Category: Broward Sheriff’s Office
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Deerfield Beach commissioner Sylvia Poitier agrees to surrender Wednesday on corruption charges
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia Poitier has agreed to surrender at the Broward County Jail Wednesday to be arrested and booked for falsifying official records, Broward Bulldog has learned. -
Lauderdale Lakes scrambling to find $1.7 million missing from redevelopment coffers
By Buddy Nevins
BrowardBulldog.org
Already drowning in red ink and buried under past due bills, financially crippled Lauderdale Lakes is deeper in the hole after the discovery that $1.7 million is missing from the city’s redevelopment fund. -
A year after teen’s death prosecutors can’t decide whether fired Broward deputy should be charged
By Wanda J. DeMarzo
BrowardBulldog.org
Purple flowers encircle two utility poles top to bottom on Dixie Highway in Oakland Park. Balloons, votive candles and teddy bears sit sentry — a memorial for 14-year-old Cara Dyan Catlin. She died at the intersection Jan. 23, 2010, a passenger in a car struck by a Broward Sheriff’s Office patrol cruiser speeding to a traffic stop. One year later prosecutors have yet to decide if the former deputy should be charged with a crime. -
Still no justice for man who spent 22 years in prison for crimes he did not commit
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Confessing to a murder or rape you did not commit is unthinkable. But as DNA testing continues to exonerate convicted murderers and rapists, new research shows that nearly 20 percent of those innocent inmates falsely confessed to the crimes that sent them to prison. More than 250 convicts nationwide have been cleared by DNA testing. University of Virginia law school Professor Brandon L. Garrett’s study found that more than 40 of them confessed falsely, and seeks to explain why. -
Broward-based boss of Jamaica’s brutal Shower Posse dies; politically connected drug gang lives on
By Dan Christensen
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Conflict of interest shuts down lobbyist Ron Book’s work for bail industry
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
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