Runaway juvenile reportedly found in Panama City
A runaway juvenile has been found in Panama City and returned to Dothan, Ala., a Dothan TV station reported. No other information was released by Dothan police. An earlier version of this story is...
View ArticleTestimony gives rare details of Fla. executions
TALLAHASSEE — The state corrections official who stands beside condemned inmates as they take their last breaths in Florida’s death chamber recently pulled back the veil on what has largely been a...
View ArticleDrug suspect arrested after hitting BCSO car
PANAMA CITY -- Narcotics investigators with the Bay County Sheriff’s Office arrested a local man Tuesday in the area of 10th and Beck Avenue, after he struck an unmarked BCSO vehicle in order to evade...
View ArticleMeth, cash confiscated in arrest
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- The Bay County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division confiscated 10 ounces of a form of methamphetamine known as “ice” and $3,400 in cash in a drug bust Monday on Panama City Beach....
View ArticlePolice seek post office robbers // VIDEO
SPRINGFIELD — Police and deputies surrounded a strip mall Wednesday afternoon searching for three people who robbed the Springfield branch of the United States Post Office of an undetermined amount of...
View ArticleUPDATED: Police: Post office robbery was hoax
SPRINGFIELD — The robbery of a post office branch that sparked an intensive search for three suspects Wednesday turned out to be a hoax by an employee and his sister, who were attempting to cover...
View ArticleProsecutors release report on parasail mishap // DOCUMENT
PANAMA CITY — The captain of parasailing vessel involved in a mishap that nearly killed two Indiana teens last summer will not face criminal charges, but a report detailing the findings of a lengthy...
View ArticleFormer guard’s charges upgraded to sexual battery
PANAMA CITY — Prosecutors upgraded the charges against a former guard at the Bay County Jail this week from sexual misconduct between a detention employee and an inmate to sexual battery. Deputies...
View ArticleHave you seen this man?
PANAMA CITY -- The Panama City Police Department is investigating a shoplifting incident that occurred at Kohl’s Department Store at 2610 Highway 77 in Panama City. On Wednesday at about 5:30 p.m., a...
View ArticlePlane from Panama City crashes in Georgia, kills three
LAGRANGE, Ga. — Three people died Saturday when a small plane crashed at an airport in west Georgia. Two occupants of the plane died on the scene and one died later at a hospital in Columbus,...
View ArticleScam Alert: Man impersonating BCSO warrant officer
LYNN HAVEN - Someone has been impersonating a Bay County Sheriff's deputy over the phone, officials wrote in a 'scam alert' news release. "In one of the reported phone calls, the caller identified...
View ArticleTeen hit, killed by train
DAYTONA BEACH — A 17-year-old boy was hit and killed by a freight train Monday night, police said. The teen was standing on the Florida East Coast Railway tracks some 300 yards north of Wilder...
View ArticleTeen seriously injured in Calhoun County wreck
A Marianna teenager was seriously injured in a Sunday night wreck in Calhoun County, according to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol. Jake T. Daffin was driving a Toyota Tundra north on...
View ArticleUPDATED: Man set to be executed for trooper's bombing death
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The death of Florida Highway Trooper Jimmy Fulford saved others, giving some comfort to his family as the execution of the man convicted of killing him approaches. Fulford...
View ArticleTallahassee doctor arrested at PCB home
PANAMA CITY BEACH — A Tallahassee doctor was arrested Saturday after he triggered an Amber Alert in the hours after his estranged wife was found dead in the pool of one of their houses. Bay County...
View ArticlePolice using facial recognition software
DAYTONA BEACH - Being a 50-year-old white man didn’t make James Morrison unique in Florida. But his crooked mouth, the freckle on his forehead and the space between his eyes did, and those...
View ArticleMan executed for death of state trooper
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A drug trafficker who placed a pipe bomb in a gift-wrapped microwave oven in a plot to kill two potential murder witnesses was executed Wednesday for the 1992 death of a Florida...
View ArticleFather and grandfather fight, baby injured
PANAMA CITY — Two men were jailed Tuesday after their fight sent a baby to the hospital. The incident began Monday night, according to Panama City Police records, Charles Dotson went to Adam Jarmon’s...
View ArticlePolice: Speeder pulled gun on family
PANAMA CITY — A Panama City man faces a slew of charges following a spree of alleged crimes, including accusations he drew a rifle on a family and threatened to kill his mother and grandfather. Panama...
View ArticleBlotter: Marijuana: Still not legal
The Blotter is a look at some of the unusual things that happen on the crime beat in Bay County. Public opinion polls show greater acceptance for marijuana legalization than ever, but police don’t...
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