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Fort Lauderdale’s $100M police HQ not done, but already has concerning crack: ‘I don’t understand’
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Human error is the cause for a miscalculation that stopped some construction on Fort Lauderdale’s new police headquarters, and city leaders heard details about it Tuesday. Officials said a growing crack in the roof slab of the building isn’t a life safety issue, but...
Fort Lauderdale fires police officer accused of racist behavior
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Fort Lauderdale’s interim city manager fired a longtime police officer accused of racist behavior on Tuesday. John Giga, who served as an officer with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department for 16 years, has a history of disciplinary issues dating back to 2013, according to court records.
‘That’s Not Even In My Vocabulary. My Girlfriend’s Black’: White Florida Officer Faces Termination for Allegedly Instigating Off-duty Fight with Group of Black Men By Using Racial Slur, But He Denies It Happened
A white police officer in South Florida faces termination following an unwarranted confrontation with a group of Black men, capping a long history of discipline problems dating back more than a decade, according to reports. In the latest incident last November, Officer John Giga, a 16-year veteran of the Fort...
4 dead, including child, after car crash in Sunrise
Sunrise Police are investigating a crash that killed four people, including a child, on Sunday. Two cars crashed at the intersection of West Oakland Park Boulevard and Northwest 64th Avenue around 6:40 a.m., according to police. A witness told NBC6 that one of the cars was making a U-turn when...
One Year Later: Detectives seek clues in deadly shooting of 19-year-old girl
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS12) — It's been almost a year since a bullet took the life of a 19-year-old girl in Fort Lauderdale, and detectives are still looking for leads. On July 4, 2023, Destiny Bucknor was a passenger in a Slingshot vehicle — a three-wheeler road vehicle — with a man on Northwest Eight Street when an unknown suspect shot at them, a Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO) news release said.
Body found on ground at Coral Springs shopping plaza
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Coral Springs police are investigating after the body of a man was found Tuesday morning outside a shopping plaza. Sky 10 was above the scene off Wiles Road and 110th Avenue just after 10:45 a.m. as yellow evidence markers were seen on the ground near the body.
New video shows bloody knife attack inside Miami Gardens gym
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Newly released video shows a gruesome attack at a South Florida gym that nearly killed a man and left another behind bars. The attack happened at a 24-Hour Fitness in Miami Gardens back in May. Surveillance video shows off-duty police officers trying to keep...
BSO, Pembroke Pines police assist Secret Service in serving warrant at home
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – The Broward Sheriff’s Office and Pembroke Pines police assisted agents from the U.S. Secret Service in serving a search warrant at a home Tuesday morning, authorities confirmed. The warrant was served near Southwest 156th Avenue and 12th Street in Pembroke Pines’ Grand Palms Country...
Father accused of driving wrong way with 3 kids in van while fleeing cops near Hard Rock Stadium
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A minivan driver is facing two felony charges after police said he fled from a Miami-Dade police motorcycle officer who had pulled him over in Miami Gardens over the weekend. Rudy Gerald Sobrian, 46, of Miramar, had his three children in a Toyota Sienna as...
Man dead after being reportedly killed by possible lightning strike, Davie Police say
FORT LAUDERDALE — A man is dead after he was reportedly struck by lightning in a Broward County park on Sunday morning, police said.Shortly before 10:30 a.m., Davie Police officers responded to a medical call out of Vista View Park after hearing that "a person was down and may have been struck by lightning."When they arrived, they found a dead man in the park, police told CBS News Miami. Officers have not identified the man at this time. CBS News Miami has not confirmed his official cause of death.Police told CBS News Miami that the park was closed for weather-related safety reasons at the time of the incident.This is a developing story. Tune into CBS News Miami on-air and online for the latest updates.
21-year-old driver killed in violent Miami Gardens crash
A driver was killed in Miami Gardens on Tuesday after another car disobeyed a traffic signal and slammed into him, according to police. The violent crash happened on 183rd Street and 22nd Avenue at around 4:10 a.m. The driver who was killed, identified by family as 21-year-old Mekhi Hoosein Quiles,...
Teen accused of murdering grandmother to remain jailed
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A 14-year-old girl accused of murdering her grandmother in late May faced a Broward County judge again on Monday. Sofia Koval is accused of beating her grandmother, 79-year-old Yevheniia Koval, to death on May 23 at their home in Lauderdale Lakes. Koval, charged with second-degree...
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