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Bill Targets Criminals Who Cross County Lines
December 17, 2013
Local criminals that cross county lines to commit certain felony offenses could find themselves facing an additional felony charge.
A bill filed Monday would make it a felony offense to cross county lines to commit crimes such as sexual battery, robbery, burglary, kidnapping or trafficking in controlled substances.
House Justice Appropriations Chairman Charles McBurney, R-Jacksonville, proposed the measure which would make it a third-degree felony to cross county lines to commit a variety of types of felony offenses. The bill would apply when crimes are committed in counties other than where the perpetrators live. If approved during the spring legislative session, the measure would take effect October 1 of next year.
Pictured: Highway 4 entering Escambia County across the Escambia River from Santa Rosa County. File photo.
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4 Responses to “Bill Targets Criminals Who Cross County Lines”
Why stop there?
How about across city district lines, voting precinct lines, city lines, white pavement lines, yellow pavement lines, property lines, rivers, pipelines and on and on.
That way we can pay more taxes to house the new felons and pay for new jails.
You know who gets the fat contracts to build those facilities right?
Those that fund the legislators campaigns.
That seems like a very bizarre law to write? The only reason I could see for writing that law, is so that you can give a criminal additional charges to increase the amount of time they would serve so Privately Owned Prison’s can keep their numbers up along with the amount of Tax Money they get for their “For Profit” prisons for management and shareholders.
You criminals need to stay in your own County. Sounds like the MAFIA.
That’s what we need. A new law to make it illegal to do things that are already illegal.