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 Moore of Pensacola was visiting a relative…
Category: Crime
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 the site of the Dozier School for…
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 and killed during an exchange of gunfire…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
