CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Coral Springs police found handguns, drugs, nearly $20,000 in cash, credit cards, and a checkbook belonging to a Parkland family during a raid on an apartment a few blocks from James S. Hunt Elementary School, a police report said. A morning search warrant operation on the apartment at 3750 Riverside Drive earlier this month ended with three men charged with various marijuana possession charges. As SWAT officers entered the apartment on Oct. 13, they found one of the...Read More

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – One Coral Springs business is run by former New York City police officers. Another is operated by a mother and entrepreneur who started her life as an orphan abandoned in India. In all, two business owners, a company, and an elected official will receive the 2021 Chamber Business Awards by Coral Springs Coconut Creek Regional Chamber of Commerce during the organization’s Heroes & Heroines Virtual Grand Gala Experience on Thursday. “They are all great leaders that...Read More

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Coral Springs residents can drop off their unwanted or unused prescription medications on Saturday, 10-2 pm, at Broward Health Coral Springs. The free DEA Pill Take Back event at 3100 Coral Hills Drive is intended to prevent drug abuse and misuse, according to the Coral Springs police. Organizers explained: - The medications will be accepted, no questions asked. - Medications may be left in the bottle . - Sharps, aerosols, syringes, or liquid meds will not b...Read More

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Before Scott Beigel was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, the popular teacher and running coach enjoyed going to summer camp, even as an adult. His passing at age 35 (he would have been 39 on Friday) led to his students from Coral Springs and Parkland and his family to create annual races – called Run 4 Beigel – in Parkland and New York to raise money and send disadvantaged children touch by gun violence to summer camp. On Saturday,...Read More

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – In the end, a divided Coral Springs City Commission moved forward with a resolution opposing restrictive abortion laws in Texas and other states. After weeks of contentious public comments, emails, and phone calls from city residents and members of groups, a 3-2 vote passed on Wednesday calling for “promoting access to reproductive healthcare and abortion rights” and directing the city’s Florida lobbyists “to advocate against legislation that would curtail a woman’s rig...Read More

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Even from a young age, Hollywood Officer Yandy Chirino showed he was a natural-born leader with a passion for life.

Three teenagers — one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds — have been arrested and charged with the murder of an 18-year-old Miramar High School student.

The 17-year-old sister of Jason Banegas, the man charged with murdering Hollywood police officer Yandy Chirino, was arrested late Friday. She was sought in connection to the gun used to kill Chirino.

Broward and Palm Beach county voters are about to pick the next member of the U.S. House, to replace the late Alcee Hastings. The 20th Congressional District is attracting little attention, locally and nationally. Many candidates are splitting the vote, so a small number could determine who goes to Washington.

The state attorney decided not to prosecute the Broward sheriff’s deputies who shot 30-year-old Jarvis Randall at least a dozen times during an encounter inside University Hospital and Medical Center’s behavioral health center in Tamarac in December 2018.

A South Florida woman wasn’t happy with the way things turned out with a man she met on a dating app, so she faked threatening text messages to numerous people to get a restraining order against him, prosecutors said. Vanessa Restrepo, 25, faces a number of charges, including writing and sending threats to kill or injure, perjury, and aggravated stalking. In bond court Tuesday, prosecutors detailed how Restrepo allegedly crafted text messages to make it seem like she was being harassed and threatened after going on several dates with this man. The texts included messages such as, “We followed your sister to work,” “Even when I get to jail I’ll have people get to you,” and “Not afraid of jail.” Restrepo also allegedly sent her friend — who Restrepo was living with at a Coral Springs apartment — the ominous text messages. They both reported the messages to police and obtained a restraining order against the man from the dating app, prosecutors said. The text messages continued, and police arrested the man for violating the order only to learn he wasn’t the person sending the texts. When investigators dug into the cellphone numbers and IP addresses, it turned out the texts were coming from the address where Restrepo was living and Restrepo’s mom’s house, police said. Restrepo was also accused of threatening the judge that handled the restraining order as well as an attorney representing the man from the dating app.  She’s being held on just under a $100,000 bond and will have to undergo a mental health evaluation. Restrepo has an ongoing history of similar behavior against men she has been with in any type of relationship, prosecutors told the judge in bond court. According to an arrest warrant filed from Broward County, Restrepo has accused multiple men throughout the years of stalking her and sending her threatening text messages.

