Anthony Evans: Consider consequences of legalizing marijuana
To what end? When it comes to radical shifts in public policy, this is the single most important question that must be asked, because actions don't take place in a vacuum. Instead, they take place in...
View ArticleTwo women play slots while children left in running car outside casino,...
While two South Florida women played the slots late Sunday evening, their children waited in a running car parked outside the casino, authorities say. Sisters Romanie Pierre, 31, and Malory Pierre, 27,...
View ArticleThree 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,...
View ArticlePolice: Three arrested for lying about crash, calling 911 to request new...
The investigation into a minor car crash got complicated when the women in one vehicle lied about who was driving, pretended they couldn't speak English and called 911 to request a new officer, police...
View ArticleFour arrested in cellphone store theft in Oakland Park
Four people were arrested Monday following an armed robbery at a cellphone store in Oakland Park earlier in the day, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. Georges Richardson, 21, and three...
View Article5 South Florida men part of 255 child predator arrests, say federal agents
Federal authorities on Tuesday confirmed the identities of the five suspects arrested in South Florida as part of a five-week operation against accused child sex predators. Operation iGuardian netted...
View ArticleMan in police chase accused of theft; burglary tools found in car
Police say a man stole a truck, ditched it, then led them on a 90-minute foot chase after burglary tools were found in his car, according to an Ocean Ridge Police report. It happened Tuesday at about...
View ArticleTranssexual 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...
View ArticleBoca cops bust debit skimming suspects
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...
View ArticleTemptress robbery suspect still at large after she shows in court and walks
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...
View ArticleWoman says she was not let out of Wellington house for three years
An abused woman told Palm Beach County deputies she stayed inside her Wellington home for three years, afraid of her Pakistani husband, who is now in jail facing domestic battery charges. Qasem Alabed,...
View ArticleTemptress robbery suspect, wanted by cops, is no-show for new court hearing...
A suspect in a ring of thieving bar-hopping women didn't show up for a South Florida court hearing Friday morning, a day after she appeared in court and her arrest warrant went undetected. Nobody in...
View ArticleUnlicensed 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...
View ArticleShaken 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...
View ArticleCopycats 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...
View ArticleDeputies: Women solicited prostitution to exploit elderly man
An 86-year-old West Palm Beach man lost almost everything in his bank account to two 24-year-old women who offered themselves as prostitutes to get access to his home and money, Palm Beach County...
View Article'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...
View ArticleMom 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...
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