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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A 36-year-old woman named Melanie Parada disappeared March 11 from her home on 15 Isle of Venice in Fort Lauderdale. That night, a Thursday, Parada put her 8-year-old daughter to bed. When the daughter woke up that Friday morning, Parada had vanished without a trace.Family members alerted police when they…
Earlier today, we told you that Derek Cook, the Tamarac man who was allegedly involved in the hit-and-run death of two British tourists last year, has surrendered to police. And now Coral Gables attorney Seth Miles, who’s representing Elford’s family in a civil suit against Cook and Ryan LeVin, says…
Or at least it does based on this video, shot Saturday afternoon on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Granted, there’s four dudes for every one female, but isn’t that always the ratio on spring break?[Video shot by joesaho]…
In case you missed it, Susan Stanton was featured in this documentary that aired Saturday on CNN. Alas, it doesn’t have much to do with Lake Worth politics. Rather, it’s primarily interested in the perilous journey that Steve Stanton took to become Susan. Then Susan Stanton was hired to become…
Since February 2009, Fort Lauderdale police have been looking for Derek Cook, the Tamarac man who was allegedly racing a Porsche on Sea Breeze Boulevard when he lost control and struck two tourists from Great Britain, killing them.This morning, just before noon, Cook surrendered.Cook, 38, is charged with accessory after…
There have been lots of books written so far about the 2008 presidential campaign, but no one’s got a story half as wild as Rielle Hunter. If (OK, when) she writes it, let’s hope she goes all the way back to her childhood in the Woodlands community of Tamarac, where…
Is there anyone out there besides George LeMieux and his fellow Republicans in Congress who think that this health care issue hasn’t been debated to death? To someone who was appointed to the U.S. Senate this past fall, it may seem like health care reform has sneaked up on Congress,…