Police investigated a reported bomb threat called into a middle school in Coral Springs on Friday. Coral Springs Police posted a message on social media saying the call was made toward Forest Glenn Middle School, located at 6501 Turtle Run Boulevard, before 1 p.m. All student and staff were reported safe, according to police, and returned to the building just after 2 p.m.

A Coral Springs teen is facing serious charges after police say he shot his girlfriend and killed her cousin. Rashawn Hinds, 18, is facing murder and attempted murder charges in the Thursday evening double shooting, Coral Springs Police officials said. Rashawn Hinds The shooting happened around 5 p.m. in the area of Northwest 95th Avenue and Royal Palm Boulevard. Police said the incident began when Hinds girlfriend and her cousin went to Hinds’ home to retrieve personal items. The girlfriend said they had gone there after she recently found out Hinds had been unfaithful to her, police said. According to an arrest report, Hinds approached the two teens and pulled out a gun then opened fire nine times, hitting his girlfriend in the arm and fatally shooting the other girl in the chest. The names of the girlfriend and her friend were redacted in the report. Hinds fled the scene but was taken into custody a short time later. Police booked Hinds into jail, where he remained held without bond Friday, records showed. Attorney information wasn’t available. Witnesses said they were shocked to hear gunfire in their neighborhood. “As soon as I put the garbage out I heard ‘pop, pop, pop, pop,’ and I thought, well that didn’t sound right,” one man said.

An alleged drug dealer is facing a first-degree murder charge after police say a woman he sold drugs to in Coral Springs died of an overdose. Salomon Jules Theoc, 26, was arrested earlier this month in the September 2020 death of Callie Harper, Coral Springs Police officials said. Police said Theoc sold Harper heroin outside the WalMart on Turtle Creek Drive on Sept. 16. Salomon Jules Theoc Shortly after the sale, Harper overdosed and was rushed to Northwest Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The Broward County Medical Examiner determined Harper’s death had been caused by Fentanyl, officials said. Officials said investigators used surveillance footage, a witness and digital forensic evidence to obtain an indictment to arrest Theoc. Theoc, of Pompano Beach, remained behind bars without bond Tuesday, jail records showed. Attorney information wasn’t available. “This investigation sends a message to all drug dealers that overdose investigations in the City of Coral Springs will not be viewed simply as the death of a person but handled as a criminal investigation,” police said in a statement. “In the event Coral Springs detectives can identify dealers and link the distribution of the narcotics to the death of a person, we will work the with State Attorney’s Office with the intent of filing criminal charges.” Records showed Theoc was arrested the day after Harper’s death on multiple drug possession and drug selling charges, after allegedly selling crack cocaine and heroin to an undercover officer.

The Broward County Public Schools board is halting the use of a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer after a police union complained to the school district that it is anti-police “propaganda.” The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported the children’s fiction book “Ghost Boys” by Jewell Parker Rhodes was used in one fifth grade class at an elementary school in Coral Springs without going through the district’s vetting process. A school board member said assignments related to the book were on hold. “The timing of whether to implement this subject matter must include parents and ultimately be a decision by the parents of each student,” school board member Lori Alhadeff told the newspaper. “I do not feel ‘Ghost Boys’ is appropriate for fifth graders.” Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that rates TV shows, movies, books and other content based on children’s development, says the book is appropriate for children who are 10 and older, the age of fifth graders. The book was published in 2018, and it is told from the point of view of a 12-year-old bullied Black boy in Chicago who is shot dead by a white police officer while playing with a toy gun, recalling the 2014 killing of Tamir Rice, in Cleveland. In the wake of the killing, the ghost boy narrates how his family and the community is impacted, and befriends the daughter of the officer, who is the only living person who can see him, and Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago whose beating death in 1955 helped spur the civil rights movement. The director of the local Fraternal Order of Police, Paul Kempinski, asked Broward County School Board members in a letter to stop using the book. He wrote he was upset by the friendship between the daughter and the boy saying he “ultimately convinces her that her father shot and killed him because her police officer father is a liar and a racist.” “Our members feel that this book is propaganda that pushes an inaccurate and absurd stereotype of police officers in America.” The book was removed from a California school district late last year, according to the National Coalition Against Censorship. Broward County Public Schools district told the newspaper the book was “supplemental” material and could be considered by teachers who want to delve into racial and criminal justice issues. But the district said the teachers who assigned the book did not follow protocol of informing parents to give them a chance for their children to opt out of the assignment. It was previously used in the same school district at Pines Middle School, where a seventh grade book club spoke via Skype with the Black author.