Toussain Puddie used to work as a TSA security screener at Terminal 1 of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport — until he told police last month that he had taken home a pen belonging to local car dealership owner Rick Case. Case decided to press charges, despite Puddie’s cooperation in returning…
Malinda Knowles says she was about to fly out of LaGuardia Airport last year, headed for West Palm Beach, until JetBlue employees allegedly committed what the New York Post is calling a “panty air raid.”Knowles, a 27-year-old financial consultant and former model, says she was wearing a baggy blue T-shirt…
We have some more details about crimes allegedly committed last month by Charles Harper, the foster child turned stalker turned sex-abuse accuser whose life has been unfortunately entwined with that of Broward Circuit Judge John Bowman.According to incident reports from PBSO, one day in June was a burglary bonanza for…
Since a gathering of the religulous assembled for a protest against Margate’s Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen in early June, we’ve been waiting to hear any shred of evidence aside from accusations in a federal indictment against the mosque’s former imam, Izhar Khan.Khan was one of six people charged with conspiring to…
A recently filed lawsuit is all the more evidence that hanging out with family really does suck, because relatives can bankrupt you. Yolanda Dieppa, according to Broward County Civil Court filings, was hanging out at apparent relative Vilma Dieppa’s Margate house in July 2007. Yolanda was on Vilma’s property as…
Gerard Lopes, the 21-year-old adopted son of Pembroke Pines realtor Natalie Belmonte, has been charged with first-degree murder in her death, police say.The cops uncovered a body yesterday morning in a marsh less than a mile from their home — which was later identified as being Belmonte’s.Belmonte had gone missing…
Remember that $87,000 former State Sen. Mandy Dawson allegedly received from ophthalmologist-turned-felon Alan Mendelsohn between 2003 and 2006? That investigation finally landed her a trip to jail yesterday.Dawson was hit with federal tax-evasion charges yesterday in her first arrest since she was caught forging an oxycodone prescription in ’02.Dawson, a…
The Port St. Lucie Police Department today released the arrest affidavit of 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, who’s accused of beating both of his parents to death with a 22-inch framing hammer, then throwing a party in the house with the corpses of his parents still in the bedroom.The report explains gruesome…
Damn. JAABlog, an early source for our story on Charles Harper that devolved into a mess of sexual-abuse allegations against a sitting judge, has an update on his whereabouts.Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office records show that Harper was arrested at the end of June for unarmed burglary in an unoccupied…
In an accident seemingly snatched from the movie Zoolander, a man says a Pompano Beach gas station’s faulty pump maimed him, according to a recent court filing…
When a young man came to Jesus Hernandez’s Fort Lauderdale home the other day to buy the marmoset monkey he’d been advertising online, he thought he was going to get $2,700 and say so long to 1-year-old Rafiki.Instead, Hernandez tells New Times that the man identified himself as a Florida…
Some staffers at a West Palm Beach juvenile jail where a teenager died this month were not trained to know the facility’s safety, security, and emergency plans, according to a state quality assurance report written in February. Meanwhile, “management accountability” at the jail was given a “minimal” rating by state…
As is probably the case with most murders allegedly carried out by 17-year-old kids that involve bashing in their parents’ heads with 22-inch framing hammers, the Tyler Hadley case is getting weird.According to several reports, Hadley told another friend that he was high on ecstasy pills when he allegedly murdered…
An ex-cop turned porn producer says that Miramar and its cops went out of their way to wrongly arrest him on rape charges, so that man, Lavont Flanders Jr., wants the city to pay him for his troubles, according to a recent court filing. Flanders, a former Miami Beach police…
Eric Perez’s mother has been given many reasons why her 18-year-old son died ten days ago at a juvenile jail in West Palm Beach. He woke up one morning hallucinating, complaining of a headache, and vomiting. He may have had breathing problems, an enlarged heart, or a stroke, according to…
Now that we’ve got the timeline worked out by Port St. Lucie cops — that Tyler Hadley created a Facebook invitation for a party at his place first, then allegedly murdered his parents with a hammer before party time — the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Office has released a few mug…
Lee Lewis — the hearse owner with exotic leather outfits who’s accused of bringing traffic to a standstill on the Palmetto Expressway a few weeks ago after allegedly leaving his body-hauler loaded with fake guns and explosives on the side of the road — has had another felony charge added…
A 15-year-old kid was taken to the hospital after cops say Pops cut off part of junior’s thumb while attempting to cut off the kid’s cast with a circular saw.According to court documents, 33-year-old Lawrence Roberts, who also goes by “Squirrelly,” was jailed on a charge of cruelty toward child…
Port St. Lucie police have released a few new details surrounding 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, who allegedly beat his parents to death with a hammer over the weekend.Police say Hadley created a Facebook invitation to a party at his parents’ place before allegedly taking a 22-inch framing hammer to their heads,…
UPDATE: Police have provided us with a few extra details about the alleged hammer murders of Blake and Mary-Jo Hadley.Cops in Port St. Lucie say a 17-year-old kid murdered his parents, then decided to throw a house party at their place — while their bodies were still on the floor…
And you thought that churches took money only from their parishioners! Not so, according to a lawsuit recently filed in Broward County Civil Court…
U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan denied a bond request earlier this week for Hafiz Khan — a Miami imam who’s among six people charged with conspiring to support the Pakistani Taliban — but the judge made no such ruling for his sons.Jordan didn’t rule on the bond of 24-year-old Izhar…
