The Bonifay Police Department was shut down in an emergency Bonifay City Council meeting Friday afternoon. The vote was unanimous to halt all operations of the department in light of the resignation of Chief Chris Wells and the arrest of a longtime officer. Wells submitted a one-line letter without reason dated May 5 resigning as……
Multiple agencies combined efforts to capture a sex offender who removed an electronic monitoring device and failed to properly register his residence upon release from the Florida Department of Corrections. According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, 62-year-old David Alford was released April 24 and was required to report his residence as a part of……
Warrant service by Holmes County Sheriff’s Office deputies on April 19 landed four behind bars. A search warrant was obtained by HCSO for a residence on Hamlin Street, as part of an ongoing narcotics investigation. Three of the home’s occupants, Richard Pettit, Jennifer Kirkland, and Jackson Wright, were confirmed to have active warrants. A fourth……
A Bonifay couple is behind bars after Holmes County Sheriff’s Office deputies and investigators executed a search warrant at their home. On April 25, HCSO served the search warrant at the residence of Charles Lee and Leandra Leverette on Evans Avenue as part of an ongoing narcotics investigation. Both Lee and Leverette had outstanding warrants……
A Westville man is behind bars after Holmes County Sheriff’s Office deputies served a warrant at his home on April 24. HCSO arrived on scene and made contact with Robert Allen Platt, who attempted to conceal himself and flee to a nearby shed. After complying with instructions, Platt was taken into custody. During a search……
The driver responsible for the 2022 death of 18-year-old Corey Reynolds was sentenced on April 19 in a Holmes County courtroom. Melisa Dawn Jackson, 42, of Alford, pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter-DUI causing death to human or unborn child, and DUI with property damage. On June 3, Reynolds was changing a flat tire while working……
A continuance was granted in a pretrial hearing at Holmes County Courthouse April 19 due to a large number of discovery items submitted in the homicide case against Raymond Matthew Reid, 32. Reid is the accused gunman in the Sept. 17 shooting death of 53-year-old Jimmy Junior McCullous. “It’s a lengthy process,” said Michelle Granger,……
A juvenile led authorities on a high-speed pursuit in a stolen vehicle that ended with a crash on Interstate 10. According to Holmes County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a report around 3:45 Friday afternoon that a vehicle had been stolen out of Ponce de Leon. A deputy in the area encountered the vehicle and saw……
All hands were on deck Thursday afternoon as a pursuit came to an end on State Road 79 north of Bonifay and resulted in the arrest of two people from Cincinnati. The chase started in Bay County in pursuit of a Chevrolet Impala driven by Jerome Henderson and passenger, Cheyenne Swartz. The chase traveled through……
It only took a Holmes County jury 37 minutes to find 51-year-old Latorish Antonio Gardner guilty on all four counts he was facing in the murder of Derek Thompson and attempted murder of Mariah Maps. The jury unanimously found Garder guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm, attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, shooting into……
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