Florida Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog

On Wednesday, a judge dismissed Jennifer Lopez’s $20 million extortion lawsuit she had filed filed against her former driver Habob Manoukian.

Manoukian filed a lawsuit against JLO in Los Angeles, Calif. in May for breach-of-contract alleging that he was not allowed to take lunch breaks and didn’t get paid for working overtime. Lopez was counter-suing her for $20 million in damages.

He claims that he began driving Lopez and ex-husband Marc Anthony part time in 2005 and then left his private limo company after Lopez and Anthony wanted him as a full-time driver last year.

On April 30 an undercover operation was executed to prevent what is commonly referred to as domestic terrorism. Four men have been convicted of the crime associated with the above operation.

Authorities say Douglas Wright was the suspected ringleader of the attempted attack. Wright and co-conspirators admitted their plan to remotely detonate improvised devices containing C-4 explosives on the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge. Authorities say defendants had considered various targets and ultimately chose to target the bridge connecting Brecksville and Sagamore Hills in Ohio, which is located near Cleveland.

The defendants pleaded guilty in September to charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and use of an explosive device to destroy property used in interstate commerce.

Authorities continue the search for two youths suspected of beating and robbing a 17-year-old boy on a Broward County Transit bus in September. The incident occurred at a bus stop on the 1500 block of W. Sunrise Blvd.

Investigators have released a surveillance video in which three suspects, one in a white shirt, one in a red, and one in a black shirt, were moving through the crowd of people on the bus. When the bus stopped, the suspects got off via the rear door but then the one in the suspect in the red shirt jumps back on and punches the victim then dragged him off the bus.

The three suspects take turns punching and kicking he victim. The video showed that the victim attempted to run away but was caught by the suspect in the black shirt and thrown to the ground for more beatings and kicking, the video showed. Authorities say the suspects robbed from the victim his cellphone, digital music player and earphones and then ran away.

A 64-year-old man was killed Sunday in a shootout at a Detroit police station. He first tried to shoot an officer behind bulletproof glass before officers exchanged gunfire with him.

The shooter entered the building that houses the Southfield Police Department around 2:20 p.m. with a handgun and pointed it at an officer sitting behind bullet-proof glass.

Refusing requests to put down the gun, the man started firing at the desk officer. The first officer to respond was shot in the shoulder during the incident.