Palm Beach County is warning residents, property owners, contractors and businesses about a phishing scam in which criminals impersonate planning, zoning and building personnel to demand fraudulent permit and development payments.
The FBI has identified the 21-year-old North Carolina man killed in the Mar-a-Lago officer-involved shooting as investigators trace his drive from North Carolina to Palm Beach County and work to determine a motive.
A Daytona-area man who admitted to sex trafficking two women by force, fraud, or coercion was sentenced to 327 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
A federal judge in South Florida sentenced Ryan Wesley Routh to life plus 84 months in prison for the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump, along with assault and firearms charges tied to an incident at Trump International Golf Club.
A federal jury in Fort Lauderdale convicted Christian “Chris” Cruz, 45, of Pompano Beach, in an $11.4 million Medicare fraud conspiracy tied to medically unnecessary orthotic braces shipped to beneficiaries nationwide.