Ethics Investigation of #Margate commissioner reveals Gross Incompetence
He signed an agreement stating the card wasn’t for personal use. He was told numerous times by top City executives over a span of three and half years to stop making personal purchases with his city-issued credit card. Each time, they stated, Margate Commissioner David McLean said he was sorry – or used it by accident – [...]
ACLU Launches Nationwide Investigation into Police Use of Military Technology & Tactics including Florida
NEW YORK – American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in 23 states today simultaneously filed more than 255 public records requests to determine the extent to which local police departments are using federally subsidized military technology and tactics that are traditionally used overseas. “Equipping state and local law enforcement with military weapons and vehicles, military tactical [...]
Former Fortune 500 Top Exec of #MiamiBeach Manufacturing Company Pleads Guilty in Multi-Million-Dollar Investment Scheme
Claudio Eleazar Osorio, a/k/a “Claudio Osorio Rodriguez,” 54, of Aventura, pled guilty on February 28, 2013, before U.S. District Court Judge William Dimitrouleas. Osorio pled guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, in [...]
Miami police enforcing teen curfew in stepped up enforcement starting today
From The City of Miami Police: The City of Miami Police Department will be enforcing the Juvenile Teen Curfew in an effort to keep children safe. The stepped-up enforcement effort will start on today, February 27, 2013. The Juvenile Curfew Ordinance makes it unlawful for any person under the age of seventeen (17) years to [...]
#PalmBeach County Residents Arrested for Sex Trafficking of Minors
Dontavious M. Blake, 32, and Tara Jo Moore, 26, both of Palm Beach County, were charged in a federal criminal complaint with sex trafficking of minors. Pretrial detention hearings for Blake and Moore are scheduled for Tuesday, February 26, 2013. More specifically, the complaint charges Blake and Moore with sex trafficking of children and conspiracy [...]
Miami man charged in $12 million tax refund ID theft
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Paula A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Antonio J. Gomez, Acting Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in [...]
Lauderdale Lakes Maintenance worker robbed at gunpoint
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are releasing a composite sketch of one of the suspects who robbed a maintenance supervisor at gunpoint. The armed robbery occurred at about 11 a.m. Monday, January 21 at the Lakeside Condominiums in Lauderdale Lakes. The victim, Leroy Smith, was walking toward his golf cart when one gunman approached and ordered [...]
Thirty People Indicted in Massive Florida-Arizona Drug Conspiracy
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Antonio J. Gomez, Acting Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Miami Field Office, and Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, announce the arrests [...]
Sketch of armed robber of the Psychic Center
Delray Beach (Feb. 19, 2013) – The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Department need you help in finding the man in the sketch. He’s wanted for an armed robbery to, of all places, a Psychi center. According to deputies this is what happened: On February 5, 2013, a suspect entered the Psychic Center, located in the 3300 [...]
Fort Pierce man charged with harassing a manatee
Fort Pierce, FL (Feb 18, 2013) - Investigators with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) filed charges with the State Attorney’s Office regarding a violation of the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act. Ryan William Waterman (DOB 3/3/91) of Ft. Pierce allegedly approached a manatee calf in Taylor Creek in St. Lucie County in January. FWC [...]
