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Posted on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010

Burn victim Michael Brewer tells of attack

By RAFAEL A. OLMEDA AND JUAN ORTEGA

There were things Michael Brewer remembered vividly about the day he was set on fire.

The Deerfield Beach teenager remembered the cool feeling of rubbing alcohol splashing onto him. He remembered the burning sensation, the impulse to run and jump into the swimming pool. He remembered wanting to stay in the water, and seeing the first results of the horrific attack he had just endured.

Detectives recorded their Nov. 23 interview with Brewer, 15, who survived burns over two-thirds of his body. Prosecutors on Monday released the recording, along with dozens of other documents related to the case.

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Posted on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010

Longtime fugitive is arrested again

(AP) -- A man accused of escaping a Florida prison 30 years ago has been arrested again in Missouri, weeks after being captured and released on bond.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Saturday in a news release that Oscar Richardson, 61, was picked up Friday at his home in the southwest Missouri town of Ridgedale on two outstanding warrants.

One was an extradition warrant from Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, and the other stems from allegations that Richardson failed to file Missouri income taxes.

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Disgraced South Florida attorney sent to prison

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Worked with a 'crew' for the mob

By Jon Burstein, Sun Sentinel

January 8 2010

A disbarred South Florida attorney was sentenced Friday to 43 months in prison for participating in schemes orchestrated by a local crew of mobsters affiliated with the Bonanno crime family of New York.

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Bail set at $250,000 for teen accused of lighting Michael Brewer on fire

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Bail set at $250,000 for teen accused of lighting Michael Brewer on fire
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Jesus Mendez, 16, is accused of flicking the lighter that set his Deerfield Beach schoolmate ablaze

By Tonya Alanez, Sun Sentinel

January 8 2010

FORT LAUDERDALE -- A Broward County judge ruled Friday that a 16-year-old teen accused of flicking the lighter that set Michael Brewer on fire could await trial at home with his mother.

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Death sentence ordered for convicted Sunrise triple murderer

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Gunned down 28-year-old mother, then 2 men near Swap Shop

By Tonya Alanez

January 7 2010, 6:51 PM EST

One of his victims was a mother of two he pumped no fewer than 23 bullets into. The others he met near the Swap Shop and gunned down for no apparent reason – one man as he headed to his car with snacks for a drive-in movie, the other as he sat at the wheel of a parked car.

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Davie man accused of beating wife while she drove, causing roll over near Boynton

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Davie man accused of beating wife while she drove, causing roll over near Boynton
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By Jerome Burdi, Sun Sentinel

January 6 2010

First Dwight Robotham hit his wife while she was driving, but it was him grabbing the wheel that caused the car to overturn on Florida's Turnpike near Boynton Beach, injuring several passengers, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

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Hialeah school employee accused of having sex with student

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The Miami Herald

January 5 2010, 3:44 PM EST

A computer technician at a Palm Springs Middle School was arrested Monday on charges he had sex with a 13-year-old female student in the school's media center.

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Disney World worker arrested on 200 counts of child pornography

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By Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel

January 4 2010

CLERMONT -- Detectives from the Lake County Sheriff's Cyber Crimes Unit arrested a Walt Disney World employee on 200 counts of possessing child pornography.

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Posted on Sunday, Jan. 03, 2010

Police apprehend Paul Merhige -- Thanksgiving Day murder suspect -- in Keys

By CAMMY CLARK AND SERGIO BUSTOS crline cclark@MiamiHerald.com

Paul Michael Merhige, accused of killing four relatives on Thanksgiving Day in Palm Beach County, was tapping the keyboard of a computer in a Keys motel room late Saturday when police officers burst through the door and took him into custody, authorities said.

On Sunday morning, he was denied bond and sent to the Palm Beach County Jail to await his next court appearance. He faces four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.

His arrest late Saturday night marked the end of an intense 38-day manhunt by Palm Beach County and federal authorities who got a tip from a Keys motel owner who had been watching a preview of an upcoming story about the murders on the television show America's Most Wanted.

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Palm Beach police arrest 2 state employees for stealing from patient

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BY MICHAEL LaFORGIA, Palm Beach Post

January 2 2010, 1:37 PM EST

Two women employed by the state to protect a vulnerable elderly woman instead preyed on her, stealing about $20,000 from her bank accounts while she was hospitalized for dementia.

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Man accused of watching woman, young girls undress

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By Rachel Hatzipanagos, Sun Sentinel

December 31 2009

Deerfield Beach -- Authorities have arrested a Deerfield Beach man they say fondled himself as he watched a woman and two young girls undress.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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