Davion Coslay

“So be it as written, death doesn’t escape,” 23-year-old Davion Coslay sent via text to his 20-year-old ex-girlfriend along with at least 30 other threatening text messages, violating a restraining order against him, according to Riviera Beach Police.

Coslay, a Lake Park resident, was arrested in Greenacres on Monday night on charges of aggravated stalking and intimidation. He was court-ordered on June 15 to cease contact with the victim, with whom he has a child with, according to police.

Coslay asked the court to reduce his child support, but when the judge refused to do so, he became angry in the courtroom, according to the police report. Within half an hour of leaving the courtroom, Coslay bombarded the victim with text messages, police report.

“Tunnel closing in on life,” “Hell to you and company,” “Watch your step” and “RIP” using a skull emoji were all examples of text messages Coslay sent.

The victim told police that she felt threatened because Coslay had been physically abusive to her in the past, according to the report. The victim had the tires on her car slashed on two occasions in the past. Although police have no evidence that Coslay slashed the tires, the victim told police she suspects it was him, according to the report.

Coslay was taken to Palm Beach County Jail. At his first appearance in court, a judge ordered bail be set at $40,000 and Coslay have no contact with anyone but his lawyer while in jail.

Richard Thomas Joseph III

When a convicted felon attempted to steal a 74-year-old woman’s car by breaking the window and damaging the steering column, he left behind just enough blood for Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to arrest him two years later.

Richard Thomas Joseph III, 39, was charged Monday with vehicle burglary, attempted grand theft auto and criminal mischief. He was released from state prison in January after serving a one year, 8 month sentence on a separate grand theft auto charge from 2014, according to records.

Detectives were first notified that the 74-year-old victim’s 1994 tan Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera had been broken into in July 2013 outside of her home in unincorporated West Palm Beach. The window on the driver side had been shattered and the steering column had been manipulated, according to detectives. Detectives spotted blood mixed into the shattered glass under the steering column.

The blood was sent to a lab to be processed in January 2014, according to the police report. The DNA results were then run through a database and found to match Joseph’s DNA.

Records show that Joseph has been sentences to time state prison on five different occasions. He served four years beginning in 1994 for burglary, robbery and aggravated assault. He served 10 months for marijuana possession with intent to sell in 2000. He then served five years in 2005 for two charges of grand theft auto.

He was taken to Palm Beach County Jail on Monday where he awaits $11,000 bail.

WEST PALM BEACH — City police are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for a homicide that occurred this weekend.

On Sunday morning, police discovered the  body of Andre Pierce, 43, in Sunset Park along Australian Avenue.

Anyone with information regarding the homicide is asked call to West Palm Beach police at 561-822-1689, or 561-822-1666.

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Interrante

BOCA RATON –A suburban Lake Worth woman’s trip to a grocery store ended with her facing criminal charges Monday after she allegedly left two children unattended in a running vehicle.

Danielle Interrante, 34,  was arrested on charges of child neglect and giving a false name to law enforcement. She was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Wednesday on $3,000 bail.

According to probable-cause affidavit made public Tuesday, Interrante spent about 20 minutes shopping in a Publix located west of Boca Raton while the children sat in a car with the air conditioning running.

Deputies responded to the Publix  at 7050 Palmetto Park Road after an unidentified person called 911. The caller flagged down a passing Palm Beach County Fire Rescue vehicle. A firefighter checked the children and determined that they were OK, the affidavit said.

Interrante reportedly returned to the car to get the children and then went back inside to continue shopping, the affidavit said.

Deputies arrived at the scene as Interrante was leaving the store. She gave deputies a name and date of birth. However, a deputy checking the information in a database noticed that the photograph shown was not Interrante’s, the affidavit said.

Interrante reportedly gave her real name as deputies checked her fingerprints.

PALM BEACH– Three teens were arrested last weekend after they allegedly used a stolen vehicle to commit several more car burglaries.

Mitchell

Police arrested Trabonte Mitchell, 19, of Riviera Beach and two juveniles Sunday on charges that include grand theft auto, loitering and prowling and reckless driving.

A 14-year-old boy and 17-year-old boy were Mitchell’s alleged accomplices, police said. They were taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center in suburban West Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Post generally does not identify juveniles who have been arrested unless they are charged as adults.

Mitchell remained in custody Wednesday night in lieu of $20,000 bail.

According to a police arrest report, the town’s license plate recognition system detected a stolen Chrysler traveling east over the Royal Park Bridge shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday.  An officer spotted the vehicle at the intersection of Cocoanut Road and Peruvian Avenue.

Officers attempted to stop the car as it made its way to the intersection of Peruvian and South County Road. The car’s driver sped away. The car continued to the Palm Beach Towers before its occupants got out and fled on foot, police said.

