The BSO is investigating Robert Hocke's death.

​​A Davie scuba diver was found dead around 5 p.m. Sunday, about one mile south of the Dania Beach pier, the Broward Sheriff's Office has just reported.

Cops say that 62-year old Robert Hocke went missing at 1:14 p.m, after signaling to his dive buddy that he was running low on air. 

Both men returned to the surface together and agreed to return to their friends' boat. When Hocke's dive buddy got back to the boat, however, Hocke was gone. 

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Krebs' booking photo.

​This week's New Times cover story reveals the turbulent past of Brian Krebs, who stands accused of stabbing promoter and drummer Jimmy Pagano to death and slashing five others in a bar fight.

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Georgia Roberts, who was acquitted of stalking Channel 10 reporter Kristi Krueger in 2003, now stands accused of stalking a family in the Orlando area in an eerily similar manner.

Roberts at the time of the alleged Krueger stalking

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Roberts, according to a Winter Gardens police report, was arrested at a Publix store after confronting the wife of the family she is accused of victimizing, whom we'll call the "Baileys" for the sake of privacy. Mrs. Bailey said that Roberts had stalked her not only at the supermarket but at her daughter's school and the family's church. She said Roberts had also plagued the family with dozens of unwanted phone calls, emails, and text messages. 

Mrs. Bailey, who was shaking and crying as she spoke with police at the Publix store, said that Roberts got in her way in the aisle of the supermarket and wouldn't let her pass, causing her to fear for her safety. It was only the latest in what she described as more than three years of Roberts stalking her and her family.

In addition to the bizarre Krueger case, Roberts also shot and killed Angela Puccetti, her high school's homecoming queen, in 1986. The death was ruled an accidental.

Inside, read about Roberts' most bizarre act and her alleged confession to police after they handcuffed her and put her in the patrol car.   

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Ynot at work.

​Welcome to the first post of 2011, and Happy New Year. Let's hope it's a great one for all the dedicated Pulpsters -- and casual readers too, of course.

Ynot with his baby son, Max.

​Thought I'd get in/ a post about the homicide of graffiti and tattoo artist Jonathan "Ynot" Corso, who was run over twice in the parking lot at Club Eden in Davie. A colleague from down south, Gus Garcia-Roberts, has broken some new ground on the story.

There was a lot of speculation about who was behind the crime. Answers have come to light after the arrest of the man who was at the wheel when Corso, photographed at right, was mowed down. But it wasn't the driver, Reynaldo Rodriguez, who triggered the deadly early-morning melee.  

Inside, see what happened and who really started the fight that would end Corso's life on his 21st birthday.  

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We all know that three Broward Sheriff's Office deputies were arrested earlier this month and charged with supplying contraband to inmates and having sex with them.   

Deitrick Johnson and Dep. Kiara Walker (inset)

​The shocking part, though, is the identity of the prisoner whom one of the female jail guards was romancing and supplying with contraband. Kiara Monet Walker, a 21-year-old deputy, was consorting with Dietrick Johnson, according to court records. Johnson is one of the notorious pharmacy store bandits who remains a chief suspect in the murder of BSO Sgt. Chris Reyka.

Dep. Walker is accused of exchanging sexually explicit texts and photographs with Johnson, some of which referred to having sex in his jail cell. She is also alleged to have supplied him with a cell phone.

Sources inside BSO tell me that more arrests are expected in the case and that there may have been a plan in the works to smuggle in a gun to an inmate, possibly Deitrick Johnson.

How could a sworn deputy become intimate with a prisoner who is suspected in the cold-blooded murder of a fellow deputy in her own agency? That's a question the continuing investigation is trying to answer. 

Reyka

​Sgt. Reyka, by all accounts an exemplary officer, was shot to death behind a Walgreens store in Pompano Beach at 1:30 a.m. August 10, 2007 -- at the height of Johnson's robbery spree. Sheriff Al Lamberti has publicly stated that he believes Reyka's murder is connected to those robberies, but so far there hasn't been enough evidence to make a case.

Veteran private investigator Dan Riemer, who delved into the case, filed court papers last year claiming to have solved the Reyka murder. Although Riemer wouldn't name names publicly, sources say his investigation determined that the pharmacy store robbers were behind the murder, including Johnson, Gerald Joshua, and gang leader Tim Johnson, who is no relation to Deitrick. As the triggerman, Riemer named 

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Ynot with son Max just days prior to his death

​ UPDATED: The SAO just announced that it has filed charges in the case of graffiti artist Jonathan "Ynot" Corso. The release:

The Broward State Attorney's Office has charged Reynaldo Rodriguez, 32, with vehicular homicide in the July early-morning death of a man in the parking lot of a Davie nightclub.

Davie police arriving at the Club Eden about 4 a.m. July 28 found Jonathan P. Corso, 30, lying between two parked cars and being administered CPR by a bystander. Witnesses told police that a white Cadillac Escalade driven by Rodriguez struck Corso following a verbal and physical confrontation in the parking lot involving the two men and several other club patrons.

At the end of the fight, witnesses told investigators, Rodriguez got into the Escalade and backed the vehicle into a small group of men. The impact knocked down Corso, who was then run over by the Cadillac's back tires. The back tires ran over Corso  a second time when Rodriquez reversed direction and pulled the Cadillac forward, investigators learned.

Rodriguez surrendered at the Broward County Jail Wednesday and was released on $2,500 bond. Vehicular homicide is a second-degree felony and is punishable by a maximum 15 years in prison. 

Inside, see how this year was the year of corruption in Broward County and how State Attorney Mike Satz does, indeed, deserve a hand.

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So the Broward Sheriff's Office arrested three jail guards on charges they helped bring contraband into the jail. The mugs of the correction officers were published at the top of the Local section of the Sun-Sentinel with the words: "Inquiry focuses on contraband and sex at a county jail."

One of the two female arrestees apparently had sex with an inmate and brought him some contraband of some kind. The male arrested gave an inmate a cell phone, according to the article.

Lest we forget

​Obviously we can't have that kind of thing going on and if it's true, get them out of the department and put them on probation or something. But Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti better use the same swiftness and sureness in the double-dipping case involving some members of the upper brass.

An internal BSO audit found all kinds of wrongdoing involving BSO's special detail program that allows deputies to do outside security work for companies and individuals. We all saw the dangers of this kind of work with Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, who made a mockery of both BSO and the Fort Lauderdale Police Department with his close ties to officials in both agencies. Rothstein of course had a slew of police working "protection" for him while he was busy committing the biggest crime in town.

The audit story, broken by South Florida Times' Elgin Jones, hasn't gotten much play in the mainstream yet. It was broken by Elgin Jones of the South Florida Times. Basically the audit found that numerous deputies, including high-ranking ones, were double-dipping from the detail program, which was found to be poorly supervised and fraught with cronyism.

(Cronyism in a police department? What a shock.)  

Some collected outside pay while they apparently should have been on the BSO clock. This from the report by BSO Auditor Maria Fernandez.

"During our work, we noted that nine District Chiefs/Captains worked Special Details. While six of them worked less than 200 hours/year, there was one that worked slightly more than 300 hours and two that worked over 600 hours (billing over $25,000 each). One District Chief consistently works a 4:00 pm Friday detail. This same Chief worked 8.5 hour and one 9 hour detail on two different Thursdays, starting at 2 pm, although he did not take any type of personal leave on those days."

The audit also found rampant abuse of sick

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