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Molino Pharmacy Robbery Suspect Wanted Again
November 8, 2010
The Molino man charged in connection with the September armed robbery of a Molino Pharmacy is once again wanted by police.
According to Escambia County Circuit Court records, Judge Ronald Swanson revoked bond for Joseph Daniel Flowers, 56, and issued a failure to appear warrant for his arrest. He was originally charged with robbery with a firearm, grand theft, possession of a firearm in pharmacy, aggravated battery and wearing a mask while committing a felony.
The grand theft and wearing a mask while committing a felony charges were dropped, while multiple drug possession charges were filed against Flowers.
Flowers was charged with robbing Scott’s Pharmacy on September 20 while wearing a bathrobe, slippers, yellow kitchen gloves and underwear on his head.
Flowers is also facing charges for the alleged battery of his accomplice — Krystal Lynn Collins — with a two liter bottle of Coke. Collins, 24, was also charged in connection with the robbery; deputies believe she was the getaway car driver.
For more about the robbery and Flowers’ arrest, click here. For more about Collins’ arrest for allegedly driving the getaway car, click here. And for more about the battery arrest, click here.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Flowers should call the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office at (850) 436-9620.
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32 Responses to “Molino Pharmacy Robbery Suspect Wanted Again”
REGARDING:
” “we as a society have to wake up and decide to put our precious time and resources into mental health care from childhood on.”
sigh”
Okay, now that you’ve straightened me out, let’s proceed to consider how we hope to accomplish this task. Some always say, “He wasn’t like this back then,” and some always say, “He’s always been like this. It finally caught up with him.”
So, assuming there ARE signs of mental instability early on, how are we going to deal with the parents who insist, “There’s nothing wrong with my baby!”? I don’t think we want the state taking over the upbringing of our children so that looks like an immovable barrier to your hopes for early mental health care.
Or going the other way, assuming everything WAS hunky-dory up until recently due to recent improper drug use, how are we going to deal with people who decide to break the law and alter their brain chemistries with illicit drugs?
We already made it illegal, yet it continues to happen. How are we going to deal differently with the ones who insist there is nothing wrong with them?
Until they have been caught committing crimes, it’s pretty much outside our power to handle. After they’ve been caught, the expenses you decried earlier still kick in and you still have people who don’t think they have a problem; they think they have a SOLUTION. Point to successful mental health and drug abuse therapies in these cases and we will all be happy. Just saying something like, “I gave him lots of treatment,” don’t get it if the problem remains.
I’m sure you’ve given it more study than I have and we all want working solutions.
David for positive progress
William
Are there any updates on mr. flowers?
ANG….
I repeat DAVE….
What time did he turn himself in??????
regarding:
““I never suggested saving money by not enforcing laws or arresting people…your words.”
You’re sure you didn’t suggest that? My bad.”
no, this is what i suggested:
“we as a society have to wake up and decide to put our precious time and resources into mental health care from childhood on.”
sigh
Catch and Release , Hide and Seek , round and round we go.
was it Judge Ronald Swanson who turned him loose ?
Ang: It”s 6:00? What time did he turn himsef in?
REGARDING:
“I never suggested saving money by not enforcing laws or arresting people…your words.”
You’re sure you didn’t suggest that? My bad.
It read that way to me when you griped about all the expenses and acted like the people were just fodder for the system, as if you were reading “The Bonfire of The Vanities” which claimed the folks in the justice system just looked at it as a machine to keep them employed.
Still – - – whenever I consider a high expense, it’s to see if I can reduce it somehow.
We could cut law enforcement and suffer the cost of doing so.
We could cut judicial expenses and risk wrongful convictions or releases.
We could cut corrections, in which case why bother with any of the previous?
We could give those wishing drugs better access to drugs as long as they didn’t hurt others in their use. I favor that practice while recognizing the associated costs.
Regarding feeding prisoners, I worked in a country once in which inmates were only fed fish heads and rice unless friends and family brought them something else. It strongly encouraged people to keep people caring about them and discouraged getting in legal trouble.
David for friends in times of need
regarding:
“You are absolutely right. We COULD save money by not enforcing laws, not arresting people accused of threatening to leave people dead in a pool of blood, people going out and harming law abiding citizens. (We COULD even save money by simply NOT feeding them after incarceration, but that seems cruel.)”
i never suggested saving money by not enforcing laws or arresting people…your words.
Mental or not is not up to me to judge ..but PLZ get this guy off the streets..he is a danger to our lil community! news of him turning himself in??? We shall see!!
Well ANG posted on here at 8 this morning that he would be turning himself
in today. It is now 1:30 so I presume he has turned himself in and is
compliant……..
REGARDING:
“how much money do you think is being thrown at this guy now? how much money will it take to process him through the court system, then house and feed him once he gets to prison?”
You are absolutely right. We COULD save money by not enforcing laws, not arresting people accused of threatening to leave people dead in a pool of blood, people going out and harming law abiding citizens. (We COULD even save money by simply NOT feeding them after incarceration, but that seems cruel.)
Yes, we COULD do that. The reason we do NOT do that is because our justice system isn’t there to just save money but rather to protect folks from those who harm us.
It’s also there to avoid convicting innocent people. It’s much cheaper to just shoot all accused people without actually verifying they did anything wrong, but too many people would accuse you or me and we don’t want to be shot down on false accusations. That’s worth a little bit of money. The idea is to protect people.
