Two Boynton Beach police officers were arrested Tuesday on charges of lying and official misconduct. The State Attorney’s Office says that these officers were not truthful about the way they served an arrest warrant last November: They wrote that they’d knocked on a perp’s motel room door, but prosecutors say…
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jacqueline Hogan Scola cleared one more roadblock to the lethal juicing of South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle.After a hearing ordered by the Florida Supreme Court to decide the effectiveness of the state’s new lethal-injection drug, pentobarbital, Scola ruled that Valle’s defense “failed to present any credible…
If there’s one thing that’s clear right off about visiting a federal prison, it’s how utterly depressing it is. The employees, the inmates, the visitors — they all seem to be shuffling through the painful process of completing their day. And that’s partly why Elroy “Eighty-Six” Phillips, the subject of…
A 28-year-old convicted sex offender is now a convicted murderer.Kendrick Herring of Miramar was convicted yesterday of first-degree murder after stabbing his 51-year-old father to death through his eyes in their home in 2007.According to the Associated Press, Herring’s lawyers argued the killing was due to insanity, while prosecutors maintained…
Hollywood police have arrested a man they say is a suspect in the death of his 62-year-old mother, whose body was found in her home this weekend. Irene Kertesz’s husband found her dead in her Hollywood home around 9 p.m. Saturday, and WSVN is reporting that her son — 29-year-old…
Serial killer Ted Bundy, who confessed to committing 30 murders before being fried in the electric chair at Florida State Prison in Raiford in 1989, may be pinned with some additional murders he’s long been accused of.There’s a national database of DNA profiles of convicts maintained by the FBI, but…
Steve Gonot, the former Deerfield Beach commissioner convicted in May of stealing campaign funds and of misconduct charges, was sentenced today to one year in jail.Gonot will be posting $15,000 bond to stay out of jail while the appeals process plays out. He was also sentenced to five years’ probation…
After Florida’s seventh reported machete attack this month, it may seem as if we may have a few too many Jason Voorhees wannabes here in the Sunshine State.We don’t know what the obsession is with trying to hack up people with a big, sharp stick o’ metal, but it’s happening.We’ll…
A 33-year-old Miramar man was sentenced today to ten years up the river for drunkenly mowing over and killing a motorcyclist in 2009.Robert Jones pleaded guilty a few weeks ago to killing 43-year-old Eric Maron while he was drunk-driving his fiancée’s daughter to school on September 9, 2009.The sentence handed…
Two men have been arrested in the weekend shooting in South Beach of an off-duty detective from the New York City Police Department after one of the men dropped by Broward General Hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound.Mustafa Cornelius Lee, 28, and Francisco Henriquez, 35, have been charged…
The case of cocaine delivery man Mackle Shelton — who received an 18-year sentence for practicing his trade in 2005 — sparked a federal judge to rule part of Florida’s drug laws unconstitutional yesterday.Judge Mary S. Scriven of Federal District Court, in a 43-page order, threw out Shelton’s cocaine-delivery charge…
Convicted murderer Frederick Barrett was captured this morning by the U.S. Marshals Service, nearly 32 years after he hopped a few fences at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford during a power outage and disappeared.Barrett, now 60, was found living in a marijuana grow house in Montrose County, Colorado, where…
This week’s New Times cover story reveals the turbulent past of Brian Krebs, who stands accused of stabbing promoter and drummer Jimmy Pagano to death and slashing five others in a bar fight…
U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan decided not to grant bail to Izhar Khan — who was the 24-year-old former imam of Margate’s Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen mosque before his arrest in May on charges of supporting the Pakistani Taliban — despite the feds releasing no new evidence against him.His brother, Irfan…
David Tillman, the former Hollywood Christian Academy track coach arrested last year for sexing up a young girl on the team, pleaded guilty today to a reduced charge.Instead of the initial lewd and lascivious battery charge dropped on Tillman, he pleaded guilty to a child-abuse charge — which spares him…
Here’s one they don’t teach in Management 101.A local microbiologist claims that her boss would unzip his pants and touch himself when she met with him to talk about work, according to a recently filed lawsuit. To make matters worse, the woman claims, she was passed up for a promotion at…
Apparently Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t take kindly to people running scams on people under the guise of natural disasters.Bondi announced yesterday that her office has filed a lawsuit in Broward County Circuit Court accusing Hallandale-based hurricane shutter company Rolladen Inc. of taking big deposits from people but never…
The first jailhouse coup de grâce approved by Gov. Rick Scott has been delayed by the Florida Supreme Court.Manuel Valle — convicted of killing a Coral Gables cop in 1978 — was scheduled to be executed on August 2, but the court delayed it until September 1.According to the Florida…
The New York Times has been the recipient of 106 Pulitzer Prizes as one of the most historic newspapers in the country, but the paper’s weekend piece about Port St. Lucie’s alleged teenaged hammer murderer, Tyler Hadley, was a little strange.The story — which ran in the “A” section of…
Within a week, police in South Florida arrested two young people for allegedly killing the ones who raised them — 17-year-old Tyler Hadley is charged with murdering both his parents with a hammer last Saturday in Port St. Lucie, and 21-year-old Gerard Lopes has been charged with killing his adoptive…
Andrea Miller apparently isn’t the best at picking boyfriends, since the cops say that during a confrontation yesterday, her ex-boyfriend grabbed a gun and shot at her while her current boyfriend had already run away.According to Boca Raton police, Miller was with her boyfriend, Kunta Kinte Riddick, at a West…
The Kansas crazies are coming.Westboro Baptist “Church” Pastor Fred Phelps tells New Times that the church’s minions are coming to Fort Pierce tonight to protest the funeral of 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher Schumann, who was killed July 5 in Afghanistan.Schumann and his fellow soldiers were in a vehicle…
