Tanya Calvin was just trying to do her job yesterday, serving breakfast out of the Burger King takeout window at 666 W. Broward Blvd. A guy pulled up, she took his money, and then 31-year-old Edwin Walker came jumping in through the window like a cat burglar with a balance…
Drinking games. They’re superfun until you’re sitting in a courtroom on trial for DUI manslaughter, trying to explain why you blew through a stop sign, slammed into another car with such force that it flipped into a drainage ditch, and left the driver to drown.But Wellington polo mogul John Goodman…
The Broward-based 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service and other companies that solicit clients who have been in car accidents got a legislative kick in the knees Friday, but they are still standing.A bill designed to cut down on personal injury protection (PIP) insurance fraud passed the state Senate with the enthusiastic backing…
Buju Banton’s legal team let loose in documents filed Friday and said the government’s “presentation of the facts… is untethered to the record and is so riddled with inaccuracies and misleading statements that it would be nearly impossible to address all of them.”…
As an 18-year-old vomited, lost control of his bowels, and died slowly in a West Palm Beach juvenile jail cell last July, guards refused to call 911 for more than six hours. A supervisor on duty allegedly thought Eric Perez was faking his illness, although the teenager had twice injured…
Toussain Puddie, the former TSA screener who grabbed car dealer Rick Case’s Montblanc pen at the airport last June, has been facing third-degree Grand Theft charges for months. We published a feature story on the case in December.Now Leland Garvin, Puddie’s lawyer, tells the Pulp that prosecutors informed him that…
Judges in Florida’s Northern and Middle districts have some of the widest variations in the country when it comes to sentencing folks on federal drug charges, according to new data from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a group affiliated with Syracuse University’s law school.The findings, based on a review of “sentences imposed by 885 judges…
Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Kevin Meyer arrived at a Pompano Beach McDonald’s this morning in response to a report that a man had tried to steal a backpack. The suspect, 29-year-old Patrick Davis of North Lauderdale, had for some reason decided to stick around and was just standing near the…
Fort Lauderdale Police are looking for a suspect in connection with a beating that happened at an Andrews Avenue gas station last month.Police say the charming, American-Eagle-bedecked gentleman at right was standing in line at the Shell Station at 1144 S. Andrews Ave. on February 19 when he spontaneously turned…
An anti-TSA blogger from Miami Beach posted a YouTube video last night claiming he defeated Transportation Security Administration body scanners at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport by sewing an extra pocket onto the side of his shirt. His explanation is convincing (check out the earlier post for details and the video),…
Improbable as it may sound, there is an entire television series devoted to people who hire hit men to kill their loved/hated ones. The Investigation Discovery show Nothing Personal is hosted by Steve Schirripa, the jovial comedian who played Bobby Baccalieri on The Sopranos. Now he uses his mobster street cred to narrate true-crime…
An anti-TSA blogger from Miami Beach announced yesterday that he’d defeated the Transportation Security Administration’s controversial “nude body scanners” by simply sewing a pocket onto the side of his shirt — and that he tested his terror-pocket at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.The weakness, he said, is in how the images…
In July 1974, Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Walter Ilyankoff was executed in the parking lot of a Red Lobster during a botched armed robbery attempt.The four men who committed the robbery were all convicted of first-degree murder. The three still alive are up for parole in August — and the…
When asked about a vice presidential nod by CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien this morning, Congressman Allen West said he is “always willing and ready to serve my country in whatever capacity that the American people would desire.””As far as the vice president thing, you know, who knows what the future…
Eric Brody was 18 years old when a speeding off-duty Broward Sheriff’s deputy T-boned his car on Oakland Park Boulevard and left Brody in a coma. The officer was later fired for falsifying police reports in an unrelated incident; Brody woke up six months later with permanent brain damage.A jury…
Wellington polo mogul John Goodman goes on trial in a West Palm Beach courtroom tomorrow, charged with driving drunk and causing the car accident that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson in 2010.It’s been nearly two years since a New Times cover story dug deep into the case, so here’s a refresher…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office arrested 17 people Thursday in “an enforcement operation targeting street level prostitution” in the Plantation Mobile Home Park in West Palm Beach, according to a news release.The release also included a dissemination log of the arrests, but the spreadsheet was spelled “dissemenation log,” which, believe…
Drug tests for everybody! The Florida House passed HB 1205 today, voting 79-37 to modify the state’s Drug-Free Workplace Act to allow public agencies to randomly drug-test any of their employees for absolutely no reason.Despite the lengthy legal challenges associated with Gov. Rick Scott’s orders to drug-test state welfare recipients…
Palm Beach County’s first murder of 2012 broke Belle Glade’s heart. Jimmy McMillan, 49, was gunned down in the grocery store his family had owned for seven decades. He was a generous man and champion fisherman, known for giving away food and letting longtime customers buy on credit. His death…
When Tiger Woods tees off at the Honda Classic golf tournament in Palm Beach Gardens today, a sign of local political rancor will be flying over his head.An airplane banner proclaiming “The Sheriff Is a Thief — PBSOTalk.com” is slated to circle over PGA National, after making appearances at the…
A 36-year-old Fort Lake Worth man in the hospital with a bullet wound to the head is facing first-degree murder charges after allegedly killing his wife early this morning.Police say Paul Daniels got in an argument with his wife, 27-year-old Donna Daniels, shortly before 2:30 this morning. The Daniels’ daughter…
UPDATE, 10:04 a.m.: Police say she was found unharmed about 6 a.m. today. She hid in an abandoned house when she saw all the police activity in her neighborhood. Original post, 5:55 a.m.:Lake Worth 12-year-old Tatiana Huffman walked away from her house at 329 S. M St. in Lake Worth…