I notice you’re assuming this gentleman is guilty. Me not know. Finding out is part of the cost we would have either way.
I’m sure if you could come up with a method of keeping criminals from crime, killers from killing, crazies from harm, dopers from committing crimes to get dope, violent people from violence, that the judicial system would joyfully grab and use it. We don’t want to waste money OR live in fear.
It ain’t there yet. We live in the now.
David for perfect responses
in a semi-perfect world
regarding:
“Whereas I thought the real insanity was thinking all mental problems could be solved if we only threw enough money at them.”
good point. how much money do you think is being thrown at this guy now? how much money will it take to process him through the court system, then house and feed him once he gets to prison? good for the prison system though i suppose. they are just full of people like mr. flowers and that creates jobs for the prison guards and the food suppliers and whatever else it takes to run a prison. it is big business. and our poor and mentally ill addicts are their fodder.
>>>William I will not sit here and argue facts. I don’t have the time, nor the energy. I am perfectly aware that FTA is Failure to appear. I am telling you what I know to be true, not from reading it off of the internet.
Not arguing either. It’s possible it was entered in the record wrong, but we just go by what the court records say. I’ll get a copy of the arrest warrant once he turns himself in or is picked up.
Mr. Flowers has no reason to not appear in court. He has been and will continue to be compliant. He is innocent until proven guilty. Wouldn’t you want the same treatment??
William I will not sit here and argue facts. I don’t have the time, nor the energy. I am perfectly aware that FTA is Failure to appear. I am telling you what I know to be true, not from reading it off of the internet.
>>His bond was not revoked for failure to appear
Per the court records:
11/04/2010 ISSUE CAPIAS, FTA, RETURNABLE INSTANTER: NO BOND
FTA = Failure to Appear
LOL @ beating someone with a 2L bottle of Coke!
Mr. Flowers court date was set for January 12th, 2011. His bond was not revoked for failure to appear it was revoked for the false charges he is facing for allegedly assaulting Ms. Collins. He will be turning himself in today, so all of you can rest easy he is not “out looking for his next victim”.
Some of you guys are getting a little ridiculous with your comments.
to Art: I grew up around this guy and he did have teachers that tried to help!! He was raised in a family that was nothing but “Hell Raisers”!! He just thought he had to follow the same path as his brother. In his early years he used intimidation to get what he wanted and to bully others to his satisfaction. It seems to me this has not changed. I guess we “all” have our problems, but seem to handle it better than others. I would call this growing up.
REGARDING:
” the real insanity is that the best we can do for folks like him is send him to jail and dont let him out”
Whereas I thought the real insanity was thinking all mental problems could be solved if we only threw enough money at them. Maybe there are cures, assuming illness in the first place, but that doesn’t mean they are known. Nor does it mean they will be found by good hearted people thinking they MUST be there.
The main reason we let people alone even if they are acting a bit off, is that WE like to be left alone and return the favor. As long as they don’t bug us too badly we leave them to themselves to be what they insist on being.
David for truth
our prisons and jails are full of people just like this guy. it starts out with a mental problem that everyone ignores or puts up with either because we dont care or we dont have the time or the resources to help these folks. at any rate, it just progresses and then before you know it they are grown adults with full blown drug and alcohol addictions. no one says “hey, you know when i grow up, i want to be an addict and act like a whackadoodle and rob pharmacies in my bathrobe.” no one says that. it happens because there was no help for that person way back when. we as a society have to wake up and decide to put our precious time and resources into mental health care from childhood on. at this time i dont see this guy getting any compassion from anyone. the real insanity is that the best we can do for folks like him is send him to jail and dont let him out.
You people do not know his situation-you just read whats in black and white-and it becomes the Gospel truth. I am not defending nor condemning. Just believe that he has more going on then just some crack head thief, and just maybe the truth will come out and he will get the compassion he deserves, and the other people involved will take responsibility for their part.
And they know who they are. . . .
Very scary to think this guy is out there looking for his next victim and the next place to rob. Please, be on the lookout for him and turn him in. Hopefully, the judge will decide to keep him in jail when he is located.
When all this stuff went down, I told you people that he was no-good. And some of his relatives give me the blues about he had changed. I’ll say it again, he is just carrying on a “Family Tradition”. You would think, a person could or would change to make his life better, but somethings just stay the same.
Roll Tide Roll
Two words… habitual offender. Dontcha think ?
Well there is a big shock did anyone really think he would appear.
This guy must have connections they just keep letting him out.
He must have realatives or friends who are on the force, county,
or have some kind of clout……
So much for public safety
Remember all of the judges you are ask during elections to retain or not—that’s who lets these crazy people out. Try keeping that in mind next election.
This guy is a moron. Who was foolish enough
to risk their money posting his bail. They just
lost their money.
I’ll bet his next move will be worth watching!
you get no bond and 20 years for marijuana, but go out dressed like a lunatic, hold a gun to someone’s face and you get a chance to run…CRAZY, I SAY!!
I cant believe he was out on bond to begin with. Now we have a a guy on the run who is capable of all kinds of stuff . Why is it they put the crazies back on the street and keep the ones that should not be locked in jail… ?
They should have NEVER let him out after the robbery…Now we AGAIN have a LOONEY loose in Molino! if he’s not @ his house..I bet he is @ 1 of the motels on Highway 29..
Forest Gump said it best “Stupid is is stupid does”.