Cantonment Woman Charged In Walnut Hill ‘Honor System’ Farmer Burglary

February 10, 2022

A Cantonment woman has been charged with the November 2021 burglary of a Walnut Hill “honor system” farmer on November 29, 2021.

Kayla Shea Caperton, 28, was charged with burglary, criminal mischief and petit theft. She remained in the Escambia County Jail Thursday morning with bond set at $21,000.

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said Caperton and an unidentified suspect vandalized a vending machine valued at $7,000 and stole items worth $124, including ice from an ice machine, corn that was being sold on the honor system, and a 100 quart cooler.

The entire incident was caught on video, showing the suspects arriving in a SUV later identified as Caperton’s 2004 Nissan Xterra.

After the story and video were published on NorthEscambia.com, investigators received numerous calls from persons identifying the vehicle as belonging to Caperton.

Deputies obtained her phone number, and she agreed to meet in a parking lot at Nine Mile Road and Pine Forest Road. According to an arrest report, she immediately acknowledged that she received phone calls that her vehicle was in the news story. Caperton told the investigator that she had parked her car at the Dollar General on South County Road 97 in Cantonment and then rode around with a friend during the time of the burglary. She stated that someone must have stolen her vehicle from the Dollar General and returned it to the same spot.

Caperton stated she was the only person with a key to the vehicle, and it was determined that the vehicle was never parked at the Dollar General overnight, the arrest report states.

During the late November 2021 incident, two people wearing ski masks spent about 11 minutes attempting to break into a drink vending machine outside Eicher Farms on South Highway 99 in Walnut Hill. Surveillance video from the incident is below.

They arrived about 2:35 a.m. Monday in a SUV. The vehicle’s headlights were off as they pulled behind the barn and went to work on the vending machine with a crowbar. At one point, the only cash in the machine fell to the ground, unnoticed by the duo as they continued their efforts. Eicher said there was only $2 or $3 in the machine, but thousands of dollars in damage was done.

After a lengthy battle with the vending machine, the suspects then took several bags of ice, the cooler and several bags of corn from the business that sells deer corn, peanuts and other products on the honor system.

“It’s extremely tough in today’s economy when people are stealing from you,” Eicher told NorthEscambia.com following the theft. “It makes it especially tough. I don’t know why they want to come out and target this place for a few dollars and they don’t even see when the money hits the ground.”

Three other individuals were charged with theft for stealing bags of deer corn, peanuts and ear corn from the same farm just days before.

Anyone with information on the burglary is asked to call the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office at (850) 436-9620 or Crime Stoppers at (850) 433-STOP.

NorthEscambia.com screen grabs and photos, click to enlarge.

Comments

19 Responses to “Cantonment Woman Charged In Walnut Hill ‘Honor System’ Farmer Burglary”

  1. J K on February 13th, 2022 7:04 am

    @former resident…I’m right there with you! Hard to believe she could beam a large smile for her mug shot! I’m raising my brows and shaking my head at such a display of no remorse.

  2. Eric m on February 11th, 2022 11:35 am

    Too bad she didn’t make contact with a live wire while destroying that vending machine. Maybe the 120 volt shock would have knocked some sense in to her under developed brain

  3. The Exterminator on February 11th, 2022 8:17 am

    The corn is like cheese on a rat trap. The rats gotta get that cheese even though there rat friends keep getting popped.

  4. Breambuster on February 11th, 2022 7:27 am

    Guess this fine can be added to the $288.00 she owes Escambia Clerk for Dec 2021 pot charge..

  5. Howie on February 10th, 2022 10:39 pm

    @ concerned – Same at my house / 9 cameras, motion alarms that beep loudly, motion sensor flood lights and a Doberman that won’t let go. I’m located near Ransom School and a thief can be my guest anytime. You may come here, but leaving is a different story.

    Caperton is an idiot if she thinks ANYONE would believe that story on her SUV at the Dollar General. The photo shown above is her mug shot and remains in jail as of tonight.

  6. Jim on February 10th, 2022 3:50 pm

    You big DUMMY! WAS IT WORTH IT?!

  7. Amused on February 10th, 2022 10:53 am

    What a shame. Look at that smirk. The youth today have no sense of remorse or responsibility. This woman has several children. I feel for the children. They will follow in her foot steps as well. She has a sister just like her. They are both thieves! The children suffer in the end. I feel for the parents. I am sure her parents are ashamed of both girls! So sad!

  8. ELW on February 10th, 2022 9:54 am

    What a shame. If she has children, they also will have to live with her stupidity and dishonesty. Drug totally change people from the normal. Lot of experience here.

  9. Former resident on February 10th, 2022 9:53 am

    Is she smiling in her mug shot? Seriously? No words, I honestly have no words…..

  10. concerned on February 10th, 2022 9:49 am

    yes camaras are everywhere I have 10 in and around my home I also have motion sensors that beep very load when you cross them and have motion security lights that will light you up after dark and the best part is the beware of dog signs every where so who comes here at night will be here at daylight the bulldog will not let loose of you. I pray for some folks.

  11. @Hawk (Century Resident) on February 10th, 2022 9:43 am

    @Hawk, a Century resident here, I have lived in Century my entire life and we used to never have our doors locked, now we have security cameras on every corner of our house and have to have our doors locked at all times. It’s sad what this world has come to. You’d think someone from somewhere like pensacola would make a comment like this, not someone who lives in Century!!

  12. Hawk on February 10th, 2022 9:05 am

    I have been around long enough to watch this level and type of behavior, this infection, migrate from Brent to Ensley to Cantonment. I have known good people living in Century tell me of the times when you never locked yours doors. People don’t change their morality, drugs do.
    As David would say
    Hawks for drug free soaring.

  13. Susie on February 10th, 2022 8:42 am

    Very embarrassing for her that her silly alibi will be told by Deputies for years to come….and laughed at.

  14. Laura w on February 10th, 2022 7:45 am

    Someone always steals my vehicle too and does illegal things… and then returns my vehicle

  15. Lu on February 10th, 2022 7:43 am

    LOOK MAW I AM FAMOUS!…………. Famously going to Jail as a Model in a Orange Jumpsuit!

  16. Well See! on February 10th, 2022 6:11 am

    With a smirk like that we will see how long she smiles when the judge sentences her and she actually learns what jail and/or prison is like. Smug punks now-adays, causing thousand upon thousands in damage with no regard for others, or their livelihood, Cantonment has become a sad sad place.

  17. mnon on February 10th, 2022 3:24 am

    Do people not just get the fact that video cameras are everywhere now? Seriously? So she’s caught on camera with said SUV, then tells the cops an alibi that her SUV was parked at another spot with video cameras.

    Dear Criminals,

    You are being watched during your crimes. Video cameras are everywhere in 2022. Please call Col Mustard and get a clue.

    Thanks.

  18. Jeff Sikes on February 10th, 2022 2:53 am

    Well she is not very smart to make up some story like that LOL I guess she thinks police are absolutely inept without brains and cannot think for themselves. Just imagine being the investigator lookong at her face while she spews that total nonsense story LOL

    Funny part is she will probably just get probation as the courts are extremely weak on sentencing. She should get at least 5 years but will get some diversion plan where she can go out and break into everyone’s stuff again.

  19. Bill Tyler on February 10th, 2022 1:49 am

    I can’t believe these people are that stupid!!!! Are you kidding me I’d this a joke gone wrong !!! Nobody really can be this STUPID !!!!

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