Welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times’ Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition…
See also: Rob Lopicola Child Sex Arrest: The Creepiest Text Messages You’ve Ever Seen.The principal of Polo Park Middle School in Wellington has been arrested on charges he used the internet to lure a 15-year-old boy to have sex with him at a hotel; the boy was actually an undercover…
When Lt. Gov Jennifer Carroll was accused of firing staffer Carletha Cole after Cole claimed to have walked in on the lieutenant governor during a gay tryst with her female travel aide, Carroll used the old tried-and-true “Look at me! I don’t look like a gay!” defense by saying: “Usually…
See also “DEA Storms Synthetic Pot Distribution Sites Across Florida” and “Synthetic Marijuana Ban Seems Like a Good Idea, Probably Won’t Do Much”The Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday launched a massive nationwide campaign aimed at distributors of herbal incense, or synthetic pot. All said, the feds arrested 90 people and…
If you’re wondering what the next ridiculously destructive posturing move House Republicans are going to be embarking upon (other than seeking reelection), it just might be outlined in a letter that they sent to Speaker of the House John Boehner.Details started coming out this week about the letter, which asks…
Police say 29-year-old James Newman and 18-year-old James Misleveck escaped from a Wisconsin correctional facility last week, then stole cars and a shotgun and kidnapped a woman from a casino. They were then allegedly spotted at a robbery in Hillsborough County on Sunday, thousands of miles away.After a high-speed chase…
Popular real-estate website Trulia.com has been tracking you, international real-estate buyers. And now it’s telling everybody.While a study released earlier this week found that searches for U.S. homes from other countries has dropped 10 percent on the website since 2011, there was other information that was pretty interesting: Of the…
We told you yesterday about how a review of Florida “Stand Your Ground” cases revealed that many of the people getting away with homicide had (several) previous arrests, and we told you before that about the Tampa Bay Times study that found that the law, which allowed Floridians to kill…
Former Deerfield Beach High School football standout Steven Feagin was accused in 2008 of raping a woman in Pompano Beach — charges that he got out of when the alleged victim started accusing people specifically exonerated by DNA evidence and saying the FBI was covering something up.That case, however, did…
See also “Synthetic Marijuana Ban Seems Like a Good Idea, Probably Won’t Do Much” and “Broward Commission Moves to Ban Bath Salts, Fake Weed”The war on synthetic drugs has gone federal, and in a big way.Officers with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday stormed…
At the Center for Pranic Healing, a small studio in a dull Davie office complex, Ricky Williams is cradling in his thick arms a middle-aged woman with bleached-blond hair. He’s wearing Gucci loafers, basketball shorts, and an Under Armour T-shirt, which she is soaking with sobs. She’s crying about her…
In July 2011, the writers and editors of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel were called together in their ninth-floor newsroom in downtown Fort Lauderdale. It was a staff without a leader — Editor in Chief Earl Maucker had retired almost a year earlier, and the staff’s numbers had dwindled to the…
The American press continues to report the body count in Mexico’s “War on Drugs” at more than 50,000 dead. But Molly Molloy, a researcher at New Mexico State University, tallies more than 100,000 Mexicans killed to wage a war financed and mandated by American authorities and led by Mexican president…
Editor’s note: Molly Molloy, border and Latin American specialist at the New Mexico State University Library, has made it her mission to document the number of people killed in Mexico’s wave of violence. Using official government reports as well as press accounts, Molloy has created a detailed record of the…
On the heels of the Miami Marlins’ trading away Hanley Ramirez to the Dodgers and Anibal Sanchez to the Tigers and working on a possible deal to send Josh Johnson to the Rangers comes a Forbes report that the Fish are on pace to set the record for drawing the…
Robert Delgado was an American soldier. He left behind his pregnant wife to serve under Allen West in Iraq, where Delgado was wounded by fire from an AK-47. He was saved, he says, from body armor West gave to him, and he says it in the latest West campaign ad.This is…
The bad news is that there are now pictures floating around the internet of a 60-year-old Florida rep without a shirt on. The good news is that he isn’t trying to get laid.You might be inclined to freak out over Palm Harbor Republican Peter Nehr showing off his bod online,…
See also: Sally Ride Revealed to Be Gay: Her Sister, on Ride’s Life, Death, and Desires for Privacy.Well, internet, it looks like if you want to more accurately label late astronaut Sally Ride’s homosexual relationship, you’re going to have to look to people other than Sally’s sister, Bear Ride.Much has…
Our Miami compatriots told you yesterday about Robert Brown, the Tampa children’s entertainer arrested this week on charges he was planning on kidnapping a child to rape, murder, and eat him — quite literally the stuff of nightmares.He claims it was all just fantasy — which, though it’s unseemly, would…
Some people took issue with the way the Tampa Bay Times analyzed the application of “Stand Your Ground” cases in Florida last month. They’ve come out with another case study, however, and this one’s way less ambiguous: They looked at more than 100 cases in which people got out of…
This is a followup to our piece mapping out property owned by Yellow Cab and real estate mogul Jesse Gaddis, one of the richest people in Fort Lauderdale.Gaddis recently attempted to purchase a city-owned lot that just happens to be the parking lot for Riverside Market Cafe, a popular hangout…
See also “Synthetic Marijuana Ban Seems Like a Good Idea, Probably Won’t Do Much” and “Broward Commission Moves to Ban Bath Salts, Fake Weed”The Dania Beach City Commission on Tuesday evening cleared the way for a ban on selling bath salts and herbal incense, more commonly referred to as synthetic…
