father - News - The Coastal Star2024-03-28T22:09:21Zhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/fatherBoca Raton: Homeless man charged with killing father in parking garage off A1Ahttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/boca-raton-homeless-man-charged-with-killing-father-in-parking-ga2020-03-04T18:22:24.000Z2020-03-04T18:22:24.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960934654,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960934654,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960934654?profile=original" /></a><em>Boca Raton police investigate the beginnings of a hole that the suspect intended to use as a grave for his father’s body, according to the police report. <strong>Photo provided</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>By Mary Hladky</strong></p>
<p>A 26-year-old man is being held without bond in the Palm Beach County Jail after his Feb. 4 arrest on a first-degree murder charge in the stabbing and strangulation death of his father.<br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960934453,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960934453,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-left" alt="7960934453?profile=original" /></a>Jared Noiman, who has a history of mental illness, drug use and violent outbursts against his father, confessed his crime to Boca Raton police detectives, the arrest report states.<br />Police responding to a 911 call on Feb. 3 found a man later identified as Jay Noiman, 59, dead in a large pool of blood in the parking garage of the One Ocean Plaza office building at 1 S. Ocean Blvd. A broken knife was found near the body.<br /> Jared Noiman told police that he and his father were homeless and were spending the night in the parking garage.<br /> The homicide unnerved residents of the nearby oceanfront Marbella condominium, who told City Council members on Feb. 11 that the number of homeless people in the area is increasing, causing some condo residents to be fearful of walking the beach.<br /> “We got very worried about this,” said Lester Dally, a Marbella board member. “It is a safety and security issue for us.”<br /> He asked city officials to increase security and police patrols.<br /> Anthony Riso, also a Marbella board member, said a homeless person was found dead about six months ago in a now-vacant and derelict condominium building immediately south of One Ocean Plaza.<br /> “It is a magnet for persons who are homeless or otherwise vagrant,” he said.<br /> Police patrols have been increased in the area, but the city is very limited in what it can do about homeless people, city spokeswoman Chrissy Gibson said after the meeting. Homelessness is not a crime and homeless people have constitutional protections.<br /> Before Jay Noiman’s body was found, a Delray Beach police officer stopped a white Ford Explorer driven by Jared Noiman for driving without headlights. Noiman and his clothes were covered with blood, which he said was the result of a fight he had in Boca Raton, the arrest report states. <br /> Delray Beach police cited Noiman for driving without a valid driver’s license and released him, but notified Boca Raton police.<br /> That same Monday evening, Boca Raton police pulled over a Ford Explorer driven by Noiman on Glades Road just west of North Federal Highway, arrested him for driving without a valid license and drove him to the Police Department for questioning.<br /> Noiman refused to answer questions about his father. At the time, police did not have probable cause to charge him with murder, and he was released.<br /> Noiman returned to the Police Department the next day, saying he wanted to confess to killing his father. He told detectives he was upset by the way his father was treating him, the report states.<br /> He asked his father to drive him to Publix and walked to a nearby store where he bought a knife, gloves and garbage bags. <br /> The two then drove to the parking garage at the corner of A1A and Palmetto Park Road. Noiman walked to the beach and started to dig a hole in the sand to bury his father, but abandoned the effort.<br /> He returned to the parking garage, put on the gloves and stabbed his sleeping father. When the knife broke, he strangled his father, telling him to “just go to sleep,” the report states.<br /> Frightened by a light going on in a nearby condo, Noiman grabbed the vehicle keys and fled. After being stopped by Delray Beach police, he ditched his bloody clothes and the gloves in an Office Depot trash can.<br /> Noiman also came to attention of authorities in October after posting to social media about wanting to shoot Boca Raton residents.<br /> One post appeared the day of reports that there was an active shooter at the Town Center mall. The rumors set off a panic at the mall, but it was later determined the loud noises that mall patrons heard were actually popping balloons.<br /> “There may not have been a shooting,” Noiman wrote on Facebook, “but there sure needs to be one,” The Palm Beach Post reported. He said in his posts that he detested Boca Raton residents for flaunting their wealth.<br /> He was arrested on a charge of intimidation, but the state did not file charges, The Post reported.<br /> He also served two years in state prison following a violent 2016 confrontation with Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies.<br /> One Ocean Plaza and the vacant condo were to be replaced by Ocean Palm, a 70-unit luxury condominium. Plans by Miami-based One Ocean Plaza Venture LLC were approved by the City Council in 2017. City staff asked for modifications to the site plan, but the developer did not respond, Gibson said.