Two Charged In Multiple Cantonment, Gonzalez Vehicle Burglaries

June 27, 2022

Two Cantonment men have been charged in connection with  multiple vehicle burglaries recently in Cantonment and Gonzalez.

Anthony Jared Norman (pictured left), 20, and Mason Cole Zimmerman, 18, were charged with multiple counts including burglary of an occupied dwelling, burglary of a conveyance, petit theft, grand theft of a firearm and credit card fraud.

Two vehicles were unlocked inside a garage, and the resident forgot to close the garage door at their home on Bucyrus Lane off Chemstrand Road, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. The resident discovered several items missing from one vehicle, including a credit card.

The card was reported stolen, and a transaction at the Valero station in the 200 block of South Highway 29 was declined.

Surveillance video from the store showed a red four-door car that matched a car seen in other surveillance video from several vehicle burglaries that occurred in he area, an ECSO report states.

Two individuals, later identified as Norman and Zimmerman, entered the store wearing clothing that was later recovered, investigators said. They attempted multiple credit card transactions, some of which were successful.

Deputies said Zimmerman was later located at his girlfriend’s residence on Condor Drive, and several items reported stolen in several vehicle burglaries were recovered in the room. The girlfriend, who was not charged, told deputies that Zimmerman brough the items to her room after Zimmerman was out with an individual known as “AJ” or “Anthony”.

Clothing items matching that seen in surveillance videos from the vehicle burglaries and the Valero station were recovered from Norman’s residence on Virecent Road.

Zimmerman also had an outstanding warrant for two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly pointing a gun at two individuals in a vehicle and threatening them  on Camaree Place off East 10 Mile Road last April.

Norman remained in the Escambia County Jail Monday with bond set at $41,000, while Zimmerman was jailed with  bond set at $98,000.

Comments

13 Responses to “Two Charged In Multiple Cantonment, Gonzalez Vehicle Burglaries”

  1. Sedition on July 1st, 2022 12:45 pm

    You’re lucky the cops got you…at least you’ll be alive in prison for the next several years.
    If you get caught by someone in the public arena…well, it may not end that well for you next time.

  2. TK on June 29th, 2022 3:58 pm

    what would in the world he be smiling about?

  3. Sharon on June 28th, 2022 11:26 pm

    I also believe this looks like the same car and two guys that came to our neighborhood Breaking in cars.
    They were using some kind of electronic Device to unlock my neighbors car.
    My neighbor got an alert on his ring camera around about 3am.
    He happened to be up getting ready for work and caught the guys in the act of breaking into his car.
    My neighbor came out of his house with his _ _ _ and scared them off.

    “It was two guys in a Burgundy or red 4 door mid size car”

    Please stay safe everyone

  4. Tom on June 27th, 2022 5:19 pm

    Wish I had away of exposing the perspn that stole from me. I employed this guy and without notice he quit. When he quit he took multiple tools, cordless tools with him. I pray for this guy. He will be delt with sooner or later. He will burn in hell over just a few items.

  5. David Huie Green on June 27th, 2022 4:43 pm

    REGARDING:
    “David you wrote all of that because somebody joked about cutting their hands off ?”

    I wrote it because someone expressed the desire.

    I can see killing a thief, not maiming one, though,

    David for appropriate responses

  6. Don cooper on June 27th, 2022 3:33 pm

    David you wrote all of that because somebody joked about cutting their hands off ?

  7. NPC on June 27th, 2022 1:41 pm

    Their bonds are as much or more than the 14 time convicted felon who is responsible for the life of a one year old being taken. The problem is not the system but those in charge of running the system

  8. David Huie Green on June 27th, 2022 1:28 pm

    REGARDING:
    “if they are proven guilty cut their hands off you’ll break this mess up”

    Reduce it anyway. Still, I don’t favor it even though it is the Islamic way and you may swing their way.

    There is the Constitutional prohibition to consider: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

    You would have to amend The Constitution to remove that from The Bill of Rights.

    And there is the fact that we would wind up having to feed the scum who could no longer work. Bad enough to feed him while in prison. (#8)

    And there is the stigma faced by others who have lost their hands, that everyone would assume they were thieves.

    And would you REALLY want to have people around who were encouraged to mutilate living people?
    “What does your Daddy do for a living.”
    “He chops off people’s hands.”
    “Uhhh, never mind about that date, I have something else to do, somewhere else to be. And please don’t call me again.”

    How about instead, confiscating all his possessions and giving them to the sheriff and placing a 10 percent surcharge on his taxes for the rest of his life, so that he would think about it every time he considered what it cost him this year?

    Not only that, but he would gripe to everyone he knew about the injustice of it. Those who heard would think, “Sure glad I don’t have to pay an extra ten percent on MY taxes.”

    David for taxing criminals not chopping them

  9. Derek on June 27th, 2022 10:31 am

    The car in the above photo looks similar to the one my ring camera captured when it recorded someone trying to open my car door.

  10. Johnny Johnson on June 27th, 2022 9:45 am

    I like the way you think Zane.I hate a thief

  11. Susie on June 27th, 2022 9:45 am

    Time’s up, Squirts. It was only a matter of time that the ECSO caught up with you. Now you’ve disappointed your family/friends. How’s thug life? Big mistake!

  12. SueB on June 27th, 2022 8:30 am

    These thugs need to be put away for awhile.

  13. Kane on June 27th, 2022 3:29 am

    Let them have their day in court and if they are proven guilty cut their hands off you’ll break this mess up