CALLAWAY — A man wanted on a Leon County murder warrant was taken into custody Monday in Callaway, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
Leon County investigators got a warrant for 29-year-old Roderick Damon O’Brian Jarmon after deputies in Leon County responded to a report of a small child unattended in the roadway and found the child’s mother dead inside a nearby home. Deputies alerted local authorities with the sheriff’s office and the U.S. Marshals Northwest Florida Fugitive Task Force that Jarmon had ties to Bay County.
Deputies gathered intelligence that suggested Jarmon was staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Callaway, where Jarmon was arrested without incident. He will be turned over the Leon County Sheriff’s Office.