Police set up a perimeter and caught the 14-year-old after he climbed bushes and jumped over a fence.

Mitchell and the 17-year-old were seen running toward the Breakers Hotel golf course, police said. They eventually were caught near the hotel’s restaurant.

The youngest teen reportedly told officers  he ran when Mitchell told him the car was stolen. He spontaneously uttered that he previously was accused of grand theft auto and had just recently been released from the juvenile detention facility.

The 17-year-old allegedly told officers the group went to Palm Beach because Mitchell wanted to steal a Jaguar.  They reportedly went to the parking garage of an apartment building and broke into several cars.  They stole various items and tried to steal a black Audi, but the car would not start, police said.

Mitchell confessed to driving the stolen Chrysler and told officers that he had been smoking marijuana earlier in the day, the report said.

For the second time this week, an inmate has escaped a Palm Beach County facility.

Antwane Anglin, 27, escaped the West Palm Beach Community Release Center, north of Southern Boulevard, just before 3 a.m. Thursday. Anglin is serving a two-year, nine-month sentence for selling cocaine, according to the Department of Corrections website.

The West Palm facility is next door to the Loxahatchee Road Prison where Philip Peletz was being held until he escaped custody while out working with a crew in Loxahatchee Groves on Tuesday.

Antwane Anglin

As of Wednesday evening, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement did not have any updates on Peletz or his whereabouts. Witnesses at the scene told authorities they saw the 53-year-old get into an white, older model white truck. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, who are assisting in the search, believe Peletz is no longer in the area, according to a tweet posted Wednesday morning.

Authorities did not release the amount of area covered during the search or give any indication about where the 53-year-old may be headed.

Anyone with information on Anglin or Peletz is asked to call local authorities or the Department of Corrections at 850-922-6867

A 16-year-old Lake Worth resident threatened his father with a gun, fled from his home and was found and arrested one week later, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

The teen’s father reported he left the home on Haverhill Road and Maleleuca Lane on July 28 at around 1 p.m. The father followed his son, pleading with him to come back to avoid violating house arrest, although there is no record that the teen was on house arrest. The teen motioned to his waistband, then pulled out a handgun, according to police. The father heard the gun cock and “ran for his life,” the report states.

Police found the teen outside of a home in Greenacres early Wednesday, according to the report. He told police he didn’t have a weapon with him. When police patted him down, however, they found black handgun sticking from his pocket, the report states.

The 16-year-old is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, carrying a concealed firearm and possession of a weapon by a delinquent. He is being held without bail at Palm Beach County Jail.

Mitchell

A Riviera Beach man who allegedly drove into Palm Beach to steal a Jaguar is instead in the Palm Beach County Jail facing several charges.

Trabonte Mitchell, 19, was arrested after a license plate recognition monitor in Palm Beach alerted police that the 2001 Chrysler he was driving was stolen, according to a police report.

Mitchell, accompanied by 17- and 14-year-old males, fled police at a high rate of speed, but all three were apprehended after they ditched the car and allegedly tried to flee on foot.

Mitchell and one of the boys was found by police hiding in a shed near The Breakers hotel. The 14-year-old, who is not being named by the Post because he has not been charged as an adult, told police he had just been released from the Juvenile Assessment Center after being arrested for stealing a car.

The 17-year-old juvenile told police that Mitchell admitted the 2001 Chrysler was stolen when he got in to the vehicle. The boy added the trio smoked marijuana in the car then decided to enter Palm Beach to steal a Jaguar. He admitted breaking into several cars with the others and taking $20 from one vehicle and a purse and credit cards from another.

Mitchell is facing several charges including grand theft of a motor vehicle, burglary and fleeing and eluding police. He is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.

Jacquelin MacKay

A 23-year-old woman is accused of stabbing a man with a dart while he tried to break up her fight with another patron at a Boca Raton lounge, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reports.

Jacquelin MacKay, a Coconut Creek resident, was arrested early Wednesday at TW’s Lounge in unincorporated Boca Raton, on U.S. 441 north of Hillsboro Boulevard. MacKay was approached by an unidentified woman who was asking patrons at the bar if they left a dog locked in their car in the parking lot, according to police.

MacKay slapped the woman in the face and they started to fight, the report states. A man at the lounge attempted to break up the fight and held MacKay back. MacKay, who was holding a dart in her hand, stabbed the man in the chest, leaving a cut, according to police.

Other witnesses jumped in to break up the fight as well, police report. Another patron then pepper sprayed MacKay, later telling police that she was “afraid for her life,” the report states.

The unidentified woman got away before police arrived. MacKay told police that she didn’t stab the man in the chest with a dart. When police checked the surveillance footage, however, they saw MacKay swing a pointy object at the man’s chest.

