Police served a warrant Thursday at Claudio Vidal’s Boca Raton apartment, suspecting he’d been downloading child pornography.Sure enough, the cops walked in and found Vidal’s computer screen on and mid-download on some new kiddie porn, according to an arrest affidavit.As part of an operation by the Palm Beach County Sexual…
On the list of things not to bring on a high-speed police chase through Boynton Beach, someone else’s 5-week-old baby is probably pretty high.Lester Edward Schwalm, however, did just that last year, and a jury convicted him Thursday on three charges related to his stolen baby/stolen SUV escapade.On December 16,…
The Pulp has been following the case of a Broward woman who says that a cosmetic procedure destroyed her face and neck with keloids and that her surgeon didn’t tell her about scarring risks beforehand. Now, Enid Perrins-Whittaker’s surgeon, Dr. Juan Felipe Garcia, has joined Lifestyle Lift in responding to…
A DUI probationer in Palm Beach County ruined 31-year-old Sayied Khan’s alleged bribery scheme Tuesday after the probationer called the cops thinking it was a bit creepy that Khan called her one night asking her to meet him in a parking lot to fake her community service hours for $300.According…
On Monday, 33-year-old Daytona Beach resident Jennifer Finch was arrested for the 49th time, this time for allegedly trespassing, then trying to bring drug paraphernalia into the jail.It’s been just over ten years since her first arrest, according to a mug-shot archive of the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, many for…
Boynton Beach cop/alleged meth trafficker/federal fugitive David Britto is still getting paychecks from the Boynton Beach Police Department, according to a statement released from the department this morning.The only hitch there is that the department isn’t directly depositing the checks into his back account, so he’d have to come down…
The case of city-hall gadfly Fane Lozman’s houseboat — known as Riviera Beach v. That certain unnamed gray, two-story vessel approximately fifty-seven feet in length — may finally have come to an end.More than two years after U.S. marshals came and towed away Lozman’s houseboat with all of his possessions,…
The Pulp recently reported on a Broward woman who says that a cosmetic procedure ravaged her face and neck with keloids and that she never would have had the surgery if her doctor had mentioned the scarring risks.Lifestyle Lift, the medical center where Enid Perrins-Whittaker had the procedure, has just…
David Britto — last year’s Officer of the Year from the Boynton Beach Police Department who was arrested in July on a meth-trafficking charge — is now a fugitive, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.Barry Golden of the Marshals Service tells the Pulp that on August 24, Britto cut off…
A man in the Florida Keys told police he’s Sam Elliott — the mustached man of cinema fame — and that he just won millions playing the lottery. The cops, on the other hand, say that he’s 62-year-old Ira Bershatsky and that he just stole a boat off the side…
It’s not every day a couple gets arrested for smuggling jaguar skins from Mexico to sell to people in South Florida, but today’s one of those days.According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Elias Garcia Garcia and Maria Angela Plancarte, both 52 years old, were arrested late last week on a…
In the Florida Keys, cocaine is a hell of a drug.First there was 53-year-old Thomas Swindal, who died earlier this month after snorting a mysterious white powder that was eventually found to be cocaine, and then there’s 32-year-old Alena Larrazabal, whom police say they found rolling around naked in the…
Well, now we have an idea of why GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann thinks she can get gas prices down to $2 per gallon — she wants to start drillin’ stuff, like the Florida Everglades.Unfortunately, that was only the second-dumbest idea Bachmann had on her Florida trip, after she said…
Jason Fayne Brown — who killed a 3-month-old girl while driving high on cocaine and Valium through West Palm Beach last year, then tried to walk away from the crash — entered a guilty plea today and was sentenced to ten years in prison.Around 2:30 p.m. on January 30, 2010,…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office has confirmed to the Pulp that sexual assault charges have been dropped against Steven Feagin — the former Deerfield Beach High School football standout who went on to play running back at the University of Illinois — in an alleged rape that took place on…
A 19-year-old woman was arrested Friday night after police acquired a video of her trying to murder her 2-month-old daughter with a big piece of concrete, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.MCSO Deputy Becky Herrin says investigators from the Florida Department of Children and Families turned over the video…
Strangling his girlfriend with telephone cord, bashing her over the head with a lamp, attempting to scoop her eyes out with tweezers, and trying to drown her in a bathtub didn’t kill Murray Bloom’s former flame, but he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison for trying anyway.On January…
James Herard, a rumored Crips leader who describes himself as soulless, barks at judges, and reportedly speaks openly about going “human hunting,” was sentenced today to nine life sentences and 125 additional years in jail for a brutal 2008 Dunkin’ Donuts robbery that took place in Delray Beach. On July…
Since last Friday, the Pulp has been following the legal saga of Cynthia and Forrest Bagnall, longtime City of Sunrise employees who claim they were harassed at work after Forrest completed military leave. Troubles began for the Bagnalls in 2008. Forrest Bagnall, who is an engineer with Sunrise, is also…
In 2007, twin brothers Chris and Jeff George, then 27, were looking for a way to get rich. Really rich. They found it under the tutelage of the “Candy Man,” a physician who helped them start a $40 million pain-pill empire, according to an indictment against the brothers and 31…
Kendrick Herring — the 28-year-old murderer/sex offender convicted earlier this month in the killing of his father — was sentenced today to life in prison.Herring, a Miramar resident, was convicted on August 2 of first-degree murder after stabbing his 51-year-old father to death through his eyes in their home in…
James McIvery, the 79-year-old Fort Lauderdale man who allegedly shot a 12-year-old kid in the abdomen a few weeks ago, was released from jail last night on his own recognizance, pending his trial.McIvery told the cops on August 7 that a few youngsters had knocked on his door at an…
