Palm Beach Post - Investigations

05/16/2024

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies ignored evidence for six hours that a missing woman was in danger and left her to be tortured, r***d and terrorized, a Palm Beach Post investigation has found.

Tzvi Allswang prepared carefully to torture his therapist when she visited. Though deputies saw the missing woman's car, her terror went on for hours.

04/24/2024

A Riviera Beach-based addiction recovery program was shut down Tuesday after investigations by state, federal and local authorities found it was violating "multiple regulations," Riviera Beach Police announced today.

Three locations of Pivot Treatment Centers were found to be in multiple violations of state regulations.

12/22/2023

Overwhelming reader response to a Palm Beach Post investigation into addiction treatment oversight inspires a community forum on the 'Florida Shuffle.'

12/07/2023

Dr. Peter LoFaso serves as PBSO's medical director through a private company. Ric Bradshaw himself approved the contract for the services himself.

11/20/2023

The changes come a year after a Palm Beach Post investigation found the county's largest workforce housing provider routinely overcharged tenants, often by more than $100 a month, prompting a county probe and calls for reforms.

The changes come a year after a Palm Beach Post investigation exposed problems in the program.

09/21/2023

The shift has been from a drug trade based on he**in to one based on fentanyl to drugs derived from chemicals in fentanyl, and to ever cheaper and deadlier drugs.

As the drug trade shifted to synthetic opioids, profits and overdose deaths grew, exceeding car crashes and gunshot wounds.

09/21/2023

About 15% of adults who use he**in become addicted. It's about 45% for opioids. The majority of people using the drugs won't develop addiction.

09/21/2023

Joseph Havrilla came to Florida to get treatment for his addictions. Instead he died. Florida Department of Children and Families lack of oversight fails vulnerable patients.

Joseph Havrilla came to Florida to get treatment for his addictions. Instead he died. DCF's lack of oversight fails vulnerable patients.

08/25/2022

Why isn’t there more affordable housing in Palm Beach County? The county’s workforce housing program was supposed to help middle-class residents. But commissioners’ decisions weakened the effort, a Palm Beach Post investigation found.

Where did all of the affordable housing in Palm Beach County go? Much was lost to breaks for developers.

01/13/2022

Corey Johnson will spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2018 sleepover stabbing of 13-year-old Jovanni Sierra.

Corey Johnson apologized to the family of Jovanni Sierra and denounced ISIS. His lawyers had claimed the group's teachings had radicalized Johnson.

08/19/2021

New investigation: Health officials in Florida’s sugar belt failed to act on recommendations to study the health impact of cane burning, despite decades of internal research and complaints from residents.

Health officials in Florida’s sugar belt failed to act on recommendations to study the health impact of cane burning, despite decades of internal research and complaints from residents.