Category: crime

This week Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office reported arresting Melvin Douglas Hawthorne, 34, of Jay for grand theft of a motor vehicle. According to reports, a deputy responded to the victim’s resid…

A Georgia man was arrested this week after the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office was called to a local hotel in Milton. Reports say witnesses described Johnny Lane Walker, 42, acting hostile towards anothe…

Thursday night, Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office (SRSO) arrested Jeffrey Denver Campbell, 49 of Gulf Breeze on one count of discharging a firearm in public, two counts shooting into a vehicle, and …

According to the Santa Rosa County Sheriffs Office, execution of a warrant for one fugitive led to two arrests. Friday, members of Special Operations executed a search warrant for fugitive Leslie Bag…

Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office (SRSO) reports two brothers were arrested Thursday and a Milton woman at Gordon Lane Road for methamphetamine production. SRSO reports Rufus John Hardy, 47, Holt, Randall …

A Gulf Breeze man was arrested Saturday in a domestic violence related charge. Donald Edward McCoy, 47, was questioned by Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office after the victim was taken to Baptist Hosp…

A Milton man was arrested Friday for sexual assault on a victim younger than 12 years old. Earl Dewayne Ritchie, 55, is being held with $500,000 bond at the Santa Rosa County Jail. Santa Rosa Sheriff…

Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jerry Leion Barber, 47, Navarre Monday and charged him with felony battery, resisting an officer, and obstructing justice (intimidating, threatening a vict…

The Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office (SRSO) said a telephone scam was reported recently.
The scam artist used the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office to target individuals in the scam to commit fraud. S…

State Attorney Bill Eddins announced Monday Lee Calvin Pardue was sentenced by Circuit Judge Marci Goodman to three consecutive life sentences followed by a total of 200 years in state prison.
Lee…