Two teens accused of burglarizing a home claim they not only tossed jewelry and other loot out of a moving pickup truck but threw more of the stolen goods into trash bins, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
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Teen burglars tell deputies they tossed stolen jewels out of moving pickup
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Three arrested in Boca with over $2,000 of stolen goods
Sometimes persistence pays off. But for Gerald Allen and Akieman Maynard, it landed them in jail for a second time.
Boca Raton police say Allen, 23, of Miramar, and Maynard, 25, of Lauderdale Lakes, were arrested on retail theft charges earlier this...
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Transsexual shoplifter strikes again, deputies say
Deputies say the nearly $350 of stolen baby products hidden in a Lantana man's purse wasn't the only trick he had up his sleeve. Nelson S. Henry also had a crack pipe in his bra.
The 49-year-old was arrested Monday by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's...
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Tamarac man accused of sexual battery on a child
A Tamarac man was arrested Wednesday and charged with five counts of sexual battery involving a child, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
Denton Robinson, 59, is accused of having sexual relations with a girl in her teens, detectives said.
She...
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ATM skimmer's long spree in Boca Raton over, cops say
Fouad Sankis Dahdah likely didn't know he had an audience on Wednesday when he swiped several skimmed debit cards in West Boca, police said.
But he did — and the Boca Raton undercover police officers who were watching him knew it was time to put...
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Authorities miss chance to arrest temptress robbery suspect when she shows in court
She arrived for a Thursday morning court hearing as a wanted woman with an active arrest warrant. And she left the hearing as a wanted woman with an active arrest warrant.
Somebody dropped the ball when Ryan Elkins, a 23-year-old wanted in connection...
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Dine and dash prank took a deadly turn
This man will pay a steep price for what he thought would be a meal on the house.
A trio of men dined and dashed -- left without paying their tab -- at the New Dynasty Restaurant in Sarasota, according to an arrest affidavit from the Sarasota County...
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Woman accused of child neglect after deputies say she failed to get medical help for burned toddler
A 2-year-old girl burned in a fire her sister lit in her bed didn't receive medical attention for two days because her mother believed she was OK, deputies say.
Now the mother, 23-year-old Caniece Worthy of Lake Worth, is in jail facing a child...
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Unlicensed Boca Raton dentist claims 6,000 patients, deputies say
BOCA RATON With a dental office crammed into the laundry room of his Boca Raton bungalow, deputies say an unlicensed dentist saw 6,000 patients and was using the fees he collected to build a mansion in his native Brazil.
Ubaldo Bittencourt, 62, would...
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Shaken baby case awaits autopsy findings
Five-month old Ariel Adames died April 30, a week after entering Palms West Hospital with bleeding in his tiny brain.
The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's office found "blunt force trauma to the head" as a preliminary cause of death, and...
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Boynton man accused of attacking grandparents, mom in fight over car
Police say a Boynton Beach man, 25, went into a rage against his family, head butting his grandfather, slapping his grandmother and scratching his mother in a fight over a car on Thursday.
A disagreement over using the car sparked a tantrum that...
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Address racial disparities in pot arrests
Blacks and whites use marijuana at about the same rate, but blacks are far more likely to get arrested for it than whites. That's the chief finding of an American Civil Liberties Union study that comes to a troubling conclusion about the enforcement of...
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Wife says she was not let out of Wellington house for three years
A woman told Palm Beach County deputies she stayed inside her Wellington home for three years, afraid of her husband, who is now in jail facing domestic battery charges.
Qasem Alabed, 42, swatted his pregnant wife — whose family lives in Morocco...
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Copycats may be causing spike in temptress robbery cases
To the bar-hopping band of Crystal, Heaven and Keshia, now add Sheka, Sarah and a blonde in a pink halter mini-dress.
Detectives hunting for bar-going femme fatales who seduce, drug and rob men have seen such an influx of cases that they are wondering...
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Big crocodile gets hook removed from stomach
Veterinarians in Jupiter conducted emergency surgery Saturday to remove a fishing hook from a 10 foot crocodile mistakenly caught in Pinellas County, on the west coast of Florida.
The reason the 300 pound reptile got hooked in the first place comes down...
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Drunken man confessed to corrupting public morals, deputies said
Here's a sure sign that you can't hold your booze: You spontaneously confess to an approaching officer that you're "corrupting the public morals."
And here's another sign: You're 19 and not legally old enough to imbibe.
Deputies received a report ...
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'El Loco' gets 15 years for $15 million jewel heist in Jupiter
A thief who goes by the nickname "El Loco"— the Madman — has pleaded guilty to one of the largest jewel heists in South Florida history, the well-orchestrated bust-in of a Palm Beach County store that netted $15 million in jewels and watches....
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Mom says police allegations of 'deplorable,' feces-filled house are untrue
A 12-year-old boy's 911 call led police to a feces-covered house of horrors in Riviera Beach — a place so "unbearably hot" and overrun with trash that officers couldn't take it, police said.
But the boy's mother, who was arrested on a charge of...
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Teen burglars tell deputies they tossed stolen jewels out of moving pickup
Two teens accused of burglarizing a home claim they not only tossed jewelry and other loot out of a moving pickup truck but threw more of the stolen goods into trash bins, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Investigators...
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Woman suspected in store theft ring linked to other Boca shoplifting cases, police say
A suspected member of an organized shoplifting ring, already facing retail theft charges in Palm Beach County, is now believed to be behind two other heists at high-end stores in Boca Raton, according to investigators.
Ioulia Guerman, 42, was arrested...
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