Independent News‘Crime’ Archives
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 [...]
Street Buzz: Is Pensacola Gang War about to go to another level of violence?
On Martin Luther King Day, a white man pulls into the county park behind the Marie Young Community Center in the Wedgewood and Pinestead neighborhoods in north Pensacola---west of Car City. He has a trunk full of assault rifles. Within minutes people lined up to pay $300-$500 per gun. He was out [...]
Life in drug culture on the west side of Pensacola
The Escambia County Sheriff's Office has identified the body found last Friday in a field behind Alternative Powersports, near Kenmore Boulevard. Investigators said it appeared that the victim, Melisa Midori Townsend,had been at the location for a few days at the time of discovery. Her next of [...]
Massive response to Seattle Police gun buy back
Yesterday, Seattle Police had its first gun back-buy event in 20 years. The response was so massive that the SPD had to turn away people three hours earlier than scheduled when all the gift certificates available had been handed out. The police have already begun planning more. Participants [...]
Violence Recap for the week: Two shootings, Two possible homicides
These are the shootings and homicides culled from the websites of Escambia Sheriff's Office and Pensacola Police Department: Monday, Jan. 21 Pensacola Police investigate a fight that occurred among a group of females early this morning in Morris Court, and sent an 18-year-old female to a local [...]
New Warrington Road Shooting
ECSO Release: Escambia Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an afternoon shooting on New Warrington Rd. Deputies responded to a call of a shooting victim in the area of New Warrington Rd and Chiefs Way around 5:20 pm. Upon arrival deputies learned that Willie Wilson, 34, of Pensacola, had gone [...]
Pensacola Police look for burglary suspect with 24 counts
In its weekly "Wanted" press release, the Pensacola Police Department is looking for Decker Rayshun Brooks. Brooks is wanted in connection with a series of residential burglaries, as well as a vehicle theft, that occurred from October 2012 to early December 2012. Individuals coming into contact [...]
Another shooting in the city of Pensacola
As was reported by one of my readers on Facebook, there was another shooting in Pensacola. PPD Release: Pensacola Police are investigating a shooting that occurred earlier this morning in the 200 block of East Hernandez Street and sent a woman to a hospital for treatment of a leg [...]
Panhandle developer indicted for campaign finance violations
The Miami Herald is reporting that Okaloosa County developer Jay Odom was charged today with breaking federal campaign finance laws by reimbursing numerous people who made the maximum legal donation of $2,300 to a presidential candidate he supported. Odom surrendered to federal authorities in [...]
Buzz: Girl beaten in Morris Court, may be taken off life support
During today's MLK Parade people were talking about another murder inside the city limits. My sources told me that a teenage girl was badly beaten last night at Morris Court, a housing project off Cervantes inside the city of Pensacola. The rumor is the assault is a spillover from the Pine [...]
Crime creeps into east Pensacola, more like roars into the area
The daily newspaper reports that there were 526 residential burglaries in the city in 2012 --300 in last nine month of the year. This i a 15-percent increase over up from 455 reported in 2011. Based on emails and phone calls that I've received, January 2013 hasn't been much better. Police [...]