Thelma Denise Lowery, the Milton day care owner accused in the death of 16-month-old Brodie Michael Kent, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge on Nov. 4.
A search of a Milton home located on Hamilton Bridge Road produced over 100 grams of methamphetamine oil as well as 1 gram of “finished product” according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office press release.
A woman caring for a 15-month-old in her home day care was charged with aggravated child abuse, a first-degree felony, after the toddler ended up in the Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola with traumatic injuries Oct. 24.
Four juvenile female runaways from Texas were arrested by Santa Rosa County deputies Sunday morning after crashing a stolen car on Navarre Beach Causeway. There were no injuries. The oldest runaway was 14 years old.
Keanu Medina, the 19-year-old Navarre man who police said crashed his Chevrolet Tahoe into a Jeep Liberty, killing the driver, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of DUI manslaughter.
Derrick Ray Thompson, 42, of the 5700 block of Star Lane in Panama City, was arraigned Monday in the murders of 60-year-old Steven Zackowski and 59-year-old Debra Zackowski of Milton.
First Judicial Circuit Judge John Miller has sentenced 35-year-old John David Thomas Jr., of Alvin, Texas, to serve the remainder of his natural life in prison for the molestation of an 8-year-old Gulf Breeze girl.
