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Coach Charged with Sexual Battery

Pine Forest High School Track Coach Charged With Sexual Battery Escambia County Sheriff’s Investigators arrested a part-time track coach at Pine Forest High School today for allegedly sexually battering one of his students. Paul Lavell Jones, pictured below, was arrested after talking to investigators about an incident that happened over the weekend involving a student. […]

Man Wanted for Assault on Elderly Man

Man Wanted For Hitting Elderly Homeowner In The Head With Hammer Escambia deputies are looking for a Pensacola man that struck an elderly homeowner in the head several times during a burglary. George Manuel Eddins Jr. (pictured below), is wanted for Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon, Burglary with Battery and Aggravated Battery on Person […]

Couple Arrested for Child Neglect

Vance Joseph Ates, 38 and his wife, Rebeccah Lynn Ates, 36 of 8100 Hwy 4 Jay, Fl were arrested on January 2 for Child Neglect.  When officers arrived at the home on a call of a domestic dispute they discovered the squalor that the preschool child was living in.  The child had soiled clothes on.  The child has been […]

Arrest made after Burglar returns to Crime Scene

Burglar Gets Arrested After Returning To The Scene An Escambia county man was arrested on New Year’s Eve for breaking into a house and returning a short time later to attempt to break into another house. Deputies say that Christopher Dewayne Grice, was seen fleeing from a house in the 5700 block of East Shore […]

Hit and Run near Cross City Florida

Henry Thomas Knight, 71, of Cross City, FL died from injuries he received in a hit and run on Thursday, December 22.   Henry was riding his bicycle southbound on State Road 55 in the northbound lanes close to or within the paved apron and the unknown pickup was traveling northbound.  Mr. Knight was struck […]

Santa Rosa County Man Arrested for stealing Fuel

On December 17th, 2011, Escambia investigators arrested a long time employee (26 years) of Florida Rock and Tank Lines. Sheriff’s investigators say that 56 year old Dennis Lawson had been stealing diesel fuel from the business for over 2 years. The investigation showed that Lawson, had stolen approximately 54,884 gallons of diesel fuel, valued at […]

Suspect Dies after Shooting at Officers

Christopher David Lewis Dies as a Result of Injuries Sustained After Shooting at Law Enforcement David Christopher Lewis died on 12/15/2011at 8:40 pm as a result of injuries he sustained during the shooting incident with the United States Marshal’s Task Force at an address on Camille Garden Circle in Santa Rosa County on 12/09/11. The […]

Law Enforcement Asking for Public’s Help in Identifying Arsonist

Law Enforcement Asking for Public’s Help in Identifying Arsonist Between August and December of 2011, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, the Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement, the Fire Marshal’s Office and the Midway Fire Department have responded to more than 70 various types of fires in the Gulf Breeze area. The majority of these […]

Convenience Store Robbery on Avalon

Sheriff’s Office Investigating Burglary of Convenience Store *** The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a burglary that occurred at the RaceWay Convenience Store located at 2783 AVALON BLVD MILTON FL. THe burgalry occured between the close of business (2300 hours on 11/26/2011) and the business opening on 11/27/11 at 0600. Deputies were called […]

Shoplifter Arrested

On 11/21/2011, Navarre Wal-Mart loss prevention contacted the Santa Rosa Sheriffs office in regards to two subjects fraudulently returning merchandise without receipts. Loss prevention officers said that the suspects came to the store and showed the clerks their identification cards which had altered numbers on them to disguise their true identity. Loss prevention officers directed […]