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Police identify man shot dead in Oakland Park on Saturday

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 26, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office has identified Ammon Watson, 18, as the man who was shot and killed in Oakland Park on Saturday near the 2100 block of NW 28th Street. The shooting happened at about 11:53 a.m. Watson, the father of a six-month-old boy, was pronounced dead at the scene. According to investigators, the shooter ran up to Watson and shot him in the driveway of a family home before running away. Watson was arriving home from a store with his grandmother, and he was shot after she walked inside, relatives told WPLG. The shooter remains at large, according to the sheriff’s office....

‘Sir, I’ve been shot’: Victims in shooting in Fort Lauderdale called 911

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 20, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Gunshots erupted on a Fort Lauderdale street early Saturday morning and moments later, several of the men who were struck called 911, pleading for help and for one person to be rushed to the hospital. A shooter or shooters fired at a car in the 600 block of Northwest 62nd Street just after 5 a.m. and fled the area. Three people were found shot inside the car and were taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where one was pronounced dead. Fort Lauderdale Police on Monday identified the person who died at the hospital as 18-year-old Marion Harrison. A fourth adult man was found after the...

Lauderhill Police officer faces charge of digital voyeurism

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 15, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A Lauderhill Police officer was arrested Tuesday in Sunrise and has been placed on administrative leave. Officer Johnny Alejandro Mateo faces one count of digital voyeurism, police department spokesperson Lt. Antonio Gonzalez said in a news release Wednesday night. Gonzalez did not provide information about what led to Mateo’s arrest but said Mateo was being investigated by Sunrise Police for an incident that happened while he was off duty. Mateo, who was hired in 2017, was placed on administrative the day of his arrest. Sunrise Police spokespersons did not return an email or a voicemail...

BSO launches investigation into whether violent crash that killed 2 involved police chase

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 14, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

After a chain-reaction three-car crash that killed two people, the Broward Sheriff’s Office is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether any deputies were chasing one of the drivers who crashed. Gavin Dorvil, 19, of Lauderdale Lakes, was speeding in a 2023 Tesla Model 3 west on Northwest Sixth Street, approaching the intersection of Northwest 27th Avenue shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday, according to the Sheriff’s Office. At the same time, a 2023 Dodge Durango was heading south on Northwest 27th Avenue, approaching the same intersection west of Fort Lauderdale. Dorvil crashed...

A woman and her child disappeared in Plantation in 1974. Their remains have likely been found.

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 13, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Nine feet under water in a canal along West Broward Boulevard in Plantation, a diver reached his hand in through a small hole in the roof of the corroded car and pulled out an object resting on the backseat. Mike Sullivan, one of the founders of Sunshine State Sonar, an independent organization that uses sonar technology to find missing people and cars in South Florida, surfaced with the object, brought it to shore and searched on Google to find out what it was. The relic was a Fisher Price School Days Desk toy, made in the early 1970s. Inside the car were more baby toys, a little girl’s...

NRA again asks court to overturn Florida law banning people under 21 from buying long guns

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 1, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Parkland school shooting.

TALLAHASSEE — After a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the National Rifle Association on Wednesday urged an appellate court to find that a 2018 Florida law banning people under age 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns violates the Second Amendment. The Republican-controlled Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott rushed to include the age restriction in a sweeping school-safety bill after Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time, used a semiautomatic rifle to kill 17 students and faculty members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. Federal law already...

Feds urge judge to toss out Florida suit challenging rule on gun seller licenses and background checks

TALLAHASSEE — The Biden administration this week urged a judge to toss out a Florida lawsuit challenging a new federal rule that will require more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys Monday filed a 22-page motion in federal court in Tampa arguing that Florida does not have legal standing to challenge the rule, which was finalized in April by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the lawsuit May 1, in part alleging that the rule will force the state to handle a...

DeSantis signs death warrant in 1994 murder of FSU student

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 30, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1994 murder of a Florida State University student who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister. Loran Cole, 57, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 29 at Florida State Prison, according to documents posted Monday evening on the Florida Supreme Court website. Cole would be the first inmate executed in Florida since October, when Michael Duane Zack was put to death by lethal injection for a 1996 murder in Escambia County. Cole was sentenced to death in the February 1994 murder of John...

Man hospitalized with gunshot wound after shooting in Dania Beach

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 29, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, News.

An unidentified man was taken to a local hospital after a shooting Sunday at an apartment building in Dania Beach. The Broward Sheriff’s Office said its deputies responded to a report of a shooting in the 500 block of SW 2nd Avenue. Paramedics from Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue took the man to a nearby hospital where he was treated for a gunshot wound, according to agency spokesperson Miranda Grossman. His condition was not disclosed. The circumstances that led to the incident were not known. BSO’s Violent Crimes and Crime Scene units are investigating the shooting, Grossman said. The...

Appeals court overturns $3.6 million judgment against Miramar in case of man wrongly imprisoned for 26 years

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 19, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

An appeals court on Wednesday overturned a Broward judge’s order that the city of Miramar owed $3.6 million to Anthony Caravella, a man who was exonerated in 2010 after spending over two decades in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. Broward Circuit Judge Carlos Rodriguez late last year ordered Miramar to pay $2.5 million in compensatory damages and nearly $1.1 million in interest and attorneys’ fees after Caravella won a federal lawsuit in 2013 against the two now-retired Miramar officers who he argued coerced him into confessing to the 1983 murder of 58-year-old Ada...