I don’t know whether Guavin Kanhai was angry that a bartender rejected his romantic advances or whether he was mad that she wouldn’t refill his drink. But surely it was one or the other that caused the 47-year-old Kanhai to dial 911 three times to report that a “fake” bartender…
Cast your mind back to your seventh-grade Civics class, when Mrs. Brown drew that sprawling chart on the blackboard detailing the branches of government. That’s when you first found out you had something like a moral duty, as a citizen of this great land of America, to go to the…
It appears that more than one man was linked to the stabbing death of a man at a Pompano Beach barbecue this past weekend. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking for Tony Petigny, a 28-year-old man who lives in Deerfield Beach. Petigny allegedly had a role in the murder of…
Update: Police just announced that Parada has been charged with child neglect and taken into custody.Last night around 10, Fort Lauderdale police patrol officer found Melanie Parada, a 36-year-old woman who has been missing since March 11, in the 1100 block of NE Tenth Avenue. A news release by the…
Here’s a cool time-lapse video that just posted on Youtube, but it doesn’t say from what Hollywood Beach condo tower. See if you can guess:OK, I don’t live in Hollywood Beach, but the camera’s clearly pointing south. And is that the Westin Diplomat I see to the left? Maybe it’s…
Then please have your fun between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. in Hallandale Beach, where some guys in blue will be happy to race…
It’s been four years since New Times profiled Prince Mongo, and he is still 333 years old. But then, maybe they have a different calendar in the extraterrestrial land of Zambodia. And perhaps it’s impolite to remark on the age of an alien who is trying to save planet Earth.For…
Well, as reported elsewhere, Scott Rothstein is gone from the St. Lucie County Jail. I doubt we’ll ever know where he is again, including whenever he’s released from prison at the end of his sentence. In other Rothstein news, Sun-Sentinel reporter Peter Franceschina attended the Marc Nurik deposition and found that…
In this video, University of South Florida defensive end (and Deerfield Beach product) Jason Pierre-Paul is challenged by another USF player in — of all things — a back-handspring competition. Pierre-Paul does 16. Then he (understandably) stumbles around for a bit.It’s a feat of pure athleticism. And apparently that’s actually…
While you enjoy your Irish coffee, a few local headlines:Accused hit-and-run driver Ryan LeVin was arrested last night by Fort Lauderdale police. He’s been charged with vehicular homicide in the February 13, 2009, deaths of Kenneth Watkinson and Craig Elford, two British tourists. [Sun-Sentinel]An attorney for one of the alleged…
Ever since it became public yesterday (on this blog) that Scott Rothstein had cooperated with the feds in a case that caught reputed Sicilian Mafiosi Roberto Settineri, the question has hung in the air of those closest to the Ponzi schemer: Are we safe? Rothstein’s wife, Kim, and relatives, including…
When a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy saw a couple of dozen people running in different directions on NW Tenth Street on Saturday night in Pompano Beach, it was a clue that something pretty awful had happened. The deputy learned that they were scrambling away from the scene of a barbecue…
One of the attorneys representing the family of Craig Elford, a victim of the hit-and-run accident last February in Fort Lauderdale, says he expects the suspect in that case, Ryan LeVin, to surrender to police tomorrow.”I haven’t heard that he was missing,” says Seth Miles, whose Coral Gables firm is…
An atheist named Michael Middlebrooks has accused Gov. Charlie Crist of having a bigoted view of nonbelievers following what he said was a brief encounter in St. Petersburg on March 5. Millbrooks describes his brush with the governor and U.S. Senate candidate in this messageboard post, then repeats it in…
It was a matter of time before we had our first arrest for fraud in the U.S. government’s TARP program, and it was a sure thing that the fraud would have a South Florida angle. But besides the feds, it appears a bank executive plucked an unlikely victim out of…
Somewhere, someone must be wagging a finger and announcing, “You’re fired.” The saga surrounding the Trump International Hotel & Tower on A1A in Fort Lauderdale just keeps getting worse. Last spring, dozens of buyers filed suits alleging they were duped into believing the marketing hoopla that the Donald was the…
As scam artists go, Gina Marks is maddeningly persistent. The 37-year-old from Hollywood has been busted before for what Broward Sheriff’s Office calls “gypsy” crimes. Last May she was convicted of felony fraud, but she received only probation, which paved the way for another arrest last week on charges that…
We’ve been getting weekly updates from Boca Raton blogger Robert Feeley for some time now: Feeley’s news parody, SPN (for StuPidassNews), is at least as ripe as The Onion, only it’s completely homegrown. In SPN-land, Boca is “Beaver Falls,” and Feeley’s august news outlet is “The Only News Source that…
A just-released Fort Lauderdale Police affidavit describes how Ryan LeVin and Derek Cook partied all night February 12, then into the morning of February 13, a party that came to a gruesome end around 2:18 a.m., when LeVin’s speeding Porsche careered off Seabreeze Boulevard and struck two British tourists, killing…
Let’s put this Mafia thing in perspective. First, it appears that Scott Rothstein was able to nab someone believed to be international Mafia figure Roberto Settineri, who is pictured at right in what appears to be a surveillance photo. With that gut and cigar jutting from his mouth, he looks like he…
New Times blogs pounced on Monday’s two big stories. Scroll down to check out Juice coverage of the break in the Porsche hit-and-run case. And check out Pulp, where Bob Norman got the scoop on Scott Rothstein’s role as an informant in a federal investigation of the Mafia. In other…
