Santa Rosa County deputies responded to a shooting Sunday afternoon shortly after noon on Quail Roost Drive off of Panhandle Trail in Navarre. According to a report released by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer, Rich Aloy, the two men involved were father and son.
Holley resident and Hurlburt Field Intelligence Squadron member Douglas J. Plate, age 53, pled guilty Monday to receipt, possession, and access with intent to view child pornography. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida ahead of the May 9 trial date that was set.
Jackie Ellen Passmore, 22, of Milton was arrested on May 6 for homicide – negligent manslaughter when her mother, Karen Passmore passed away. Deputies say the death was caused by the culpable negligence of her daughter.
A Milton woman was described as being in a coma and unresponsive at a local hospital early Friday morning following an attack by her former boyfriend. At press time, Navarre Press was unable to update her current condition.
Christopher Jason Traffanstead from Gulf Breeze, 39, who the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office was looking for on an active warrant, turned himself in to the Santa Rosa County Jail on Thursday, April 7.
The State Attorney’s Office of William Eddins for the First Judicial Court announced that Christopher Lee Cox was sentenced to 25 years in state prison with a 15-year minimum mandatory sentence and fined $250,000. Cox was convicted by a Santa Rosa County jury on March 9 for trafficking in methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Neighbors called the police on a man who was seen out in front of his residence on Bay Club Drive wearing a woman’s bra, panties and pink bathrobe. On March 15, two neighbors both reported Mark Baringer for exposing himself while standing on his lawn. Baringer asked one of the neighbors if he was calling the police and then retreated into his house.
A two-year joint narcotics operation dubbed “Operation Cagney & Lazer” in south Okaloosa County has nabbed at least 17 individuals and additional arrests are pending. One of the 17 arrested was a Navarre man, 54-year-old Eugene Klamer of Paloma Street. He has been charged with conspiracy to possess a controlled substance (cocaine) and illegal use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.
