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DEERFIELD BEACH
March 2 Wilbeau Joinvil, of 500 NE 41 St., #106, was arrested for sexual battery on a juvenile after he forced her into a vehicle, took her to a bedroom and attempted to rape her, with another male also joining in.
March 3 Michael Diguglielmo, of 612 Anderson Circle #103, Deerfield, was arrested for trafficking cocaine after a narcotics investigation found him with 50 grams of crack cocaine.
March 3 Pierre Roody was arrested for sexual battery on a juvenile after turning himself in to the Deerfield Beach police station.
March 3 A 1999 Dodge Caravan was stolen from a home on NW 7 Avenue.
March 6 A toddler on NW 45 Street was sent to the hospital, not breathing. The homicide department is investigating.
March 6 A 1997 white Honda Civic was stolen off Crystal Lake Drive.
March 7 Thieves cut the fence to Palm Beach Pools and stole a $4,000 Garmin GPS from a boat.
LIGHTHOUSE POINT
March 4 Ross Salako, of Ft. Lauderdale, was arrested in Lighthouse Point after he fled the scene on foot following an accident that sent one person to the hospital with injuries. Salako was arrested for this incident, as well as violation of parole and drug charges.
March 4 Police are looking for a vehicle that crashed a shopping cart into a car inside Venetian Isles Shopping Plaza and fled. The vehicle is a blue Ford registered to an owner in Pompano.
Convenience store shooting
A felon’s plan to rob a Deerfield Beach convenience store was foiled after he was shot by a clerk Friday night.
The incident occurred at approximately 9 p.m. March 5, at Snappy Convenience Store at 115 SE 10 Street. There were no customers in the store at the time and clerk Samir Al-Madi, whose father owns the store, told Broward Sheriff’s Office Robbery detectives that he was on the telephone when he looked out the window and saw a man with a handkerchief covering his mouth, the rest of his face, except for his eyes, concealed with the hood of his jacket, and a gun in his hand approaching the store.
Al-Madi said the suspect burst through the door yelling and demanding cash with the gun pointed directly at him. BSO Robbery detectives said at about the same time, Al-Madi reached for a nearby gun and fired one shot, striking the gunman in the lower jaw area. When the robber started to get up, Al-Madi fearing for his safety, fired several more shots. After hearing the commotion a clerk, who was in the back cooler area at the time of the shooting, came to the front of the store and grabbed the thief’s gun before he had a chance to retrieve it.
The suspect, who was later identified as 24-year-old Alexander Brown, was rushed to North Broward Medical Center, where he underwent surgery. He is expected to survive. Once he’s release from the hospital, Brown will be booked into a BSO jail on charges of armed robbery, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of an altered firearm. Brown was released from a Florida State prison in March 2009 after serving time on burglary charges.
