May 24, 2021
A wreck Sunday morning at Mobile Highway and Klondike Road claimed the life of a 30-year old man.
The Florida Highway Patrol said he was headed south on Klondike Road in a Corvette about 10:15 a.m. when he failed to stop at a stop sign and traveled into Mobile Highway. His vehicle was hit by a Dodge Ram driven westbound by a 37-year old Pensacola man.
The driver of the Corvette was airlifted to Baptist Hospital where he was later pronounced deceased. The pickup truck driver was not injured.
May 20, 2021
The man accused of the attempted kidnapping of an 11-year old girl from a bus stop Tuesday morning in Escambia County headed to work off Muscogee Road after the incident.
Jared Paul Stanga, 30, is charged with attempted kidnapping of a child under 13, aggravated assault and battery. He was booked into the Escambia County Jail bond without bond.
About 7 a.m., a white Dodge Journey pulled up to the girl waiting at the bus stop on Old Corry Field Road and Perdido Street. That when Stanga tried to grab the girl, but she fought back.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office was able to piece together video evidence that Stanga fled from the kidnapping scene along North Corry Field Road, to New Warrington Road to Mobile Highway. Numerous cameras captured the vehicle along Mobile Highway, and an eventual turn onto Pine Forest Road to the Murphy Express. One of those cameras clearly showed the license plate.
May 20, 2021
An Escambia County man is charged with kidnapping a 13-year old girl last weekend in Walnut Hill.
Ronald Gene Joyner, 55 is charged with felony kidnapping, interference with child custody and battery.
A man told the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office that he was fishing with his family and had just left from Steve’s Farm on South Highway 99 in Walnut Hill. He said the girl was irritating her brother, so he stopped his truck near South Highway 99 and Beasley Road and made her get out and walk. The man told deputies that he drove less than a quarter mile away before turning around to pick up his daughter, but she was gone in less than two minutes.
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A Midwest staple will make its way to Mobile Highway next month when Pensacola s second Culver s location opens June 7.
Construction on a new 5,200-square-foot building is just about wrapped up, meaning the Wisconsin-based fast-food restaurant chain is mere weeks away from presenting its famous ButterBurgers, cheese curds and homemade custard to a brand new audience. I d say people definitely, and it doesn t bother me, compare us to Chick-fil-A as far as being on that same line of high quality, high speed, said Mobile Highway Culver s owner Brandon Cherry on Tuesday. So we don t really get compared to a McDonald s or a Burger King. Culver s is definitely on the upper scale of fast food.
A Fort Deposit woman is accused of shooting at a car stopped at a red light and grazing a passenger in the head.
Shakildra Jenkins, 25, was charged with second-degree assault and shooting into an occupied car in connection with the April 4 shooting.
The victim told police she and her boyfriend were stopped about 10 p.m. at a red light next to a gas station on West South Boulevard near Mobile Highway when an unknown black sedan pulled up alongside of them. Jenkins, the victim said, was in the passenger seat of sedan, according to court records. The victim advised the defendant pulled out an unknown make and model gun, chased them by Cache s package store and Daniel Motor, an officer wrote in Jenkins arrest affidavit.