We recently brought you the story of the murder of Fort Lauderdale multimillionaire Ron Vinci, for which his girlfriend Catherine Pileggi is awaiting trial. In addition to the accounts of their lives before the murder, there are things that don’t make sense and a mysterious poisoned bottle of gin. But…
Last June, our cover story My Father’s Bones told the sprawling, stranger-than-fiction tale of a son searching for a father who had been killed by the husband of his mother, urged on by her father. Yeah, it’s complicated. The victim was David Jackson, whose bones were found buried near the…
In this week’s cover story, we explore the strange living situation and gruesome death of Ron Vinci, who had just moved into the Tarpon River home where he was found dead in a bag by the side of the bed. His girlfriend, Catherine Pileggi, faces trial for the murder.According to…
The bulk of the background information for this week’s feature story about the murder of Ron Vinci came from evidence released by the prosecutor’s office at the end of last year, during an initial media inquiry. At the time, media outlets had been reporting that Vinci’s body had been found…
Nine months ago, Ron Vinci, a wealthy former car dealer, moved into a $4 million house at 101 Coconut Drive in Fort Lauderdale. Less than two weeks later, his body was found in the guest bedroom, mutilated and stuffed into a bag. Today, the scene of his death is clean,…
Two major horse owners’ associations are once again miffed by a local casino giant’s efforts to conduct races in order to keep a second gambling permit under Florida’s twisted rules for pari-mutuel casinos.Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach usually runs thoroughbred races, according to an extensive contract with the Florida Horsemen’s…
After Wednesday night’s dramatic meeting about puppy stores in Hallandale Beach, we caught up with Michele Lazarow, who has been the strongest voice behind getting a puppy-store ban passed in that small city.Lazarow — who says she doesn’t want to call herself an “activist” because it reminds people of PETA…
So, the Hallandale Beach City Commission passed on first reading an ordinance to severely restrict the sale of puppies and kittens in pet stores by requiring a “certificate of source” for each animal sold.The final vote is on April 18.Now, to what you really want to know: how Mayor Joy…
The Hallandale Beach City Commission will meet to discuss a proposal to crack down on puppy stores in that city, tonight at 6 o’clock. For years, activists have been trying to get the city to join a handful of other cities nationwide — including Lake Worth — in an outright…
Your humble Southwest Ranches ICE jail correspondent was on vacation last week, coincidentally on a tour of Civil Rights-era landmarks in the Deep South, when news broke that ICE had decided not to pursue a detention facility on a plot owned by CCA in Southwest Ranches.But about 90 minutes later,…
It is, of course, essential Rick Scott lore that our budget-cutting governor nixed a federally funded high-speed rail project because it used too much taxpayer money. As little sense as that move made, the governor has always been clear that he favors private enterprise over the government providing… well, anything.So…
It’s a strange battle that pitches Ron Bergeron as the underdog, but there’s nothing that isn’t strange about trash in South Florida. Debates about what to do with the stuff have raged for decades, and the main player has been Wayne Huizenga’s mutant offspring, Wheelabrator Technologies, which does trash hauling…
Assuming you, like most of our dear readers, are a lily-livered sissy who has never made it through a “Hell Night” or advanced Navy SEAL training, here are a couple of things you may not know.1. There are former Navy SEALs who teach classes on how to be like a…
Homeowners facing foreclosure turn to some creative measures to try to fight the banks. For example, there’s the Luznar family of Pembroke Pines, whom we followed last year as they hung massive signs on their house saying, “We are fighting back.”Meanwhile, another homeowner — Lynn Szymoniak of Palm Beach Gardens…
We’re not usually in the business of passing on meandering, typewritten pro-se lawsuits filed in federal court, but this one contains such impassioned language and has obviously annoyed a judge so much that we’re presenting it for your perusal.George May, who says he owned land in the “East Everglades” underneath…
Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Keith London, who just might be Mayor Joy Cooper’s least-favorite person in the world political arena, is set to challenge her in the November mayoral election.London has previously called out the mayor for spending wastefully, ignoring residents, and avoiding transparency. The two were involved in a…
Toussain Puddie, the former TSA screener who grabbed car dealer Rick Case’s Montblanc pen at the airport last June, has been facing third-degree Grand Theft charges for months. We published a feature story on the case in December.Now Leland Garvin, Puddie’s lawyer, tells the Pulp that prosecutors informed him that…
Well, that was quick. Pembroke Pines commissioners voted last night to rescind a contract to provide fire, EMS, water, and sewer services to Southwest Ranches, in opposition to a planned ICE detention facility being proposed by Corrections Corporation of America.CCA responded immediately with a hefty lawsuit, filed late last night…
Planners and lawyers at the Corrections Corporation of America are going to show up for work this morning with a significant task ahead of them: figuring out how to provide water, sewer, and emergency services to the ICE detention facility they want to build in Southwest Ranches. They were counting…
–Two significant news items in the saga of resistance to the proposed ICE detention center in Southwest Ranches, chronicled earlier this year in our Prisonville, Fla story.First, the Pembroke Pines City Commission meets again tonight to discuss canceling their agreement to provide fire, water, and emergency medical service to the…
A group of inmates facing tough charges at the Broward County Main Jail is suing representatives of the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the jail’s health-services contractor, Armor Correctional Services, for inadequate dental care.Specifically, the inmates say that the toothbrushes provided by the jail — “the finger brush for animals that…
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