Crime Archive

Dr. Elaine Sharp, the doctor at the center of an alleged pill mill operation in Gulf Breeze, is behind bars. Sharp, 72, is being held in Escambia County Jail on no bond after she was booked into jail Thursday, Oct. 3, just after 1 p.m. No charge was given on the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office’s Jail view website due to it being for an out-of-county warrant. According to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, Sharp is being charged with two counts of homicide.

Eight men were arrested by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office after a multi-agency internet chat operation where they agreed to meet an underage individual for sex, according to Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson. All eight individuals thought they were meeting a 14-year-old female and instead ended up being arrested by a sheriff’s deputy, […]

After a decade in the custody of Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Brandon Aydelott, 28, is heading to a “step down” facility per a judge’s order. He has been in the State Hospital following his killing of Sharon Aydelott, his mother, on Christmas Eve 2013. On Thursday, Aug. 15, Aydelott appeared in court for the first time since March 26. The court proceeding was part of the reopening of Aydelott’s case, a process which began in 2022. The case was reopened to see about moving Aydelott from the State Hospital to a restrictive mental health treatment facility known as the Apalachee Center, located in Quincy.

A member of a motorcycle club who attacked a Navarre man at Stripes Pub & Grill in 2021 has been found guilty of aggravated battery on a victim 65 years of age or older with great bodily harm and battery. Brian Scott Sanders will be sentenced Sept. 5, in Judge Clifton Drake’s courtroom.

A Hurlburt Field airman, who served as commander of the 19th Special Operations Squadron, was arrested on June 23 for allegedly choking his wife and a child.

Nearly seven months after her death, an arrest has been made in the Hillary Brown case.

Dr. Benjamin Brown, 41, of Restore Plastic Surgery, was arrested and charged with second degree felony homicide; manslaughter by culpable negligence after the death of his wife during a November 2023 procedure which he performed. The arrest was June 17.

A Hurlburt Field airman, who served as commander of the 19th Special Operations Squadron, was arrested on June 23 for allegedly choking his wife and a child.

An alleged shooting on Woodlawn Beach Road led to the arrest of two people, Robert Raymond Barnes and Angela Lynn Pelopida.

On March 19, 2023, Colby Vinson, 24, was murdered at his Cayo Grande apartment in Navarre. Little over a year later, the man suspected of killing him has been handed a life sentence.

A man recently released from prison has been charged with kidnapping the same victim again. A neighbor who called 911 may have saved the victim’s life.