Crime Archive

A 70-year-old Gulf Breeze woman faces multiple charges after allegedly intentionally ramming into cars on U.S. Highway 98, causing multiple accidents and driving away.

She was eventually caught in Panama City after driving into the side of a moving train. She told authorities she was attempting to get to a space shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral and that she was going to the moon.

A 26-year-old Navarre woman was charged with battery for her role in a June 20 fight with her live-in boyfriend. According to her Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office arrest report, the couple started fighting around noon when he decided she’d been drinking too much and took away her bottle of liquor. She responded by tackling him, biting him and scratching him. A few hours later, she snatched away his pack of cigarettes, the report said.

An argument between a couple in the garage of their Navarre Beach home escalated to violence when the 34-year-old man poked his live-in girlfriend in one eye and flicked her in the other, according to his Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

A 43-year-old Navarre man faces multiple felony charges after beating his girlfriend, threatening her with a machete and keeping her phone so she couldn’t call for help.

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A passenger in a car that was pulled over because the driver failed to dim his bright lights May 31 was arrested on charges of resisting an officer, possession of cocaine, possession of drug equipment and destroying evidence after she tried to eat the cocaine.

A 36-year-old man who tried to swim away from Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office deputies was captured when the officers commandeered a pontoon boat and took him into custody in the middle of the Santa Rosa Sound.

A woman being picked up on a misdemeanor warrant earned herself two additional charges – one of them a felony – when she made threats against the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office deputy who served the warrant.

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In a county that grew by more than 5,000 residents, the total crime index for Santa Rosa decreased by just over 8%, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement 2020 Annual Uniform Crime Report.