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  A Pensacola man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly abandoning his child inside Walmart and leaving his dog inside a vehicle that was turned off, according to an arrest report. A bail bondsman was attempting to take 27-year-old Deangelo Meriweather into custody for a warrant when he ran outside of Walmart, leaving his child and dog on the property, according to an arrest report. The child was brought back to his residence by deputies and the Florida Department of Children and Families was notified, according to an arrest report. Animal control was also contacted to take custody of the dog. Deputies eventually located Meriweather and took him into custody. He is charged with neglecting a child without great bodily harm, abandoning an animal, and two counts of failing to appear for a felony offense. Meriweather was booked into Escambia County Jail Wednesday morning. He is held on no bond. To see more CLICK HERE .

  The first round of election night results show Orange County DA Todd Spitzer trouncing his three challengers seeking to control one of the most powerful offices in the region – and possibly on track to win the race outright without a runoff. Spitzer, who was endorsed by the OC Republican Party, was leading 62% to criminal defense attorney Peter Hardin’s 20%, in the first results posted at 8:05 p.m. The other two challengers – U.S. Department of Justice lawyer Bryan Chehock and former DA prosecutor Mike Jacobs – trailed at 10% and 8%, respectively. About 253,000 ballots have been counted so far, representing 14% of all registered voters in OC – though additional ballots will be counted and reported later this evening and in the coming days. If Spitzer’s lead ends up about 50% of the vote after all ballots are counted, he will not face a runoff in November. No local race drew as much attention in the primary election cycle as District Attorney, one of the most powerful positions in...

  Amid the increasing likelihood that Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon will face a recall vote this November, as well as the successful recall of San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on Tuesday, a growing number of LA County criminals are making plea deals over worries that Gascon’s progressive criminal justice policies will go away due to the impending recall. As of the end of May, over 500,000 of the needed 566,857 signatures have been collected. While groups for the recall have said that close to 800,000 are needed by the July 6th deadline in case of any duplicate or invalid votes, there will likely be enough for a recall collected in the last month of signature gathering. With signatures expected to continue to come in due to backlash against Gascon’s “reforms,” such as ending policies that had juveniles being tried as adults, many crimes reduced to misdemeanors or having jail time reduced, and the removal of cash bail for most crimes despite California voting to keep it in...

  As New York voters prepare to cast ballots this month in elections for statewide offices, the candidates are responding to concerns about rising violent crime and a sense that communities have become increasingly vulnerable. In Monday night’s televised debate featuring Democratic gubernatorial candidates, Gov. Kathy Hochul “attempted to shift the conversation about crime to the gun control issue,” observed Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell School at Syracuse University. “The problem there is that the kinds of legislation the Legislature just passed really don’t address the nature of most gun crime, particularly the gun crime that affects poor communities,” Reeher said. Those incidents often involve firearms that have been acquired illegally and thus fall outside the scope of the legally owned weapons the state and federal governments regulate. During the forum, Hochul was pressed by Marcia Kramer, a political reporter for WCBS, as to whether she “regretted” that restoring th...

  Voters in two of the most liberal cities in America sent a clear message to the Democratic Party on Tuesday: they want their leaders to refocus on the most basic functions of government by ensuring their safety, protecting their quality of life and restoring order. For months now, voters in San Francisco and Los Angeles have voiced their concerns that daily life in their cities appears to be spiraling out of control. Residents in San Francisco have been contending with a rise in burglaries and car thefts, as well an alarming spate of hate crimes directed against Asian Americans. Los Angeles residents have witnessed a sharp increase in violent crime, while city leaders have been grappling with a homelessness crisis that has led to the proliferation of tents and trash across parks, sidewalks and public spaces, while exposing an untreated mental health emergency on their streets. On Tuesday, San Francisco voters registered their disquiet by recalling District Attorney Chesa Boudin a...

  Sitting before a dozen police officers last week at a public safety forum, Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.) wanted to make clear that she will defend law enforcement in Congress. “I always open these up and say I do not want to defund the police, and in fact have voted multiple times to increase funding to police departments,” Lee, who is on a list of House Democrats seen as vulnerable in November, told a group that included representatives from the two local law enforcement associations, which recently endorsed her reelection campaign. Lee’s pledge of support for law enforcement is being replicated across the country as Democratic lawmakers up and down the ballot scramble to assure voters that they’re not soft on crime. It’s a sea change from two years ago when, amid the height of racial justice protests, some leaders on the left began to rethink their approach to criminal justice. Fears that Democrats are losing ground on crime were compounded by Tuesday primary results, which included ...

  San Francisco voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recall Chesa Boudin, the city’s progressive district attorney, potentially dealing an enormous blow to a once ascendant criminal-justice-reform movement. In Los Angeles, on the same night, billionaire Rick Caruso won a plurality of votes with a tough-on-crime platform in the mayoral election, heading to a runoff with Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass. Both low-turnout elections played on complex local dynamics but were clear rejections of a certain strain of liberalism that buoyed reform-oriented prosecutors across the country and sought to defund the police. Los Angeles and San Francisco, Democrat-dominated cities, were at the vanguard of such efforts. Boudin was elected in 2019 and his predecessor, fellow progressive George Gascón, moved to Los Angeles in 2020 to defeat a more conservative incumbent. But the national rise in crime unsettled both cities, with a spike in burglaries and homicides repeatedly seizing headlines and r...