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Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Saturday, June 21, 2008.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
RIVIERA BEACH - By the time Vincent Clark was charged with felony neglect in the drug-overdose death of his 21-month-old son, Darius, he had been accused of attacking women at least six times.
When Clark pistol-whipped Darius’ mother, Toccara [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Saturday, June 14, 2008.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
RIVIERA BEACH - A month before toddler Darius Clark died with cocaine and painkillers in his system, employees at the state Department of Children and Families met to consider whether his mother could protect him.
They knew that the [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, May 25, 2008.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
LANTANA - Before the court order that separated Bert Sayre from his family and forced him into isolation, he had no idea what was making him so sick.
And at first, neither did the doctors. But by last May, [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH - The trial of an octogenarian accused of killing a man outside a Boca Raton synagogue began Monday with an unusual conversation between the 81-year-old defendant and the jurors who will decide his case.
Murder suspects [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Friday, Aug. 31, 2007.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
The teen who severely beat a preoperative transsexual on Palm Beach was sentenced to four and a half months of probation Thursday.
Palm Beach County Juvenile Court Judge Peter Blanc rejected recommendations from prosecutors and the Department of Juvenile [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Monday, Aug. 20, 2007.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH - In the year before the group rape of a woman in her Dunbar Village apartment, the federal government sent a survey asking residents whether they felt safe in the public housing complex.
More than half [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN and THOMAS R. COLLINS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
WEST PALM BEACH - A gang rape that horrified people across the nation could reawaken long-dormant plans to tear down the Dunbar Village housing project.
At the suggestion of federal officials, the West Palm Beach [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, July 15, 2007.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN, KEVIN DEUTSCH and ALEJANDRA CANCINO
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
WEST PALM BEACH - In the days after the vicious attack on a mother and son in Dunbar Village, detectives knocked on doors across the city, asking other mothers about their sons.
At [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Tuesday, July 3, 2007.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH - The teen who beat a 39-year-old after finding out she was a preoperative transsexual is guilty of aggravated battery but not a hate crime, Palm Beach County Juvenile Court Judge Peter Blanc ruled Monday.
The [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Monday, July 2, 2007.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
The two strangers met outside a bar on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach.
One was a 17-year-old male high school student out with a buddy. The other was an attractive 39-year-old in capri pants and a silky spaghetti-strap [...]

By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Before her arrest in March, patients and an employee of Dr. Asuncion Luyao had begun to complain about her new clientele - prescription pain pill addicts who were nodding off, passing out and, in a few cases, dealing drugs by cell phone in her waiting room.
Some said the lobby [...]

By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
For more than six years, a St. Lucie County detective tracked the woman authorities called the “Chameleon,” a fugitive who travelled the world under at least 10 aliases, morphing into different women with fluctuating body weight and changing hair colors.
Detective Sgt. David Brooks wanted to ask the woman, 59-year-old [...]

By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
PORT ST. LUCIE - A medical doctor with a cash-only payment policy, $63,000 in cash in her file cabinets, and patients from Sebastian to Coral Springs was arrested Tuesday on fraud and drug trafficking charges after a 10-month investigation found she prescribed powerful painkillers without examining patients in some [...]

By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN and NIRVI SHAH
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
PORT ST. LUCIE - An undercover St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputy in his mid-20s attended two Port St. Lucie high schools for the past six months, struggling through algebra, going to parties and gathering information that led to the arrest of 16 students Wednesday, most on [...]

By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
PORT ST. LUCIE - A troop of Junior Girl Scouts has learned a harsh lesson about the grown-up business world: When you sell people cookies, check the color of their money.
In this case, it turned out to be counterfeit - the first case that city police can recall where [...]