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1 week ago | 
cw34.com | Mike Magnoli
St. Lucie County Sheriff Richard Del Toro is marking 100 days since he was sworn in. (WPEC)TOPICS:SheriffRichard Del ToroSt. Lucie CountyChief of PoliceKeith PearsonGovernor Ron DeSantisBudgetCold casesSt. Lucie County Sheriff Richard Del Toro is marking 100 days since he was sworn in. Before running for Sheriff, Del Toro was the Chief of Police in the city of Port St. Lucie.
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2 weeks ago | 
cw34.com | Mike Magnoli
The mother is being criminally charged with negligent manslaughter. The maximum penalty for that crime is 15 years. But it turns out, this is not the first time 37-year-old Heather Opsincs has been in trouble over her parenting. Almost exactly a year ago, she went through the system on a child neglect case. But how that matter from last year ended isn’t clear-- because FL's Department of Children and Families has no comment.
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2 weeks ago | 
cbs12.com | Mike Magnoli
West Palm Beach, Fla. — The CBS12 News I-Team continues to follow Florida’s condo crisis. The laws that were passed in the name of safety following the Surfside disaster are making condo-living incredibly expensive. Now we’re learning America’s biggest mortgage firm, Fannie-Mae, has a condo black-list and its been growing in size since the reforms were enacted. Many of the "for sale" condos that Fannie-Mae doesn’t want to go near are right here in Palm Beach County.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbs12.com | Mike Magnoli
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (CBS12) — The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) has made a major breakthrough in an ongoing case that the CBS12 News I-Team has been covering for two years. A top boss in a prostitution ring that uses illegal migrants as sex workers has been arrested. Since 2023, sources have been telling the I-Team that the suspect runs local brothel houses with an iron fist; She employs a staff of armed bodyguards to enforce the rules.
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3 weeks ago | 
cw34.com | Mike Magnoli
According to PBSO, her real name is Vanessa Jamarillo De Armas.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbs12.com | Mike Magnoli
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (CBS12) — Sometimes when a viewer reaches out to the CBS12 News I-Team with a problem, a few phone calls can make it go away. That’s what happened after residents in a Lake Worth neighborhood contacted the newsroom about a case of blight on their street – a broken-down house that had been slowly decaying before their eyes for more than a decade. Ground zero for a snake invasion. Despite constant complaints to the HOA, management, and county officials, nothing was being done.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbs12.com | Mike Magnoli
Coral Springs, Fla. — There are new developments in the story of an American contractor who was captured and killed in Iran. Bob Levinson called Coral Springs home, just south of Palm Beach County. The F.B.I. is naming three intelligence officers from Iran’s version of the CIA as suspects. They're now facing sanctions. Bob Levinson was kidnapped in 2007. In 2020, his family announced, based on information they've been given over the years, they believe he’s dead.
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4 weeks ago | 
cbs12.com | Mike Magnoli
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Right now, the U.S. Department of Education is under the Doge axe. The potential dismantling of the cabinet-level agency is being met with resistance from Democratic lawmakers and teachers unions across the country. But a government watchdog group reached out to the CBS12 News I-Team about a scathing report it’s about to publish on the Department of Education’s questionable spending of millions of tax dollars. The group behind this report is called Open the Books.
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4 weeks ago | 
cw34.com | Mike Magnoli
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Right now, the U.S. Department of Education is under the Doge axe. The potential dismantling of the cabinet-level agency is being met with resistance from Democratic lawmakers and teachers unions across the country. But a government watchdog group reached out to the CBS12 News I-Team about a scathing report it’s about to publish on the Department of Education’s questionable spending of millions of tax dollars. The group behind this report is called Open the Books.
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1 month ago | 
cbs12.com | Mike Magnoli
TOPICS:BrothelSex workersMigrant womenKidnappingProstitutionPalm Beach County9-1-1 callGuatemalan brothersThe CBS12 News I-Team has new details to report in collaboration with CBS12 News En Espanol. Since August of 2023, we have been on the trail of a criminal network; they force migrant women to become sex workers, and they use rental houses in suburban Palm Beach County as brothels.
