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Special operations commander arrested after alleged drunk driving incident

March 3, 2023
A commander with Hurlburt Field’s 1st Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron has been demoted after being arrested Feb. 18 in Shalimar. Collin Charlie Christopherson, 37, of Niceville, is c…

Love (jail)birds: Pace man, woman arrested after hiring someone to kill husband

February 14, 2023
The old ball and chain has been given a new meaning. On Tuesday, Feb. 14, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson spoke at a news conference about a murder for hire case involving a man and a woman fro…

Suspect in high-speed chase turns himself in

December 23, 2022
At around 11 p.m. last night the man responsible for taking deputies on a high-speed chase and shooting at a car near the Navarre Publix turned himself in. Grayson Zachary Eagan, 29, of Hilltop Drive…

Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputy arrested for insurance fraud

December 7, 2022
A Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Deputy was fired after he was arrested for fraud on Tues., Dec. 6. The arrest came after an investigation into alleged insurance fraud by Corey Jones, 36. The investigat…

UWF student arrested for 30 counts of child pornography possession, says FDLE

December 2, 2022
A former Navarre High School and current University of West Florida student is behind bars after an investigation uncovered 30 files of obscene material, Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. J…

Former Santa Rosa Sheriff’s deputy sentenced for lying to FBI

November 22, 2022
A former Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy will be seeing the inside of a federal prison cell for the next year. Scott P. Haines, 50, of Milton, was sentenced to one year and a day in federal…

Fmr. JROTC instructor’s ‘relationship’ with student disclosed in arrest report

November 14, 2022
New details have emerged from the arrest of John William Kapolczynski Jr., a former NJROTC instructor and substitute teacher at Navarre High. Kapolczynski, 46, of Navarre, was initially arrested on N…

Navarre man arrested after investigation into Pine Ranch Drive shooting

November 8, 2022
A suspect in the Pine Ranch Drive shooting case has been arrested. Joshua Richard Huston, 47, is currently in Santa Rosa County Jail for his role in an incident that put a man in the hospital with a…

Man fights deputies, Breathalyzer, sobriety tests

January 24, 2022
A 26-year-old Navarre man was charged with DUI, refusal to submit to DUI testing and obstruction without violence after flying through a stop sign in front of a Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office deputy.

Woman buries herself in attic insulation

January 24, 2022
A Navarre woman trying to avoid being arrested on an outstanding warrant buried herself under the insulation in the attic, where she was found by a Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office deputy.