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Barricaded man shot and killed by BSO SWAT in Pompano

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 17, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Social.

A barricaded man attacked a K-9 and was shot by BSO deputies in a home in Pompano Beach on Tuesday, Sheriff Gregory Tony said. Someone called the Sheriff’s Office just after 1:30 p.m. to report a “suspicious incident” in the 2300 block of Bay Drive, spokesperson Miranda Grossman said in a statement late Tuesday night. She did not provide further information about what the incident was. Deputies “made contact with an armed individual” once they responded, and “at some point during the response, a deputy-involved shooting occurred.” Sheriff Gregory Tony told reporters at the scene late...

South Florida woman accused of submitting fraudulent petitions for marijuana amendment

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 10, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Politics, Social.

A South Florida woman was arrested in Coral Springs last month after allegedly submitting nearly 100 fraudulent petitions in support of the marijuana constitutional amendment in 2023, state officials said. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement first began investigating Jessica Sonia Humphreys, 24, of Miami, in January 2023 after the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections Office reported to agents what it believed were multiple fraudulent petitions submitted by Humphreys in support of the amendment to legalize marijuana, FDLE said in a news release Tuesday night. Humphreys had worked as...

Pool deck pinpointed as starting point of 2021 Surfside condo collapse, feds say

What officially caused the 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse that killed 98 people is closer to having an answer, as federal officials on Tuesday announced a tentative end to their investigation and that they’ve honed in on a singular failure in the building’s infrastructure that triggered the tragedy. The National Institute of Standards and Technology said it plans to finish its technical work by the end of 2025 and begin drafting its reports. In the last four years, investigators initially had 12 hypotheses, which whittled down to three “higher-likelihood” scenarios. Now evidence is...

8-year-old boy bitten by shark in Key Largo, sheriff’s office says

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 2, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Social.

Paramedics flew a boy to a Miami-Dade County hospital after he was bitten by a shark in the Florida Keys on Monday afternoon, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said. The bite happened around 3:25 p.m. in the ocean off Key Largo. Monroe County Fire Rescue paramedics flew the boy to Jackson Memorial Hospital, the sheriff’s office said. Monroe Sheriff Rick Ramsay told the Herald that the 8-year-old boy was snorkeling on Horseshoe Reef when he was bitten. He was in surgery Monday evening, Ramsay said. A Monroe County Fire Rescue spokeswoman confirmed the boy was bitten above the knee, and a...

New York man charged with DUI manslaughter in 2022 Broward crash that killed two

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 22, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Social.

A New York City man was extradited to Broward County this week after law enforcement officials say he drunkenly drove a car that crashed on Interstate 95, killing two people in 2022. Florida Highway Patrol troopers say Nick-Quan Francis, 30, was intoxicated when he slammed the rented Honda sedan he was driving into a highway barrier at 89 mph about 6:30 a.m. on May 8, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale. Two passengers not wearing seatbelts were ejected upon impact and died. A third passenger, who was wearing a seatbelt, lived and told troopers that Francis was driving, per his probable cause...

Suspended Broward Judge Gary Farmer submits letter of resignation

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 2, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Broward Judge Gary Farmer submitted a resignation letter on Friday, months after he was suspended without pay until further notice for inappropriate comments he made from the bench. Farmer submitted the letter to Chief Administrative Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips, she confirmed to the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Friday night. The proper procedure requires that he submit the letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis. It was unclear Friday night whether the governor’s office also received Farmer’s letter, but he made his intentions abundantly clear. Efforts to reach Farmer and his attorney by cellphone...

South Florida woman arrested in deadly Fort Lauderdale hit-and-run crash

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Months after a hit-and-run crash in Fort Lauderdale left one person dead and three others injured, a South Florida woman has been arrested on more than a dozen charges. Beverly Slaughter, 25, of Opa-locka in Miami-Dade County, was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a two-car crash near West Sunrise Boulevard and Northwest 24th Avenue in April, court records show. Shortly after 1 a.m. on April 29, Slaughter was speeding in a 2021 Mercedes-Benz, S-Class sedan on West Sunrise Boulevard while approaching the intersection, a probable cause affidavit said. A 2021 Nissan Altima made a left...

Delray pilot was one of 7 taken to hospital after Palm Beach County plane crash

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News.

A pilot from Delray Beach was one of two people aboard a small plane that hit a palm tree, then crashed into a moving car with five people inside near John Prince Park Campground in Lake Worth Beach on Monday. The Orlican M8 Eagle took off from the nearby Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana shortly before 4:30 p.m., minutes before it crashed. After taking off, the plane made a turn to the north, experienced some sort of issue and started to fall from the sky, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office report released Wednesday. All seven people avoided any serious injury. The...

Second of multiple suspects arrested in Boynton park shooting

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 18, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

One of the alleged gunmen in the July 5 shooting at Sara Sims Park in Boynton Beach was booked into jail Wednesday, eight days after police authored a warrant for his arrest, court records show. Kenneth Hollis, 25, of Boynton Beach, was one gang member who shot at rivals at an unpermitted event called “Peace in the Hood,” according to a probable cause affidavit. Hundreds of people, including children, were hanging out in the area in and near the park when multiple gunmen started shooting blindly, hitting three women and five cars, some with adults and children inside. The event’s...

One of multiple suspects arrested in shooting at Boynton ‘Peace in the Hood’ event

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 15, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A 19-year-old was arrested Saturday in connection with the July 5 shooting in Boynton Beach after he voluntarily went to police and said that while he was at the “Peace in the Hood” event and did pull out a gun, he wasn’t one of the people to shoot, according to court records. At least 500 people gathered at Sara Sims Park for the unpermitted event, where “rival gang members” started shooting at each other about 8 p.m., Boynton Beach Police previously said. Three women were struck when bullets flew in the large crowd, which included children, along with multiple occupied and unoccupied...