<br /> Bonnie Miskel, the attorney for One Ocean Plaza, said the developer intends to complete the project. It was delayed because the developer needed time to acquire the condo units, she said. He did not know how soon construction would start.</p></div>Tots & Teens: St. John Paul II student raises funds to honor dad, fight cancerhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/tots-teens-st-john-paul-ii-student-raises-funds-to-honor-dad-figh2019-02-26T23:38:03.000Z2019-02-26T23:38:03.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p style="text-align:center;"><em><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960849267,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960849267,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960849267?profile=original" /></a></em><em>Madison Nolan hopes to raise $50,000 by March 8 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in honor of her father, Ed Nolan, who died in April after battling lymphoma. On March 5 she wants fellow students to donate $3 each and wear lime green, the LLS color. <strong>Photo provided<br /></strong></em></p>
<p><strong>By Janis Fontaine</strong></p>
<p>Just 17 years old, Madison Nolan of Delray Beach is dealing with a tremendous loss by doing something positive. <br /> Last April 5, Madison lost her father, Ed Nolan, to non-Hodgkin lymphoma.</p>
<p>NHL is the most common form of blood cancer — sometimes called liquid cancer — with more than 70,000 cases diagnosed each year in the United States. The disease forms in the bloodstream or lymph system, which carries disease-fighting white blood cells throughout the body.</p>
<p>Madison, a senior at Saint John Paul II Academy in Boca Raton, has been nominated to be one of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s students of the year. The title is awarded to the candidate in each community who raises the most in donations during a seven-week competition, which this year ends March 8. Go to Tinyurl.com/MadisonLLS to donate.</p>
<p>Student of the Year is a philanthropic leadership development program for exemplary high school students. Participants build professional skills such as entrepreneurship, marketing and project management while raising money to fight liquid cancers. <br /> Saint John Paul II Academy requires students to wear school uniforms. The chance to wear jeans and non-school colors is enticing, so charity-driven “dress-down days” are effective fundraisers. But for Madison, her March 5 event will also be a way to honor her father.</p>
<p>“I want everyone to see his smiling face,” Madison said. “He was one of the good guys.”</p>
<p>Madison asks participants to make $3 donations and to wear lime green shirts and jeans to school. Lime green is the color of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Her goal is to raise $50,000 by March 8, but she admits that while the money is important, what she really wants is to see her school dressed in lime green as a tribute to the man who always had a smile and a kind word.<br /> “It’s only been 10 months,” Madison said, “so it’s going to be hard, but I’m super-excited to be making a memory for him.”<br /> Madison says her best friends have really stepped up for her. “It’s easy to talk about him. I want to talk about him, and they understand that.”</p>
<p>Madison was about 5 years old when her father was diagnosed in 2006. “He had a PET scan and it lit up like a Christmas tree,” Madison said.</p>
<p>He was treated with chemotherapy, and Madison remembers when she visited him at treatment, he was the guy who was walking around, laughing and joking and cheering everyone else up. “Nothing ever affected him.”</p>
<p>Ed Nolan was doing well as 2017 drew to a close. He’d made so much progress that doctors thought he was in remission, and the family had a party to celebrate his being cancer-free. In December, he needed a little minor surgery and he didn’t recover from anesthesia well.</p>
<p>Things got worse. The cancer had metastasized to his brain, an unexpected and dire development. “We didn’t think the cancer could do that,” Madison said. “He’d always pulled through before.”</p>
<p>But at the beginning of April, Madison was taking a history test when someone called her to the front office. The staff told her to bring her books. A woman in the office was in tears. “She told me things were bad,” Madison said. Her mom’s sister had flown in from Alaska to help, and she took Madison to the hospital.</p>
<p>It’s still hard for Madison to believe her father is gone. She misses his sarcasm and his jokes, and riding in his Jeep down to the beach. Her father was a 36-year employee of FPL and “he loved his job and he had a group of guys he loved, his FPL guys,” Madison said.</p>
<p>Her mother, Kathleen Nolan, is supportive and proud of her daughter’s efforts to honor her father.</p>
<p>Madison also finds comfort with her dog, Bella, a black Lab mix she and her dad rescued. “She sleeps under the covers,” she said.</p>
<p>Madison wants to go to college, but isn’t quite ready to leave home yet. She wants to become a physician’s assistant.</p>
<p>“I’ve always loved anything medical,” she said. “I’m interested in holistic medicine and how we can treat people using herbs and supplements or acupuncture, as alternatives or in addition to chemo drugs.”</p>
<p>The LLS says that its students of the year have an important responsibility: “We call on those strong enough to fight for others. We need standouts who can stand up to cancer.”</p></div>