A Santa Rosa County woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison on July 27 after pleading guilty to multiple charges related to stealing more than $1 million from a local electrical company.
A Santa Rosa County man was sentenced to five years in state prison for torturing a kitten to death in December 2025, according to a news release from the state attorney’s office.
A man who fled deputies serving felony warrants and swam into the Blackwater River was found dead July 22, according to a news release from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect current information.
The former nominee to be the Town of Jay’s next town manager was arrested after what the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office says was one of multiple arrests in a sex offender compliance sweep.
A 30-year-old Pace man accused of stealing Smokey Bear signs from a series of state parks last year has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of theft of government property.
A Pace man has pleaded guilty to eight counts of bank fraud, one count of embezzlement of labor union funds and three counts of falsifying labor union reports, according to a July 1 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida.
A Santa Rosa County jury convicted a Jay man on June 19 of aggravated animal cruelty following a case involving the torture and death of a kitten and the suspected killing of two other cats, according to a news release from the office of State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden.
Robert Eugene McCurdy, 38, of Milton, was arrested June 19 on a sex offender registration violation after allegedly attending a school field day event months earlier, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.
