Two arrests have been made involving a series of car burglaries that occurred in the Holley by the Sea area. According to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office report, officers spotted Nathan Gifford, 20, and his accomplice Michaela Read, 22, at 4 a.m. Monday in a white vehicle at the Tom Thumb located at Highway 98 and Coral Street, after receiving reports of a suspicious individual breaking into cars.
The Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office was able to connect suspects arrested after robbing a Circle K store on Barrancas Avenue in Pensacola with two other Circle K robberies in the Milton area.
James Sousa, 49, of the 6800 block of Water Street in Navarre has been sentenced to one year of probation and a year’s suspension of his hunting license after pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges of cruelty and leaving a carcass.
Santa Rosa County teacher Robert Todd Crutchfield, 42, apparently traveled to meet a 14-year-old former student for sex June 14 at Florida Town Park in Pace. Instead, he was arrested by law enforcement officers.
A man living in Pace and apprehended and booked into Santa Rosa County jail on Wednesday will be moving to a different jail in a different state to face murder charges.
The manager of a business occupying county-owned property on Navarre Beach was arrested on a misdemeanor charge for selling alcohol to a minor during a late March transaction. The incident took place March 29 in the presence of a Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office detective at Sandy Bottoms, a convenience store located at 8228 Gulf Boulevard and operated by Dorothy Slye, who is also the current manager of the Navarre Beach Pier, another county-owned property.
