The Pensacola Police Department has released the identity of the body found Tuesday near Bay Bluffs Park. He is 44-year-old Ian Kreutzer, of Milton. He was found in shallow water near the beach west of Bay Bluffs Park and police said there were were no obvious signs of trauma. The case is still under investigation…… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2018
MISSING TEENS FOUND
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says two teenage girls who went missing from Milton on Monday have been found safe. Carlee Kemp and Felecity Wright – both 15 – were believed to have run away from home sometime between 7:30 and 8 p.m. Monday. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement Missing Endangered Persons Clearinghouse listed the…… MORE
SHOOTING FATALITY IDENTIFIED
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office says the 24-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Sheriff’s Deputy on Tuesday has been identified. Investigators say Isaac Michael Scroggie, was killed on Bright Water Drive after breaking into a woman’s home and attacking a deouty. Scroggie’s last address was in Pensacola. The Florida Department of…… MORE
FLEEING SUSPECT APPREHENDED
Federal and local law enforcement authorities say a 37-year-old man who ran from a traffic stop, caused a car crash and then committed a home invasion. Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies were called to help the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives conduct a traffic stop on Bryant Lee Williams, yesterday afternoon. Williams refused to…… MORE
BLUE ANGELS PRACTICE CLOSED TO PUBLIC
The Blue Angels practice today, but that practice will not be open to the public as was previously announced. The flight demonstration squadron usually practices aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola on Tuesdays and Thursdays, about 11:30 a.m., and there is a viewing area available for grandstand seating outside the museum. On selected days, team members…… MORE
SIMMONS FILES FOR SHERIFF
The former Chief of the Pensacola Police Department wants to be the Sheriff of Escambia County. Chip Simmons, now chief deputy of the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, has filed to run for sheriff in 2020. Simmons retired as the Pensacola police chief in 2015 after 29-years with the department to become Escambia County’s Assistant County Administrator. In…… MORE
ATTEMPTED MURDER SUSPECT SOUGHT
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office is seeking a 26-year-old man who is wanted in connection with an attempted murder last week. Kevin Jordan II is suspected in an attempted homicide that took place Friday in the 3100 block of North Pace Boulevard. Jordan is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information on Jordan’s whereabouts, is…… MORE
FLORIDA BEACH ACCESS LAW
Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a that could restrict public access to private beaches. At issue is the question of whether the public can walk or sunbathe on privately owned sand. The sand below the high tide line is always open to walking, fishing and other beach activities in Florida, but anything landward could…… MORE
FLORIDA EX-FELONS VOTING RIGHTS
A federal judge has blocked Florida’s process of restoring voting rights for ex-felons. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker has given Governor Rick Scott and the Board of Executive Clemency a month to come up with a new system of providing ex-felons the right to vote. Walker, found that the state’s clemency system is arbitrary and…… MORE
NEW COUNTY JUDGE CANDIDATES
The list of candidates to fill the Okaloosa county judge’s seat of retiring Judge Pat Maney has been narrowed to five. Florida Governor Rick Scott will select the new judge from a list that includes personal injury attorney J. Bruce Bowman and assistant state attorneys still in the running are Ginger Madden, Angela Mason, Jonathan…… MORE
