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Arrest Week – Part 2

Erika Hankammer (left, 30) was booked early Wednesday for battery. Her reported address is in Countrypark off SW 18th between Boca Rio and Lyons. She’s a Patriots fan and was released after half a day in custody. The case is being treated as domestic violence. We see no criminal history for her, with a couple old traffic tickets.
Terrell Newson (center, 27) was arrested Tuesday for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery. The Boca Rio Banyan resident has not been released yet, and might not be helping himself with the nickname “Cut Throat” though we’re not sure that’s him. We see multiple felony and misdemeanor cases for him dating back to 2007, most of which seem to be domestic incidents and court records indicate that for this case as well.

On the right, Destiny Griffin (18, Sandalfoot Cove) was arrested Monday for battery. The courts are treating it as a domestic incident. In 2013 she had a few traffic tickets and a retail theft case in the courts. This incident might cut into her babysitting business.

See more arrests from this week: Arrest Week Part 1.

Arrested early Wednesday was David Ellis (left, 28) from the Sandalfoot trailers on four larceny counts including one felony grand theft. He has not been released yet. The case looks a little quirk as the offenses allegedly occurred in late February but he wasn’t arrested until 2 1/2 months later. He has a few prior incidents in the county from back in 2007 or before, and a few more in Broward.
Raymond Colletto (center, 41) was arrested for cruelty toward a child and/or child abuse. The Sun-Sentinel reports he was drunk and bit his nephew in the face. His reported address is in Colonnade near off Jog south of Yamato. Court records show what look like a couple DUI cases (1995 and 2008) and a couple previous violent domestic incidents (2008 and 2013) as well.
Cristian Norena-Lopez (right, 26) was arrested Monday for burglary. He was released the next evening. We see no court history for him. Boca PD alleges he “attempted to enter an occupied vehicle” in a bank drive-through lane.

His reported address is in the Boca Gardens townhomes south of Clint Moore between 441 and Lyons. Incidentally we’ve had recent reader reports of misbehaving skateboarders in and near that neighborhood.
See more arrests from this week: Arrest Week Part 1.

Arrest Week – Part 1

Here are some of the arrests reported by the Sheriff in the past week. For starters, we have two who were in our last arrest report:

Ali Can (left, 23) and Deanna Fraschilla (right, 50) were in our early May weekend arrest report. Can had been arrested for vague charges of loitering and resisting, while Fraschilla was booked on mischief charges for causing property damage. The latter incident was written up in more detail in the Sun-Sentinel.
Now both have been arrested for burglary and/or related charges. Can, whose reported address is just off Del Prado Circle, was booked by Boca PD Tuesday afternoon charged with burglary while armed and larceny for stealing a firearm. He is being held on those two charges on $15,000 bond, and was also recommitted on the earlier charges.
Hopefully Can can find a way to get by with a little help from his friends. One tried to reach out to him the day he was arrested:

Fraschilla, of the Boca Rio Banyan townhomes was arrested the next day for unarmed burglary, criminal mischief, and resisting, along with a contempt of court charge for violating a court injunction (perhaps related to the previous arrest). She has not been released yet either. We don’t see any bond amount but the contempt may override any possible release. She had a 2008 felony charge for burglary and battery and did 5 years probation for that.

See more arrests from this week: Arrest Week Part 2.

Next up three arrests related to driving:

Andres Gonzalez-Monroy (left, 26) was arrested for DUI by Boca city police, booked early Thursday morning and released several hours later. His reported address is an apartment near the corner of SW 18th and Lyons. He’s had several traffic cases dating back to 2006.
Boca PD indicates that he refused a breath test, which is the approach recommended by most defense lawyers.

In the middle, Marko Milosavljevic (31) was arrested for driving with a suspended license, fraudulently using someone else’s ID, and resisting an officer. His reported address is in Gables Town Colony, and our friends at Boca News Now reported he was arrested for marijuana and illegally carrying a firearm last year after firing a handgun into the air in the Town Center parking lot. Court records indicate he did 4 months in jail for that. We see four previous felony cases for him dating back to 2002, along with a number of misdemeanors and traffic offenses.
Sandalfoot Blvd’s Austin Lane (right, 24) was arrested by Boca PD and booked Tuesday morning for DUI. We see no criminal history with a few traffic cases. An Olympic Heights graduate, he was a key player on their basketball team several years ago. He’s also a fan of the Heat and the Dolphins but the beer in this photo of him with the Heat’s Udonis Haslem may not help his DUI case.

See more arrests from this week: Arrest Week Part 2.

