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.
MILTON — The person who severely beat two men in a Navarre home in 2011 was sentenced to life on Wednesday in Milton. Timothy Donald Helton was sentenced to life in state prison by Judge David Rimmer as a habitual felony offender and a prison release re-offender.
Santa Rosa County deputies reported to a Navarre Beach residence to investigate a disturbance call on May 2, and left having busted up a meth lab operation.
Area law enforcement arrested four people on narcotics charges and welfare fraud on May 1 at the Emerald Sands Inn in Milton after following up on reports of suspicious activity.
In another case of drugs ruining lives, one man was killed and another is in jail on felony charges following an explosion last Thursday in Gulf Breeze. And now a mother has a cautionary tale to tell of a “sweet” boy who made a bad choice and paid the price.
Morris Junior Green, 62, shot himself after Santa Rosa County deputies identified Green as the driver of a vehicle that eluded deputies earlier that morning April 8.
