Teen Struck By Hit And Run Driver On Beulah Road
September 23, 2017
The Florida Highway Patrol is searching for a hit and run driver that hit a teenager walking along Beulah Road Friday night.
According to the FHP, 17-year old Ryan Babe was walking on the shoulder of Beulah Road toward the Escambia County Equestrian Center. Babe told troopers all he remembered was being hit from behind by an unknown vehicle. The vehicle left the scene before Babe was able to see it. No witnesses have come forward according to the FHP.
Babe was transported in serious condition to Sacred Heart Hospital.
File photo.
Inmate Reportedly Stabbed At Century Correctional
September 23, 2017
An inmate was reportedly stabbed Friday night at the Century Correctional Institution.
Escambia County EMS responded to the prison on Tedder Road just before 11 p.m. The inmate’s condition was not available.
The incident is under investigation by the Florida Department of Corrections. Further details have not yet been released.
NorthEscambia.com file photo.
Gulf Power Crews Continue To Support Irma Restoration
September 23, 2017
Crews from Gulf Power are continuing to help restore power after Hurricane Irma. Gulf Power’s storm teams worked Friday in North Fort Myers , Arcadia and Punta Gorda in support of Florida Power & Light’s restoration. Courtesy photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Morgan: Fewer ECSO Deputies For Low Crime Areas
September 23, 2017
Escambia County residents in low crime areas will soon have fewer deputies patrolling, while patrols will be stepped up in high crime areas, according to a video posted by Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan. The move is in response to a dwindling number of deputies and recruitment problems due to low starting pay that Morgan blames on the Escambia County Commission.
“We will be pulling officers from lower crime areas and reemphasizing and placing them in higher crime areas. The theory here is to prevent the spread of crime from the high crime areas to the lower crime areas,” the sheriff said.
The sheriff said department leaders will look at the crime maps of Escambia County to determine where deputies will be cut.
“Some districts in Escambia County will see a lessening of patrol coverage and patrol visibility because those officers will be reassigned,” Morgan said. “This will be statistically; it will be done very methodically. It’s the only response that we can make.”
The sheriff decline to name which areas will see future deputies as to not tip off criminals.
He said the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office lost 62 officers last year, and blames a problem recruiting new officers on the lack of a good starting salary.
“That’s another obvious fact that we can’t seem to get the county commission to understand,” he said.
Morgan has already cut the school resource program almost in half, dropped funeral escorts as of next month, cut court security and stopped the targeted “Clean Sweep” operations due low salaries leading to a lack of manpower.
Tate Gets Homecoming Win Over Milton
September 23, 2017
It was very happy Aggie homecoming Friday night in Cantonment as the Tate Aggies powered past the Milton Panthers 28-6.
Tate was first on the board with 6:28 to go in the first period at Pete Gindl Stadium on a quarterback keeper from Hunter Rigdon from six yards out, 7-0 Aggies.
With 4:22 to go in the second quarter, junior shemRiggan found Patrick Palmer on a 27-yard touchdown pass, 14-0. The Aggies repeated their Riggan to Palmer combination with 15.9 seconds in the half for another touchdown pass, this one 14 yards, to go ahead 21-0.
Rigdon gained over 60 yards on a keeper before senior Shemari Jones was in to seal another Tate touchdown, 28-6, with 9:08 in the third.
The Milton Panthers scored late in the third on a short pass. With a missed point after attempt, the score was 28-6 headed into a scoreless fourth quarter in Cantonment.
The Panthers fell to 2-2, while the Tate Aggies are 3-1 on the season.
Next week, Washington will visit the Tate Aggies at 7 p.m.
During Friday night’s game, Logan Hamlin was named homecoming queen.
We will post photo galleries with more football action photos, homecoming court, parade and more on Sunday or Monday.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Jennifer Repine, click to enlarge.
Century CI, Fountain Place In Southeastern States Manhunt Field Trials
September 23, 2017
The winners of 2017 Southeastern States Manhunt Field Trials were named at the event’s closing ceremony Firdayday. Twenty-one K-9 Teams from Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas competed in the three-day event hosted by the Escambia County Road Prison.
