Local and State News

July 18, 2017 Pensacola, FL – Nicholas G. Peacock, 33, of Salisbury, North Carolina, pled guilty Monday in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola to enticement of a minor and interstate travel for illicit sexual activity. In April 2016, S.S. reported that her twelve-year-old granddaughter was missing and that she believed the child had met someone online and left with him. ...

July 18, 2017 Milton, FL – A 25 year old Milton man who was wanted by the Milton Police Department for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon is now in custody. On July 15th at 3:45 a.m. officers with the Milton Police Department responded to the Cedar Ridge subdivision  in reference to a report of a vehicle burglary in progress. ...

July 18, 2017 Destin, FL – A Destin man suspected of shoplifting pulled a box cutter on employees who tried to stop him as was leaving the store, telling them he was “not going to jail.” On July 17, 2017 deputies with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office responded to Best Buy in Destin, FL in reference to a suspect that ...

July 7, 2017 A Fort Walton Beach man called the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Sunday morning to report that someone had stolen a baggie of cocaine and cash from his car. 32-year old David Blackmon of 119 Carson Drive, who identified himself as a drug dealer, told the responding deputy that someone entered his car while it was parked at ...

July 17, 2017 DeFuniak Springs, Fla—  Two men are in custody following an investigation into a drive-by shooting in DeFuniak Springs early Monday morning. The Walton County Sheriff’s Office was called to Hermitage Road at approximately 7 a.m in reference to shots fired at a home and a truck. No one was injured in the shooting. Witnesses identified Thurston Patrick ...

July 17, 2017 DeFuniak Springs, Fla—  The Walton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident off Hermitage Road where shots were fired early this morning. At approximately 7am Walton County Sheriff’s Office was called to Hermitage Road in response to a drive by shooting of a truck and house. A BOLO (be on the look out) was put out for ...

Opp, AL – A two-vehicle crash at 3:40 p.m. Saturday, July 15, has claimed the life of a Georgetown, Ky. woman and injured two others. Karen Sue Ritchie, 46, was critically injured when the 2015 Toyota Tundra, in which she was a passenger, was struck head-on by a 2005 Nissan Altima driven by William Antonio Edwards, 21, of Opp. Ritchie was transported ...

July 15, 2017 Pensacola, FL – A Linden, AL woman succumbed to her injuries she sustained after being hit by a vehicle while crossing the road. According to a Florida Highway Patrol news release, 45 year old Charles Otto Bodie of Pensacola, FL was traveling southbound on Pensacola Blvd in a 1994 Chevrolet pickup truck. 52 year old Tina Baker ...

July 15, 2017 Milton, FL – Officers with the Milton Police Department responded to Cedar Ridge subdivision around 3:45 a.m. this morning in reference to a report of a vehicle burglary in progress. The caller gave a clothing description and when officers arrived, a black male fitting the description was seen walking away from a vehicle. The subject was taken ...

July 15, 2017 Pace, FL – A Pensacola man has now been charged with Vehicular Homicide among other charges for the June 8th accident at U.S. Hwy 90 and Floridatown Rd in Pace, FL that took the life of a Pace man/ On June 8, 2017 at approximately 6:02 a.m. Seth William Rubert of Pensacola, FL was operating a 2013 ...