Blog Posts in August, 2009
Posted on Aug 28, 2009 By Brett Schwartz
Police officers will be out in force tonight and early Saturday morning in a crackdown on those who are DUI ( driving under the influence ). The patrols will start at 11 p.m. and continue until 3 ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2009 By Brett Schwartz
Convinced they were picking up money being given away by a government agency, 76 people were instead picked up by police when they arrived to collect their prize. There was no cash and no agency: It ...
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Posted on Aug 27, 2009 By Brett Schwartz
A Broward County jury found a hospice chaplain not guilty Wednesday of performing a sex act on a dying 70-year-old woman at University Hospital in Tamarac. Even the prosecutor who lost the case agreed ...
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Posted on Aug 27, 2009 By Brett Schwartz
An HIV-positive homeless man convicted of biting a Miami police officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. A judge sentenced Johnson Jamerson, 35, at a Wednesday hearing. He was convicted in ...
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Posted on Aug 27, 2009 By Brett Schwartz
Damon Darling, 24, and Leroy Larose, 31, are each charged with second degree murder in the July 2006 killing of Sherdavia Jenkins, a case that caused widespread outrage as a result of the young age of ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2009 By Brian Blades
A Melbourne man who claimed to sell drugs to pay tuition was arrested after a series of oxycodone transactions with an undercover police investigator, according to recently released affidavits. Andrew ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2009 By Brian Blades
The Los Angeles Coroner has ruled Michael Jackson’s death a homicide , according to the Associated Press. Such a finding makes it more likely that criminal charges are forthcoming against Dr. Conrad ...
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