Lauderdale Lakes News

Share + Dec 14, 2009 5:28 pm US/Eastern LAUDERDALE LAKES Broward Sheriff's deputies are on the lookout for an armed robber who held up a Lauderdale Lakes gas station early Monday morning.

A burglar took an Indiana Jones-style approach to stealing guns from a Lauderdale Lakes pawn shop.

State prosecutors will charge a housing developer and his son with bribing former County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion to vote in favor of their projects, sources familiar with the investigation told the Sun Sentinel on Thursday.

Josephus Eggelletion's long career in Broward County politics ended in disgrace Thursday as he became the first official to plead guilty in a wide-ranging federal corruption probe.

Since Monday, the Broward Sheriff's Office has been circulating the video below in hopes of catching the man who ransacked a pawn store in Lauderdale Lakes on December 4. But while Juice is usually the first media outlet in South Florida to lend BSO a bad-guy-apprehending assist, we decided to wait an extra day, so we could find a musical score for ...

Surveillance video from a pawn shop in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida shows a burglar descending from the ceiling and quickly running through the store.

Wasn't Batman a hero, and not a villain? It probably wasn't the Caped Crusader who stole five guns from a Lauderdale Lakes pawn shop Friday morning, but the thief sure did his best Dark Knight impression.

Suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion will plead guilty this Thursday in a $900,000 money laundering conspiracy, according to federal court records.

The Governor's appointment of Albert C. Jones to serve as Broward County Commissioner for District 9 officially went into effect, Nov.

Cooper City parents are likely to get a one-year reprieve from controversial boundary changes that would move as many as 270 students out of Pioneer Middle School next year.

But he had something to show his critics: 54,285 votes in his last election. His constituency looked less impressive in federal court Wednesday.

Faced with the possibility that their underenrolled schools may be merged, some parents and officials in the eastern part of the county are warning the Broward School District to tread lightly.

A police officer is recovering in the hospital after crashing cruiser into another vehicle.

The City of Lauderdale Lakes will soon introduce a program that will provide its residents with a new tool that can provide some relief from the high cost of prescription drugs.

Thomas Jenkins, physical education teacher, has asked the Hallandale reform school be staffed with an armed police officer.

A Tri-Rail commuter train struck a car Thursday morning. Two people who were in the car are dead, and another was rushed to the hospital.

Suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion BSO booking photo. The so-called "bagman" in the federal money laundering case against suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, was cooperating with investigators, according to court records prosecutors filed this week.

The two victims died at the scene and another was taken to Florida Medical Center in Lauderdale Lakes.

Panicking after her SUV struck another car, a Lauderdale Lakes woman hit the gas and sped away from the crash scene Sunday night, Lauderhill police said.

Authorities have arrested two of the three people they say kidnapped a Lauderdale Lakes woman and then dumped her bullet-pocked body near a Tamarac warehouse Oct.