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…
Category: Crime
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…