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 curb gun-related crimes that Mayor Grover Robinson…
Category: Crime
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†at a joint press conference on August…
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 database on which we reported this morning…
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 weekend. Saturday: A man was shot on…
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 family.†Gonzalez met Katie Herkel when she…
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 begins innocently during a live interview with…
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 turned over to the media. Cables ran…
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 of red spray paint the day after…
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 a van that looked like one that…
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 shot to death in an apparent home…
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 arrested the suspects over an intense seven-day…
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 of 24 counts related to the manufacture…
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 and state agencies, including the Florida secretary…
Officials speak out on gun violence
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Following another shooting Monday in a string of shootings in recent weeks in the Pensacola area, local officials joined with victims’ family members Wednesday to implore people with…
Killers remain ‘involuntarily committed’
By Mollye Barrows Circuit Judge J. Scott Duncan held a commitment hearing this morning regarding the status of Brandon Aydelott, 23, and Chris Lynch,40, two Santa Rosa County men who confessed to…
Letters link Santa Rosa killers
By Mollye Barrows Editor’s note: Last week, Inweekly published “DCF ‘Transitions’ Insane Killers,” about two men who killed that mothers, Brandon Aydelott and Chris Lynch, and were found not guilty for reason…
Breaking news: Rape investigation reopened
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has reopened the investigation of the mentally and physically disabled woman was reportedly sexually assaulted and impregnated while under the care of the Pensacola Cluster, a intermediate…
Pensacola fails to make ‘Safest Cities’ list
The National Council for Home Safety and Security today announced its ranking of the Safest Cities in Florida for 2018. The top ten cities are: Satellite Beach (Last year: 4) Key Biscayne (5) Marco…
Heroin-related deaths still high
The latest Florida Medical Examiner’s Commission Drug Report revealed the deaths related to heroin use in the Pensacola area are still high compared to where they were a decade ago. The Medical…
Judge grants new penalty phase for Patrick Gonzalez
The State Attorney’s Office announced this morning that Judge Nickolas Geeker has ordered a new penalty phase for Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr., who was convicted in seven years for the July 9,…
