A pair of would-be burglars tried to break into a home in the quiet Fort Lauderdale neighborhood of Rio Vista this afternoon and were thwarted by a 15-year-old. The boy was inside when the burglars tried to get in. He called his mom, who called police. Fort Lauderdale cops surrounded…
When cops confronted Palm Beach County employee Jeffrey Sek about filling up his truck’s gas tank with a county credit card, police say he told them he’d only done it “four, five, or six times.” Then he reportedly told the cops it was “six, seven, or eight times.”Try 45 times,…
Two employees of Katie’s Kids Daycare Center in Delray Beach were sentenced to ten years’ probation yesterday for leaving a 2-year-old girl to die in a hot van outside the daycare for seven hours.Amanda Inman, 32, and Petra Perez, 45, both pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child –…
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: an armored truck owned by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department with 24-hour video-recording capabilities nicknamed “The Peacemaker.”The cops say they acquired this armored behemoth from Brink’s for only $10, through a “strategic partnership.””The purpose of ‘The Peacemaker’ is to enhance the police presence…
South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle is scheduled to die on September 6.The Florida Supreme Court ruled today in an out-of-calendar opinion to lift Valle’s stay of execution, which had been ordered after questions arose about Florida’s new lethal-injection drug possibly causing cruel and unusual punishment.Valle was originally scheduled to…
A few more details have been released by Montgomery County Fire and Rescue about Glenn Neff, the Florida man who was allegedly planning on shooting off fireworks on the National Mall in our nation’s capital.Yesterday, an officer from the Maryland-National Capital Park Police found Neff’s red Jeep Cherokee in an…
We won’t venture a guess as to what a jail inmate would possibly need Viagra for, but the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office announced today that it has charged a 40-year-old corrections deputy with smuggling the little blue pills and other contraband into the county jail.Deputy Dawn Kramer was…
Last week, the Pulp reported on longtime City of Sunrise employee Cynthia Bagnall, who claims that her bosses harassed her for following labor laws — even going so far as to reprimand her for using the ladies room during work hours.The Pulp had the chance Monday to speak with Cynthia…
Glenn Neff, the Florida man accused of planning an attack in Washington, D.C., on Monday, left a series of eerie messages on his Facebook page that seem to indicate he was planning something deadly.Police say Neff rigged a Jeep with a turret and fireworks in an attempt to ignite the…
Every year around back-to-school time, parents dropping their kids off at school return to their cars to find that they no longer have a window or the stuff they left on their front seat.The smash-and-grab phenomenon seems to continue every year and happened just a few weeks ago at a…
One of the great mysteries about businesses such as the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service is whether the lawyers and doctors involved in the network have a financial incentive to refer car accident victims to one another.Now, a state lawmaker is trying to force medical and legal referral services to reveal any…
Some attorneys aren’t happy with the Florida Bar’s oversight of for-profit referral services that direct car accident victims to networks of doctors and lawyers. But public records show the bar is regulating ads for those services — just in a meek, lawyerly kind of way.For example, dressing an actor in…
A longtime City of Sunrise employee says that her bosses harassed her for following labor laws — even going so far as to reprimand her for using the bathroom during work hours. Cynthia Bagnall, a secretary for Sunrise since 1988, says that her bosses started to mistreat her when she…
A handful of Broward hooligans has shown that some people think metals are a little too precious. Six storm drains have been stolen from Oakland Park in the last two nights, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. The upswing in metal thefts — which includes a “Slinky” AC thief –…
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office was a little curious as to why Melissa Siladke allegedly stole $11,196.45 of taxpayer coin while she was an employee of Palm Tran, the county-funded transportation agency.Siladke’s answer: Because her ex-boss was a “gay pervert,” according to an arrest affidavit from the sheriff’s office.Siladke,…
The Daytona Beach cops got a few 911 calls yesterday when they happened to notice an 8-month-old boy in a stroller hanging out in the bed of a pickup truck that was cruising around town.According to an arrest affidavit, 23-year-old Keyona Nichole Davis was babysitting an 8-month-old boy when she…
The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office announced today that it has charged 19 people at the West Palm Beach Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center with running the place like a pill mill.According to State Attorney Michael McAuliffe, more than 6,000 oxycodone pills were seized as part of a seven-month…
The State Attorney’s Office is considering whether to charge two boys — ages 14 and 16 — as adults after police say one of them accidentally shot and killed their wheelman yesterday as the trio was allegedly about to embark on a crime spree in Boynton Beach.The Palm Beach County…
Sometimes the Twitter universe finds the news before we do — like the handful of people who happened to witness an elderly gentlemen allegedly jogging naked down Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach.West Palm Beach police spokesman Chase Scott tells the Pulp there’s not much more to it than…
Tampa police arrested 17-year-old Jared Michael Cano yesterday in an alleged plot to set off some explosive devices at Freedom High School.Aside from his criminal history, which includes a recent burglary arrest, Cano’s Facebook profile also gives a little insight into what kind of character the kid might be.He was…
Boynton Beach police arrested a 24-year-old man yesterday after they say he wrote “bomb threat” on the back of his grocery list, then slid it under a door into a group therapy session at a rehab center.Police were forced to evacuate and block off the Watershed Treatment Center in Boynton…
A 15-year-old kid who allegedly stole a BMW with his friends was shot and killed this morning by one of his accomplices, who was playing with a gun in the back seat of the car, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.The cops say they think the three boys,…
