A third person has been arrested in connection with the bloody murder of a Tamarac ceramics instructor. Investigators say Monique Valentin, 28, knew of Brandt's murder and helped get rid of evidence, including bloody clothing and the murder weapon.
Two men, Richard Andres and Jonathan Gordon, were found guilty Friday in the 2015 shooting death of Ivan Brandt, a Tamarac man worried about his ex-girlfriend’s new man, Andres, only to have him show up at his door and kill him.
Jonathan Gordon, one of two men on trial for the 2015 murder of Tamarac resident Ivan Brandt, took the stand Thursday in a bid to convince a jury that he acted in self-defense and doesn’t deserve to be sent to prison, or worse, death row.
Signal and communication workers for the Canadian National Railway Company are on strike as of Saturday, which included a group of workers who walked off the job in Melville.
The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be capital punishment season at the Broward courthouse, with prosecutors looking to simultaneously send five defendants to Florida’s death row. Cases include Parkland mass shooter Nikolas Cruz and rapper Jamell Demons (professionally known as YNW Melly).