Independent News‘Crime’ Archives
Food for guns trade worked in LA. How much chicken can you buy for a rocket launcher?
The Los Angeles Police Department offered for one day only a buyback program. Turn in a gun, get a grocery store gift card. According to Atlantic, the final numbers were 2,037 firearms, including 75 assault weapons and two anti-tank rocket launchers. No questions were asked, simply turn over the [...]
The escalating violence in crimes committed in Pensacola is troubling
The violent crime in Pensacola is escalating to a much more dangerous level. In 2009, I was writing about drive-by shootings. Shots were fired over crowds, few people were injured. In 2010 and 2011, people were shot and killed on the streets, in front of houses, in parking lots-but the homes were [...]
Body of kidnap victim found. Does Pensacola have a neighborhood gang war brewing?
The Pensacola Police report that the body of Torrance L. Hackworth, who was kidnapped from his residence early Monday morning, was yesterday afternoon found in a wooded lot in the 1600 block of North S Street. We are hearing the shootings on Christmas Day maybe related to Hackworth's kidnapping [...]
Pensacola violence escalates. When will it get its own mayoral press conference?
Probably not the greatest photo op for the mayor. These types of press releases from Pensacola Police Department have become commonplace: Christmas Night Shooting Pensacola Police are investigating two shootings that occurred tonight on North J Street. Sgt. Kristin Brown said one man was shot [...]
School Employee Arrested on Child Cruelty Charges
Escambia County Sheriff's Office press release: Escambia County Investigators arrested Dorothea R. Vega, 59, of Pensacola today for battery (domestic violence), cruelty towards child torture, punish cage a child (domestic violence), and cruelty toward child act that could result in physical [...]
Sticky fingers caught with $18 million of maple syrup. Mrs. Buttersworth?
New York Times reports that Quebec police have arrested three men in connection with the theft of $18-million worth of maple syrup from a warehouse. The commodity was owned by the Canadian syrup cartel and part of the Canadian maple syrup reserve. Wait a second. There's a syrup cartel and syrup [...]
Three locals indicted for child pornography
Press Release: Three Pensacola men were arraigned today on child pornography charges, announced Pamela C. Marsh, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Kevin Allaire, 24, is charged in a two-count indictment alleging that he received and possessed child pornography [...]
Dead body indentified. It is a homicide
Escambia County Investigators have identified Alfred L. Watson, 28, of Pensacola found this morning as the victim of a homicide. Today about 8:50 am deputies responded to a report of a found body in a wooded area near Wentworth St and West Maxwell St, once on-scene deputies located Watson’s [...]
Schieffer: Too afraid to make world safer for kids? (video)
Bob Schieffer asks if legislators have become too afraid of powerful lobbies to explore ways to make world safer for children. Source: CBS
Dead body found
Press Release: Escambia County deputies are investigating a body which was located in the woods near Wentworth St and Maxwell St about 08:50 a.m. this morning. A person reported to deputies that while they were walking through the woods they located a body and contacted law enforcement. [...]
More gunshots in west Pensacola
Gunshots rang out in the early hours of Sunday morning on Cervantes at the Travel Inn, a block west of Tom Ann Buddy's. According to reports, Melvin Coley, 30, of Pensacola was in his vehicle in the parking lot of the Travel Inn, 1801 W. Cervantes St., after visiting a friend when he was [...]
5,740 Children and Teens were Killed by Guns in 2008 and 2009
The Children's Defense Fund published earlier this year a report (Protect Children, Not Guns 2012) on the rise of gun deaths of children and teens. In 2008, 2,947 children and teens died from guns in the United States and 2,793 died in 2009 for a total of 5,740—one child or teen every three [...]