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…
Category: Crime
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…
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…
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…
News Journal has interactive map of 23 homicides in 2012
Catch this before the paywall goes up. The Pensacola News Journal has an interactive map of the area’s 23 homicides last year. Good work – here.
Mobile, Ala. mayor speaks out on gun violence
Mayor Sam Jones is a part of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. He was one of two Alabama mayors to sign a Dec. 19 letter to President Barack Obama urging his gun control…
Follow up to Jan. 3: Arrest made in Matthew Cox murder
Press Release: Investigators have charged a Pensacola man with a Homicide that occurred on July 28, 2012. Bennie Robbins III, 18, was charged yesterday after investigators were able to obtain an arrest…
Person Wanted in Charges from Belair Rd Shooting
Press Release: Escambia County Investigators are asking for helping locating Kwamane Q. Silas, 22, of Pensacola, FL. Silas is no longer just wanted for questioning, instead he is wanted on charges stemming…
Three men sought in connection with Belair shootings found
Escambia County Investigators have located 3 of the 6 people wanted for questioning in the Belair Rd homicide. Gregory Clarke, Rodney Overstreet, and Jeremiah Andrews have been located and are being questioned…
Do you know these men? Wanted for questioning in Belair shootings
These men are wanted for questioning in the Belair shootings last night. If you have any information about this crime or the below listed people you are asked to call ECSO dispatch…
Official report on Belair/Montclair shootings. Suspects sought
Press Release: On January 10, 2013 about 10:10 p.m., deputies responded to a shots fired disturbance in the 700 block of Belair Rd. When deputies arrived on-scene they found one victim dead,…
Another shooting in Montclair area last night. One dead, others in hospital
I got a phone call last night from readers in the Montclair about shootings were reported at different locations along Belair Road around after 10 p.m. One person was pronounced deceased at…
Miami has gun buy-back program
In an effort to curb illegal guns and gun violence, Miami police is holding its first 2013 gun buyback operation of the year. Beginning on Jan. 19, anyone can drop off any…
Escambia County: Rape capital of Florida, too
India has attracted international over the rape of a young woman by a gang of men on a New Delhi bus (New Delhi Attack: The Victim’s Story). We’ve got a forcible rape…
Another Escambia County Claim to Shame: Child Deaths
The Statewide Child Abuse Death Review Committee has released its annual report. Escambia County is one of the worst in the state with 100 total child deaths and four verified child abuse/neglect…
IN Cover Story Puts a Face on Area Homicides
Murders, shootings, assaults, rapes…they too quickly become just numbers, one-day headlines lost in the flood of news of Justin Beiber’s tattoos, Lady Gaga’s outfits and Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy Firing a county administrator,…
Nine hate crimes committed in Escambia, Santa Rosa counties
Attorney General Pam Bondi released on Monday the 2011 Hate Crimes in Florida Report, which includes detailed information on the types of hate crimes being committed throughout the state. During the 2011…
WTF: City of Pensacola has higher murder rate than NYC
Last Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised his Police Department for newly released 2012 homicide statistics, which showed 414 murders in the city—the city’s lowest homicide rate in 40 years…
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,…
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…
