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…
Category: Crime
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Woman tasered over trying to buy too many phones. Thank goodness, it was not in Pensacola (video)
A woman trying to buy too many iPhones at a New Hampshire Apple store and ends up being Tasered by police outside the store. See here.
Florida Voices: When mandatory sentence does not fit the crime
On Thursdays, I write a column for the website Florida Voices, which is picked up the Tampa Tribune for its community papers and other papers across the state. This week about Escambia…
College warns students about date rape
The University of West Florida Police Department received a report of a sexual assault, possibly a date rape, which occurred in the early morning hours Dec. 4, 2012 in a Residence Hall….
What happened at WalMart on Blue Angel….we want your accounts of the arrest
On Thanksgiving night, a local woman, Annette Bennett, was arrested at Wal-Mart and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting an officer without violence and trespassing after a warning. Â The arrest stemmed from Bennett…
Crime, Code Enforcement and District 6
By Shelby Smithey… Crime and code ordinances were hot topics at Mayor Ashton Hayward’s “Taking City Hall to the Citizens†town hall meeting last night for residents in district 6. Hayward held…
Another body found in the woods. Sigh, another weird Pcola trend
NorthEscambia.com reports human remains were discovered about 4 p.m. yesterday in a wooded area in Cantonment by a person clearing the land off off Well Line and Santa Rosa roads. According to…
Hackers hit Northwest Florida State College, steal 300,000 ids
AP is reporting that Northwest Florida State College, which is in Niceville, has been hit by computer hackers that gained access nearly 300,000 names, Social Security and bank routing numbers of students,…
Body found on nature trail Billy Shores
Official statement from the University of West Florida: On the evening of Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, the UWF Police department responded to the Edward Ball Nature Trail to investigate the discovery of…
Buzz: Former PNJ reporter found encased in concrete
A tip to the Pensacola Police Department has led to Winder, Georgia police finding a man believed to be Sean Dugas dead and encased in concrete. Pensacola twins, Christopher Lynn Cormier, 31,…
Violence continues
An investigation continues into a late-night incident that injured two men while they were sitting on a porch in Pensacola. The incident occurred around 11:50 p.m. in the 500 block of East…
Official arrested being paid to raise money for festival
Okaloosa County Commissioner James F. Campbell was arrested today and charged with four counts of official misconduct and four counts of perjury. According to the arrest report, Campbell, who was elected in…
ARC Gateway hit by theft
More than $4000 in stolen lawn equipment and tools taken from ARC Gateway’s Pollak Industries Pensacola, Fla. – A theft over the weekend at Pollak Industries, ARC Gateway’s manufacturing division, resulted in…
