“Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop” is a fairly familiar quote, and if it is true, then too many people with idle hands are visiting Navarre Beach under the cover of darkness.
Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) arrested two Jacksonville-area teenagers July 25 on charges of torturing a gopher tortoise.
Brandon Aydelott, the Gulf Breeze teen accused of the brutal Christmas Eve 2013 murder of his mom, Holley-Navarre Middle School teacher Sharon Aydelott, will undergo further mental evaluation before a decision is made regarding his competency to stand trial.
A man that authorities suspect might be involved in a double homicide in Milton and a murder in Panama City was apprehended by authorities in Troy, Alabama. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office reported July 22 that 41-year-old Derrick Ray Thompson was arrested without incident.
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office reports that two suspects are in custody in connection with a series of burglaries that occurred Jan. 14 throughout Santa Rosa County, including Navarre.
A Santa Rosa County man was convicted July 10 of having sex with several teenage girls after giving them alcohol to get them drunk during a weekend camping trip to Chumuckla in February 2013.
A Navarre man remains in the Santa Rosa County Jail on charges stemming from an alleged June 16 incident altercation in which he had to be forcibly detained by a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputy. According to court records, 47-year-old Jerry Leion Barber faces felony charges of battery and obstructing justice and two misdemeanor charges of resisting an officer and probation violation.
