After reporting an attempted kidnapping on Navarre Beach, Navarre resident Naomi Herrera was arrested June 25 for providing a false statement to law enforcement.
For the first time in Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office history, a drug dealer was charged and convicted for having a role in the death of someone who overdosed on heroin.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, Jason Linwood Floyd, Jr., age 20 of Milton, was driving his Ford F-150 south in the outside lane of Pensacola Beach Road (SR 399) around 7:15 p.m. Saturday and was approaching Quietwater Beach Road.
A man with a stockpile of firearms was arrested in Navarre and charged with aggravated stalking June 18 after allegedly sending multiple threats of violence to a law enforcement officer and his family.
Santa Rosa Correctional Institution inmate Craig T. Pope, 29, faces a sentence of up to life in prison after he threatened to blow up a Tampa courthouse and deploy a biological weapon.
Two south Santa Rosa residents pleaded guilty this week and face up to 20 years in prison for fraud involving helicopter maintenance and inspections for Hurlburt Field.
