{"id":202599,"date":"2026-03-23T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:24:09","slug":"milton-prison-smuggler-sentenced-as-florida-cracks-down-on-career-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202599\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton prison smuggler sentenced as Florida cracks down on career criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/florida-investing-374m-pay-raises-174844119.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Santa Rosa County Correctional Institution;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Santa Rosa County Correctional Institution&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Rosa County Correctional Institution<\/a> near Milton Monday to tout a statewide crackdown on career criminals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Highlighted at the press conference was an 81-year sentence recently handed down to Mario Crawford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crawford was busted for using a drone to deliver items that included drugs, razors and cellphones to inmates behind bars at the Santa Rosa prison.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was convicted of the offenses March 12 in Escambia County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lt. Gov. Jay Collins visits Milton: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/florida-investing-374m-pay-raises-174844119.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida may invest $374M into pay raises for correctional officers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Florida may invest $374M into pay raises for correctional officers&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida may invest $374M into pay raises for correctional officers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crawford had been convicted of 41 previous crimes, Uthmeier told those gathered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are committed to prosecuting these people to the fullest extent of the law,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to throw the book at you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnj.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/03\/23\/florida-attorney-general-general-james-uthmeier-visits-milton-prison\/89285737007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Attorney General General James Uthmeier visits Milton prison;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Florida Attorney General General James Uthmeier visits Milton prison&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Florida Attorney General General James Uthmeier visits Milton prison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier visited the Santa Rosa County Correctional Institution near Milton Monday to tout a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93311,93314,28,7912,30,29,4260,5187,93312,5530,93313],"class_list":["post-202599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-career-criminals","tag-crawford","tag-florida","tag-florida-attorney-general","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-jay-collins","tag-mario-crawford","tag-press-conference","tag-santa-rosa-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}