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Posted on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009

Out of prison, man still awaits freedom

By PAULA MCMAHON

It has been 107 days since Anthony Caravella was released from prison, but he says he's still not free.

It will take more time, he thinks, to catch up on what he missed during the 9,389 days he spent behind bars for a Miramar rape and murder that recent DNA testing suggests he did not commit.

Caravella was 15 when charged with the brutal 1983 slaying. He served about 26 years of a life sentence before Broward prosecutors took the extraordinary measure of seeking his temporary release Sept. 10 while they check the accuracy of the results and test other evidence.

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Teen charged with sexually assaulting boy at park

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Suspect, 17, pretended to be officer, carrying toy gun and handcuffs, deputies say

By Juan Ortega and Tonya Alanez, Sun Sentinel

December 24 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE -- A teenager accused of pretending to be a police officer and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy at a park will remain in custody for 21 days while prosecutors decide whether to charge him as an adult, a judge said Thursday.

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Mom of Deerfield teen burn victim focused on recovery, not criminal case

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Mom of Deerfield teen burn victim focused on recovery, not criminal case
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By Rachel Hatzipanagos, Sun Sentinel

December 23 2009

MIAMI -- The mother of Deerfield Beach burn victim Michael Brewer said today she has no opinion right now on whether the teens accused of setting him on fire two months ago should be tried as adults.

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Davie man pleads guilty to sex tourism charges

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Davie man pleads guilty to sex tourism charges
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Officials say he forced young girls in Philippines to be his sex slaves

By Joel Marino, Sun Sentinel

December 22 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE -- A Davie man pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges he traveled several times to the Philippines to have sex with children.

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Killer of 9-year-old Sherdavia Jenkins to be sentenced

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Killer of 9-year-old Sherdavia Jenkins to be sentenced
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David Ovalle, The Miami Herald

December 22 2009

A Miami-Dade judge is scheduled to sentence Damon Darling Tuesday for the July 2006 stray-bullet slaying of 9-year-old Sherdavia Jenkins in Liberty City.

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Suspended School Board member to appear in court today

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Beverly Gallagher faces public corruption charges

By Paula McMahon and Kathy Bushouse, Sun Sentinel

December 21 2009

Suspended Broward School Board member Beverly Gallagher is expected to appear in federal court Monday after being indicted on public corruption charges.

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Posted on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009

Dade horse killings bring more attention to illegal slaughterhouses

By CURTIS MORGAN AND JUAN CARLOS CHAVEZ

For 20 years, Tony Maqueira has routinely trucked pigs down from upstate to sell in rural Northwest Miami-Dade. With demand for a Nochebuena roast pig at its peak last week, he simply parked his squealing load along West Okeechobee Road and waited for customers from nearby small farms to come to him.

Asked if buyers are licensed to kill and sell pigs, Maqueira, an impeccably polite man wearing the straw hat and rubber boots of a working rancher, appeared momentarily puzzled. Then he shrugged and explained there were worse things to worry about in these unpaved, impoverished outskirts: cockfights, dogfights, guns, drugs.

``This is food,'' he said. ``This is good for the people.''

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12 suspected of leading gang arrested

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12 suspected of leading gang arrested
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Authorities charge them with racketeering

By Brian Haas, Sun Sentinel

December 18 2009

Authorities said they busted another violent Palm Beach County gang, indicting 12 suspected leaders of "Making Life Krazy" on racketeering charges designed to put them in prison for decades, if not life.

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DNA technology clears Florida inmate after 35 years in prison for crime he did not commit

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DNA technology clears Florida inmate after 35 years in prison for crime he did not commit
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MITCH STACY
Associated Press Writer

December 18 2009, 7:27 AM EST

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — He'd insisted he was home watching TV with his twin sister but witnesses claimed he was the man who raped a 9-year-old boy, and he was sentenced to life in prison.

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Suspended School Board member indicted

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Suspended School Board member indicted
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Beverly Gallagher faces public corruption charges

By Paula McMahon, Sun Sentinel

December 17 2009, 3:44 PM EST

Suspended School Board member Beverly Gallagher was indicted Thursday on federal public corruption charges, an indication that her efforts to negotiate a plea agreement have not worked out -- so far.

