After being sentenced in April in Washington County, Jamison Shane Haskins has been charged with two counts of sexual assault by person over 18 on a victim over age 12 under age 18 without physical force-violence in Holmes County. Haskins was given three years in the Florida Department of Corrections and seven years of probation…
Two additional officers were hired for the Bonifay Police Department after approval from the Bonifay City Council when they met in regular session of June 12. Bonifay Police Chief Jimmy Macon recommended Michael Antunovic and Zachary Neitsch for officer positions and saw the hiring of the two in a 3-2 split decision. “You all interviewed…
A Bonifay man was sentenced earlier this week in the fatal car crash that took the life of 55-year-old Michael Thomas James in February 2021. Hayden Christopher Mathews, 32, was sentenced in a Washington County Courthouse on June 5 by Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Chief Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson on the charges of vehicular manslaughter and…
Bonifay City Council called a special meeting on June 2 to vote for a new police chief and full time deputy. Jimmy Macon and Johnny Whitaker were approved for the positions, respectively. The council voted for the disbanding the police department in the beginning of May after the top three leadership positions were vacant…
After more than three decades, Captain Keith Goddin is retiring from the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office. Goddin started in law enforcement in 1990 dispatching for Holmes County, in 1992 he went to work for the Bonifay Police Chief Dennis Lee. When Lee was elected sheriff in 1993, Goddin moved to the sheriff’s office with him,…
An investigation into the death of a Holmes County man who was killed in an early morning shooting at the Holiday Inn Express in Bonifay on May 29, is underway by the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff John Tate gave a press conference where he released the following information. HCSO Communications Center received a…
The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office will soon have a new home as construction and refurbishment of the old Holmes County Agriculture Center is well underway. The project started at the beginning of the year after the county was awarded $4.3 million in appropriations from the state. HCSO was given a budget of $750,000 to demolish…
Holmes County Sheriff John Tate held a press conference May 17 regarding the death of 2-year-old Margie June McLean. At 3:43 p.m. on May 16, Holmes County Dispatch received a 911 call from a hysterical female, and within two minutes a HCSO deputy arrived on scene of a house on Highway 81 in Prosperity. The…
Holmes County Commissioners awarded a bid to replace the roof on the county health department facility when they met in regular session May 16. County Attorney Nate Nolin and County Manager David Corbin opened seven bids during the meeting and commissioners ultimately voted on the lowest bidder for the job. Johnson Roofing Solutions will replace…
With hurricane season starting next week, both Holmes and Washington County Emergency Management and Operation Centers have been diligently working to prepare for what is predicted to be an above normal season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts 13 named storms with six expected to be hurricanes of which two could be major…
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