The former owner of Psychedelic Shack, Charles Burton Ritchie, and Pensacola filmmaker and former Pensacola Chamber board member Ben Galecki were sentenced Wednesday to 20 years each in federal prison for crimes…
Category: Crime
Opioid couple pleaded guilty
Last November, U.S. marshals arrested a doctor and his wife living in Gulf Breeze on federal charges related to the illegal distribution of Oxycontin. Dr. David Lelio, a psychiatrist, had recently moved…
State attorney reopens investigation into Feb. fight
Charles Wyscaver, a 60-year old white male from Pensacola, Florida who was seen on camera punching a 14-year old mentally disabled black girl in her face, was initially arrested and charged with…
Sheriff asks for help finding child abuse victims
Yesterday, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan streamed a message on Facebook asking anyone whose children have had contact with Nicole Lynn Walter, a Pensacola nanny and foster parent to contact the Escambia…
EMS personnel arrested for falsification of training records
State Attorney Bill Eddins has announced the arrest of James Bonoyer, Katherine Kenney, Lawrence Salter Jr., and Stephen White. These arrests are the result of a detailed and lengthy investigation by the…
PPD presser: After so long, ‘relief’
DNA Technology Leads to Cold Case Arrest By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly On New Year’s Day in 1985, Tonya McKinley’s body was found at the corner of Peacock Drive and Creighton Road. She’d…
PPD warns of Coronavirus scams
Press Release: Scammers are taking advantage of fears surrounding the Coronavirus. They are setting up websites to sell bogus products, and using fake emails, texts, and social media posts as a ruse to…
Buzz: Drug dealers set bounties
Sources have shared that a new frightening wrinkle has developed in the escalating gun violence in Pensacola and Escambia County. Drug dealers have begun to place bounties on their enemies, some as…
Breaking news: Eddins asks court to reinstate death penalty for Gonzalez
We received this notice from State Attorney Bill Eddins minutes ago: State Attorney Bill Eddins announced today that his office has filed a Motion for Reconsideration in the case of State of…
Gun violence continues
Pensacola Police have released photographs of two men wanted in connection with a shooting that occurred Wednesday night at a local business on West Garden Street. The incident occurred around 6:50 p.m….
AG Barr reports on DOJ investigation into NAS shooting
Yesterday Attorney General William Barr had a press conference to reported on the Department of Justice investigation into the shooting at NAS Pensacola in early December. Â He described the incident as “an…
NAS Pensacola on lockdown, shooter dead, casualties reported
Inweekly received news this morning that NAS Pensacola is under lockdown because of an active shooter incident. The Pensacola News Journal reports ECSO spokeswoman Amber Southard confirmed the shooter was dead just…