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Man Charged With Arson After Setting Car Ablaze
A Hobe Sound man was arrested after police say that he set a car on fire in the parking lot of a shopping center. He has since been charged with criminal mischief and arson. Police say that 37-year-old Andrew Piasecki targeted the car of someone he knew in the Garden Square shopping center. Piasecki’s… Read More »
VA Hospital Employees Charged With Fraud
Ten West Palm Beach Veteran’s Administration employees and five suppliers have been charged with fraud. Police allege that these individuals stole millions of dollars from taxpayers in an apparent kickback scheme related to the supply of goods and services. Employees were taking a cut of vending payments that were either fabricated completely or heavily… Read More »
Grubhub Driver Threatens Burger King with Ashtray
An incensed Grubhub driver was arrested in Tampa after he picked up a large ashtray and began swinging it at a Burger King employee, police say. According to police, the Grubhub driver lost his cool after the Burger King order was not done quickly enough. Forty-three-year-old Daniel Dellelis of Clearwater will face two counts… Read More »
Frat Bros Can be Charged in Hazing Death, Appeals Court Rules
An appeals court ruled that fraternity brothers who facilitated in the death of a pledge by feeding him insane amounts of alcohol can be charged in the pledge’s death. Andrew Coffey, the 20-year-old pledge, died in 2017 after downing a large bottle of bourbon, according to police. Three men faced felony hazing charges as… Read More »
West Palm Beach Man Accused of Murdering Ex’s New BF
Delinord Dumercy was convicted of second-degree murder just recently over the slaying of his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, James D’Angelo Peoples. The twenty-four-year-old West Palm Beach resident’s first trial ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked. Dumercy used a stand-your-ground defense in the first trial. While both sides admit that Dumercy shot Peoples, it… Read More »
Georgia Man Arrested in $660,000 Theft Scheme
A Georgia man has been arrested in a scheme to defraud a West Palm Beach man of over $600,000. Randy Leon Jackson is now the resident of a Palm Beach jail where he faces six counts of fraudulent use of another person’s information (identity theft) and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud. Jackson… Read More »
Attorney Scott Skier Featured in the Palm Beach Post – Fight over stolen dirt bike leads to fatal noontime Lake Park shooting
Marcas Johnson, 19, died Jan. 22 in a Lake Park shopping plaza. Broadus Peterkine Jr. and Divien Colson face charges in connection to his death and have been denied bond. LAKE PARK — Marcas Johnson loved tinkering with anything on wheels, his mother said, and even fixed up his own red- and green-colored dirt… Read More »
Florida Man Gets 8 Years for DUI Manslaughter
Subhan Khurram pleaded guilty to two counts of DUI manslaughter after he drove his vehicle the wrong way down I-95 in 2015. The crash killed Frans Roy McCatty, 50, and Ricardo Franklyn Fletcher, 33. Khurram, who is unable to read or write due to developmental disabilities, attempted to express his remorse before the court… Read More »
Mark Sievers Found Guilty for Murder of Wife
Mark Sievers was convicted by a Florida jury for the death of his wife, Teresa Sievers, of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The case is one of those rare instances in which the proceedings played out just as they would on a televised drama. By and large, the majority of murder cases… Read More »
Juror Misconduct Causes Mistrial in Nebergall Shooting
The sordid tale of the former police officer who shot his wife’s husband took an unfortunate turn when defense attorney Michael Selnick spotted one of the twelve jurors on his cellphone during his closing argument. Selnick immediately approached the bench and demanded a mistrial and the judge concurred; it was just about the only… Read More »
