Fort Lauderdale Police Officer David McElligott was charged yesterday with wire fraud after allegedly defrauding the city for supplemental pay while serving in the Air Force.After 9/11, the Fort Lauderdale Commission put a supplemental military pay policy that would give city employees called to active military service money to bring…
The Broward Bulldog’s Dan Christensen obtained Broward’s “Brady list” — a laundry list of cops who are being investigated for any number of reasons, ultimately to be used by defense attorneys to question the veracity of a cop’s testimony.The list is the result of a 1963 Supreme Court case involving…
He’s a Ponzi schemer, a fraudster, involved with corrupt politicians and the Mob, but Scott Rothstein insists he’s not a murderer.Under intense questioning by attorney Mary Barzee Flores during a deposition last month, the “Prince of Darkness” vehemently denied being involved in the 2008 murder of one of his employees,…
Israel Rosado was discharged from the emergency room at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce on December 17 but told a cop working an off-duty detail at the hospital that he wasn’t leaving until he got a free meal.Police say that between that statement and his trip to jail,…
In a sworn deposition last month, convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein alleged he had an affair with his slain employee, Melissa Britt Lewis, years ago when Lewis was in law school. He also said law enforcement officials were feeding him information about the investigation into Lewis’ murder after she was…
Thirty hours and 30 minutes into 2012, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office began investigating its first homicide of the year.The PBSO announced this morning that 49-year-old James McMillan was working at his Belle Glade grocery store when he was shot during an attempted robbery around 6:30 a.m.McMillan died after…
Crime in Broward — sometimes it’s hilarious, sometimes it’s depressing, and sometimes it’s just downright freaky. From a guy getting busted while fingering a Chihuahua to a TSA agent getting caught stuffing a passenger’s iPad down his pants, crimes in Broward were anything but tame in 2011.Check out this year’s…
Danny Pham’s probation terms forbid him from possessing animals. That’s the short explanation of how to get arrested for picking up a rooster from the post office.According to an arrest report from the Boynton Beach Police Department, an animal-control officer got word that Pham, 36, was at the post office…
Nearly four years after attorney Melissa Britt Lewis’ murder, questions still swirl about the crime. Tony Villegas, the man charged with strangling her and dumping her body in a canal, has not yet faced trial. He was ruled mentally incompetent last year but has since been deemed fit for court…
After Edson Ramirez-Jaimes allegedly blew through some red lights and crashed into an SUV, causing a “fireball” and killing the driver on Christmas Eve, the cops say he told them he never even remembered driving.According to documents from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Ramirez-Jaimes, 23, was driving his Toyota…
There were fewer hate crimes in Broward in 2010 than in 2009, but it’s still a higher total than any other county in Florida.The 2010 report of hate crimes statewide was released today by the attorney general’s office, which reports 19 of the state’s 149 hate crimes last year occurred…
When 45-year-old Mary Lisee felt that she had eaten too much food, her first instinct was apparently to call 9-1-1, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.Police say Lisee also repeatedly claimed cocaine was not a factor in her decision to call the cops, despite no one ever asking…
James Mozie, who was running a brothel full o’ kids in Oakland Park for about a year, was found guilty by a jury yesterday on 10 counts ranging from sex trafficking of minors to producing child pornography.Seven different victims testified at the trial that they were recruited to work at…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office says a man has been arrested for shooting a cab driver in Pompano Beach last month, after the suspect left the evidence in a cooler inside the taxi.According to the sheriff’s office, cab driver Williamson Joseph picked up 30-year-old Semie Robinson from a Fort Lauderdale convenience…
Imagine for a moment all of the strange things that have to happen in the backseat of a taxi in the Florida Keys.Now imagine that the driver of that car may not have been some burned out beach bum, but instead an undercover cop.We’d like to think the detectives from…
Simone Paolercio teaches children during the week at Lakeland’s Highlands Middle School, but this Saturday, she was allegedly tossing hash browns at a McDonald’s employee.According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Paolercio, 39, rolled through the McDonald’s drive-through around 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, and ordered around $20 worth of food.When…
Even though Florida’s bestiality ban didn’t go into effect for another nine months, Tomas Bautista still received a jail sentence for his chihuahua-fingering episode back in February.Whereas the new bestiality ban makes sexing an animal a misdemeanor, Bautista entered a plea of no contest on a felony animal-cruelty charge, and…
The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office, the Palm Beach County School District’s police chief, along with other law-enforcement officials were proud to announce today that they’ve arrested more kids.”Operation D Minus” nabbed 12 students for drug charges this time around, according to the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office.They didn’t announce…
Sheldon Hepner, the husband of Cheryl Hepner — who’s accused of shooting her son-in-law after he arrived at her Tamarac home to pick up his son — has been charged as an accomplice in the December 7 shooting.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Sheldon Hepner lied to detectives, telling them…
Another year has just about gone by, which means it’s time for South Florida to appear once again on the American Tort Reform Association’s list of “judicial hellholes.”Every year since 2003 — when they actually just picked Miami-Dade County — South Florida has maintained its spot among the crappiest civil…
Michael McClintock, 21, found out a pretty successful method of being held without bond on a capital sex-battery charge — by allegedly telling the cops he was having sex with an 11-year-old girl, but she started it.The Marion County Sheriff’s Office didn’t much like that response.The 11-year-old girl went to…
For former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Shawn Barber’s 41st birthday, his wife bought him tickets to see Def Leppard at the Hard Rock Casino for $626.04.The day of the concert — March 29, 2008 — the babysitter canceled.Apparently, the best option Barber could come up with was to fill out a…
