Mid-December Crime Week

Here are two unrelated violent incidents. Sam Costa (above left, 24) is accused of felony aggravated assault. We see two previous incidents for him in the county, including a felony from 2009 that appears to have been dropped, and a domestic violence misdemeanor in 2011 that was withdrawn by the prosecutor. Costa’s reported address is off SW 18th west of Military Trail.
[Omitted] (above right, 42) is accused of misdemeanor battery. She appears to be a director of the [omitted] homeowners association in the Lakes at Boca Raton. [Omitted] was previously charged with felony assault and battery in 2009, which was reduced to a domestic violence misdemeanor and then resolved in 2010.
[Omitted] and Costa were both arrested early in the morning on the 21st, a couple hours apart. The recent charge against the woman on the right was dismissed, and so we have removed her name from the article.

In our last group we start with Ian Naveira (above left, 28) of Boca Greens. He was arrested on the 18th for reckless driving and attempting to elude the Highland Beach police. In the author’s own professional experience, charges like these are often improperly written by police and difficult for the prosecution to prove.
The incident was written up in the Sun-Sentinel.
Mr. Naveira has had a few other incidents this year in the Palm Beach county courts, including two other felony charges for assaulting an officer (possibly a firefighter or EMT) and impersonating a police officer, apparently to intimidate an escort. That latter incident was also written up in the news.
With Lindsay Farer (middle, 25) was arrested on minor marijuana and drug equipment charges, also on the 18th. She has had several mostly minor incidents in our courts including a felony from April that is still open. From brief research, it appears that Ms. Farer has a good sense of humor and is trying to deal with some kind of substance abuse problems. As far as we’re concerned it’d be a lot better for her, and society, if the government let her take care of that on her own. Arresting someone for marijuana doesn’t help.

We had more arrests to cover, but it was such a busy week we’re leaving some of the stories out.