We have nearly 20 cases to report this week including the woman arrested for leaving her baby to die in a dumpster. Along with that we have the usual drugs, DUI, and battery incidents, plus some larceny and a woman robber.
Rafaelle Sousa’s case is pretty well known. We don’t have much new to add to the story but have noticed some curious details in the court records.
First of all the probable cause affidavit has been removed from the online court file. We don’t know why. The arrest record is still there but the affidavit disappeared. We had already downloaded it so we have it (saved from the “trash” folder).
Second, nothing new has been filed. The case was first entered in the system on May 10th. All entries are dated May 10th. Nothing has been filed since the date of arrest. Her next court appearance is scheduled for June 10th, and still at the Gun Club Road courthouse, not at the main courthouse in West Palm Beach.
The probable cause affidavit is below – 6 pages. It shows some smart detective work by PBSO. We don’t normally include the whole document in these articles. If you like that, or don’t, please comment on our Facebook post or e-mail [email protected] to let us know.
502019CF004459AXXXMB_7Nelder Pavao (44) was working as a custodian (janitor?) in an office at Palmetto and A1A. He was caught on video surveillance taking $400 in cash out of a file cabinet, and faces a charge of felony grand theft.
Pavao’s reported address is just south of Palmetto Park Road on the east side of Mizner Blvd. He operates under the business name Ajaxx Commercial Cleaning LLC. He has had a few cases for driving while suspended or without a license, and one back in 2008 for a check fraud.
East Boca’s 28-year-old Lunzer Luzincourt was driving someone else’s scooter with an expired license plate, made multiple illegal U-turns in front of a Boca police officer who recognized him from past encounters. Officer Finne then found “flakes” of marijuana and some .22 caliber ammunition on and in the scooter. Adding that in with a suspended license makes for four different charges in this case.
Luzincourt has had 18 Palm Beach county cases in his 10 years of adulthood including multiple felonies, misdemeanors and criminal traffic violations. He was convicted of felony drug sale in 2011, making possession of ammunition a felony. He was also arrested last month in Broward for burglarizing a restaurant. He was out on bond from that arrest and had a warrant for failing to show up to court. He has been released again on this newest case in Palm Beach.
This is one of those cases we often see where someone repeatedly drives with a suspended license but is never charged with the felony for being a repeat offender. We have noted in the past that our county and Broward are “soft” on suspended driving. The Broward arrest affidavit noted 5 previous suspended driving convictions.
It is also one of those cases where we see bail set low for repeat offenders. They get bond set at the same level as people with no criminal history. That doesn’t make sense to us.
Kimberly Karczewski (42) has a reported address in the Reflections townhomes of Mission Bay. She was arrested by Lantana police for several serious offenses including home invasion with a firearm, trafficking in morphine, and possession of both heroin and cocaine with intent to sell. We see 26 cases for her between Palm Beach and Broward including a 2012 felony conviction there for repeat retail theft (adjudication was withheld on that).
Her Lantana incident is pretty wild. She and her boyfriend, a black male, were being chased by another black male wielding what appeared to be a scary black rifle. Police detained all three. Karczewski had been taking care of the second man in his home. She called her boyfriend to come and rob the man. He came and she helped him into the man’s home, helped rob him, and then they both ran when the victim pulled out his rifle. It was actually an AirSoft pellet rifle designed to look like an AR-15. Police found multiple drugs in Karczewski’s backpack including morphine, crack cocaine, heroin, suboxone, a crack pipe and two capsules of fentanyl.
The boyfriend, Wendell Miller Jr., lives in Delray and has had 37 cases in Palm Beach County including multiple felonies.
Lynn University student Benjamin Moskowitz (age 19) was arrested by Boca Police after a snitch called campus security who found THC edibles in Moskowitz’ closet in his dorm room. He kept them in a locked “safety box” that his roommates did not know about and did not know the code. Moskowitz told them he uses the edibles to treat certain medical conditions he has. Following the will of the voters they charged him with 3 felony counts, thus making us all safer from this complete non-threat to society.
We see no prior history for Moskowitz.
George Valentin (47) of the Watergate Estates trailer park in Sandalfoot was arrested by PBSO at the intersection of 441 and SW 18th (Marina) after a traffic stop when they found cocaine and paraphernalia in his vehicle.
