Oh, teenagers. Two Port St. Lucie teen boys wanted to buy stuff at a their neighborhood Walmart but just didn’t have any money. So they hatched a fail-safe plan. One dude robs the store, and the other dude poses as a cop to arrest him. Boom. Heist. Of. The. Century…
Your Miami Dolphins are set to kickoff the 2012 season this Sunday at Houston (a team, incidentally, they have never beaten ever in the entire existence of American tackle football history). If you haven’t noticed, we’re living in the golden age of pass-first football. Passing records are falling by the…
Last week, Isaias Lerner-Biber, a South Florida cardiologist who worked with the South Broward Physicians Group in Coconut Creek, was arrested for beating a dog to death with a hammer. He was released from jail on Wednesday. The very next day, he shot himself in the head. Lerner-Biber had been…
See also “Bahamian Men Sink Boat While Smuggling Six People Into Florida, Including A Drug Dealer”Speeding through a manatee zone is no joke, especially if your boat is stuffed with weed and illegal aliens.At the end of August, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission stopped a 24′ boat operated by…
Remember when Charlie Crist used to be a Republican? Well Charlie Crist does. And he thinks it used to be pretty great. And then Barack Obama went and hugged him and got his government take over stank all over Crist and ruined a perfectly good Republican. Because of this treachery,…
Broward State Attorney Mike Satz, who has held the office for 837 years and counting, has rarely faced a serious challenger in his reelection bids. This November, he’ll be running against Republican Jim Lewis, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer who most recently ran (unsuccessfully) for attorney general.The main talking point of…
In case you missed it, Bill Clinton had a few billion things to say last night during his DNC speech. The former president spoke for approximately 48 minutes (and might still be talking right now, so somebody better check). But it’s all good, baby. Because America loves Bubba. He’s become the…
Remember Scott Rothstein? The dirtbag who is currently serving 50 years in federal prison for running the largest investment fraud in South Florida history?Well, turns out his wife is equally devious (allegedly!) because it looks like she also might be going straight to jail without passing GO and without collecting $200…
Myles Dowling of Newton Massachusetts was arrested for robbing a PNC Bank in Boca Raton last week, according to an FBI criminal complaint filed in federal court. The complaint says Dowling demanded money from the tellers using a black revolver handgun, and then took off in a four-door 2000 Honda…
In 2006, the undaunted geniuses in the Florida Legislature came up with the Florida Renewable Technology and Energy Efficiency Act, a shady law that basically gives utility companies like FPL and Progress Energy Florida permission to charge customers for something that might be built or fixed, without even having to…
A handful of middle-aged alleged fraudsters in northern Broward has been charged with a whole bunch of fraud and money laundering, accused by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of raising more than $20 million for a fake investment scheme.More than 700 folks were allegedly told they could invest in a company…
President Obama is scheduled to hit up West Palm during a campaign stop this Sunday. FOR FREE. Aw, yeah. The POTUS will be speaking at the Palm Beach County Convention Center at 650 W. Okeechobee Blvd. and is inviting everyone to come along, but tickets are required. Maybe he’ll talk…
Earl D. Coney Jr. is accused of having oral sex with a 16-year-old girl without telling her he is HIV-positive. On August 28, Coney apparently picked the girl up from her home and brought her to his place, where he expressed a desire to have oral sex with her. She…
Scientists tend to frame the consequences of overfishing in esoteric ecological terms that seem frightening but are difficult to comprehend. A new study commissioned by the Pew Environment Group, however, translates the consequences into dollars and cents, making it all too clear that South Florida has lost millions in revenue due to depleted…
Time was, Rusty McKeithan could load up a truck with four or five dogs, grab his rifle, and set out into northern Florida’s Apalachicola National Forest to kill a black bear. McKeithan, 54, and his pals would drive along until the dogs caught scent and started barking. Then they’d set…
Banking on the Disabled: Serial Filer of Lawsuits Saves the Disabled… and Makes Some Bucks
“The urinal is too high,” says Douglas Schapiro, a pudgy lawyer dressed casually in a red polo shirt. He’s squished into the men’s room of Mi Fondita Mexicana y Café in Hollywood fiddling with a measuring tape. “It has to be 17 inches from the floor. This is 24 inches.”…
It was 9:45 a.m. on October 11, 2009, when Juan Carlos Portieles parked his beat-up Toyota Camry on a quiet side street in Miami-Dade’s Cutler Bay. Tall and heavyset, with close-cropped brown hair and traces of stubble on his jaw, the 30-year-old DJ walked several blocks to a cluster of…
Cops may have found the car involved in this sad hit-and-run case. On Monday, Rita Chiero was using a walker to get around her gated senior living community when a vehicle hit her from behind, killing the 86-year-old grandmother. The driver fled the scene. But on Wednesday, Davie police say…
Boynton Beach Police say a woman who called them Tuesday to report her husband had attacked her was actually the one who did the attacking. Natacha Jean-Baptiste, 41, was arrested after cops showed up responding to her call, only to find that she allegedly hit her husband in the face…
See also: Broward’s School Bus System Is A Mess; Broward’s School Bus Mess Has Turned Into Finger-Pointing Farce Update: Tindall announced that he’s taking a medical leave for at least six weeks. It’s not clear whether he will stay on the job after that time. Tindall also apologized for the recent…
Last night was the season finale of Hard Knocks, which means it’s all downhill for the Miami Dolphins from here on out. As far as season finales go, this one was a weird amalgam of boring, sad, and — for some inexplicable reason — Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson. With the first…
The Sun-Sentinel has a piece today about how local business leaders and yuppies are aspiring to make Broward a high-tech destination to lure young people and their families from across the nation. It quotes a few successful professionals who found nice office space, to support the thesis that “Broward aims…
