Category: Crime
Court documents provide details of alleged human trafficking in massage parlors
At 2 p.m. the U.S. Attorney for North Florida will present his case to keep David C. Williams detained. The Pensacola man, 41, has been…
PA AG offers more on Asian massage bust
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has offered more details on the arrest of David Williams and the massage parlors he ran in Florida, Virginia and…
More on massage parlor raids
United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe, of the Northern District of Florida, announced today that a federal arrest warrant was executed on a Pensacola business owner…
FWC catches oyster thieves
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) investigators charged four individuals after an investigation involving the theft of thousands of oysters from Pensacola Bay Oyster…
Interview: Morgan has focused on gangs and guns since taking office
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan yesterday told the media that he doesn’t see the need for special regional task force on gun-related crimes, which Mayor…
U.S. attorney goes after corrupt officials
The News Services of Florida reports that suspended Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Maddox admitted guilt Tuesday to three fraud charges in a “pay-to-play†bribery probe….
Same number of July gun incidents in 2012 and 2019
Inweekly reviewed the West Florida Regional Library’s newspaper archives and found the July 2012 and July 2019 had the same number of gun incidents reported…
Sheriffs not interested in gun task force
Both Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan and Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson have told the PNJ that they won’t participate in the joint federal-city task force to…
Timeline: County had a Gun Crime Response Team in 2012
The last time Escambia County had a multi-agency task force targeting gun-related crimes was seven years ago. Sheriff David Morgan announced the “crime response team 
WEAR TV 3 reads blog
The local Sinclair station apparently reads Rick’s Blog. Channel 3 announced at its 11 am newscast that the station will be digging deeper into the…
Wild West Escambia – three shootings over two days
WEAR TV 3 is excited. The Sinclair station was able to expand its “If it bleeds, it leads” coverage because of three shootings over the…
Billings: Wednesday, July 15
The Sarasota Herald Tribune opened the day with an article on Patrick cyberstalking his ex-wife and in-laws, “Suspect in slaying of Pensacola couple haunted Sarasota…
Billings: Tuesday, July 14
That morning Sheriff Morgan created a new stir about the involvement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Agency in the investigation. It…
Billings: Monday, July 13
At “The Tower,†the national media onslaught was in full swing. Media vans and satellite dishes filled the parking lot. The training room was fully…
Billings: Sunday, July 12
At Sunday noon, Sgt. Hoard interviewed Leonard Gonzalez again. The evidence was stacking up against him. The investigators knew that he had bought two cans…
Billings: Saturday, July 11
Saturday morning Hardy returned a call from James Hartsfield, who had seen on Saturday’s front page of the Pensacola News Journal the surveillance photo of…
Billings: Friday, July 10
The Pensacola News Journal reported Friday morning on its front page “a Beulah couple who adopted 12 children and owned several local businesses were found…
10th anniversary of the murders of Bud and Melanie Billings
On July 9, 2009, Bud and Melanie Billings were murdered in a home invasion. The crime attracted international attention as the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office…
Ritchie and Galecki convicted in Nevada
On Wednesday, July 3, Burton Ritchie, former owner of The Psychedelic Shack, and Benjamin Galecki, former Pensacon CEO and Pensacola chamber board member, were convicted…
Blackwater prisoner indicted for bomb threats
A 24-year-old man who was housed at a privately run state prison has been indicted on federal charges of making bomb threats to multiple federal…
















