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Prosecutor Fired
10/06/08 - 03:01 PM
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click for larger image Bay County, Fla:

Panama City Police Capt. Robert Colbert says they are investigating a hit and run crash to see if any charges will be filed against Rick Albritton.

Colbert says just after midnight on September 27th they received a call about a hit and run at the Corner Pocket on Harrison Avenue in Downtown Panama City. He says initially there were no witnesses or vehicle information. Officers collected a piece of the suspect vehicle at the scene.

Just minutes later a separate call came in to the Panama City Police Department about a man who was slumped over the steering wheel sitting stationary in the drive thru of Taco Bell on 23rd Street. Colbert says the driver of the white GMC Yukon was Rick Albritton and he was the only person in the SUV.  Officers allowed Albritton to call for a ride rather than charging him with DUI. He left his vehicle at Taco Bell.

A couple of hours later the Sergeant working the Taco Bell case received a report about the hit and run and contacted the officer working that case. Albritton’s vehicle was identified as the suspect vehicle.

Colbert says officers are afforded the right to make such decisions but the case is under review and the office will be looking at their procedures. The accident was also reassigned to the traffic Sergeant.

Albritton was fired by the State Attorney’s Office Monday.

According to the Florida Bar website, Albritton was admitted to the Bar in July.  He is listed in good standing and eligible to practice.

State Attorney Steve Meadows has issued the following statement:
“As of today, October 6th, Rick Albritton’s employment with the State Attorney’s Office has been terminated.
“We will continue to demand the highest professional and ethical standards of our employees. The public should expect no less.”

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User Comments

Twice in the last week there have been “safety checkpoints” on Magnolia, just before Baypoint.  Police officers stopping law abiding folks like me trying to get to work on time, then writing citations for minor infractions. Yet a public official can get away with driving while VERY intoxicated? I say do away with the checkpoints and concentrate on the real offenders

Posted by  on  10/08  at  12:57 PM

This “Rick” guy is a snake!  It seems that this guy can commit adultery and DUI and get away with it!! With only being charged with leaving the scene??? What other stuff is this guy doing that we don’t know about???  I sure don’t want this guy working as my defense attorney. I think the silver spoon needs to be taken out of his mouth, if this was anyone of us, we would be thrown to the wolves!

Posted by  on  10/08  at  11:15 AM

I also agree that the police officer who failed to arrest and charge Mr. Albritton should be held accountable because your average person would have (100%) been arrested and taken to jail. I
wonder about our police department @ times. Pick and choose who should be arrested.

Posted by  on  10/07  at  07:15 AM

The Prosecutor is Richard Henry Albritton III, he has a criminal history that indicates a previous DUI leaving the scene of an accident with bodily harm. In that case file the birth dates on the DUI ticket indicate he was born in 1917.

All charges were dropped up front and “All” files regarding Albritton have been destroyed by Clerk of Court Harold Bazzel.

There are grand theft and bad check charges on the computer against him. I requested these records several weeks ago when Steve Meadows hired him to take me out of the Clerk of Circuit Court race and send me to prison for disorderly conduct after I requested public records connected to the Boot Camp Death case and the murder of Earl Colvin Jr. covered up in Feb. 2006 by Dr. Seibert. 

After 2 years, 3 Judges and 4 prosecutors I hope Steve Meadows understands I will prevail and send his butt to prison along with his criminal prosecutors and corrupt politicians who love that late night area of Harrison Ave.

Posted by JCaylor  on  10/06  at  07:57 PM

the avagre citizen would be in jail with out bond
What will the juges son get a swat on the hand or less.STOP HIDING BHIND POLITIC AND MONEY. Albritton Be a man fess up to your crime

Posted by  on  10/06  at  07:03 PM

If ANY ONE of us just common folk were found so drunk that we were slump over the wheel at Taco Bell would have been scooped up immediately without question. I am sick and tired of this good-ole-boy crap that officials in this town pull all the time. Maybe if he was a homeless person just minding his own business not hurting anyone, then the cops could have arrested him, and beat him up down at the jail.

Posted by  on  10/06  at  06:50 PM

The officer should be fired slso for leting a state employe off with a crime everyone else is charged with
Meadows is trying to look good at election time

Posted by  on  10/06  at  04:03 PM
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