The Escambia County’s Sheriff’s Office will conduct an “Operation Clean Sweep” tomorrow in the Brownsville area. The clean-up will begin at 8 a.m. at the new Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 2601 W….
Category: Crime
NAACP state and local leaders misspeak…twice
Adora Obi Nweze, president of the Florida State Conference NAACP, made a misstatement while she was in Pensacola last Saturday morning for a town hall meeting on the shooting last month of…
Revenge of the BP Barbies
In the weeks after Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010, but before the oil and tar balls began washing ashore, BP sent out into the coastal communities of the Gulf Coast an…
Touart Transfer Plan Calls For Sheriff To Give Up 40 Percent Of His Administrative Staff…or does it? (update)
By Jesse Farthing Most difficult tasks have checklists. That’s the way all parties can make sure deadlines are met in an orderly fashion. That’s not how Escambia County government works. At today’s…
Matt Gaetz to hold hearings on Stand Your Ground
Will Weatherford, the Republican speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives, said on Friday that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach), chair of the House’s Criminal Justice subcommittee, will hold hearings on the…
Commissioner Valentino goes after Sheriff Morgan on television over Middleton shooting
Commissioner Gene Valentino used the shooting of Roy Middleton as an opportunity to challenge Sheriff David Morgan. He complained to CNN and WALA 10 that he wasn’t informed of the shooting. According…
Transcript of 911 call involving the Middleton shooting
This was released yesterday afternoon by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office: 911 Transcription ECSO13OFF021716 Reported 2:38 a.m. July 27, 2013 Dispatch: Sheriffâs 911 what is your emergency? Caller: Yeah, Iâm, um, 218…
Alleged Mississippi Gang Leader, now living in Century, charged with racketeering
Jason Marshall Bullock, age 37, has been indicted on a racketeering conspiracy charge accusing him of attempted murder, kidnapping, bank robbery, drug distribution and bribery. Bullock, also known as “Sir J-Mac,” is…
McNesby era in the jail described as “one of the darkest periods the history of American prisons”
While the interim County Administrator George Touart and Commissioner Chairman Gene Valentino are doing everything they can to avoid paying to hire more staff at their county jail and our daily newspaper…
Sheriff Morgan wants Valentino to recuse himself and give depostion on statements re:detention staff
Sheriff David Morgan has requested that Escambia County Commissioner Gene Valentino recuse himself from the Department of Justice Working Group based on the commission chairman’s disparaging remarks regarding the deputies and staff…
Daily ignores City of Pensacola crime problem, murders tripled in 2012
In its Friday edition, the daily newspaper attempts to go after Sheriff David Morgan for the rise in crime rate last year but ignores the much steeper increase in violent crimes inside…
Buzz: Councilman’s cars stolen
On Facebook, Councilman Andy Terhaar’s wife is reporting that both of their cars were stolen from their driveway last night. The Terhaars live in the Inverness subdivision. Others in the vicinity are…