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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Angie DiMichele |Rafael Olmeda
Three Broward Sheriff’s deputies are facing charges of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm stemming from an alleged rough encounter with a woman they were booking into the jail in 2022, court records show. Deputy Denia Walker, 37; Deputy Cleopatra Johnnie, 47; and Sgt. Zakiyyah Polk, 44, were booked into the Broward Main Jail on Thursday, jail and court records show. The charge they each face is a second-degree felony. On Oct.
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1 week ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Angie DiMichele |Rafael Olmeda
Three Broward Sheriff’s deputies are facing charges of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm stemming from an alleged rough encounter with a woman they were booking into the jail in 2022, court records show. Deputy Denia Walker, 37; Deputy Cleopatra Johnnie, 47; and Sgt. Zakiyyah Polk, 44, were booked into the Broward Main Jail on Thursday, jail and court records show. On Oct.
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1 month ago | 
officer.com | Angie DiMichele |Shira Moolten
In a matter of hours on the morning of Feb. 16, Seraphine Gingles witnessed her mother, her grandfather and a stranger be shot to death, then the arrest of her father at gunpoint. The girl was kidnapped by her father, Nathan Gingles, after the triple shootings in Tamarac. While driving to a Walmart in North Lauderdale, he told his 4-year-old daughter she would never see her mother or her Grandpa Dave again and that they were going to Texas, a probable cause affidavit said.
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1 month ago | 
orlandosentinel.com | Angie DiMichele |Shira Moolten
Body-worn camera videos released on Wednesday show the moment deputies arrested Nathan Gingles at a Walmart in North Lauderdale on Feb. 16, nearly five hours after the triple shootings in a Tamarac neighborhood.
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1 month ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Angie DiMichele |Shira Moolten
Body-worn camera videos released on Wednesday show the moment deputies arrested Nathan Gingles at a Walmart in North Lauderdale on Feb. 16, nearly five hours after the triple shootings in a Tamarac neighborhood. Originally Published: April 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM EDT
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2 months ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Angie DiMichele |Shira Moolten
Colleen Sheridan and her son Connor have been identified as the two victims who were killed in a double murder-suicide in Pompano Beach earlier this week. A welfare check on Wednesday evening led to first responders discovering the bodies of an adult woman and two adult men inside of a home in the 300 block of South Golf Boulevard, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. James Sheridan, 80, is believed to be the shooter, who then killed himself.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
sun-sentinel.com | Shira Moolten |Angie DiMichele
Months before the Tamarac triple shooting that rocked Broward County, another Tamarac woman was afraid for her life when her former husband appeared at her home with a gun. Lisa Drangel had an experience all too similar to Mary Gingles, who deputies said was killed by her estranged husband in February. Both women were granted restraining orders that ordered their husbands to surrender all their guns, in addition to barring them from coming near them or contacting them. The men didn’t comply.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
sun-sentinel.com | Angie DiMichele |Shira Moolten
A Sunrise man is accused of writing threatening messages to Hunter Pollack, brother of Parkland school shooting victim Meadow Pollack. Byran Richard Sajous, 27, was arrested Tuesday and faces charges of written threats to kill and aggravated stalking after messaging “a profanity laced rant” on Instagram on Monday that included threats, according to a probable cause affidavit for his arrest. Sajous allegedly wrote to Pollack, “U gonna die” and “Imma kill u,” according to the affidavit.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Angie DiMichele |Shira Moolten
By Angie DiMichele and Shira Moolten, South Florida Sun-Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - FBI agents raided the homes of two prominent South Florida dog fighters on Tuesday, finding over 40 caged dogs, many of them wounded, according to federal complaints. Alex Eugene Benefield, of Deerfield Beach, is now facing charges of conspiracy and running an animal fighting venture, while Tramaine Marvin Randall, of Pompano Beach, is charged with running an animal fighting venture, court records show.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thederrick.com | Angie DiMichele |Shira Moolten
