Category: Crime
County tries to block Jail Study from being released
There is a budget battle about to break out between interim County Administrator George Touart and Sheriff David Morgan. The fight is inevitable. This first…
Odom sentenced to six months for election fraud
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – Jay Odom, 56, of Destin, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Lacey A. Collier to six months in federal prison…
Feds and local law enforcement bust local meth labs
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – A federal grand jury returned two indictments this week charging twelve individuals with methamphetamine and pseudoephedrine related conspiracy offenses. The indictments were…
Investigators Seek Man in Connection with Brent Shooting
PENSACOLA, Fla.–Escambia Sheriff’s Investigators are seeking any information leading to the whereabouts of Chandler Bass, 29. Bass is a black male, approximately 5’3†and 175…
Operation Faster Nabs Unregistered Sex Offenders
U.S. Marshals and Escambia County Target Sex Offenders Pensacola, Fl. – At least 50 wanted people were locked up, courtesy of a sweep led by…
Convicted Sex Offender arrested, running model agency and fitness club
A convicted sex offender who failed to register his email address with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was arrested this morning. Bret Randall May,…
ECSO Releases Identity of Suspects in Wednesday’s Armed Robbery/Officer Involved Shooting
Kennan Ross Finkelstein, 23, has been charged with Attempted Murder of a Police Officer in connection with the Wednesday night shooting of Sergeant Shedrick Johnson….
Assault Victim Succumbs to Injuries: Investigators Seeking Information
Press Release: Escambia County Sheriff’s Investigators are seeking information on a March 1, 2013 assault. Early Thursday morning on the 1st, 41 year old Donald…
Attorney General Bondi wants bodies exhumed
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office today filed a petition on behalf of Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Hunter to allow him to exhume human remains on…
Arrest made in November homicide
Press Release: Robert Dale Purifoy aka Robert Miles, 32, was arrested in the November 6, 2012 homicide of Amber Tricona Johnson. Johnson, 22, was shot…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
