Apr 21, 2011
Currently, efforts are underway by a special interest group to cut or end pre-trial release programs. Pre-trial release programs were created to benefit defendants charged with non-violent crimes a...
Apr 15, 2011
The Golden Beach Police department can now boast of three recent arrests of police officers accused of allegedly skimming money from the town and the taxpayers who reside there. The officers are cu...
Apr 05, 2011
South Florida has always been a hotspot for both tourists and vacationers. Often times visitors get more from the vacation they envisioned. For example, drinking and partying on South Beach in Miam...
Mar 29, 2011
In many cases, simple traffic citations lead to drug possession and drug trafficking arrests. Last week, police officers from the Lee County Sheriff's Department stopped a car traveling northbound ...
Mar 22, 2011
A starting linebacker for the Hurricanes was arrested for a variety of charges which allegedly occurred at a Coconut Grove Bar on St. Patrick's Day. The arrest affidavit accused the star University...
Mar 16, 2011
Court officials and judges alike are concerned about the budget proposals that will be discussed when the legislation meets this month. The reduced funding and budget cuts have already severely aff...
Mar 08, 2011
The Florida legislature will consider two bills aimed at eliminating minimum mandatory sentences on drug trafficking cases. For years, defendants charged with drug trafficking offenses, such as mar...
Mar 01, 2011
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 19 people who are now sitting in federal custody. The sweep targeted illegal immigrants with criminal convictions for drug trafficking, sex crimes...
Feb 24, 2011
Federal agents arrested several doctors from multiple clinics in South Florida. Doctors working out of such counties as Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade County were arrested for
oxycodone traff...
Feb 21, 2011
A local man entered a guilty plea in circuit court to three counts of DUI manslaughter.
DUI manslaughter is a second degree felony punishable up to fifteen years in prison. He was also arrested a...
Feb 10, 2011
The police claim that they have solved a murder and
sexual battery case that was committed in 2000. The cold case was solved through the use of DNA evidence. The defendant, a former Miami-Dade tr...
Feb 09, 2011
The governor of the State of Florida, Rick Scott, made public his desire to repeal the state law that was promulgated in an attempt to reduce the prescription drug trafficking problem facing the st...
Feb 04, 2011
After lengthy deliberation, 8 out of 10 jurors recommended that local man convicted of first degree murder and armed robbery receive the death penalty. Brandon Rolle and his
Miami criminal attorn...
Jan 31, 2011
Thousands of arrest warrants are open and pending and law enforcement does not even have close to the resources necessary to effectuate the arrests. Arrest warrants generally come in two forms. The...