Single Leash Division
- First place – Apalachee Correctional Institution, average time 16:33
- Second place – Jefferson Correctional Institution, average time 18:51.5
- Third place – Rayburn Correctional Center, average time 19:45
- Fourth place – Century Correctional Institution, average time 23:28
Multi-Leash Division
- First place – Jackson Correctional Institution, average time 11:16.6
- Second place – Fountain Correctional Facility, average time 11:50.5
- Third place- Wakulla Correctional Institution, average time 12:45
- Fourth place – Holmes Correctional Institution, average time 14:36
The annual event was held in the Blackwater State Forest. Teams competed in one day and one night event, on tracks that are 1.5 miles long and two hours old. A combined average time was used to determine the winner. Single leash and multi-leash dog teams competed. Multiple tracks were laid for each day’s sessions, and the teams draw numbers for which track they would compete. Teams had an hour and a half to complete the course, collecting up to four flags along the way. Each flag collected removed one minute from the final time, and each flag missed added one minute.
Pictured top: The K-9 team from Century Correctional Institution. Pictured below: The K-9 team from Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Friday Night’s High School Football Scores
September 23, 2017
Here are scores from tonight’s high school football games in the North Escambia area:
FLORIDA
- Holmes County 42, Northview 13
- Tate 28, Milton 6
- Escambia Academy 49, Jay 23
- Crestview 38, West Florida 20
- Navarre 27, Pine Forest 14
- Catholic 28, Pensacola 14
- Choctaw 49, Pace 21
- Gulf Breeze 38, Washington 19
ALABAMA
- Andalusia 45, Escambia County 0
- Escambia Academy 49, Jay 23
- Flomaton 20, Cottage Hill Christian 7
- W.S. Neal 67, Calhoun 0
- Mobile Christian 35, T.R. Miller 21
NorthEscambia.com photo.
‘Severe Meth Addict’ Charged With ‘Viciously Beating’ Small Dog
September 22, 2017
A Cantonment woman has been arrested for allegedly “viciously beating” a small dog while it “cried out in pain”.
Heidie Creamer, 35, was booked into the Escambia County Jail on a felony animal cruelty charged.
She “intentionally and repeatedly” inflicted “unnecessary pain and suffering on a one-year old, five pound Chiweenie (chihuahua/dachshund mix) dog by picking the dog up by its back leg, raising it in the air, then viciously beating the animal while it screamed out in pain and suffering,” according to an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office report.
Creamer and her boyfriend had been living in a tent on a woman’s property on Frank Ard Road. The woman said Creamer is a “severe meth addict” and her drug abuse had grown out of hand, according to the report The woman told deputies that Creamer walked over the dog and snatched it up as as it was peacefully sleeping in the shade. After the alleged beating, she carried the dog upside down by one leg about 50 feet back to her tent. The woman said Creamer had beat the dog four or five times in the past month.
Several witnesses provided deputies with a similar account of the incident.
In their report, deputies describer Creamer’s tent and living area as “utterly filthy” with a strong body odor. The report also states Creamer was covered all over her body with festering sores and she appeared to be high on some substance.
The deputy reported that when Creamer stepped out of the tent, the Chiweenie and a Yorkie appeared to cower away and try to move away from her as if in great fear.
Creamer remained in the Escambia County Jail Friday with bond set at $5,000.
Bill Would Name Stretch Of Highway 4 The “Sen. Greg Evers Memorial Highway”
September 22, 2017
A 13-mile stretch of Highway 4 that cuts through the Blackwater River State Forest would be named after the late former Sen. Greg Evers under a measure filed Thursday by Rep. Jayer Williamson, R-Pace.
Under Williamson’s proposal (HB 171), State Road 4 would be designated the “Senator Greg Evers Memorial Highway” between Munson Highway and State Road 189 in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties.
Evers, 62, died Aug. 21 in a single-vehicle accident near his home in Okaloosa County. Evers, a Republican, served nine years in the Florida House before his election to the Senate in 2010. Evers left his Senate seat last year to make a bid for the U.S. House but lost the Republican primary to U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Williamson’s bill is filed for the 2018 legislative session, which starts in January. If the bill passes and is signed by the governor, it would take effect July 1, 2018.
by The News Service of Florida with contribution from NorthEscambia.com
Century Library ‘Rocks’ Hide And Seek
September 22, 2017
The Century Branch Library held a “Hid and Seek” rock painting event Thursday night. Children had a chance to design and paint their own rocks to join their popular hide and seek craze. Photos by August Whorff for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
