Shira Moolten

4 days ago | sun-sentinel.com | Shira Moolten

Panicked passengers diving into the water. Others waiting on the smoking boat, desperate for rescue. People passing out. Children burned. A pungent smell of gas. These were the harrowing scenes following the sudden explosion of a 39-foot motorboat at a sandbar in the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale on Memorial Day, according to five newly released 911 calls. A father of four died of his injuries.

4 days ago | sun-sentinel.com | Shira Moolten |David Lyons

A well-known Fort Lauderdale Police detective was fired after an investigation revealed that he used police databases to search his ex-girlfriend and her family and made conflicting statements about a tracker found on the woman’s car. As a recruiting officer for the department, Henry Lockwood III often served as the face of Fort Lauderdale Police.

5 days ago | sun-sentinel.com | Shira Moolten

Six more Broward Sheriff’s deputies were suspended without pay or fired Friday in the continuing aftermath of a Tamarac triple homicide, records show. Five Tamarac district deputies were placed on administrative leave without pay: Dia Cross, Daimeon Nelson, Eric Baide, Eric Klisiak, and Lemar Blackwood, according to notices of suspension or termination obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

1 week ago | sun-sentinel.com | Shira Moolten

Two people were shot and a woman was carjacked near the ALDI plaza in Miramar Saturday afternoon, police say. About 2:30 p.m., an altercation at an apartment near the 12000 block of Miramar Parkway spilled out into the parking lot, resulting in over 20 gunshots being fired, according to Janice McIntosh, a spokesperson for Miramar Police. One of the suspects involved then fled to the nearby ALDI plaza, where he carjacked a woman and began driving away.

1 week ago | sun-sentinel.com | Shira Moolten

Over a month after a Palm Beach County self-defense instructor was arrested on charges of beating two women, a judge set strict limits on his access to firearms. Maoz Muskal, 49, the owner of a Boynton Beach shooting club, is accused of putting his girlfriend in a chokehold, punching her best friend in the face and then dragging his girlfriend back inside their West Boca home by her hair in March, according to a probable cause affidavit. He has pleaded not guilty.