Crime Archive

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting at a Fort Walton Beach apartment complex.  Jose Raymond Sanchez, a 20-year-old Fort Walton Beach man, suffered a gunshot wound to the groin on Pocahontas Drive near a dumpster outside Colony House Apartments the morning of Oct. 9.  He was transported to a Pensacola hospital for treatment.

In a release issued by State Attorney Bill Eddins, it was announced that a Santa Rosa County jury has convicted Steven Earl Kimmons of sexual battery. 

According to a press release from the Santa Rosa County Sherriff’s office, a two-month investigation stemming from narcotics intelligence received from multiple sources resulted in a search warrant being served at 6 a.m. on Oct. 8.

Stephen Troy Webb, 30, of Pace, was found guilty Oct. 8 of sexual battery upon a child less than 12 years of age and lewd or lascivious molestation.

Two employees of Tom Thumb Stores were arrested Thursday afternoon Oct. 8 as suspects in an employee-related theft over the last several weeks while employees at the store.

Felix Valle-Ulieses, 45, of Tortuga Street in Navarre, was arrested Saturday evening, Sept. 26 for lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim age 12 to 16.

A longtime veteran of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has died at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center following an early morning shooting in Shalimar.

Two men were arrested Sunday after placing two children on their kayaks at Crab Island earlier in the afternoon and refusing to give them back to their mothers.

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) requested a police assist Sept. 8 at the 3200 block of Auburn Parkway in Gulf Breeze to verify the well-being of Gina Sosnowski and her child.  Gina Sosnowski advised law enforcement and DCF that she is scared of her husband, Thomas, due to past threats he’s made to government agencies.  According to Gina, he stated in the past to DCF that he was going to dismember DCF workers if they come to his house and he will throw their body parts into his neighbor’s yard.  Thomas had padlocks put on the doors and Gina was scared he would lock her and DCF workers inside the home.

Keanu Medina, a Navarre man who crashed his Chevrolet Tahoe into a Jeep Liberty, killing the driver Gregory D. Winter of Gulf Breeze last July, has entered a guilty plea to DUI Manslaughter and DUI with Property Damage.