Crime Archive

Eight men were arrested by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office after a multi-agency internet chat operation where they agreed to meet an underage individual for sex, according to Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson. All eight individuals thought they were meeting a 14-year-old female and instead ended up being arrested by a sheriff’s deputy, […]

After a decade in the custody of Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Brandon Aydelott, 28, is heading to a “step down” facility per a judge’s order. He has been in the State Hospital following his killing of Sharon Aydelott, his mother, on Christmas Eve 2013.

On Thursday, Aug. 15, Aydelott appeared in court for the first time since March 26. The court proceeding was part of the reopening of Aydelott’s case, a process which began in 2022. The case was reopened to see about moving Aydelott from the State Hospital to a restrictive mental health treatment facility known as the Apalachee Center, located in Quincy.

A member of a motorcycle club who attacked a Navarre man at Stripes Pub & Grill in 2021 has been found guilty of aggravated battery on a victim 65 years of age or older with great bodily harm and battery.

Brian Scott Sanders will be sentenced Sept. 5, in Judge Clifton Drake’s courtroom.

Nearly seven months after her death, an arrest has been made in the Hillary Brown case.

Dr. Benjamin Brown, 41, of Restore Plastic Surgery, was arrested and charged with second degree felony homicide; manslaughter by culpable negligence after the death of his wife during a November 2023 procedure which he performed. The arrest was June 17.

An alleged shooting on Woodlawn Beach Road led to the arrest of two people, Robert Raymond Barnes and Angela Lynn Pelopida.

On March 19, 2023, Colby Vinson, 24, was murdered at his Cayo Grande apartment in Navarre. Little over a year later, the man suspected of killing him has been handed a life sentence.

A man recently released from prison has been charged with kidnapping the same victim again. A neighbor who called 911 may have saved the victim’s life.

A Gulf Breeze woman has been arrested after allegedly getting upset that her husband wouldn’t buy her meth and attempting to set their home on fire.

Gail Kehoe, 62, was charged with second-degree arson and battery on April 16.

Phone scams are on the rise in the State of Florida. This is according to the Office of Inspector General, which has received reports from residents and former residents since April 4. The Santa Rosa County Clerk’s Office wants to make residents aware of this scam and how it is being perpetrated.

A Gulf Breeze man found himself behind bars after pulling a gun on a civil process server at his home Tuesday, March 12.