arrests were made, drugs were seized, and fewer visits to the emergency room were made by underaged kids who had been iced one too many times…
Good news, everyone! It looks like it’s going to be a little harder for the government to vaporize you with a drone, thanks to a 39-0 vote by the Florida Senate for SB 92. Sponsored by Sen. Joe Negron, who is the chamber’s appropriations chair, the bill will keep local…
Hallandale Beach Police Department needs to be reaccredited.And it wants to make sure it’s doing its job well. And so, it’s going to you, John and Joan Q. Public, to make sure everything is hunky-dory…
Rick Ross’ Year of Difficult Bawsing continues. Since he was the target of a mysterious drive-by on January 28 in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the hip-hop superstar has found himself in the headlines a lot — and not for your typical Don-like behavior. Despite the attention, there’s been little new detail…
A couple of Davie robbers hatched themselves a foolproof scheme to rob some money.And since ATMs are just boxes of money, they decided to go gank them one from a fair.The would-be robbers did just that. Unfortunately for them, their plan went only as far as “stealing an ATM,” because…
The Florida Highway Patrol released the identities of the four victims killed in a horrific traffic accident yesterday that’s roiled the region. Two of the victims were affiliated with the United States Navy. Dennis Ortiz, 31, of California; Albertson, 31, and Kristina Almase, 26, of the U.S. Navy; and Lily…
According to police reports, Kelly Major Cooper, 46, allegedly kidnapped a 10-year-old boy from a party in West Park several weeks ago. Cooper then allegedly took the boy to his son’s Dania Beach residence, where he locked the child in a bedroom. Cooper then raped the boy and forced him…
Updated, 10:24 a.m.”We assumed there were four people killed, but we just don’t know how many people were in the van,” said Joe Sanchez, spokesperson for the Florida Highway Patrol, referring to a terrifying accident that has rocked the region this morning. “It was that bad of an accident.” Sanchez…
Twitter — the world-shaking social media platform that toppled an Egyptian government and organized social causes from Trayvon Martin to gay marriage — is great for public shaming. Boyfriend cheats, blast his ass with 140-characters. Bad service at a hot spot? Spill to the Twitterverse. One LA restaurant is now…
Darrius Johnson attacked his girlfriend, Monica Gooden, from behind, slamming an X-Box 360 console across her head. He then stabbed her multiple times all over her body. When interviewed by police about the gruesome murder, Johnson told investigators he felt like a new man after killing his girlfriend, who, he…
As Florida legislators bat around a proposed bill that would ban the sale the bong and glass smoking devices, head shop owners aren’t loafing around while the business is legislated out from under them. An effort is cranking into high gear to challenge the proposal on the hill before it…
Everybody has that neighbor (OK, some of you are that neighbor) whose heart bleeds for all the stray cats in the hood. Cat Lady or Cat Dude leaves paper bowls full of Meow Mix all over the sidewalks, and the scraggly, fiercely independent kitties go tomcatting all over town.You might…
Police say they have three suspects in custody connected to the shooting murder of a Josephine’s Italian Restaurant bartender. The three suspects were arrested and charged by Boca Raton police for a separate crime, but authorities connected the men to the January 4 murder of bartender Rafael Rodriguez through a stolen…
E-Monee.com Inc. — if you were writing a movie script and needed to cook up the name of a shady online outfit, that’s probably a good candidate. Not surprisingly, the real-life E-Monee.com is being charged with fraud by the feds. The two heads of the Fort Lauderdale company talked big…
A 22-year-old black man wearing a hooded sweatshirt was leaving Macy’s in Aventura Mall when five Macy’s security guards tackled him to the floor and later stripped him down to his underwear. The problem was? He didn’t have anything on him. Duddeley Petigny, who had an afro and was scruffy,…
Update, 4:24 p.m.: Lisa Metcalf, Director, Media Relations & University Spokesperson for FAU wrote in an e-mail “Police were on the scene at the time of the alleged incident. We are not going to comment until the investigation is complete.”The University Press tweeted an image of Saunders driving her car…
In a story that is equal parts heartbreaking, confounding, and just a friggin’ nightmare to parents with kids of all ages, two Pasco County teens were arrested Tuesday on child-porn charges. The charges comes after one of them allegedly videotaped the other having sex with a girl on their high…
Our intrepid former editor Eric Barton has left New Times’ gulag-like cubicle farm gilded corner office, but he continues to blog over on his own site, Barefoot Mailman. Missing his wit, we sneak a lil looksee over there once in a while to read his musings about Fort Lauderdale and the world…
One of the more made-for-TV courtroom dramas to roll out of Broward recently involves Rose Marks. The matriarch of a Fort Lauderdale family of fortunetellers, Marks schemed $25 million from a best-selling romance novelist and other victims, or so say federal prosecutors. The psychic herself has been proclaiming innocence since…
Last week, we gave you a heads-up about some new legislation in Tallahassee that might throw up roadblocks for recreational smokers. Rep. Darryl Rouson has put up a bill that will ban the sale of bongs and glass smoking pieces throughout the Sunshine State. Florida’s Legislature has come down hard…
