Awareness

PBSO Awards UPS workers Who Stopped a Christmas Thief

Due to the quick action of a UPS driver, suspect, Joshua Thibodeau was arrested for stealing and hiding packages that were delivered to residents in the City of Lake Worth. On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, at 2:50 pm, a UPS driver just completed a delivery to two residences in the 300 block of South M Street. Roughly, 20 minutes later the driver observed a white male, later identified as Joshua Thibodeau, walking east on 4th Ave South with packages in his...

Toy Drive BBQ to Collect Toys and Donations for the Fallen Officer’s Families

There are over 900 fallen officer’s children in the United States. For the second year in a row, we partnered up with the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association to host a Toy Drive BBQ to collect toys and donations for the fallen officer’s families. Together, we were able to collect well over 1,000 toys. Thanks to everyone who participated. Pause -0:27 Additional Visual Settings Enter Watch And ScrollClick to enlarge Unmute

PBSO Helps Family Who Lost it All in a Fire

Over the Thanksgiving break, a fire destroyed the Quinones’ apartment and they lost it all: clothes, beds, shoes and even their bicycles that were on the porch. However, they didn’t lose hope. Even though they were first traumatized when they got to the scene of the fire because they thought their 16-years old son was in the apartment. Fortunately, they later found out Joel was at a friend's house at the time and nobody was hurt. The family is currently staying with...

Deputy injured and Suspect on the Loose

We are investigating a Stolen Vehicle, Deputy injured and Suspect on the Loose - occurred in Unincorporated Boynton Beach and ended in City of Boynton Beach. Deputies observed a stolen vehicle, silver 4 door Mercedes, enter the Casa Brera Luxury Apartment Complex, which is a gated community. Deputies were preparing to tactically stop the vehicle when the driver rammed through the closed gate. As the gate flew open it caused injury to our deputy. Our deputy, in fear of the oncoming vehicle,...

PBSO Needs Help Finding Person who Struck and Killed a Pedestrian

Someone struck a pedestrian, killing them and then fled from the scene. We need your help to find this person and bring them to justice. On Saturday the 4th, a pedestrian was attempting to cross 45th Street from south to north at the above intersection. Two vehicles were traveling westbound on 45th Street side by side. The vehicle within the center lane struck the pedestrian with the front passenger side of the vehicle. The second vehicle was within the inside lane of...

Suspect Wanted for Armed Burglary to a Business in the Village of Wellington

Did El Chapo escape again? Not quite. But the suspect wanted for armed burglary to a business in the Village of Wellington is definitely a fan. An unknown armed suspect entered the Chevron gas station on October 18th at 11:30 PM and demanded cash, cigarettes and cigars from the clerk and then fled in a newer model black SUV. The suspect was described as a dark-skinned male, between the ages of 20 & 25 years old, medium build, approximately 5’06”, and 140...

Caution: Suspicious Person Checking Vehicles

Join us in thanking this “Good Samaritan” who voluntarily checked if cars from the Saturnia Isles development were locked... at 3am. This person was, apparently, so concerned with all the bad thieves out there that they made sure ALL the car doors were locked in that Delray community. But if that wasn’t enough, to the cars that were NOT locked, this person searched diligently through the car to make sure that there were no items of value that bad guys could take. We...

Credit Cards Thieves Go on Shopping Spree

Palm Beach County, help us stop these four individuals. They are wanted for the fraudulent use of stolen credit cards. The unknown suspects used the victim's stolen credit cards at Best Buy, Apple Store and Target Stores for a loss of over $ 19,000. This incident occurred on February 27, 2017. The stores are in the Royal Palm Beach and Wellington area. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS or remain ANONYMOUS by downloading our new app “CONNECT...

Three Arrested for Burglary, Possession of Burglary Tools, and Resisting Arrest.

As a result of a long term investigation, agents from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office South Florida Task Force and their law enforcement partners as well as agents from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office Burglary Apprehension Team conducted a joint surveillance operation on Hugo Leal. As a result of the operation, Hugo Leal, Alexis Huerres and Eliener Alfonso were all taken into custody after committing a high-end residential burglary in the community of Polo Club / Vintage Oaks (Linton and Military...