Officials have confirmed that a decomposed body discovered by hikers in Coconut Creek’s Tradewinds Park yesterday is 45-year-old Claudia Murphy, who was last seen wandering away from a Margate restaurant in March, according to NBC Miami.Murphy’s family spent weeks passing out fliers and searching for her; her husband, Frank Murphy,…
There was a hearing today in the case of Matthew Bent, who was found guilty of aggravated battery for setting then-middle-schooler Michael Brewer on fire in October 2009. He was supposed to be sentenced July 23, but now the conviction itself could be on the rocks after allegations surfaced in…
NBC’s Dateline at 10 EDT tonight will feature the disappearance of David Jackson and the investigation two decades later that threatened to tear a family apart. Our cover story, “My Father’s Bones,” won last year’s Sigma Delta Chi award for feature reporting. (Yeah, I’m bragging; shut up.)…
Update, 2:25 p.m.: Lopez was reportedly offered his job back. He declined, adding what looks to be a conclusion on the biggest life guard PR meltdown we can remember.Original post, 11 a.m.:Hallandale Beach lifeguard Tomas Lopez ran 1,500 feet outside of his assigned area to help save a drowning victim…
George Zimmerman might be getting out of jail, even after having his bail revoked for lying to the court about all those donations he’s been taking in from folks who think we should all be allowed to shoot each other.Though his original bail was set at $150,000, a judge this…
Brandon Johnson wanted to fly to Jamaica, and he didn’t much care about little things like “passports” and “not cursing out police officers.”The 30-year-old was berating a Spirit Airlines ticket agent about getting a flight out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport when a Broward deputy arrived.”Defendant refused to accept the…
A 17-year-old boy from Largo died yesterday after shooting himself in the head during a game of Russian roulette. That’s pretty much the whole dumb story.He was the first player to spin the chamber on his back porch Friday night, according to the Tampa Bay Times, when he held a…
Mikel D. Jones, a former aide to Democratic South Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings, has been suspended from practicing law pending further judgment from the Florida Supreme Court.Jones (and his wife) were convicted in November of conspiracy, money-laundering, and multiple counts of both wire fraud and mail fraud after federal officials…
Miramar Police Capt. Juan De Los Rios turned himself into authorities today after being charged with lewd or lascivious conduct on a child younger than 16.The 28-year-veteran of the force is accused of confronting a teen couple that was sitting in the back of a car back in January and…
We told you yesterday about Angela Byrd and Tanecia Josephs, accused of stealing almost half a million dollars from a Fort Lauderdale 99-year-old they were supposed to be taking care of. Police have now announced the arrest of a third woman, 34-year-old Tashau Edwards, on charges she stole more than $45,000…
Well, we finally figured out what caused all that I-95 traffic drama Wednesday evening: Police say Deerfield Beach 30-year-old Glenn Thervil was killed by a shotgun-wielding acquaintance after arguing with the man about cigarettes.Thervil got mad at the friend, 25-year-old Roderick Ferguson, as the two hung out with friends at…
In the race to break the news of the U.S. Supreme Court health-care ruling, several media outlets wrongly rushed out headlines declaring it had been struck down. But none botched the news with as much gusto as CNN.Full-sized screenshot of the mistake after the jump…
Read more about Aguiar’s support for a sex-soliciting Rabbi and troubled marriage.Guma Aguiar’s mom and wife will meet in court today to argue over who will get control of his $100 million estate after he disappeared at sea last Tuesday, but headstrong women might not have been all he was…
A 99-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman thought she was paying Angela Byrd about $15 an hour for in-home health care. At 60 hours a week, that’s around $46,800 a year — which means it’s kind of questionable that she allegedly received $275,000 in 2008, $167,000 in 2009, and $34,500 in the…
Indianapolis man John Gross says he’s the victim of yet another poorly trained TSA agent using made-up screening procedures — this time, on his dead grandfather.He was flying out of the Orlando airport with the ashes of his grandfather, Mario Mark Marcaletti, he says, when a TSA agent open his…
Earlier this month, the Justice Department arrested a 26-year-old Boca Raton resident John Michael Romero Mendoza for allegedly using the iPhone app BoyAhoy to arrange a sexual tryst with a 15-year-old boy.According to the criminal complaint, Mendoza’s car was stocked with “condoms, lubricant and homosexual pornographic magazines” when he pulled…
Scharonis Wright was an illegal immigrant who was about to be deported back to Haiti: He was wrapping up a four-year sentence for armed robbery and aggravated assault and needed a way to stick around — so he told investigators he had some dirt on a 2008 shooting in Deerfield…
Late on Tuesday night, a boat belonging to Guma Aguiar washed up on Fort Lauderdale beach, engines running, the cell phone and wallet of the Floridian Jewish multimillionaire reportedly still onboard. Since then, people have speculated: Was it a dead-of-night escape plot to keep his mother from declaring him mentally…
The scene of Guma Aguiar’s life before his disappearance at sea Tuesday night launched a strange soap opera, with his wife and mother battling over his estate, according to court documents and a lawyer for Aguiar’s mother.Richard Baron, an attorney for mother Ellen Aguiar, told ABCNews.com that Jaime Aguiar had…
Just a heads-up, motorists: This Thursday, police will be on the 1300 block of South Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach, checking cars for “defective safety equipment” and checking motorists for valid license, registration, and insurance paperwork.BSO officers will be conducting the checkpoint between 6 and 10 p.m. Best get to…
Back in January 2011, Charles Harper was facing stalking charges from his terrifically estranged ex-foster dad, Broward Circuit Judge John Bowman. The kid was an adult by then and didn’t have much money to speak of, but public defenders were dropping him like a hot potato because of perceived possible…
There is a serious problem brewing in Fort Lauderdale. No, it’s not the privately run charter schools in academic and legal shambles or the ever-growing list of Broward police officers accused of gross misconduct.No. The problem, you see, is that the utility companies are marking underground lines, and… it’s ugly.A Sun-Sentinel…
