Crime Archive

Edgar Newton Doubleday, 19, of the 6900 block of Jasper Street in Navarre, was arrested June 4 on multiple charges, including a third-degree felony count of manufacturing, distributing or selling imitation drugs after witnesses said he mixed BC Powder and Anbesol to sell as “cocaine.”

The fire that destroyed a Summit Drive home June 7 was a result of arson, Kayla Anderson, spokesman with the state’s Fire Marshal’s Office, said last week. She said the department is investigating a “person of interest.”

The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force captured an Alabama escapee June 4, when they pulled him over on the Bob Sikes Toll Bridge just before entering Pensacola Beach.

The four defendants involved in a Gulf Breeze home invasion last August were sentenced May 26 in Santa Rosa Circuit Court.

James Flanders, wanted for the 2011 murder of Fort Walton Beach resident Marie Carlson, was arrested in Arizona May 14.

A Navarre man serving life in prison for aggravated battery granted a new trial by the Florida First District Court of Appeal May 13.

A Gulf Breeze man is in jail after the toddler he was babysitting was found running toward Highway 98 Thursday morning.

Ervin Edward Gras, 73, of the 9100 block of Quail Roost Drive, was arrested May 8 on a first-degree felony charge of sexual assault by a custodian with a victim between the ages of 12 and 18 years old.

Lauren Wyatt West, 31, of the 8400 block of Gulf Boulevard, was arrested April 23 on a first-degree misdemeanor charge of battery after police responded to her Navarre Beach apartment in reference to a disturbance.

Okaloosa County Beach Safety personnel found a large bale of cocaine in the surf behind a Destin condominium complex on the Gulf Sunday at around 11:30 a.m.