Cops Say Marvin Broadway Attempted an Armed Robbery, Got Shot by the Victim, Then Took His Clothes Off

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Broadway. The photo looked like this when we got it; either it's a squished photo or the accused robber was born in the wrong aspect ratio.
Marvin Broadway had a team, according to police, and attempted to rob a man behind the Gold Buyers store on the 5100 block of North Federal Highway. Unless the idea was to get arrested not wearing any clothes, the robbery did not go according to plan.

With a lookout nearby and a 19-year-old woman waiting in a getaway car, the gold-toothed Broadway approached Oleg Flyaster in an alley behind the store and demanded at gunpoint that Flyaster "give up the money," according to court documents.

So Flyaster shot him.
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Here's Florida's Blacklist of Everyone Excluded for Life From Pari-Mutuel Casinos

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Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering
Busted! Sandro Alonzo (right) in happier times.
If Uncle Earl has been coming around and causing trouble recently, it might be because he was kicked out of the casino for card counting, stealing, or other stupid behavior. Wouldn't it be great to see a list of everyone who was excluded from the state's casinos in recent years?

Florida's Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering makes it easy to see a list of everyone who's been permanently excluded from the pari-mutuel facilities it runs. These include the dog and harness tracks, jai-alai frontons, and barrel-racing operations that are licensed to provide slots and poker as well. 

Oddly, though, the list is pretty brief. Apparently it takes a lot to get yourself permanently banned from a casino.
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Former Senate Candidate Jeff Greene Back in the News for Being an Awful Resort Owner

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Jeff Greene: mean.
If you remember billionaire Jeff Greene, it's probably from the ridiculous stories of drug-fueled excess on his party boat -- a first-person account from one of his former stewardesses includes the phrases "Red Bull," "Mike Tyson" and "oral sex" in the same sentence -- but he's back in the spotlight, this time not as a candidate for public office but as a not-so-great owner of a formerly superhyped resort.

To see photos from aboard the Greene's yacht, click here. Note: They're not safe for work.

Greene bought Palm Beach's Omphoy Ocean Resort out of foreclosure last spring. Now, however, workers have come forward to Jose Lambiet with complaints that they are "simply terrified" to work for Greene, that he viciously berates everyone from the cleaning ladies to the managers, and that he's taken over large swaths of the place for his personal use.
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Anonymous E-book Offers "A Look at Corruption Inside the Broward Sheriff's Office"

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It's $9.99 on Amazon; you can get it on your Kindle in seconds. What better way to read a self-published book about alleged corruption in the Broward Sheriff's Office, including manipulation by everybody's favorite Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein?

A new anonymous e-book being hawked on the web retailer, and available in print from Lulu.com, is called Inside the Broward County Sheriff's Office. Chapters include "The Rise to Power of [Sheriff] Al Lamberti," "How Close Was Rothstein to Lamberti," and other promising topics. It also includes a few sections on Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley, who has been extensively linked with Rothstein.

The response from inside law enforcement? Mixed, with some calling it old news.More >>

Dirty Dozen 2011: Who Did We Forget?

Categories: Dirty Laundry
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This year's list of our Dirty Dozen covers a gamut of South Florida marauders, bent on making your life miserable -- or at least more mediocre -- in pursuit of personal gain. Rick Scott and Allen West are old standbys, but we have several newcomers to the list: Pain bros Jeff and Chris George, teachers' union president Pat Santeramo, the organizers of the doomed Langerado Music Festival, and more.

While the team of masterminds assembling your New Times was careful as always to identify the zeitgeist of apathy around Broward, we're sure your opinions will differ. 

That's why we're opening the floodgates to your immense reservoir of hatred, and asking for a "People's Dozen" of those YOU hate the most.
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Peter Schorsch Finds a Bit of a Problem Between Lois Frankel's Criticism and Her Campaign Cash

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via the Emily's List Flickr
Lois Frankel
It looks like there's something a bit more ridiculous to Lois Frankel's claim that Rep. Allen West hates women unless he gives $1,000 to the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence to prove he doesn't.

Peter Schorsch -- who runs the politicking website Saint Petersblog -- noticed that Frankel, the former mayor of West Palm Beach, has been getting quite a few checks in the mail for her congressional campaign to unseat West from a man who apparently isn't too nice toward women either.

Dan Catalfumo, who owns Catalfumo Construction and has given $5,000 to Frankel's campaign committee this election cycle, was acquitted of an aggravated battery charge in 2005 in which he was accused of beating his former fiancée. The battery accusations against Catalfumo, however, surfaced from multiple women throughout the trial.

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Marco Rubio's Brother-in-Law a Convicted Drug Trafficker, Which Is Completely Irrelevant

Categories: Dirty Laundry
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Sen. Marco Rubio
Here's a tip: If you're digging up dirt on a politician, try to find something a little filthier than Sen. Marco Rubio's brother-in-law being convicted of drug-trafficking charges when the senator was a 16-year-old kid.

This news, coming from Univision, ranks among Mike Huckabee's kid killing a dog at Boy Scout camp or the cocaine use of our nation's presidents as things that just don't pertain to anything relevant.

Here's the story on Rubio's brother-in-law anyway:

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Ed Napleton Goes to YouTube After Story on His DUI Arrest Disappears From Palm Beach Post Site

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PBSO
Ed Napleton: What does he have to do to put you in a brand-new car today?
A few months before Jose Lambiet left the Palm Beach Post for a more lucrative gig at Radar Online, he broke a story about the DUI arrest of Ed Napleton, who owns auto dealerships in the West Palm area and happens to be one of the Post's biggest advertisers.

Rumor has it that in the wake of the story's publication in late January, Napleton fired back by pulling all of his ads from the Post. We put in calls to Napleton's marketing department and the Post publisher's office for details on the boycott but didn't hear back. The most authoritative (not very) account of the move comes from an online piece by rival car salesman Earl Stewart.

And Lambiet's story? It disappeared from the Post's website. Speculation began to grow, and when Lambiet left his job at the paper,More >>

"My Mother Is the Mayor; I'll Spit All Over Your Kids," and Other Tales From Hallandale Beach

Categories: Dirty Laundry
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Mayor Joy Cooper
Over the past few months, Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Keith London has been in touch with New Times to express his concern about the number and frequency of police and fire department responses involving the personal activities of Mayor Joy Cooper and her family.

We have obtained a number of police reports, many of them supplied by London after he submitted both public-records requests and "commissioner requests" for information about Cooper, including a matrix of all police incidents at her home on Holiday Drive over the past decade.

Cooper insists the dissemination of this information by London is simply dirty politics, a way of dragging the discourse through the mud -- "Don't bring my family into this" are her words to London.
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Osama Bin Laden's Porn Collection

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Watching intently.
We found Bin Laden's porn!

This news comes courtesy of Reuters. And though Reuters admits that the supersecret CIA leakers who gave them this information can't confirm that the porn definitely belonged to Osama Bin Laden -- as opposed to, say, his wives or sons -- who cares? The interwebs have made up their own mind. It was Osama's porn, whether it was Osama's porn or not. And there is much rejoicing.
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