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If you ordered up a bounce house for Junior's birthday or celebrated a quince with a pony ride in South Florida over the past few months, you might want to listen up. According to police, a suspected gangbanger with some nasty associations may have been splitting his time between law breakin' and a more wholesome side gig: running kids' parties.

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Last week Gary Karp was on the phone with John Curcio, the Broward Sheriff's Office detective now investigating the death of Karp's daughter, Marissa. The men touch base often, endlessly groping through the dark spots in a case file that's been gathering dust for more than a decade.

This time, Karp voiced some concern. The latest development had stalled: police were currently trying to extradite Almanto Coakley, a Bahamian believed to know Marissa's last moments. But the procedural gears weren't turning. If they didn't get to Coakley soon, Karp worried, he might disappear or be killed. It would slam the door on the case's strongest lead.

Then, on Friday, Karp heard the news from a reporter in the Bahamas: Coakley had been murdered the day before.

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- Marissa Karp Murder: A Decade of Investigation Pays Off

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Christine Kent is paralyzed from the waist down

At 10:30 p.m. one August night, a short and balding man named Allan Sinclair pulled his cream-colored Trailblazer up to a quiet house, and checked the gear he had in the back seat: latex gloves, rope, one gallon of bleach, and a knife.

Sinclair slid a loaded pistol into his waist band, and rapped at the door. A red-haired and one-time model named Christine Kent looked through the peephole, and was surprised. She hadn't seen Sinclair in years. What had brought him by?

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Domestic Bawse.

Rick Ross' Year of Difficult Bawsing continues. Since he was the target of a mysterious drive-by on January 28 in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the hip-hop superstar has found himself in the headlines a lot -- and not for your typical Don-like behavior. Despite the attention, there's been little new detail aired about the would-be Bawse scrubbing.

Maybe in an effort to kick up new leads, last week the Fort Lauderdale Police Department released the preliminary police reports from the incident, offering new answers to some basic Who-What-Where-and-Whens about the shooting. Obviously, we still don't know much about the elusive Why?

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A couple of Davie robbers hatched themselves a foolproof scheme to rob some money.

And since ATMs are just boxes of money, they decided to go gank them one from a fair.

The would-be robbers did just that. Unfortunately for them, their plan went only as far as "stealing an ATM," because they were caught pretty easily.

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According to police reports, Kelly Major Cooper, 46, allegedly kidnapped a 10-year-old boy from a party in West Park several weeks ago.

Cooper then allegedly took the boy to his son's Dania Beach residence, where he locked the child in a bedroom. Cooper then raped the boy and forced him to perform sexual acts.

To make this awful story even more abhorrent: Cooper is reportedly HIV-positive and may have infected the child with the virus.

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Darrius Johnson attacked his girlfriend, Monica Gooden, from behind, slamming an X-Box 360 console across her head. He then stabbed her multiple times all over her body.

When interviewed by police about the gruesome murder, Johnson told investigators he felt like a new man after killing his girlfriend, who, he says, had taken control of his spirit, so he had to kill her as a sacrifice.

Johnson told police he felt like he was "fighting a dragon" when he murdered her.

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Redell Sylvestre

Police say they have three suspects in custody connected to the shooting murder of a Josephine's Italian Restaurant bartender.

The three suspects were arrested and charged by Boca Raton police for a separate crime, but authorities connected the men to the January 4 murder of bartender Rafael Rodriguez through a stolen watch that belonged to the restaurant owner's girlfriend.

Rodriguez, 46, was shot and killed at Josephine's Restaurant located in the 5700 block of U.S. 1. He later died at Delray Medical Center.

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Patron saint of money douches.

E-Monee.com Inc. -- if you were writing a movie script and needed to cook up the name of a shady online outfit, that's probably a good candidate. Not surprisingly, the real-life E-Monee.com is being charged with fraud by the feds. The two heads of the Fort Lauderdale company talked big about lucrative investment opportunities and projects in countries in South America, including a Colombian amusement park and oil contracts with Hugo Chavez. In reality, the business was hustling penny stock worth little to nothing, according to a suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission last week.

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One of the more made-for-TV courtroom dramas to roll out of Broward recently involves Rose Marks.

The matriarch of a Fort Lauderdale family of fortunetellers, Marks schemed $25 million from a best-selling romance novelist and other victims, or so say federal prosecutors. The psychic herself has been proclaiming innocence since she was first indicted along with ten members of her family in 2011.

But when Marks voiced her side of the story to the Sun Sentinel late last December, prosecutors were apparently pissed off.

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