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Authorities in Florida released bodycam footage Friday of what police say is a shootout between three deputies and a Broward County Transit employee. Sheriff Gregory Tony said at a news conference that the suspect, 59-year-old Rafael A. Molina, went into a locker room after work and changed into his regular clothes. Surveillance video then showed him holding a lunch box outside the locker room, Tony said. “He’s just basically waiting,” Tony said of the footage. “What we are referencing as ambushing. Prepping to execute, [kill] one of his colleagues.” ... Tony said that when one of Molina’s co-workers exited the...

In 2021, the Florida legislature passed, and Governor Ron DeSantis signed, the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which prohibits biological males from participating in women's sports in Florida schools or clubs, and assesses civil fines for any school in the state, at any level, that violate the prohibition. The law was celebrated by many seeking to protect women's and girls' spaces in athletics. Apparently, however, one high school in Florida decided to test that law. And they just found out it has exactly the teeth that the legislature and DeSantis promised it did. Florida athletic board bans transgender volleyball player...

Numbers 32:32 warns ne’er-do-wells to “be sure your sin will find you out.” But if the verse had been written about this particular criminal, it would have read, “Be sure your sin will find you out immediately - and leave you with second-degree burns.” An arsonist managed to light himself on fire while attempting to ignite the front doors of an Oakland Park church in Broward County, Florida. Investigators said they’re still searching for the person caught on surveillance camera around 1:30 a.m. on Monday. Firefighters responding to a call had arrived on scene and put out the flames before...

Ten squatters have been removed after illegally taking over a $1million home in Florida, leaving it damaged and infested with bugs. The ringleader, Tyrone Jones, was also accused of creating a fake identity to become an executor of the property in Fort Lauderdale – and has allegedly carried out 14 similar crimes and fraudulently acquired properties worth more than $12 million. Broward County Sheriff’s Office removed seven men, two women and a child last Tuesday from the stolen home. The locks were changed to stop them returning. The $1million home on Seabreeze Boulevard had its walls, windows, and flooring completely...

Huge invasive pest can eat its way through stucco and street signs, puncture tires, and even cause meningitis The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced on Tuesday that a swath of Broward County would be placed under quarantine The department will spray a pesticide it says is safe for crops but will make the invasive giant African land snails susceptible to dehydration

hey’re not escargot-ing anywhere. State officials placed part of a Florida city under quarantine Tuesday as they race to eradicate the invasive, parasite-carrying invasive giant African snail. The 3.5-mile section of Miramar in Broward County — located just 11 miles west of Hollywood — will be covered in a metaldehyde-based molluscicide to exterminate the insects after a giant African snail was found in the area earlier this month. Residents will be able to move out of the treatment area freely but are prevented from moving any plant-based supplies that could harbor the mammoth mollusk’s eggs. “Under the quarantine, it is...

At least nine people were injured at a mass shooting on a boardwalk at a Florida beach on Memorial Day. Video from a live camera showed bystanders enjoying their holiday at Hollywood Beach before gunfire erupted and they were forced to flee for their lives. Hollywood Police Department spokesperson Deanna Bettineschi told reporters that police believed the shooting was the result of an altercation between two groups at the boardwalk. She said that police responded to calls of gunfire at the beach at about 6:45 p.m. where they found 9 victims shot and provided aid to them. Those victims were...

Broward County Public Schools board member Brenda Fam has been taking heat after she pressed her colleagues to define what a "woman" is at the last school board meeting, speaking on behalf of concerned parents who are weighing whether to pull their children out of the district.

A woman was arrested and charged for intentionally running over another woman with her car Friday near unincorporated Broward County, deputies said. Officers responded to the scene in the 2600 block of Northwest 13th Court, near Fort Lauderdale, at around 9 a.m. after reports of a hit-and-run, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. Deputies found a woman suffering from injuries and rushed her to the hospital. The victim's identity and condition were not released, but family members identified her as Antanisha Gore. Investigators said the victim was involved in an ongoing disturbance since last night with another woman, who they...

