A South Florida lawyer helped pull off a $19.7 million fraud — a pump-and-dump stock scheme involving shell companies.
Now, federal prosecutors thinks James Schneider of Hillsboro Beach is trying to play them in a modern version of an old-fashioned shell game, keeping the government looking in one place while hiding his money in another.
Schneider, 77, was sentenced in Miami federal court to seven years in federal prison on Feb. 15... [...]
Detectives investigating the 3-decade-old slaying of a Navy recruit used genealogical research involving DNA to track down and arrest a suspect who was a one-time Navy training classmate of the victim, authorities in Florida said Thursday.
Thomas Garner, 59, was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida on Wednesday for the 1984 slaying of Pamela Cahanes, said Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma.
Cahanes was 25 at the time of her death and... [...]
A Miami-Dade postal carrier faces 50 years in prison on charges he stole envelopes containing thousands of dollars in cash from a Florida City outlet store.
Justin Swanson, 28, pleaded not guilty to five counts of mail theft by a postal employee in February, but his attorney filed a notice Tuesday that he will change his plea to guilty to at least some of the counts March 29 in Miami federal court.
A grand jury also indicted Swanson... [...]
North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda fired three shots at a severely autistic man holding a silver toy truck.
He insisted he had to “take a life to save another.”
Nearly three years after firing at Arnaldo Rios Soto — missing and hitting his caretaker laying on the ground with his hands thrust in the air — the North Miami cop told his story for the first time publicly. Aledda, charged with attempted manslaughter, took... [...]
Hundreds of former felons celebrated on the steps of the state Capitol Tuesday, more than four months after Florida voters passed Amendment 4, a ballot measure that is estimated to restore voting rights to more than 1.2 million residents.
Yet inside the Capitol, lawmakers may soon spark another fight over who gets to vote — this time over the definition of “murder.”
This is unwelcome news for about 500 people who arrived Tuesday... [...]