She then admitted that she stabbed him, but told police she didn’t mean to, according to the report.

MacKay is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. She was released from Palm Beach County Jail Wednesday evening on $1,000 bail.

Angie Latoya Jones

A Lake Worth woman is accused of trying to hit her boyfriend with her car, intentionally crashing into his car while following him, then slashing his tire Wednesday evening, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reports.

Angie Latoya Jones, 39, was arguing with her live-in boyfriend Wednesday outside of their home in unincorporated Lake Worth. She then got into her gray Dodge SUV and attempted to hit him with it, but he jumped onto the hood, the victim told police.

Jones told police that her boyfriend then smashed her car windows with a hammer, the report states. He told police that he smashed the drivers window with his hand, the report states.

Jones’ boyfriend got into his red Chevy and drove away, but Jones followed him, according to police. While driving, Jones intentionally hit the victim’s car with her SUV, according to police. While stopped at a grocery store on Lantana Road, Jones slashed one of the tires on the victim’s car with a knife, the report states.

The victim was angered and pulled out a hammer and threatened Jones, police report. Jones ran and he chased her, then smashed another window of her car with his hand, injuring his arm, according to police.

Jones had the victim’s cellphone and he asked for it back, she told police. Jones then threw the phone at him, missing him and instead smashing the rear window of his car.

The victim tried going back into the grocery store, but collapsed outside the store, according to police. He was taken to JFK Medical Center.

Jones is charged with aggravated battery with a vehicle and criminal mischief. She remains in Palm Beach County Jail awaiting $3,000 bail.

Alvaro Flores

Alvaro Flores almost got away with murdering his girlfriend in 1978 in Chicago, but was arrested in Stuart on Wednesday, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

The 57-year-old is accused of killing Maria Verela, stabbed to death in a Chicago apartment. Flores has been living in Martin County for years, under the name Aiden Garcia, with his wife and three children, the sheriff’s office reports.

A fingerprint check for a gun permit in 2000 under the name Aiden Garcia alerted the FBI to Flores’ location, but he was released shortly afterward. Chicago prosecutors have since been gathering more evidence in the murder case and assisted Martin County Sheriff’s Office in making the arrest.

Flores is being held at the Martin County Jail without bond. He will be extradited to Chicago in the coming weeks, investigators report.

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for one or more people who killed eight goats and four sheep at a Loxahatchee home earlier this month, a spokeswoman said.

The incident occurred on Aug. 2 on the 20100 block of 46th Court N., PBSO spokeswoman Teri Barbera said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.

Rob Johnson

Marie Johnson

Rob and Marie Johnson took a 13-year-old girl, whose mother had just passed away, into their Port St. Lucie home and sexually abused her for years, according to the Port St. Lucie Police Department.

Rob and Marie Johnson were arrested Tuesday after the victim, now 21 years old and living in Indiana, reported that the couple forced her to have sex with them for five years while living with them in Port St. Lucie. The victim was Rob Johnson’s second cousin, according to the arrest report.

The victim said that she was told to call Rob Johnson “master” and was physically abused until she agreed to have sex with the couple.

The victim also told police that Rob Johnson would justify his actions by quoting the Old Testament, and claimed that it was “okay” to have multiple wives, the report states. The victim said she was told she would be put in state care if she ever refused to have sex with the couple, the report states.

Police recorded a call between the victim and Rob Johnson, in which he admitted to having sex with the victim while she was living with them, the report states.

Marie and Rob Johnson are charged with sexual assault on a victim under 18 and sexual assault on a victim under 18 by a guardian. They were taken to St. Lucie County Jail and released on bail early Wednesday morning.

Surveillance image of a suspect in a Palm Beach Gardens vehicle burglary.

Authorities are searching for a man believed to be responsible for several recent vehicle burglaries in unincorporated Palm Beach Gardens.

Since July, several nighttime burglaries have occurred, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said. The hardest hit areas have been homes on Ellison Wilson Road and Prosperity Farms Road.  A home surveillance camera caught the suspect breaking into an unlocked vehicle.

Anyone with information about the man is asked to call the Crime Stoppers at 800-458-TIPS (8477).

WEST PALM BEACH — Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Wednesday afternoon.

At about 3:45 p.m., a teenage boy went to St. Mary’s Medical Center with a non-life threatening gunshot wound, a police spokeswoman said.

The teen advised that he was shot in the area of 45th Street and Pinewood Avenue. The teen refused to cooperate further and did not give any other information, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to ...

Surveillance image of burglary suspect. (Photo provided)

An unidentified man is wanted for breaking into two businesses Tuesday in the Lake Worth area, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.

