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Cantonment Man With Violent Criminal History Charged With Battery Of His Uncle With A Shovel
March 7, 2025
A Cantonment man has been charged with hitting his uncle with a shovel during an argument.
Eric Vonchie Milton, 50, was charged with felony battery on a person 65 or older.
At a local emergency room, the 65-year-old victim told the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office that Milton, his nephew, accused him of saying “things” about him in a phone call to a third party before Milton hit the victim with a shovel.
The victim sought treatment for lacerations and a possible broken arm.
According to the ECSO, Milton has “an extensive violent criminal history” including aggravated battery, escape, robbery with a deadly weapon, grand theft of motor vehicle and numerous other charges.
He remained in the Escambia County Jail Friday morning without bond.
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10 Responses to “Cantonment Man With Violent Criminal History Charged With Battery Of His Uncle With A Shovel”
If this individual has a rap sheet with aggravated battery, escape, robbery with a deadly weapon, grand theft of motor vehicle and numerous other charges, please tell me why he was not incarcerated??
Chris,
Good on you my man. People can change their destination and course of life if they want to.
The key is the desire to want to go a different route in life. Yes there will be tough times but making the right choice through it will determine your out come.
Keep up the good work. Excuses are plentiful determination takes effort but always for the better.
Well, I have an extensive violent criminal history. I was arrested two months before my 16th birthday in March 1994 and released in September 2003. My father had passed the previous January. I had never before seen a cellular phone. Heck, if you had a home computer you were somebody. The system had not prepared me for the changes in technology or the world. How to drive a car, fill out a job application, write a check, etc. I fact, from 1999 until my release, I was held in solitary confinement with only an hour per week outside in a dog kennel scaled up for humans. Yet I deserved every bit of it. I must say that I faced some pretty adverse conditions that didn’t favor my chances of making it in society. However, I did make it. It’s all based upon your attitude and how you choose to respond to things. It pains me to hear people with criminal history make excuses as to why they can’t do this or that. To go further, I have held several jobs in different fields and all of them paid me at least twice what the areas male median salary is. Perhaps the excuses are just laziness.
@JJ you are So right! I told my husband a few months ago that it would be nice to use Old Baptist for an extension to our jail since it seems there isn’t enough room there. Old Baptist is just sitting there anyway
Make a good example out of this one !!let’s see what they do !!!’
These kind of people who are angry, evil and non-conforming to our laws need to be locked up in Chattahoochee. When that place starts getting full, build another one! Big mistake in the past closing of Mental Health Centers.
@DianeLowery so sorry your family is going through such a horrible ordeal. If you don’t already have a restraining order on your nephew, get one asap. Make sure you all have the means to protect yourselves otherwise and finally, pray for protection. I believe the Court System will eventually be forced to get tougher on crime but as citizens, we can’t give up the fight for getting that done. God bless you as He tells us not to fear, He is with us.
Wonder how hard the old baptist hospital could be made into a non violent jail. Like, throw suspended license drivers in(30-300 days) Drivers with no insurance(10-30days) ad a few years if an accident is involved. Drug related could be transferred from our new county jail.
Converting hospital might be cheaper. Get the car insurance companies to help pay the remodel . Companies are paying $MILLIONS ON UNINSURED AS IT IS.
My nephew, who also has an extensive violent record, was just set free two months early for battery on my 90 year old mother. Less than a week out and he is again harassing my mother daily on her phone and has threatened to kill my brother. Law Enforcement does an excellent job, but our judicial system and department of corrections fail society.
Funny how there are so many people out there walking around free with “an extensive violent criminal history”. What are jails for?