A California woman was sentenced May 14 in Pensacola to seven years in prison and ordered to pay more than $10 million in restitution for charges stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme, which included homes in Navarre, Santa Rosa Beach and Panama City.
A Milton was sentenced May 14 to three years in prison and two years probation on a charge of aggravated stalking stemming from threats he made against a school in Colorado the same day a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Spruce Street in the Midway area May 14 after a 911 caller said a resident had fired a gun inside the dwelling and had threatened to shoot her.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 32-year-old Jessie Eugene Morris and 25-year-old Amber Leard-Morris of Fort Walton Beach May 9 after deputies responded to a complaint of a man beating a dog with a piece of lumber and then holding it down by its neck with the lumber against its throat.
An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) deputy was arrested May 8 for alleged sexual activity with minor, according to a news release from the office.
A local man was arrested May 5 after attempting to break-in to a residence in the 2200 block of Lost Bottom Lane in Navarre. According to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report,
Santa Rosa County juries last week convicted two local men of child sex-related charges in separate cases. According to State Attorney William Eddins Office, 56-year-old Claude Russell Ratliff was found guilty May 9 of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation stemming from an August 2012 incident at Ratliff’s home in Milton. He is scheduled for sentencing July 8 and faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years in prison.
According to the state attorney’s office, a Fort Walton Beach man, 27-year-old Charles Lenear Colvin, Jr., was convicted May 7 of First Degree Murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing a 6-month-old baby in 2011.
Inspectors with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) rearrested former FDLE Pensacola crime laboratory chemist Joseph Graves on additional charges of drug trafficking May 7.
