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.
When officers searched a Hillview Court home in early October, they found a grocery list and a related recipe. But the list wasn’t for Saturday errands, and the recipe wasn’t for apple pie. Instead, it was an outline of ingredients and directions to produce methamphetamines.
70-year-old Paul Frank Small, Jr. has been found guilty by a Santa Rosa County jury of two counts of sexual battery upon a child less than 12 years of age, lewd or lascivious molestation and lewd or lascivious exhibition in the presence of a child. Small was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences with an additional 15 year sentence.
A local carjacker has been sentenced to 20 years minimum mandatory in a state prison. 19 year old Brianna Nicole Armour used the social media website “tagged.com” to lure three victims into meeting her at which point she either stole or attempted to steal their car each time.
A vehicle theft ring that targeted victims along Hwy 98 in Navarre and Gulf Breeze has been stopped. A total of five suspects were arrested and all six vehicles including a Chevy Tahoe and a Z71 have been recovered.
