Recent Posts in In the News Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton 22-Jan-2014 Miami DUI Attorney Andrew Parks Selected to 2014 Florida Super Lawyers® Rising Stars℠ List Our firm is pleased to announce that Partner Andrew Parks was recently selected for inclusion to the prestigious 2014 list of Florida Super Lawyers ® Rising Stars℠ – a distinction awarded to no more than 2.5% of attorneys in the state. As a ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 3-Jul-2013 New Florida Laws Take Effect this Week Monday, July 1 was the first day of the new fiscal year. Each year in the beginning of July, states throughout the nation implement new laws, rules, and regulations that voters or legislators have previously approved. This year, common threads ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 19-Jun-2013 Florida 'Bong Ban' to Take Effect July 1, Or Not Florida Governor Rick Scott, who has recently passed a string of controversial laws, continues to raise eyebrows and questions with the passing of new legislation that imposes stiff penalties for those who sell marijuana paraphernalia and smoking ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 12-Jun-2013 Crime Rates Down in Miami-Dade, Throughout Florida Statistics released last month by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement provided rare and reassuring news to local Miami-Dade residents – crime rates dropped 5.2 percent in 2012. Throughout the entire Sunshine State, crime plummeted 6.5 ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 24-May-2013 Parents Could Face Charges After Son Allegedly Shot His Sister Earlier this month Miami news sources reported a shooting in Oakland Park, Miami. The incident occurred shortly after neighbor saw a teenage boy and his younger sister out in the driveway washing a car and later playing hide-and-seek. About an hour ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 22-Mar-2013 Suspect Named in Nursing & Rehab Center Murder Case Police named a suspected in a Miami-Dade stabbing case earlier today. According The Miami Herald, police released information about the case this morning. The report indicated that a 51-year-old man visited Coral Reef Nursing & Rehab Center in ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 15-Mar-2013 Miami-Dade Man Convicted of Hate Crime L.G. was shot in the back by a black man during the 1980 race riots more than thirty years ago. According to a jury, the incident provoked L.G. to commit a recent hate crime against two black men in Hialeah, Florida. Prosecutors allege that the crime ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 1-Mar-2013 Miami-Dade Law Enforcement Upholds Teen Curfew Miami police began upholding the teen curfew on Wednesday, but the crackdown isn't related to recent shootings. According to the Miami Police department, officers will start enforcing the Miami-Dade 11 p.m. – 6 a.m. curfew Sundays through ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 15-Feb-2013 Marijuana Ring Leader Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy According to the Miami Herald, the boss of a Miami-Dade hydroponic pot ring pled guilty to conspiracy today. The man, his wife, and a grow house caretaker plead guilty of conspiracy charges in Miami Federal Court today after conspiring to distribute ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 8-Feb-2013 Florida Fortune Tellers Admit to Fraud, Owe $200,000 Three Broward County "psychics" admit to fraud after ripping off customers for more than $200,000. According to news sources, a woman (RM), her niece (VM) and RM's Husband (DE) were involved in a $25 million fraud. RM and VM pleaded ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 25-Jan-2013 Fort Lauderdale Police Unveil "SmartWater" to Fight Crime Police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, unveiled a new plan to fight property crimes. The new crime-fighting tool is a liquid called "SmartWater," and can only be detected with an ultraviolet black light. Police officers plan to hand out 500 ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton, PA 17-Jan-2013 Pending Gun Legislation Causes Thefts and Selling of Illegal Weapons In the state of Florida, men and women are scrambling to gather as many firearms as they can before the Obama Administration rules on gun control throughout the United States. Currently, most gun laws are regulated on a state level. In the state of ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton 23-Oct-2012 Florida Plans to Execute Mass Killer After Court Lifts Stay John Errol Ferguson became notorious in the 1970s when he was convicted of killing a host of people in a mass killing rampage. He was charged with the murder of many and was given a death sentence as a result. He was under a stay recently, but is now ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton 2-Oct-2012 Seven Workers at Airport Café Arrested According to the Miami New Times, seven women who work at the Miami International Airport were recently arrested. They all worked at Café Versailles, a small establishment that is a spin off of a famous Cuban eatery in the city. The women who ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton 26-Sep-2012 Attempted Carjacking Caught on Tape in Miami The Miami-Dade Police were shocked and saddened when they watched surveillance footage from a parking garage at a Metrorail Station. In the parking garage, a man approached a 55-year-old woman and violently threatened her as he tried to steal her ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parker & Braxton 24-Jul-2012 More Threats All Over America During Dark Knight Showings After the devastating massacre at a Colorado movie theatre, police have been vigilant to check all bags and watch out for suspicious characters at the movie theatre. Still, three offenders have been arrested at separate instances in Maine, Arizona, ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parker & Braxton 12-Jul-2012 Florida Man Jumps of Roof and Bites Homeowner While tests have not yet been completed, police believe that another bath salts incident in Florida will send a man with the initials A.H. to prison for a very long time. Only a few months ago, the news spotlight shone on a man who had ingested a ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parks & Braxton 11-Jul-2012 Reggae Star Wants New Trial Buju Banton is a well-known name in the reggae world as a singer straight from Jamaica. Now, he is also a well-known name in a Tampa jail, where he has been asking for new trial in a federal court. The federal court of appeals in Atlanta upheld his ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parker & Braxton 9-Jul-2012 Man Arrested for Hiding Gun in Planter at Airport We all know that airports aren’t tolerant of weapons on board their aircraft, but one man in Oregon thought that his solution to avoid a pat-down in the airport line would help him to keep his weapons safe from harm. Unfortunately, his creative ... Continue Reading Posted By Posted By Parker & Braxton 6-Jul-2012 Undercover Narcotics Investigation Leads to Shooting at Wal-Mart In Bradenton, Florida, investigators are on the lookout for two men who allegedly fled the scene of an undercover narcotics investigation in a Wal-Mart parking lot. The drug traffickers noticed the police, and one criminal rammed his car into the ... Continue Reading