Sandalfoot: Home Explosion and the Media Scrum – Photos and Video

Update: The house appears to be secure. We saw a neighbor being interviewed (see video at bottom) and she said that she heard an explosion that sounded like an electrical transformer, and then heard someone climb over her fence. Government officials are reporting that the property was being used as a “grow house” for marijuana production. No word yet on any injuries.

Sandalfoot Cove was host to numerous first responders and a media scrum. Residents reported an explosion on SW 62nd Street, which lies between Palmetto Park Road and SW 3rd Street, between Lyons and 441.

The street was full of people and emergency vehicles when West Boca News arrived. Here you can see a cameraman in the foreground, with Fire and PBSO personnel mid-ground and residents in the background.

Out on SW 3rd the TV trucks were in force:

Here you can see the house in question, with windows in obvious disarray and PBSO deputies heading around to the back of the house:

And here’s the best close-up we could get of the house.

While first responders were entering without safety equipment, a PBSO deputy told us to stay back to the other side of the street because the house might still be unstable. We didn’t believe him but obeyed anyway.
They brought out lots of heavy equipment, including the PBSO bomb squad:

Here’s some video of the scene:

And here’s part of a TV station interview with the next-door neighbor

A reader helped with research on the property. It is owned by “62nd Avenue Holdings, LLC.” That company is filed with Florida by registered agent (and real estate agent) John McCann of Boca Valley Realty on North Federal Highway.
The Sunbiz filing shows one individual who may be the owner or manager of an investor group, Mario Monello.

We don’t know if it’s the same person, but there was a Mario Monello involved with Lehman Brothers before the financial collapse. That Mario Monello is mentioned in this CNN story about leveraged finance back in 1989. One fictional work about the collapse has a character named Mario Monelli, perhaps an homage: The Lions’ Den.

Seeking help from Wall Street, Julie finds an unlikely defender of the American system, Mario Monelli, a Mergers and Acquisitions expert at a prestigious investment banking house, pitting him against his long time Wall Street nemesis, Barton Mulvaney, rumored to have shadowy ties to the Royal family. Mario is nervous about the idea, and whether he has the pedigree to challenge Bart. But he’s also falling in love with Julie and uses the opportunity to be around her.
Mario also heads up the Zoo Crew, a wild bunch of investment bankers who lack the breeding and education of their colleagues—but not the brains—and have dedicated themselves to helping beleaguered companies fend off corporate raiders.

We called McCann’s office and left a message. We were not the first call and we suspect Mr. McCann is wisely avoiding any public comment.
Here’s another video – firefighters entering the home after the situation stablized:

11 Weekend Arrests: DUI, Drugs & Mischief

As always with our arrest reports, the arrestees are innocent until proven guilty. And don’t let our arrest reports scare you about West Boca – our crime rate is lower than East Boca and much lower than the county average.

James Chick (left, 28) and Gary Sheerer (right, 32) were both arrested by Delray Beach police, accused of dealing in stolen property. They were booked early Sunday morning. Chick was released about 12 hours later, while Sheerer remains in custody. By their reported addresses, the two are roommates on Watergate Circle near the Glades library.
Chick has over 4 pages of cases in the county including a couple felony arrests, though most are traffic. One was from April of 2013 where he was “adjudicated guilty by the court” of “aggravated grand retail theft” in August of 2013. He was sentenced to 9 months in county jail minus about 4 months in credit time.
Sheerer’s record is worse and he was arrested on the same April 2013 date as Chick for roughly the same offenses. He was also sentenced to about nine months, with almost six months of credit time.

Nicole Santini (above left, 26) of the Boca Entrada – Emerald Bay Club apartments was arrested Friday night and released Saturday afternoon, charged with aggravated battery involving a deadly weapon. The court record has it marked as “dating violence.” She had a previous domestic violence misdemeanor charge in 2010 that was dropped.
18-year-old Michael Brenner (center) was arrested and released Sunday morning for possession of a controlled substance without a prescription (Percocet per the Boca Police blotter). A resident of Woodfield Hunt Club, and student at North Broward Prep, he was recruited as a baseball player by Saint Louis University, with “game-changing speed.”
Deanna Fraschilla (right, 50) of the Boca Rio Banyan townhomes was arrested Saturday for criminal mischief causing property damage, and for resisting an officer without violence. She was released a couple hours after she was booked without having to post a bond. A Google search revealed a Cape Cod arrest in 2005. In Palm Beach County, court records show mostly traffic tickets but also a felony burglary in 2008 for which she got 5 years probation.