The suspect broke into Off Lease Only. in the 1700 block of Lake Worth Road, and attempted to steal computer monitors.  He also went to the CapsCare Academy on Lake Worth Road and tried to remove a 50-inch television from the wall of a classroom, the sheriff’s office said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-458-TIPS (8477)

John J. Mullaly

A 25-year-old man is accused of beating his girlfriend and pouring gasoline over her in a motel lobby, Delray Beach police said.

John J. Mullaly of Delray Beach was arrested while fleeing from the Fairfield Inn at Atlantic and Ninth avenues Tuesday afternoon.

His girlfriend, also 25, was hysterically screaming in the hotel lobby when police arrived, according to the police report, made public Wednesday morning. Witnesses say Mullaly punched her in the head and then doused her with gasoline. Mullaly also broke the screen of her iPod and laptop, the victim told police.

Mullaly then left the hotel and re-entered from the back door, according to witnesses. He walked up behind the victim and tried to steal her purse, struggling with it until the strap snapped, police said, quoting witnesses.

Mullaly then took her car keys and fled, according to police.

The report did not specify a motive for his behavior.

Mullaly is charged with robbery, two counts of battery and two counts of criminal mischief. He remained in the Palm Beach County Jail late Wednesday awaiting $7,000 bail.

Erick Trevino

Kayla Lynn Flinchum

Terrance Ricardo Hester

Three Palm Beach County residents are accused of getting in a Lake Worth man’s car, threatening him with a knife and handgun and robbing him, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Kayla Lynn Flinchum, 24, Erick Trevino, 34, and Terrance Ricardo Hester, 28, were all arrested Tuesday on charges of robbery with a firearm and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The victim told police that he was waiting in his car for a friend in a suburban Lake Worth neighborhood, just west of Congress Avenue, when Flinchum, a Lake Worth resident, approached him asking for change. He refused, so she opened the passenger door and brandished a knife demanding money, according to the police report.

She took $85 and returned to a gold Ford Expedition parked nearby. Hester and Trevino, who was holding a black handgun, then approached the car, according to police. Hester, a Greenacres resident, stole the victim’s blue iPhone, the report states. They fled the area in the Ford and were later caught by police, according to the report.

Flinchum told police that she only committed the crime because she was afraid of Trevino. She also denied holding a knife to the victim, according to the report.

Trevino told police that Flinchum would lure victims to areas by offering sex for money and then rob them. He also said that the incident was about “payment for sex,” the report said. When the victim refused to pay, they robbed him, Trevino told police.

Trevino, a Lake Worth resident, has served time in state prison on two occasions. He served 10 years beginning in 1999 for robbery with a firearm, battery on a person 65 or older and kidnapping, among other charges. He also served three years in 2011 for cocaine possession and was released in November, according to records.

Flinchum is awaiting trial on a separate charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon from July, according to court records. She scheduled to appear in court in September.

Flinchum has served time in jail on three occasions since 2011. She spent five months in county jail in 2011 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; one month in 2012 for battery; and one month in April for grand theft.

All three remained in the Palm Beach County Jail late Wednesday. Flinchum is being held without bond; Hester is being held in lieu of $120,000 bail; and Trevino is being held in lieu of $300,000 bail.

A Delray Beach was arrested by city police after a teenage girl said he sexually abused her.

Phillip Copeland, 26, faces one count of sexual battery on a minor between the ages of 12 and 18 by a custodian. At his first court appearance on Wednesday morning, Judge Joseph Marx ordered Copeland be held on $25,000 bail.

Phillip Copeland

On Aug. 5, a Delray Beach man came home from work because he “had a bad feeling,” he told city police officers. When he noticed the unidentified 15-year-old girl’s door was closed, he went to check in on her but it was locked, according to the report. As he tried to get in, he heard a noise on the other side and that’s when the girl opened the door.

As he asked her what happened, Copeland ran out of the residence, according to the report. The girl explained she was home alone with Copeland, who also lives in the home, when he tried to assault her in the living room. When she ran to her room, he followed, locked the door behind him and took off her clothes as she begged him not to, the teen told a victim advocate.

While Copeland does have a handful of traffic citations, he does not have any other criminal arrests in Palm Beach County, according to court records.

A man whose body was found on the side of the Beeline Highway this week was the victim of the a homicide, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

The man was identified as Alvert Daniels, 49.  Truckers traveling Monday found Daniels’ body on the roadway in the area of Beeline Highway and Caloosa Boulevard, west of Palm Beach Gardens. It appeared that Daniels had been run over, the sheriff’s office said.

The investigation revealed that Daniels was intentionally left on the road, the sheriff’s office said. Detectives from the violent crimes division will be continuing the investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-458-TIPS (8477).