Operation Thug Bust

Escambia County Gang The Escambia County Sheriff's Office has worked hard to clean up a crime ridden section of Pensacola known as the Brownsville Community.

by Debbie Williams

Published: Fri, October 17, 2008 - 5:00 pm CST Last Updated: Fri, October 17, 2008 - 5:52 pm CST

The Escambia County Sheriff's Office has worked hard to clean up a crime ridden section of Pensacola known as the Brownsville Community.
Last night they rounded up, street gang wanna-be's during "Operation Thug Bust"
Cops say it was houses like this one where teenagers aspiring to be gang members would hang out together and get into all kinds of trouble.
"Individuals with a history of selling narcotics, a history of violent crimes, aggravated batteries, robberies," says Sgt. Robby Martin with the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.
Last night undercover officers along with SWAT team members confiscated drugs, guns and computers hoping to prevent gang member wanna-be's from becoming the real thing.
Sgt. Martin says these gang members-in-training would terrorize the neighborhoods and even used one house to practice home invasions. "They would go inside the house and basically portray a mock home invasion where a knock would come at the door and an individual would come to the door and they would barge through the door with a firearm in his hand."
"This was a good house nothing bad was going on here." A neighbor who did not want to be identified says he's glad the cops are cracking down on crime but in the case of his neighbor, they got it wrong. "All because they see a group of friends come in, sit outside on the porch, they think something's happening."
Three people were arrested, several more were detained in what investigators say is just the beginning of a new effort to make Brownsville a safer place to live.

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Madcap Says:

Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:39 pm

The neighbor says he is glad the cops are doing something about the crime in his neighborhood but then goes on to say they are doing it wrong. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

carl Says:

Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 5:22 am

I think we’re seeing a big part of the problem,this neighbor who refuses to be identified and says it was a good house even though the police confiscated guns and drugs. This ought to tell the police where to strike next.

Wayne225 Says:

Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:18 pm

“This was a good house nothing bad was going on here.”

Yet police “...confiscated drugs, guns…” from this house. If this is what the neighbors consider a “good” house what in the world does he consider a “bad” house?

Sad.

Wayne…