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19-year-old dies after being shot multiple times in Lauderhill, police say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 23, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A 19-year-old man died after he was shot multiple times in Lauderhill on Thursday night, police said. Romauni Berkett was found lying in the road, unresponsive, about 8:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of Northwest 59th Way about 8:30 p.m., Lauderhill Police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The police department released few details Friday afternoon aside from that Berkett was walking in the area when he was shot. They have no motive or suspect. Authorities ask anyone with information about the shooting to call Lauderhill Police at 954-497-4700 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Prosecutors seek narrow gag order on Trump in federal election case after ‘inflammatory’ comments

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 16, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Politics.

By ERIC TUCKER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking an order that would prevent Donald Trump from making “inflammatory” and “intimidating” comments about witnesses, lawyers and other people involved in the criminal case charging the former president with scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team said in a motion filed Friday that such a “narrow, well-defined” order was necessary to preserve the integrity of the case and to avoid prejudicing potential jurors. Prosecutors had foreshadowed for weeks their concerns...

20 injured as driver trying to park crashes into Plantation restaurant during busy Friday night

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 19, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A driver who was attempting to park at a restaurant in Plantation on Friday evening instead crashed into the building, injuring 20 people and sending 12 of them to the hospital, officials said. The driver who tried to park crashed into the Thai Meal restaurant at 8257 W. Sunrise Blvd. in the Jacaranda Plaza, said Lt. Aston Bright, spokesperson for the Plantation Fire Department. Initial 911 calls came in shortly after 6:30 p.m. Bright said the restaurant was packed with its Friday night crowd. Firefighters set up a triage area and treated people at the scene while 12 people were taken to...

‘Plane down:’ 911 caller reports deadly crash at North Perry Airport | Listen

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 10, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News.

The first person to call 911 on Friday afternoon to report the crash of a Cessna 172 at the North Perry Airport said he hadn’t seen anyone get out of the plane. Flight instructor Felipe Becerra Cardenas, of Pembroke Pines, was flying the small single-engine aircraft with two passengers aboard, who were on a “discovery flight,” intended to interest the passengers in becoming pilots. Officials said Shelby Thomas, of Port Wentworth, Ga., was seated next to Becerra Cardenas while Jamal Hall, 25, also from Georgia, was seated in the back. Thomas and Becerra Cardenas did not survive. Hall was the...

Trump political committee has spent more than $40 million on lawyers’ fees as his legal peril mounts

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 1, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Politics.

By JILL COLVIN and BRIAN SLODYSKO (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump ‘s mounting legal woes are growing more expensive, leading his political operation to shell out tens of millions of dollars for attorneys’ fees, request a large refund from a supportive super PAC and launch a new legal defense fund. Since the beginning of this year, Save America, Trump’s political action committee, has spent more than $40 million on legal fees for costs related to defending the former president, his aides and other allies, according to a person familiar with the spending...

Bank of America hit with $250M in fines and refunds for ‘double-dipping’ fees and fake accounts

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 12, 2023. Posted in Business, Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, News.

By KEN SWEET and MICHELLE CHAPMAN (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America will reimburse customers more than $100 million and pay $150 million in fines for “double-dipping” on overdraft fees, withholding reward bonuses on credit cards and opening accounts without customer consent. Combined, it is one of the highest financial penalties in years against Bank of America, which has largely spent the last 15 years trying to clean up its reputation and market itself to the public as a bank focused on financial health and not on overdraft fee income and financial trickery. BofA must...

Five hospitalized after shooting at Fort Lauderdale apartment complex, police say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 6, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Five people were injured in a shooting at a Fort Lauderdale apartment complex Wednesday evening, police said. Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Patrick Lynn told reporters at the scene late Wednesday that the shooting happened in the 2900 block of Northwest 19th Street about 8:40 p.m. A group of people were in the apartment’s courtyard when a second group approached and the shooting began, Lynn said. Lynn did not provide any information about the five victims or their conditions. No arrests had been made late Wednesday. #FLPD Police activity in the area of NW 19 Street and NW 29 Avenue in...

Prosecutors in Trump document case ask judge to move trial date to December

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 24, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Politics.

Prosecutors in a court filing Friday asked the federal judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified document case to push the trial date back from mid-August to December in Fort Pierce. Just earlier this week, the start date for the two-week trial was scheduled for Aug. 14. The government is now asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to begin with jury selection on Dec. 11, according to the motion. Legal experts this week told the South Florida Sun Sentinel the August date was too soon and would likely be moved. Because the case involves classified documents, Trump’s...

Aventura Police officer facing kidnapping, aggravated assault charges in Broward

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 22, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

An Aventura Police officer is facing seven charges stemming from an incident in May in Pompano Beach. Two people filed a complaint with Aventura Police on May 23 against an officer who they alleged misused his authority and made a false arrest three days earlier, Chief Michael M. Bentolila said in a news release Wednesday evening. The release did not name the officer. WSVN-Ch. 7 and WTVJ- Ch. 6 identified him as David Esteban Delgado. Aventura Police and the Broward Sheriff’s Office have not released any information about the incident last month in Broward County or their investigations....

BSO detective accused of not fully investigating sex crimes, threatening a victim with deportation

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 10, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A veteran Broward Sheriff’s detective was arrested Tuesday on charges of official misconduct and extortion after an investigation found he had falsified information in numerous sex crime cases and closed the cases without fully investigating them, the Sheriff’s Office said. Det. Demetrious Campbell, 48, has been with the Sheriff’s Office since 2002. He is now suspended without pay, and investigators are reviewing many of his cases, Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office, said in a news release Tuesday evening. Concerns about Campbell surfaced in early April after a...