The traffic stop was part of “Operation County Line” which apparently is a substitute for the wall Broward should pay for us to build. Oddly the affidavit that the driver of Valentin’s vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign on 441 in front of the Cumberland Farms, where there is no stop sign. It appears they did not issue a ticket to the driver. They say they were writing her one, but it does not show up in the system under her name or under the ticket number. This case screams of a bogus traffic stop and could lead to suppression of evidence.
Which, in this case, was some crack cocaine and crack pipes in box under the passenger seat. Also of note was that they relied on a dog sniff to justify searching the car, and that may violate a recent US Supreme Court ruling that specifically rejected extending a routine traffic stop to conduct a dog sniff.
We see no prior history for Valentin.
Ryley Allen (29) was arrested after a report by a neighbor that he was trying to break into an apartment on Federal Highway. It turns out that he lived in the apartment in question. Nevertheless police asked to search him and found Xanax. He claims he has a prescription for it but was charged with a felony anyway since they were no in the prescription bottle.
Note to Xanax users – keep it in the prescription bottle. It’s a stupid law, but beats getting arrested for a felony.
The police report indicates that he was suicidal, but they released him anyway on bond.
We see no criminal history for him. He and his girlfriend have a business named “addicted2.corp” but we don’t see a website at that address.
Back to the trailer park, Christopher Sagmoe (32) was arrested for “resisting arrest”, but wasn’t arrested for anything else. The police report indicates his car was stopped for operating without a seatbelt (sounds like another bogus stop) and then he ran from the scene.
Sagmoe has 38 cases in the Palm Beach courts including numerous felonies. Most seem to have been dropped but he did get convicted of a felony in 2009 for grand theft. His FDLE record shows a couple of stints in state prison.
Ambra Letner (36) of East Boca was arrested for DUI around 11 pm in the Shake Shack parking lot after hitting some parked cars. She admitted she had been out celebrating Cinco De Mayo nad had been drinking tequila shots and margaritas. She also admitted she had been on her cell phone.
She refused the police station breath test. We see no prior history for her.
Connor Poetzinger of the Cloister Del Mar condo tower just south of the Boca Raton inlet was also arrested on May 5th for DUI. He said he had been at the El Camino restaurant in Delray. This was only 7 pm and he did blow at the station, registering a 0.23 BAC, nearly triple the legal limit. We see no prior history for him either.
Michael Da Silva Amogra (28) of the Boca Country (Boca Entrada) was arrested for DUI, again on the 5th of May. He had been at Rocco’s Tacos. Police say he was going 60 in a 40 on Military Trail and then stopped in the middle of an intersection. He refused roadside sobriety tasks and the police station breath test.
He was also charged with DUI in 2017. That case was dropped by prosecutors. We see no other history for him.
47-year-old Greg Jones appears to be homeless. He was at the train depot on Dixie Highway and fell asleep after drinking beer. After someone spilled beer on him he woke up and slashed the victim with a knife causing a significant laceration to the ear. Jones was charged with felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He has had at least a few cases over the past several years including multiple prior felony arrests.
Michael Rapisarda (58) of East Boca was arrested at Publix for trespassing after being warned to leave. After the arrest he was belligerent and shoved the arresting officer, adding a felony battery on a police officer to his charges. He had a felony battery on police arrest in 2003 as well, and went through foreclosures in 2008 and 2014.
Randi Shinn (37) of Las Brisas in Boca Del Mar was arrested at Boca Regional Hospital after punching one nurse and grabbing another by the hair and ripping some hair out. The nurses were trying to treat Shinn for a bleeding head laceration. We see no prior history for her.
Sean Patrick Boyce, a 41 year old, lives in the Ventura subdivision of Mission Bay. He was arrested for domestic battery after grabbing his girlfriend’s hand during an argument. There was something odd going on between the two involving throwing or smearing Mac and Cheese on each other and on clothing.
Boyce has over 20 cases in the Palm Beach courts including multiple domestic violence charges, accusations of stalking, and two DUI cases.
Maybe he’s not the one.
Hunter Collazo (25) got in an argument with his father after he was told to take out the garbage and clean the dishes, so he attempted to put his father in a headlock. They live on SW 57th in Sandalfoot Cove. While police were escorting Hunter to his car to get his license, he called his father a pussy.
And you think your kids are difficult?
