A Mission Bay teen spending over $65K/year on marijuana. Violence from the son of a former pro athlete. Robber arrested on a New Jersey warrant. Pistol whipping by an off-duty security guard. Drunk teens on a boat. Athletes from Boca High and West Boca High. One of the highest BACs we’ve ever seen on a breath test. Twice as much to report this week with a lot of drunk driving, plus drugs, burglary, robbery, and more.
Neighborhoods include Mission Bay, Boca Dunes, St. Andrews Country Club, Boca Del Mar, Villa San Remo, East Boca, Watergate Estates, Sandalfoot Cove, and Boca Rio.
Michael Grone was arrested on a warrant from another state. We can’t know for sure what this is about, but it may be from this case in New Jersey:
His reported address is in the Gables Boca Place apartments in Boca Del Mar. He’s 40 years old.
Ali Charif Mohamad Youss (43) was arrested for DUI. The police report indicates he’s a lawyer from Brazil, and he currently resides in the Tempo Townhouses on Sandalfoot Blvd on the edge of Watergate Estates.
The incident occurred on 441 just south of Glades Road. Deputies found him sleeping at the wheel stopped at the traffic light at 4 am. He said he was coming from a bar, possibly Turn 3 or O’Connor’s Pub, and admitted to having two Jack Daniels and six beers. Youss refused a breath test.
We see no priors for Mr. Youss.
Treasure Hlengwa (37, Villa San Remo) was arrested for marijuana and drug paraphernalia in Delray Beach, along with driving while suspended. The officer noted 5 prior suspensions.
We see multiple prior cases for Hlengwa for drugs and DUI.
22-year-old Clint Lobig of East Boca returns to our crime report after allegedly stealing bicycles from two different victims. The first victim captured the theft on his security camera and the Boca PD officer immediately recognized Lobig from the video.
Pro tip: If the police recognize you, it’s usually not a good sign.
Lobig was in our crime report in August for domestic battery on his mother. In the current incident his mother went with him to the pawn shop where he sold the bikes.
Lobig has multiple priors mainly for domestic violence.
Russia-born Sasha Nelson (28) of East Boca was arrested by Boynton PD for possession of cocaine. They also found marijuana in the car but does not appear they charged him for that. The cocaine found was only 0.1 grams so it’s possible that would be hard to test adequately in a lab to support a criminal charge. We see no priors for Nelson.
Sandy Hawkins (74) was arrested for robbing the Wells Fargo bank in Sandalfoot Square in an incident that received a lot of press, such as on Local 10.
Court documents indicate he was moved to housing in a Delray sober home that:
provides housing and a structured environment for individuals recovering from Substance Use Disorders.
It appears he was arrested again on Friday (yesterday) but it’s not clear from the record yet if he did something new or if that was just part of the process of him being placed in the sober home.
We see no priors for Hawkins, a resident of Sandalfoot Cove.
Claudie DeFreitas (45, Palmetto Pines) was arrested at Home Depot after being accused of stealing over $1000 of items while working at the cash register.
Store management observed her scanning merchandise, voiding the purchase, and then placing the merchandise in the customer’s cart. This allegedly happened 5 times, all with the same customer, who was not identified in the report.
We see no priors for Brazil-born DeFreitas.
21-year-old Corin Adderly was arrested on an out-of-county warrant. We’re not sure what this arrest was for but there is an arrest warrant in Broward for him for a violation of probation on a 2018 DUI case.
Adderly’s reported address is in the Arbor Oaks apartments just north of West Boca Medical Center. He appears to be from the Bahamas but we’re not certain of that.
Also age 21, Haiti-born Beaudelair Marcellin of East Boca was arrested for battery and for aggravated assault with a firearm. Marcellin allegedly was jealous that the victim was with a woman he considered his girlfriend, hit the victim on the head with a handgun, racked the slide, and pointed the gun at the victim, who then drove off in fear.
He reportedly works for Cambridge Security. We don’t see any prior criminal cases but we do see multiple traffic cases.
Chicago-born Richard Wolflick (34) was arrested for DUI. He lives in East Boca and the traffic stop was also in East Boca. Oddly there’s no indication in the records of any breath or blood test being done or requested.
We see no priors.
Thomas Foehr (62) of Sandalfoot Cove was arrested in Boynton Beach for DUI on a motor scooter. During the arrest Boynton officers discovered Foehr’s license had been revoked and he has 5 prior DUI convictions.
Alexander Gilman (27, Boca Landings) was arrested on an out-of-county warrant. We are not sure which county had the warrant or what it was for. We see three prior felonies in Broward and a FDLE record:
Gilman previously appeared in our crime reports in December (stealing from Home Depot) and February (heroin).
