Independent News‘Crime’ Archives
ECYJC Heads to Tallahassee
The next meeting of the Escambia County Youth Justice Coalition will be March 14. The ECYJC deals with juvenile justice issues and is focused on reducing the number of youths heading into the justice system. Two days prior to its local meeting, the ECYJC travels to the state the capitol for [...]
Temporary School Lockdown
Escambia High School was put on lockdown earlier today, as Escambia County sheriff deputies searched for an individual that fled after being seen standing near a reportedly stolen vehicle. Here is the press release from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office: Escambia High School was locked [...]
More shootings in the City of Pensacola
The City of Pensacola has had two shootings within the last 48 hours. A Pensacola man is hospitalized after he was shot Tuesday night inside his home in Scenic Heights. The incident, which occurred in the 6200 block of San Monica Road, was reported to police just before 9:30 p.m. Neighbors [...]
Woman, age 91, missing. ECSO asks for help.
Escambia Sheriff’s Investigators are searching for a 91-year-old woman who was last seen on Feb. 18, 2013. Geneva Woods (D.O.B. 5-18-1921) was last seen in the 6000 block of Chelsea Street. She is described as a white female with blue eyes and white hair. She is approximately 5’3” tall and [...]
Another City of Pensacola homicide
The phone call came this morning about another homicide inside the city of Pensacola in the South L and Government streets area. Later today, the Pensacola Police Department confirmed the shooting. PPD release: A death investigation is in progress after a woman was found shot to death [...]
Arrest made in Morris Court assault
The Pensacola Police Department has completed an investigation of a fight that occurred January 21 in the 1200 block of North M Street at Morris Court. During the fight, Ronika Sconiers, 18, of Pensacola was injured and later died at a local hospital. The investigation has led to the arrest of [...]
Miami Gardens tackles its 25 homicides in 2012
Pensacola and its population of 52,197 has had one homicide since the first of the year- the 18-year-old that was beaten in Morris Court and later was taken off life support. It was the third violent crime in the city's Morris Court neighborhood in less than four weeks, the second resulting in [...]
Weekly Crime Round Up: No homicides, two bank robberies and 89 assaults
Looking at the crime stats map on the Escambia County's Sheriff's website: Assaults: 89 inside Pensacola limits: 19 w/deadly weapon: 19 inside Pensacola limits: 1 Burglaries: 45 inside Pensacola limits: 8 Thefts from vehicles: 28 inside Pensacola limits: 12 County had one [...]
Avoid Palafox and Nine Mile Road
From ECSO: Deputies are investigating a bank robbery at Beach Community Bank on Palafox Street near Nine Mile Road in Pensacola and are asking that citizens avoid the area at this time.
More on home invasion and shooting
According to the Escambia County Sheriff's Office: "Deputies responded to a home invasion call at 50 Block of Fulton Ave at 8:36pm last night 1/29/13. The victim Victor Rome told deputies he had been in his home when two black males entered his home and one of them shot him. Rome was taken to a [...]
Update on Townsend murder
Sheriff’s investigators have received preliminary results from the autopsy performed on Melisa Townsend, who was found last week in a field behind a business on Pensacola Blvd. According to the Medical Examiner’s Office, Townsend died from multiple stab wounds. Investigators are not [...]
Street Buzz: Another home invasion and shooting
I was awakened this morning by a phone call from a source. According to him, Victor Rome was shot twice last night after armed men invaded his home and robbed him of $200. Rome, at one time, was a big-time drug dealer and was reportedly under house arrest. The attackers knew that he would be [...]