Delray Beach paramedics remove the grandmother of the suspect from the condo about four hours after the standoff with police started. Since she has mobility issues, she was transported to a safe location. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
By Rich Pollack
A Delray Beach gun shop owner whose text let a friend who is charged with bilking a Highland Beach widow out of close to $3 million know investigators were looking for related records was charged last month with criminal disclosure of
By Dan Moffett
Not everyone in the South Palm Beach Police Department made the transition to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office this month.
On Aug. 30, South Palm patrol Officer Jose Miguel Fernandez resigned from the department, facing misdemean
Uncertain months ahead as deposed mayor faces corruption charges
By Mary Hladky
Over a dizzying two weeks in April, Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie was reprimanded and fined for ethics violations, arrested on state corruption charges, withdrew from the
By Steve Plunkett
The lawyer in the felony case against former Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella has rescheduled depositions of town officials and the police for late August.
Defense attorney Marc Shiner will depose arresting officers Nubia
By Steve Plunkett
One of the Ocean Ridge police officers who charged then-Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella with resisting arrest with violence last October did not make the same charge stick in a second, unrelated case.
The State Attorney’s Office
By Steve Plunkett
Neighbors of former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella who answered police questions the night of his arrest and then answered questions for an Ocean Ridge police internal investigation are finding they will spend more time answering
Vice Mayor Lucibella resignation letter
By Steve Plunkett and Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella faces formal charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence, both felonies, and misdemeanor us
By Dan Moffett
Mayor Geoff Pugh says he has been fielding the same two questions from Ocean Ridge residents since Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella’s arrest after a scuffle with police in October:
What do you think about it?
And what are you goin
By Mary Thurwachter
No stranger to “employee of the quarter” awards from the Lantana Police Department, Officer Edward Tavcar made another appearance at the Town Council’s Oct. 24 meeting. This time, he was recognized for his diligence in invest
Richard Lucibella (at left in white shirt) stands in his backyard after his arrest. He refused
medical treatment from paramedics for a wound near his left eye. Lt. Steven Wohlfiel (in black shirt,
facing camera) has been assigned alternate duties dur
Offense-Incident Report
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella is facing possible felony charges following a Saturday night shooting incident at his oceanfront home that left him in handcuffs and bloodied from a scuffle with poli
By Mary Thurwachter
Grand theft charges will be dropped against Robert Matthew Van Winkle, aka rapper Vanilla Ice, as long as he fulfills a plea deal that will have him doing 100 hours of community service and meeting a few other conditions during the
By Tim O’Meilia
Hours after he spoke at a South Palm Beach town council meeting, former mayor Martin Millar was arrested for allegedly attacking a man with a flashlight in a Palm Beach Gardens club.
Millar, 66, was released on his own recognizance Fr
By Tim O’Meilia
The off-duty Palm Beach County firefighter-paramedic who shot up his South Palm Beach condominium hallway and claimed a bomb had been planted may be a familiar face to town residents.
Jean A. Pierre II, 37, was assigned to Stati
By Angie Francalancia
Federal authorities have seized the Ocean Ridge home and another home owned by JosephRomano, who has been accused of resurrecting a $40 million boiler room scam he originated on Long Island with his Delray Beach-based Collec
