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Conspiracy Theorists Pretty Sure Delray Beach Firm Is Developing Anti-Christ
Nice try, VeriChip, but your plot to implant mankind with the “mark of the beast” was foiled by Mark Cole, Virginia delegate. VeriChip, a Delray Beach company that was purchased earlier this month by IBM, makes an FDA-approved microchip that contains a person’s medical information so that it can be…
Bodyguard: Sheriff Didn’t Like Rothstein’s Backslapping
There’s a lot of stories coming from Bob Scandiffio, Scott Rothstein’s former bodyguard. He spent thousands of hours providing security for the Ponzi schemer, after all. I’m compiling as quickly as possible, but for now, let me share some quick observations from Scandiffio regarding some of the bigger-name public officials…
UPDATED: Who’s Behind Anonymous Comments Supporting Judge Hurley? Perhaps His Campaign
Lately, somebody has been posting comments about Broward County Judge John “Jay” Hurley on this blog and others, whether the items have anything to do with the judge or not. They claim what a great guy he is. They claim he volunteers at a soup kitchen. They boast about his…
Despite Ghostly CityPlace South Tower, County Still Wants New West Palm Hotel
Here’s a riddle of government wisdom: Palm Beach County commissioners have been itching for a hotel to prop up the convention center in downtown West Palm Beach for years. Industry experts warn that the center will never drum up enough business without some beds nearby.Yet right next door on Okeechobee…
Convicted Murderer of Fort Lauderdale Tourist to Die by Lethal Injection
Back in May 1991, witnesses saw a Pennsylvania tourist, 32-year-old Lorraine Barrett, talking with a man at the Elbo Room on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Another witness saw Barrett and the man board an elevator at the Days Inn on Seabreeze Boulevard. Barrett was strangled to death, and there was evidence…
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ACLU Defends Artist’s Right to Paint at CityPlace
When is a city not a city? When it’s a shopping center disguised as something “reminiscent of an Italian town center.” Note that word reminiscent. As West Palm artist Bruce Kevin Bates found out, you may be able to set up your easel at the Villa d’Este in Tivoli or…
Palm Beach Princess Planning to Give Haiti Volunteers the Royal Treatment
Docked at the Port of Palm Beach, the Princess is just a rundown, financially strapped gambling barge. But when it arrives in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, the Palm Beach Princess will look positively luxurious by comparison.”If” it arrives, that is. West Palm’s Channel 25 is reporting that the Princess wants to make…
Arlen Specter’s Charitable Donation Too Tiny to Clean Rothstein From Campaign
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter was another far-flung politician to ride the Scott Rothstein gravy train, to the tune of at least $4,200. This morning, Specter’s reelection campaign is reporting that it plans to make a donation of that amount to a charity. How fitting; Rothstein loved charities!But this is no…
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Name, Photo Released in Fort Lauderdale Murder
Keith Sloane is the man whom Fort Lauderdale Police arrested yesterday as a suspect in the broad-daylight murder of Oscar Battle. According to a news release by the FLPD, the 21-year-old Sloane got into a verbal argument with Battle, 20, on Wednesday afternoon on the sidewalk of NW 15th Terrace…
Morning Juice: Nurse Tells Her Version of Cop’s Gunshot; Student’s Body Found in Haiti
Your daily glance at what’s happening in Broward and Palm Beach media:Sun-Sentinel: The 59-year-old nursing assistant who had a Plantation cop fire a bullet through her car’s window Monday night says she never saw a cop directing traffic and certainly never struck one with her car, as the cop who…
Embattled Greyhound Trainer Has Been Investigated Since Arrest
Ursula O’Donnell was arrested in 2002 for helping to kill more than 2,000 greyhounds. Last month we learned she was still working as a trainer in the state of Florida, where her alleged crimes took place. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigated O’Donnell, a member of the…
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As Haitians Rebuild, a Photographer Captures the Catastrophe
Michael McElroy is a South Florida-based freelance photographer who spent seven days in Port-au-Prince after the January 12 earthquake. Click here for a slide show of images that he captured, and below is a dispatch he filed after his trip. The day after the earthquake in Haiti, I was on…
Allen West Racking Up the Fox News Face Time
Your local congressional candidate Allen West is Fox News’ go-to guy on the treatment of suspected terrorists. He’s outraged that we read them their Miranda rights — just like Sen. George LeMieux is. That damned liberal Barack Obama isn’t as “tough on terror” as a true Republican like George W…
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Bodyguard: Scott Rothstein Created Extortion Plot
When Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein fled to Morocco at the end of October, there was one man he called to come over and see him in Casablanca. His name is Bob Scandiffio, a 50-year-old bodyguard who worked for Rothstein for two years. Scandiffio contacted me today and said he wanted to set…
In Broward and Palm Beach, Kids Armed to the Teeth
Scary reports from both Broward and Palm Beach counties today involving kids with access to firearms. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies just arrested three suspects — including two 13-year-olds — in the disappearance of five guns in Lauderdale Lakes. Meanwhile, in Boca Raton, police have arrested a 16-year-old for firing an…
Gangs of Boynton: B-Town Boy Turned Preacher Man
At around 8:15 on a Saturday night late last month, Detective Alex Marino Moreno of the Boynton Beach Police Department responded to a call. Two men were lying dead on SW 2nd Ave., both of gunshot wounds. One of the victims was 23-year-old Stephen Ocean. The other, 25-year-old Tite Sufra…
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Plaxico Burress Loses Home in Lighthouse Point
Hell, let the bank have it! Because it’s not like the former New York Giants star wideout was using the Lighthouse Point mansion he bought in 2005. No, these days the 32-year-old Plaxico Burress has a rent-free room at New York state’s Oneida Correctional Facility, where he’s counting the days…
Palm Beach Post Ad Highlights Plight of its Own Axed Employees
In its bizarre, ongoing effort to depress people into buying the daily newspaper, the Palm Beach Post has been running a series of ads about the economy.One ad highlighted job anxiety, unintentionally drawing attention to the more than 300 jobs lost at the Post in the past couple of years.The…
Police Chase: Could Pompano’s Defection Trigger Domino Effect for BSO?
Among the cast of hundreds who attended last night’s standing-room-only meeting of the Pompano Beach Commission were several leaders of a neighboring city that has a Broward Sheriff’s Office contract coming up for renewal this year: Deerfield Beach.City commissioners Marty Popelsky, Joe Miller and Bill Ganz were all in the…
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Foreclosures Down in Broward, Up in Palm Beach
An otherwise rosy real estate picture for South Florida’s tri-county area was thrown out of whack by a devastating report of foreclosure actions in Palm Beach County.Real estate analysts at Condo Vultures found that foreclosures in January 2010 dropped by 23 percent in Broward County compared to January 2009 and…