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Suspended School Board member indicted

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Suspended School Board member indicted
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Beverly Gallagher faces public corruption charges

By Paula McMahon, Sun Sentinel

December 17 2009, 3:44 PM EST

Suspended School Board member Beverly Gallagher was indicted Thursday on federal public corruption charges, an indication that her efforts to negotiate a plea agreement have not worked out -- so far.

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Youngest Dunbar Village rape defendant sentenced to 30 years

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Youngest Dunbar Village rape defendant sentenced to 30 years
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By Susan Spencer-Wendel
The Palm Beach Post

December 14 2009, 12:11 PM EST

WEST PALM BEACH -- The fourth person convicted in the gang rape of a Dunbar Village woman and her son has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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Father-son developer team charged with bribery

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Chaits are accused of buying county commissioner's votes

By Jon BursteinStaff Writer

December 11 2009

A father-son team of developers were arrested Friday after former County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion told prosecutors that he had accepted $25,000 in cash and a golf membership from them in exchange for his votes.

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Broward sheriff's community service aide arrested on threat charge

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December 10 2009

POMPANO BEACH -- A longtime community service aide for the Broward Sheriff's Office has been arrested on a charge of felony terroristic threats out of Georgia, authorities said.

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2nd Degree Murder

Teah Wimberly found guilty of 2nd degree murder.

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Trial begins for Miami pastor accused of stealing county funds

By DAVID OVALLE

The case, prosecutors say, involves outright theft: The Rev. Gaston Smith -- tasked with helping the poor of Liberty City -- misused $10,000 in county grant money on himself, including $500 at a Las Vegas martini bar.

``This was supposed to be seed money to an organization; it was never meant to be seed money for Pastor Smith himself,'' Miami-Dade prosecutor Richard Scruggs told jurors at the start of Smith's trial Tuesday. He added: ``Follow the money, follow the money, follow the money.''

Nonsense, Smith's defense attorneys responded. The investigation was a vindictive campaign really aimed at bringing down Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, but which ensnared a ``decent man'' and community ``visionary.''

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Trial begins for Miami pastor accused of stealing county funds

By DAVID OVALLE

The case, prosecutors say, involves outright theft: The Rev. Gaston Smith -- tasked with helping the poor of Liberty City -- misused $10,000 in county grant money on himself, including $500 at a Las Vegas martini bar.

``This was supposed to be seed money to an organization; it was never meant to be seed money for Pastor Smith himself,'' Miami-Dade prosecutor Richard Scruggs told jurors at the start of Smith's trial Tuesday. He added: ``Follow the money, follow the money, follow the money.''

Nonsense, Smith's defense attorneys responded. The investigation was a vindictive campaign really aimed at bringing down Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, but which ensnared a ``decent man'' and community ``visionary.''

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Woman accused of driving around barrier, closing door on deputy's foot at Port St. Lucie school

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Woman accused of driving around barrier, closing door on deputy's foot at Port St. Lucie school
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Will Greenlee, TCPalm

December 9 2009

A woman faces charges after she drove through a sheriff's barrier at St. Lucie West K-8 School Tuesday and nearly ran over a deputy's feet before closing her van's door on his foot, according to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday.

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Two men arrested in brutal beating outside Palm Beach Gardens nightclub

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Two men arrested in brutal beating outside Palm Beach Gardens nightclub
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Police say group attacked victim as he lay unconscious on the ground

By Eliot Kleinberg, The Palm Beach Post

December 8 2009

Two of the four men police say brutally beat and kicked two others — one nearly to death — last month behind a Palm Beach Gardens club now are in jail.

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Third-grade teacher reassigned because of drug arrest

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Third-grade teacher reassigned because of drug arrest
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Sun Sentinel

December 7 2009

A Pembroke Pines third-grade teacher, arrested on drug charges over the weekend, has been removed from the classroom, the Broward School District said Monday.

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Pompano Beach man accused of trying to drown mother's dogs

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Pompano Beach man accused of trying to drown mother's dogs
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Authorities say man tossed two dogs into lake to get back at mother

By Brian Haas, Sun Sentinel

December 5 2009, 5:20 PM EST

Pompano Beach -- A man arguing with his mother tried to get back with her by drowning her dogs in a nearby lake, authorities said.

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Man who Wilton Manors police say committed suicide in station recalled as 'very loving'

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Man who Wilton Manors police say committed suicide in station recalled as 'very loving'
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By Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel

December 3 2009

When he wasn't at work repairing cars, Gary O'Neal often was home, spending time with his wife of 18 years and his three children, family members said.

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