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Man Charged With DCF Bomb Threat
October 6, 2014
A bomb threat Monday afternoon landed a man behind bars.
About 1 p.m., Escambia County Sheriff’s dispatchers received a call of a bomb threat made at the Department of Children & Families building near the intersection of Brent Lane and Palafox Street.
As they responded to the call, deputies observed a man fitting the suspect’s description and apprehended him without incident. The suspect was positively identified as 29-year old Don Peckens.
He was charged with making a bomb threat and disorderly conduct and was booked into the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $16,00o.
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6 Responses to “Man Charged With DCF Bomb Threat”
DCF is as corrupt as it can be. The statement that they only harrass bad parents is just ignorant…obviously you have never had any negative experiences with this money sucking organization where most of the workers dont really give a rip about children. The few good case workers they have are overloaded with cases. The judges and prosecutors for DCF are the most corrupt of all. They put obviously abused children right back in the same hell hole…and take kids away from good families. Happens all the time. Do your research and you will see. No one can ever win against this organization because there is no accountability for DCF. I am not saying its okay to send bomb threats. But dont throw this guy under the bus because no one knows the whole story.
@Olivia Thank you!
PtIt was dcf not cps. He was mad cause he didnt unstand how to do the online
Trixie: Jaleen is not ignorant. DCF does not handle welfare they handle child welfare. Big difference! The only reason DCF would be involved with a family is it they had an abuse report called into a hotline. Then if the hotline feels it meets required standards DCF gets the report to investigate. Next step would be if DCF verifies child abuse they then pass the case to Families First Network to work with the family. So you are right about one thing: not bad people. They are bad parents. Next thing is if DCF took his kids they had a good reason. They don’t take kids for fun. In order to remove kids there are certain measurements put into place by the state NOT DCF. Again bad parents!
@Jaleen… Can you be any more ignorant? Do you honestly only bad people deal with DCF? Are only bad people on food stamps? Medicaid? I bet this while issue was taken out of context. I would wager that Dcf took his kids or threatened to take them and he threatened them right back. There is ALWAYS another side to the story!
This is sad because you know he thinks it’s their fault he is having trouble. If he would just put his effort into being a better person then he wouldn’t even be dealing with DCF.