Fake patients, real clinics, doctors and patients, and South Florida Publix, Walgreens and a Kmart pharmacy combined for a prescription drug gang operation.
At least, that’s the assertion of an affidavit in support of arrest warrants filed in Broward County court, the result of a Broward Sheriff’s Office, FBI, DEA and Sunny Isles Beach police investigation.
The warrants led to seven Thursday arrests in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach... [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – The federal criminal complaint reads like a movie script; a pair of men kidnap a doctor, torture him and make him give up information about tens of thousands of dollars in cash.
But this was no movie, federal investigators say. This was real life. And the men accused of the shocking crime, Justin Boccio and Serge Nkorina, face up to life in prison if convicted.
The feds say the men began their... [...]
During a 56-minute onslaught inside an empty government building in Palmetto Bay Village, a homeless man smeared his own blood on “all the walls in all the offices” of Village Hall, grabbed an American flag from reception and destroyed office equipment, technology and artwork valued at about $500,000, police say.
When the incident ended, 38-year-old Holdson Marcelin dragged the U.S. flag -- now slightly burnt at the end and stained... [...]
Three state corrections officers were charged with lying about finding a weapon inside an inmate’s locker, which could have led to a loss of privileges or a transfer of the man they set up, prosecutors said Thursday.
Capt. Eric Peavey Jr., Sgt. Lizandro Rodriguez and Officer Ellen Day were all charged with single counts of official misconduct and falsifying records, both third-degree felonies.
“By falsely charging inmate [Lazaro]... [...]
Former Ecuadorean bankers William and Roberto Isaías, two brothers who fled to Miami after being charged with embezzling millions from one of Ecuador’s biggest banks, have been arrested by U.S. immigration officials and await possible deportation.
The men were detained for an alleged violation of U.S. immigration law. They were sent to an immigration detention center “pending removal proceedings,” the U.S. Immigration and Customs... [...]
