Man To Remain In Prison For Cantonment, Molino Burglaries

March 15, 2010

A Cantonment man will serve his full sentence in state prison in connection with burglaries in the Molino and Cantonment areas according to a ruling last week by an Escambia County judge.

bellhoseapatrick.jpgPatrick Hosea Bell, 21, was sentenced late last year to five years in state prison on burglary, grand theft, criminal mischief and cocaine possession charges. Last week, Judge Frank Bell denied a motion for reduction or modification of the sentence, according to Escambia County Circuit Court records.

Jermaine Lamar Patterson, 18, was also sentenced to five years in prison in connection with the same North Escambia burglaries. Another accomplice, Sara Louise Temoney, 22, was charged with fewer burglaries and sentenced to six months in jail and has since been released.

Bell, Patterson and Temoney were arrested in March, 2009, by Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies after an attempted burglary on Clymil Drive, just south of Williams Ditch Road in the Cottage Hill area. At that time, deputies said the arrests cleared about 25 burglaries in the area.

The arrests came after the Clymil Drive resident came home to find a vehicle backed to his home and called for help. Deputies located the vehicle and made their arrests, but not before the female suspect reported that she had been carjacked, deputies said.

In the typical burglary attributed to the trio, one suspect would knock on the front door of the home. If no one answered the door, the suspects would back their car up to the home and kick in the backdoor, deputies said. Most of the burglaries took place in isolated areas, often at homes where trees or shrubbery block the view of the home from the road.

In one incident in early March of last year, a man returned to his home in the 4000 block of Chestnut Road in Molino to find one of the burglars inside his home.

The sheriff’s office said tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise were recovered from the burglaries.

Comments

2 Responses to “Man To Remain In Prison For Cantonment, Molino Burglaries”

  1. MICHAEL WEAVER on March 18th, 2010 9:56 pm

    USED TO BE , PEOPLE WOULD LOOK OUT FOR THEIR NEIGHBORS BETTER. ALSO USED TO BE , PEOPLE RAISED THEIR KIDS MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. THE YOUNG PEOPLE NOW A DAYS ALWAYS TAKE THE QUICK AND EASY WAY OUT. I GUESS THEY SHOULD PRAY THAT THEY DID NOT ENTER A HOME OF A GUN OWNER!!!!!!!

  2. Angi on March 15th, 2010 7:51 am

    Good! This is where people like this need to be, maybe then it would cut down on so much of this kind of crime…

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