Category: Crime
Police Police release crime stats that show decrease in crime for 2013
The Pensacola Police Department’s annual crime report has been submitted to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and it shows an overall 14 percent reduction…
School-to-Prison Pipeline: Southern Poverty Law Center questions Escambia County school system practices
Last week I interviewed David Utter from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on the Escambia Youth Justice Coalition. He said that in Escambia county…
Warning Shot bill to be discussed on IN Your Head Radio today
Sen. Greg Evers, R-Baker, has filed a bill that would grant immunity to people who show guns or fire warning shots in self-defense, and it…
Hate crimes double in Pensacola
The Pensacola area saw the number of its reported hate crimes double in 2012 from the prior year, according to a report released Tuesday by…
News story #5: When Love Is Not Enough
The summer of 2013 was too hot and too long for the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. The shooting of unarmed Roy Middleton in the driveway…
IN cover #5: A Mother’s Pain
The Independent News wanted to show the human toll of the increasing numbers of homicides in our community, many of which were going unsolved because…
Video on Operation Reindeer Games press conference
Courtesy of Escambia County Sheriff’s Office:
Operation Reindeer Games nets over 90 arrested; Guns, Drugs, Counterfeit Money Seized
In a joint effort, the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office hit the streets of Escambia County the…
Connecticut State Attorney releases his report on Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, closes investigation
Stephen J. Sedensky III, State’s Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury, today released his report on the investigation into the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings…
Another nominee for News of the Weird: When all else fails, blame Obama
John Henry Shiffner, 18, of Century, Fla., blamed his battery arrest for allegedly attacking his pregnant girlfriend on President Barack Obama, telling a sheriff’s deputy…
Reputed Mississippi Gang Leader that was caught in Pensacola pleas not guilty
Jason Marshall Bullock, the alleged Mississippi gang leader known as “Sir J-Mac,” changed his mind in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg, Miss. and decided to…
Deputies will not be charged in Middleton shooting
The Grand Jury reviewing the shooting death of James W. McGlothlin and the wounding of Roy Middleton by Escambia County deputies has returned No True…
Free shotguns…right, who thinks that is a good idea
The Armed Citizen Project of Florida has been dropping leaflets on doorsteps in the Sunshine Gardens community near Orlando, Fla., offering to “arm volunteer households, 
Gunshots heard at memorial service for PHS student
A planned vigil for a slain 14-year-old Pensacola High student has been canceled after gunfire was heard in the neighborhood at another memorial service held…
Buzz: In wake of last night’s shooting, cars at PHS being searched
We have heard that the cars at Pensacola High School are being searched this morning. Last night, Kenteyonna Anderson, 14, of Pensacola was shot and…
Man allegedly beats juvenile to song Blurred Lines
This is another one for our “News of the Weird” column. NorthEscambia.com is reporting a Molino man is facing multiple child abuse charges after allegedly…
Work Release tales
We’ve gotten several phone calls from people who have been enrolled in the Escambia County Work Release program. The lack of supervision and no follow-up…
Search for Tiffany Daniels continues
Pensacola Police are continuing their investigation into the disappearance of a woman who hasn’t been seen for almost a month. Tiffany Daniels, 25, was last…
Priest removed from church, accused of sexual abuse
Monsignor Michael Cherup, pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Fort Walton Beach, has been removed by the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, pending the outcome of an…
PPD also makes an arrest in a school burglary
A Pensacola man was arrested this morning and charged with a burglary of an elementary school that occurred in May. Dominic Schcur Davis, 19, of…
