Legacy Post Disclaimer
This is a #Legacy post imported from The Apalachicola Time’s previous platform. If you’re experiencing issues with this article, please email us at [email protected].
Three decades later, a fugitive faces justice
More than three decades after he was charged with sexual assault of a child, Samuel Huston Cannon is back home.
Cannon was transported by U.S. Marshals Sept. 7 from Albany Georgia to the county jail, where he was held without bond on two counts of sexual assault to a victim under 12 years old.
Cannon, 36 at the time, was accused by the victim’s mother of committing sexual battery on two occasions in December 1990, while he living in Eastpoint. A later interview by child protection team investigators in Bay County had concluded that they “believe that the sexual batteries did happen,” specifically that Cannon had inserted his fingers into the individual’s private parts.
But Cannon has been on the run ever since, and county investigators this year issued a warrant for his arrest. He was transferred to the Franklin County Jail after serving his time in another state for a different crime.
The sheriff’s office said some of Cannon’s major prior arrests include but are not limited to rape, two counts of trafficking children, and sexual assault.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.