DUI In The News With a younger brother declared dead several years ago, Dominic Porcaro has many problems. Newly divorced and retired, Porcaro has had several DUI arrests in the past, including one right before he went boating. After failing a police officer’s DUI test, Porcaro was arrested and jailed for a short time. After...Read More

Teen Arrested in Shooting Incident On Sunday, December 15, 2013, emergency personnel transported a 19-year-old Fort Pierce resident to the hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to the back. He survived the injuries, and the hospital has released him to return home, says Fort Pierce police spokesperson Sgt. Melissa Jaques. Officers on the scene...Read More

Wife Beats Husband For Basting the Turkey Domestic battery in Florida is something that occurs quite frequently in the state. On December 6, 2013, a woman was arrested and charged with battery for assaulting her husband. The reports state that the woman become aggravated after her husband did not respond to her question of why...Read More

Man Arrested In Connection with Rape in Cemetery A suspect has been arrested in connection with a shocking crime that occurred in Fort Pierce in early November. According to police, a 57-year-old man who is believed to be the perpetrator of a rape in a cemetery is now in custody. Fort Pierce Police spokeswoman Sgt....Read More

Fort Pierce Resident Arrested For DUI The wheels of justice are about to crush a young adult woman in Fort Pierce, Florida after someone uploaded a video of her arrest for DUI to the UK tabloid Daily Mail’s online edition, so the spectacle has gone viral, causing many attacks on her character. This is particularly...Read More

A 51 year old man from Vero Beach was arrested after selling four calves he allegedly stole. In addition, the man, William James Boyer, is accused of doing so when he leased a cattle pasture that was not his in Fort Pierce. He faces four counts of grand theft for stealing the farm animals. Fort...Read More

Two teenagers, a seventeen- and an eighteen-year-old, were arrested in Fort Pierce on Thursday night and charged with attempted murder for the shootings of two men. The shootings occurred in the 2500 block of Avenue E. One male victim was taken to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, the other to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West...Read More

RAPE CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST FALSELY ACCUSED OKEECHOBEE COUNTY MAN After over two (2) years of vigorous litigation, rape charges were dismissed against R.L., in  Okeechobee County Case No.: 47 2010 CF 608. “R.L.” was charged with sexual battery in December of 2010, by a woman whom he’d known for over nine (9) years.   The gist...Read More

In State of Florida vs. AW, Case No.:  2012cf3530, the Defendant, while taking a leisurely nighttime walk around his quiet neighborhood in Port St. Lucie,  became a “suspect” in a series of attempted car burglaries. The police suspected AW because he was in the area, and an “eye witness” claimed to have seen (at least...Read More

You’ve been arrested, and you’re looking for competent counsel to represent you.   You utilize search parameters with your favorite Search Engine (usually Google), and start looking for a lawyer in your geographic area who is very good, perhaps the “best”, that there is. One of the things you will notice is an emphasis by lawyers,...Read More