10 things about Pensacola, Florida’s Jared Stanga

Jared Paul Stanga is from Pensacola, Florida, United States, which is around 5 miles away from West Pensacola, Florida. Among the schools in West Pensacola is West Pensacola Elementary School.

BIOGRAPHY

Stanga is an American man with an extensive criminal history. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He lived in Dallas, Texas, USA before moving to Pensacola.
2. He worked at Thomas Home Corporation in Robertsdale, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA.
3. He is 1 year younger than Rebecca Sibbach of Pensacola.
4. In 2007, he was convicted of child neglect, which involved sexual allegations. He ultimately served time for two counts of child neglect.
5. In 2017, he spent around eight months in jail.
6. He has a daughter who was born in 2019.
7. In 2021, he was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a girl.
8. In 2022, he asked went to court and asked for a new lawyer.
9. In 2023, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
10. On August 1, 2024, he turned 34.

TIMELINE

Stanga is one year older than Amber Bonal. In 2010, she gave birth to Alyssa Bonal.

2017

• On July 18, 2017, he was arrested in Escambia County for probation violation, marijuana possession, possession of drug paraphernalia and fraudulent use or possession of personal identification.

2018

• On July 23, 2018, Sibbach took to Facebook to announce that she was in a relationship with him.

2019

• On December 16, 2019, he took to Facebook to announce that he got engaged to Sibbach.

2021

• On February 4, 2021, he took to Facebook to share a link to Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald‘s song “Fake Woke,” which was released on January 29, 2021. He wrote, “If you haven’t heard this listen to it. If you agree with him share this song.” Criticizing Dominican-Trinidadian-American rapper Belcalis Marlenis “Cardi B” Almánzar and cancel culture, the song says, “I think it’s crazy I’m the one who they labeled as controversial and Cardi B is the role model for 12-year-old girls,.”
• On April 29, 2021, he was driving a white Dodge Journey when he pulled up and spoke Spanish as he approached Alyssa, then a West Pensacola Elementary School student. She did not know him and told the incident to her mother Amber.
• At 7:02 a.m. on May 18, 2021, he sent a message to his supervisor saying he would be late. Minutes later, he was caught on camera exiting a white Dodge Journey carrying a knife while running toward Alyssa, who was playing with homemade slime with blue dye while waiting for her bus at the corner of Old Corry Field Road and Perdido Street in Pensacola. He grabbed her by the neck but she fought back and left blue dye on his arms. He ran back to his car, stopped at a Murphy Express gas station at around 7:08 a.m. and went to work at 7:45 a.m. When Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested him in the evening, there was still blue dye on his arms. He was charged with attempted kidnapping, aggravated assault and battery. 
• On May 19, 2021, he made his first appearance in court before Judge Kerra Smith. His defense attorney Robert Dees said Alyssa failed to select him definitively in a photo lineup and she initially described him as Hispanic while he is Caucasian. Smith set his bond a $1 million bond for the attempted kidnapping charge, $500,000 on the aggravated assault charge and $5,000 on the battery charge.

2022

• On October 25, 2022, he appeared in court and claimed his attorney had refused to give him and his mother access to evidence about his case and had declined a request for a bond reduction hearing.

2023

• On January 20, 2023, he pleaded no contest to attempted kidnapping, aggravated assault and battery.
• On March 8, 2023, Circuit Judge John Simon sentenced him to 15 years in the Florida Department of Corrections in Tallahassee, Florida for his first-degree felony kidnapping charge and time served for his misdemeanor battery charge.