Recently, I had the privilege of attending a meeting between local Muslim leaders and law enforcement officials.This heartwarming gathering, designed to improve relations between cops and South Florida’s Muslim community, was hosted by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Therefore, everyone who attended got a free bag of BSO swag. Never give…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Deputy Patrick Burt was arrested Monday and accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend by putting a GPS tracker on her car and hanging up signs at her workplace that call her current beau a “home wrecker and a cheater,” according to the Sun-Sentinel.Police say he was on duty…
Michael Ragusa grew up in Fort Lauderdale. When it came time for job hunting, he applied to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the police departments in Fort Lauderdale and Cooper City, among others. They all rejected him.But Miami hired him as a police officer — even though his application included…
It’s not clear in the mug shot of 32-year-old James Ayers what is written on his chest — all you can make out is “Than M.” But Ayers, who was arrested on first-degree murder charges March 29, has a Facebook profile — and it reveals what the rest of the…
The CEO of the high-volume plastic surgery center in Lauderhill where a patient died last month is an ex-felon. Jeffry Davis was convicted of financial crimes related to his former company, which made replicas of vintage cars.Long before he became head of Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute, Davis was president…
A suspect wearing black pants and a white shirt tried to swipe two impact drills from a West Park Home Depot last month but ended up staging one of the clumsiest almost-robberies we’ve seen on tape.The security footage shows the man grabbing the drills and actually taking them to a…
Lauderhill 32-year-old James Ayers visited a friend at work last Wednesday, according to police, and “went into great detail as to how he strangled ‘Julie’ and left her body in a room that he was renting somewhere in Broward County where he and Julie were staying.” Ayers said the stench…
UPDATE, 4/2: The police report has more details of how Ayers got busted. Hint: Police say he just went around telling people about it.Police say 32-year-old James Ayers called a friend Wednesday and said he killed a woman named Julie on March 23. The friend turned him in.Fort Lauderdale Police then arrested…
An attorney’s attempt to hide documents that might implicate his client on a murder charge ended when a judge ruled from the bench today that the evidence is a public record. Boca Raton defense lawyer Bruce Udolf had argued in court documents that releasing records to New Times about his…
Florida’s 2005 “stand your ground” law has gotten plenty of attention over the past month because of the Trayvon Martin shooting. But the case involving George Zimmerman is not the only “stand your ground” case that’s come about since 2005 — it’s been cited in at least 130 cases, according to…
The Florida Bar on Thursday issued a news statement detailing various punishments handed down to lawyers for doing things like driving drunk and filing frivolous suits merely to harass opponents. All said, the Florida State Supreme Court reprimanded 22 attorneys. Five were disbarred as a result, and four were simply, and embarrassingly, “publicly reprimanded.” The attorneys can still challenge the…
The surgeon who performed a fat transfer procedure that proved fatal for a 50-year-old Hollywood woman last week has repeatedly had his medical license suspended.Records show that Dr. John Nees’ disciplinary troubles date back to 2002, when he was working in the Pacific Northwest. The Washington Board of Medicine ruled…
A 50-year-old grandmother seeking a liposuction and fat transfer operation this month became the fifth patient to die during or after surgery at Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute in Lauderhill. According to Strax officials, the surgical complication that killed her was the same one that killed a 35-year-old Strax patient…
If you’re concerned about the big roadblock on Andrews Avenue near the courthouse on SE Sixth Street, don’t be — it’s all under control, according to Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Det. Travis Mandell.Authorities are still trying to unravel what actually happened, but Mandell said initial information points to reports of…
A 31-year-old DJ who ran a Haitian, reggae, and rap station out of a room in a Pompano Beach home must pay the Federal Communications Commission $10,000 by the end of next month or face a suit from the Department of Justice, according to federal documents.FCC enforcement agents raided a…
Somewhere in Palm Beach County, there is a man with red gloves, a Barack Obama mask, a silver handgun, and a pile of money that smells like French fries.The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office sent out another news release yesterday about the string of four fast-food robberies that started in…
Update, 3/30: Carr’s family has commented about her history of mental illness. Last Tuesday, video surfaced of Florida Atlantic University student Jonatha Carr yelling things like “I will kill the fuck out of you” in a biology class. Police documents state that, after hitting a student in the forehead and yelling, “White…
A Broward Sheriff’s Office internal affairs investigator who admitted to lying in a report earlier this year is teaching criminal justice classes at the ITT Technical Institute in Fort Lauderdale, according to documents just released.Sgt. Mary Guess, who has worked in BSO internal affairs for 14 years, is being investigated…
Less than two weeks after we found out the Miami Marlins were testing their new aquarium backstop/aquatic nightmare tank by throwing baseballs at it, a video of their long-mocked home-run sculpture in action has made its way to YouTube — and it looks even worse than the pictures.The thing looks…
The Department of Justice on Friday filed its latest — and most likely last — argument as to why a Tampa judge was wrong to throw out gun charges in the case of Buju Banton, an iconic and controversial reggae star who won a Grammy just hours before standing retrial on…
Congress will be taking a closer look at the Transportation Security Administration this afternoon in a joint hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.Oversight Committee Chairman Darryl Issa said in a statement that the hearing is designed to address “a…
A Palm Beach County jury this afternoon found Wellington polo mogul John Goodman guilty of DUI manslaughter, failure to render aid, and vehicular homicide. The conviction comes two years after Goodman sped through a stop sign in Wellington, causing a car crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson. (Read our feature…
