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.
Christopher B. Cave, 45, a family medicine physician with White Wilson in Navarre was arrested at 3:48 a.m. Sunday morning on charges of less than 20 grams of marijuana, and drug equipment possession as well as an alleged battery charge. Cave was released after posting bond just before 9 a.m. the same morning.
For the second time in five months, Lauren Wyatt West, a Holley- Navarre Middle School teacher, was arrested on a first-degree misdemeanor charge of battery Sept. 5.
Deputies were called to a Gulf Breeze residence in Sterling Point Aug. 26, when a neighbor called saying she found Denise Hanein lying in her yard, saying Bryan Miller had attacked her. Hanein was the landlord and explained the altercation ensued after her renter Bryan Miller, age 27, turned the air conditioning up. She asked him to turn it down as she couldn’t afford to pay for the increased utility bills. A physical tussle occurred when he grabbed her wrist after she told him to move out. He refused to leave until he received his $700 deposit back, which she said she refused to do because he had not paid for utilities. She was able to break free and went to her bedroom to call 911 where Miller then pushed her down on the bed, took her cell phone and left.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit announced the convictions of two Escambia County Assisted Living Facility employees for abuse and neglect. According to the investigation, Belie Brock Williams, 73, former Administrator for Kipling Manor, refused psychological nursing caregivers entrance to the facility. Due to this refusal, some residents did not receive care for approximately two to three weeks. Adrienne Taylor, 44, former assistant administrator of Kipling Manor, failed to perform as a caregiver by not protecting the residents from abuse and not assuring the residents received the prescribed nursing services.