There were three DUI arrests from Boca this weekend. Above left is Keith Martin (23), who was booked early Saturday morning and released before noon. His reported address is in the Mizner Courts apartments off Military Trail. The former FAU student is an aspiring entrepreneur interested in new video technologies.
Adriana Capawana (center, 45) was arrested by Boca PD, booked Sunday morning and released a few hours later. The Boca police blotter indicates her blood alcohol content was 0.17, though West Boca News does not consider breath testing to be a reliable indicator of intoxication. Her reported address in Boca Country Club (near Clint Moore and Congress) appears to be owned and inhabited by an unrelated couple.
Benjamin Collins (right, 22) was also booked for DUI Saturday morning and released shortly after noon. Residing in Boca Barwood near the corner of Lyons and SW 18th, the Spanish River graduate has attended University of Texas and traveled in France.
We see no prior criminal history for any of the DUI arrestees.

Margo Wishbow (center, 61) was arrested on a probation violation. That probation appears to come from a DUI arrest in February 2013. The Century Village resident has a few pages of cases in Palm Beach County with mostly misdemeanors and one felony theft in 2012 that was reduced to a misdemeanor.
Ali Can (right, 23) was booked Monday morning on charges of loitering/prowling and resisting an officer without violence. Both counts are generally vague and the Boca PD blotter is remarkably thin on details. His history is clean other than a couple of traffic cases. This one will probably be dismissed.

Late April Arrest Report

Here’s the late April (and early May) arrest report for West Boca Raton. Remember, they’re all innocent until proven guilty.
Also, we are working on a research project and want to assure people of something: West Boca has a slightly lower crime rate than East Boca, and both have much lower crime rates than the county average.

Alexander Toohey (top left, 26) was arrested on Monday the 28th for “hit and run” and failing to remain at the scene of a crash involving an injury, which is a felony in Florida. He received a ticket for improper lane change from the same incident. The Spanish River grad’s court history in Palm Beach County is limited to a few tickets from 2005 to 2007. His reported address is in the Paseos of Boca off Powerline. Toohey was released after about 12 hours in custody.
We haven’t found much more about Mr. Toohey but he did make a pretty interesting YouTube video:

Andres Garcia (top center, 29) was arrested Wednesday night for driving with a suspended license and possession of drug equipment. It’s unusual to see a drug equipment charge without also seeing a drug charge. Mr. Garcia appeared in our mid-April arrest report on a felony larceny arrest, and had another felony larceny arrest in 2011 that was reduced to a misdemeanor with a short jail sentence. His reported address is just south of Logger’s Run Park. He is still in jail pending $6000 bond.
Christopher Williams (top right, 29) was booked early Thursday morning on a DUI charge, though it does not show up in the court system yet. His reported address in the Mission Bay townhouses near the IHOP, and we see no criminal history for him. He was released a few hours later.
Ben Ohana (bottom left, 18) was arrested Tuesday for battery and released the next day. His reported address is in Sonoma Lake Estates behind Somerset Shoppes. This kid really seems to enjoy life:

This is the only case we see for him in the county court system, and it’s being treated as domestic violence. He was released the next day.
Sean Heffernan (bottom center, 51) was booked early Wednesday morning on a battery charge which is being treated as a domestic violence incident. His reported address is in the trailers off Sandalfoot, and he appears to like fire trucks and motorcycles. His local court record is clear other than a very recent ticket for driving with a suspended license, but Broward shows a few including a couple of felony charges back in 2006 and a domestic violence case in 2002.
Just a few doors down from Heffernan, “Micheal” Ferreira (bottom right, 47) was booked early Wednesday for battery and released about 8 hours later. His case does not show up in the court system, and the only history we see (under the name Michael) is a minor traffic case in 2013 that was dismissed.

In an unusual case, Bonnie Suglio (left, 59) of Country Landing II in Loggers’ Run was arrested Monday the 28th on a civil contempt of court charge and has not been released yet. This appears to arise out of a civil Marchman Act proceeding brought by her sons in November to force her into drug or alcohol treatment, and a judge’s order finding she failed to comply with a court order from early April.
Lul Lagalante (2nd from left, 52) of Sandalfoot Cove was arrested Wednesday for check fraud, and released on $3000 bond the same day. The offense allegedly took place in mid-December, and the delay suggests the prosecution may have a problem.
Kristen Lausten (2nd from right, 42) of Escondido off Lyons, was arrested Thursday morning for simple assault, a very minor charge. We’re puzzled that it took over 24 hours to release her. The case is in domestic violence court. Her court history is limited to a few traffic cases.
Jason Lotterman (right, 34) was arrested for loitering or prowling, booked early Friday morning and released only a few hours later. His reported address is in Wind Drift off Camino Real near Military Trail. We see no history for him and the charge is an awfully vague one that will likely be dismissed.