Crime Archive

A Milton man is being held without bond after police say he attempted to strangle a man and stabbed him during a fight inside the man’s home Nov. 1.

The men at the center of the controversial killing of a Milton-area alligator in March have entered into a pretrial diversion (PTD) contract. If the men complete the court-ordered tasks, their charges could be dismissed.

Kevin Lacz, Richard Reder and Jason Griffin are accused of illegally removing an 8.5-foot alligator from a retention pond in Milton and bringing the live alligator to a residence, where it was killed with a power drill. Lacz had previously been a SNAP trapper.

A 21-year-old Milton man who was serving time at Florida State Prison was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison for mailing threats, according to an Oct. 5 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A 64-year-old Milton man was arrested for allegedly trying to solicit a minor, but he was actually communicating with two undercover agents, according to a news release from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

It took less than two hours of deliberation for a Fort Walton Beach jury to find former Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy Eddie Duran not guilty in connection with the 2024 shooting death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson.

A Pace woman who shot her husband in 2022 and then tried to have her husband “knocked off” by a hitman was sentenced to 60 years in prison by Santa Rosa County Judge Clifton Drake.

A 46-year-old Milton man was arrested Sept. 12 on domestic violence and firearm charges after the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office served an arrest and search warrant, according to reports.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLSHMV) is reporting a data breach of the state’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database, also known as DAVID.

A Santa Rosa County jury found a state prison inmate guilty of manslaughter in connection of a 2022 incident where he strangled his cellmate to death, according to a news release from the State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden’s office.

The man who first found Danika Troy’s body in the woods off Kimberly Road in Floridatown has been sentenced to prison.

Mitchell Eddins, 46, was sentenced to four years in state prison and 364 days in county jail after pleading guilty to felony petit theft and failing to report a death to the Medical Examiner’s Office or law enforcement.