Samantha Combs was too young to remember the horrific day in September when terrorists crashed two commercial planes into the World Trade Center in New York and another into the Pentagon.
The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) requested a police assist Sept. 8 at the 3200 block of Auburn Parkway in Gulf Breeze to verify the well-being of Gina Sosnowski and her child. Gina Sosnowski advised law enforcement and DCF that she is scared of her husband, Thomas, due to past threats he’s made to government agencies. According to Gina, he stated in the past to DCF that he was going to dismember DCF workers if they come to his house and he will throw their body parts into his neighbor’s yard. Thomas had padlocks put on the doors and Gina was scared he would lock her and DCF workers inside the home.
Keanu Medina, a Navarre man who crashed his Chevrolet Tahoe into a Jeep Liberty, killing the driver Gregory D. Winter of Gulf Breeze last July, has entered a guilty plea to DUI Manslaughter and DUI with Property Damage.
Christopher B. Cave, 45, a family medicine physician with White Wilson in Navarre was arrested at 3:48 a.m. Sunday morning on charges of less than 20 grams of marijuana, and drug equipment possession as well as an alleged battery charge. Cave was released after posting bond just before 9 a.m. the same morning.
For the second time in five months, Lauren Wyatt West, a Holley- Navarre Middle School teacher, was arrested on a first-degree misdemeanor charge of battery Sept. 5.
The South Santa Rosa Utility board of directors didn’t know that a 3- percent surcharge will be imposed on its water and sewer customers until after the Gulf Breeze City Council tentatively approved the levy in August.
The ducks, geese and turtles living in the pond at Navarre Park weren’t threatened by the BP oil spill that polluted the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, but now the financial compensation from that tragedy may eliminate their habitat.