Hillsboro may allow dogs on beach

HILLSBORO BEACH Dogs may be allowed to hit the beach in this town — as long as they come with a leash, a permit and observe particular rules.

A committee was designated at Tuesday’s Hillsboro Beach Town Commission meeting to craft some rules that would allow for leashed dogs to run along the expanse between the ocean and the tide’s high water line at certain times. Right now, they can only romp on the private area that comes with the town’s mansions and condominiums. Hillsboro Beach resident Al Shore said he is against changing the ordinance and warned that sanctioning dogs on the beach could make the current situation worse.

“We have an ordinance [against dogs on the beach] and it’s not unique,” he said, saying that he’s loved dogs throughout his life.

“I sit there and I see five different animals. Some are being picked up after, some are

dence or a business and how well the authority does in promoting downtown.

Marjorie Ferrer, the authority’s executive director, said the authority conducts its own survey annually. She said the authority polls its property owners when it sends out its annual report that explains how the authority spent the money.

“We are constantly talking to our property owners and merchants,” she said.

This time, the survey is coming from the city, not the authority.

Commissioner Shelly Petro-

uties stopped the black Mercedes in Pompano Beach, gave Lucatorto a citation for driving with a suspended license and towed the car.

Agents later intercepted a series of calls between Lucatorto and Tejada discussing what they were going to do to a towing company employee, who was one of Lucatorto’s drug customers, who they thought had stolen the cocaine.

In fact, the drugs had been secretly confiscated by federal and local law enforcement agents who pulled them over and towed their car.

Lucatorto egged on Tejada and texted him a photo of the employee, authorities said. Tejada and Andres Lugo, another alleged Latin King known as King Ghost, armed themselves with guns, prosecutors said.

Agents intercepted calls and texts that showed Tejada and Lugo were trailing the worker and planned to “light his a— up.” Tejada texted a photo of not.”

Dog owners from the coastal town said that State Road A1A was not quite as busy decades ago, when the Town Commission prohibited dogs from trotting along the seawater line. The beach has become the only place for safe walking, some say

Hillsboro Beach wouldn’t be the only municipality to allow dogs on its sands.

Boca Raton started allowing it on a 300-yard stretch north of Spanish River Boulevard for weekend hours in December 2013.

lia has for the past two years asked city officials to conduct a separate survey from the authority ’s. She said she is pleased it is finally happening.

She said she doesn’t have a problem with charging the tax but wants to know if downtown property owners are happy with it and if it is a fair amount being assessed.

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the truck to Lucatorto, and they discussed the best location to rob the worker and avoid security cameras at his workplace, prosecutors wrote.

“Baby, don’t go to jail. I love you. I miss you,” Lucatorto texted Tejada.

When Tejada reassured her, she texted back: “Get him, baby.”

Prosecutors wrote that Tejada also texted her a photo of his hand and another man’s hand, both holding guns.

Law enforcement pulled the men over, arrested them and seized the guns.

Authorities say the Latin Kings is one of the biggest and most well-organized gangs in the U.S. and earns money from dealing drugs, committing robberies, burglaries, identity theft, assaults and homicides.

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