Gregory Tony and his subordinates partner with those who wish us harm. In 2014, then-Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel set a terrible precedent, when he hired Nezar Hamze, a representative from CAIR, a group with numerous links to terrorism, as a Deputy at the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO). Hamze ‘opened doors’ for Sheriff Israel, by introducing the Sheriff at radical mosques. Five years later, Israel was removed from his position and replaced with Gregory Tony. Yet, not only has Tony kept Hamze on the force, but he has gone much further in his embrace of Islamists, even having them participate...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA) — Typically when you think of stuffing a bird, you’re thinking of bread filling, onions, and seasoning, but one particular chicken got some attention after authorities at a Florida airport found something “fowl” inside it. Monday, the Transportation Security Administration posted on social media that its agents at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport found a gun smuggled inside a raw chicken. Photos of the desecrated bird carcass showed a gun that was wrapped in a plastic bag and shoved inside it. “We hate to beak it to you here, but stuffing a firearm in your holiday...

Pembroke Park officials to hold special meeting ... PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – As the clock ticks for Pembroke Park to secure police coverage before its contract with the Broward Sheriff’s Office expires Saturday, one potential option is now off the table. It also appears the town may be scrambling to get its startup in-house police department, scheduled to launch in 2023, up and running in mere days. If nothing happens, the south Broward town of about 6,000 people will have no police patrolling its streets. BSO deputies would only respond to emergency calls, as dictated by state statute, and could...

A group of Florida middle school students found themselves under arrest after allegedly beating up a group of white students based solely on their skin color. Authorities in Broward County, Florida confirmed to Fox News they arrested and charged five students of Lyons Creek Middle School for allegedly attacking four other students in a racially-inspired attack near the school. The alleged crime took place at the Coconut Creek Recreation Center on the 4400 block of Sol Press Blvd in Coconut Creek, Florida. Coconut Creek Police arrest reports state that the students who were attacked were white and the students who...

Cleveland Browns defensive lineman Malik McDowell was completely naked while he was being arrested on Monday ... new video, obtained by TMZ Sports, shows.In the footage, you can see the 6-foot-6, 290-pound football player did not have a single article of clothing on his body ... as officers tried to subdue him in Deerfield Beach, FL.McDowell, who had cuffs on his wrists and shackles around his ankles in the clip, appeared to be very agitated with cops, writhing on the ground nearly every time an officer got near him.

Parents jeer at school officials who don’t want to hear disgusting gay pedo porn being given to children.. A school board in Virginia attempted to cut off a mother who read out loud from disgusting pedophilia porn books stocked in the school’s own library as part of a “diversity and inclusion” drive. Stacy Langton addressed Fairfax High School officials on the matter, reading from two books she discovered at the institution. Langton said “After seeing a September 9th school board meeting in Texas on pornography in schools, I decided to check the titles at my child’s high school, Fairfax High...

....officers with the Hallandale Beach Police Department arrested Jeffrey Carl Fleming, 39, on Monday. He is facing charges of stalking and hate crime after a video showed him dropping off a bag of feces on Friday at the Chabad of South Broward. He is also accused of spitting at the menorah before riding away. “It’s rooted in hate and antisemitism,” said Rabbi Mendy Tennenhaus....

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Drivers on Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County will have an easier and faster way to get around. Express lanes are being built in the southern part of the county, but that means years of construction are ahead. The Florida Department of Transportation is investing $1 billion in building express lanes from Broward County to Delray Beach. The tolled lanes would connect with the current lanes already built in Miami. "Driving on 95 right now, it is a zoo," said Christopher Tapia when asked how he'd describe driving on I-95. The express lanes project started in...

Broward sheriff’s deputies are being told not to enforce Florida’s new anti-rioting law unless absolutely necessary. In those cases, they must run it up the chain of command before taking action...

This is actually one of those small stories with very BIG potential. Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie was arrested this morning, oficially charged with perjury. Broward School Board attorney Barbara Myrick was also arrested. According to local news {LINK} Runcie gave testimony about how official school district programs were being implemented (aka “The Promise Program“) and whether any of the financial incentives were used by district officials for personal gain. The details are vague as the media reporting on the arrest are slight. The backstory is something CTH has some strong information about due to years of research into...

Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and General Counsel Barbara Myrick were arrested Wednesday as part of a statewide grand jury probe into the district. Runcie was arrested on a charge of perjury in an official proceeding, a third-degree felony. Myrick was arrested on a charge of unlawful disclosure of statewide grand jury proceedings, also a third-degree felony. **** The grand jury’s primary focus was to review school safety in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, but it has expanded its scope to include corruption and mismanagement in district operations.