CRIME & SAFETY
Police Officer, Former ‘Model Student-Athlete’ Tragically Passes Away at 30-Years-Old
A West Palm Beach police officer and former Florida Atlantic Owls football player passed away early on Sunday last week. Joshua Ballesteros was a 30-year-old police officer who did not survive a single-vehicle crash after his car was reportedly found upside down in a canal. The crash involving the death...
Records reveal troubling history of man shot by Riviera Beach police officer
Palm Beach County court records reveal that an incident that ended with gunfire in a high school parking lot is the culmination of a series of encounters involving Delroy Thomas.
Over 3 years after cops found her with baby bleeding, mother struggles to stay out of Broward jail
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A 30-year-old mother — who has been in and out of jail for years in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties — was at the Broward main jail on Friday in Fort Lauderdale. Ashly Marie Kestler, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, has...
12 face racketeering charges after 2-year investigation of Riviera Beach gang
A two-year investigation of a gang that has operated in Riviera Beach for more than two decades culminated in 12 of its members facing racketeering charges, law enforcement officials said, several who are already in state or federal custody on other charges. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office announced at a news conference Tuesday the charges against members of the Broadmoor Gang that came ...
Suspect in 1983 cold case died decades ago. Victim’s family and police still seek answers.
Gayla Ann McNeil was hitchhiking in South Florida on the last days of her life. That has been known for decades. But her sister still doesn’t know, 40 years later, where she was going and up until recently still did not know who could have murdered her. McNeil, 30, of Cocoa Beach, was found brutally murdered in western Palm Beach County in the early evening of Oct. 21, 1983. A man who was ...
Man's death in South Florida heat prompts federal investigation into company that employed him
BELLE GLADE — A South Florida company is fighting federal regulators' proposed punishment over the death of an employee who suffered a heatstroke on his first day on the job. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 26-year-old Salvadore Garcia Espita came to Belle Glade from Mexico on a...
'The system failed him': Family had sought mental health care for man shot at Suncoast High
RIVIERA BEACH — Just two days before an encounter with a police officer that resulted in a Riviera Beach man being shot and wounded on the campus of Suncoast High School, his family sought to get him help. Delroy Thomas was taken to HCA JFK North Medical Center on Saturday, April 20,...
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