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The Hurricanes recruited Xavier Lucas when he was a standout cornerback at American Heritage, but Lucas ultimately chose Wisconsin.
After a year with the Badgers, Lucas wanted to enter the transfer portal because his father was suffering from a “serious, life-threatening” illness, his lawyer, Darren Heitner, told Yahoo Sports. Miami, his hometown team, was the obvious destination.
MIAMI – Ahead of Friday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets at Kaseya Center, Erik Spoelstra offered an opening comment about the return of forward Jimmy Butler from his seven-game team unpaid suspension.
That also included acknowledging that Butler would be returning to the team’s starting lineup.
“Look, we work in a league of complexity,” Spoelstra began.
Louis Bianculli expected to be in and out of custody this week after he pleaded guilty to charges of sexual battery against a family member and video voyeurism against a woman who accused him of raping her in the 1990s.
The victims in both cases were minors.
But there’s a chance Bianculli, 78, won’t be a free man anytime soon: According to the Broward State Attorney’s Office, the former Fort Lauderdale pet shop owner is being evaluated for civil commitment under the Jimmy Ryce Act, a move the defense characterized as a way of depriving Bianculli of his freedom after he was promised he would not be going back to jail or prison.
“This whole process of negotiating a plea has been dishonest,” said Herbert Cohen, one of Bianculli’s lawyers.
A Lake Worth Beach woman was sentenced Wednesday to 24 years in federal prison for her role in selling fentanyl to a mother whose infant ingested the drug and died in Boynton Beach in 2022.
Samantha Yi, 31, and her then-boyfriend Darnell Mendez, 32, packaged, prepared and distributed fentanyl together and regularly sold the deadly, potent drug to the 10-month-old girl’s mother and father, according to federal court records.
Yi had communicated with the baby’s mother the day before and on the same day that the infant ingested a deadly amount of the drug, according to a factual proffer in the case, the facts agreed on by the defense and prosecutors.