Haiti-born Carl Charles (22, Boca Rio) was arrested by Boynton officers after the stopped him for speeding (50 in a 40) and found 43 grams of marijuana in 3 bags in the car. The search was based on a dog sniff. They also found a .32 caliber handgun locked in a case in the glovebox.
He was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. Additional charges may be filed pending the results of chemical testing.
We don’t see any priors for Mr. Charles. The stop and search both seem a bit dubious, potentially a “driving while black” stop and also a questionable use of a dog sniff.
Wesley Bond (24) was arrested in his family’s home in St. Andrews Country Club for domestic battery after hitting his sister twice in the face with a closed fist.
Bond is the son of Walter and Antoinette Bond. Walter is a retired NBA player and motivational speaker active in the Boca Chamber of Commerce.
Wesley had a drug case in 2017.
Jeremy Ehrenthal (44) of Estancia West is back in our crime reports again. Born in Queens, Ehrenthal was arrested this time for DUI by Delray PD.
The traffic stop looks dubious and may be difficult for prosecutors to sustain if challenged. An unnamed witness said that Ehrenthal was driving in a reckless manner. There are two problems with that – first of all getting the witness to show up to court and second of all whether the vague report of driving recklessly is enough to support a stop.
In more bad news for the prosecution, Ehrenthal was asked to take a breath test and he registered 0.000 – no alcohol at all. Ehrenthal then refused a urine test.
The problem here for the prosecution is they thought he was drunk so they did a breath test. Once they were proven wrong they decided to try something else to justify what looks like a bad stop and a bad arrest. Or at least that’s how an aggressive defense lawyer might present it.
The police report says that Ehrenthal admitted to taking a Valium earlier in the day and later admitted to taking Remeron, an anti-depressant.
Ehrenthal was in our July report for DUI, and in our June report for domestic battery and criminal mischief. It appears he is currently on probation for the July DUI. That could create bigger problems for him than innocence or guilt on the new arrest.
In Watergate Estates, resident Nella Eastep (born in Plantation) was arrested for cocaine possession after a traffic stop where she was a passenger.
The arresting deputy observed a crack pipe under the leg of another passenger, Brittany Banian. Brittany was released at the scene and issued a ticket.
During the incident the deputy asked Eastep to step out of the car and then searched her pockets, finding what appeared to be crack cocaine. This is a potential 4th Amendment issue for her defense lawyer as it does not appear to have been on consent and it’s not clear he had a sufficient basis for that search.
Adam Elotmani (18) was arrested for drugs. He’s a resident of the Sonata subdivision of Mission Bay, and is or was active in youth basketball.
The police report indicates he goes to Boca High and we see other indications of that, but we also see some suggestion that maybe now he goes to West Boca High.
Elotmani was arrested in East Delray after being pulled over near midnight with no taillights. Police found a jar of marijuana (132 grams or 4.6 ounces) in the car along with paraphernalia and charged him for both. Elotmani said he bought the marijuana in East Boca for $1300 and that he smokes that much in a week – so for all you math geeks out there that works out to over $65,000 a year on marijuana, at age 18.
We see no priors for Elotmani.
Carlos Perez Canales (39) of Boca Dunes was arrested for domestic battery after an argument with his wife where she accused him of grabbing her phone, pushing her to the floor, and grabbing her shirt.
We see no priors for him.
18-year-old James Baumann of East Boca was arrested for burglary. As described by Boca PD, Baumann was on his father’s boat on Lake Boca Raton with a dozen or so other teens. One teen was left behind in the water and the victim in a dinghy rescued that teen.
Baumann drove up alongside, boarded the dinghy and punched the the victim multiple times in the head. We see no priors for Baumann. Oddly the police report indicates he works at a Duffy’s near Fort Myers. It looks like he may have played baseball for Boca High, graduating in 2019.
His father is president of MDS Builders, a general contractor that builds commercial facilities.
Tyler Furnas, a 27-year-old resident of Southwind Lakes, was arrested for DUI not far from his home. Deputies heard numerous cars honking their horns and found Furnas sleeping at the wheel of his car in the middle of the intersection of Yamato and Lyons before 7 pm.
Furnas admitted to drinking two beers. He registered 0.29 on breath testing twice. That is one of the highest numbers I’ve seen in my career as a drunk driving defense lawyer. But I did once win a case where my client blew a 0.32 (we won because he wasn’t driving).
Furnas is a Boca native and West Boca High alumnus. He had a prior DUI case in 2017.
Romania-born Loredana Sterescu (46, San Marco Apartments on Military Trail) was arrested for grand theft at Macy’s in Town Center Mall. Store management accused her and her elderly mother (82) of shoplifting over $2000 worth of items.
It appears that the mother was not charged, and we see no priors for Ms. Sterescu.
