Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith said Wednesday that he believes the theft of funds from the county’s tax collector’s office will exceed $200,000. Smith said Marzetta Marie Alexander-Davis, 65, Apalachicola, who has an accounting role in the tax collector’s office, was arrested and booked into the Franklin County Jail Wednesday on charges of grand theft,…
A 23-year-old Carrabelle man has been arrested and charged with a pair of felonies in connection with a Tuesday evening. Oct 29 shooting that began with a golf cart confrontation. Kolton Keith was found hiding under a vehicle inside a garage, and arrested and charged with attempted felony murder, and aggravated battery with a deadly…
As anyone familiar with Franklin and Gulf counties well knows, stealing political signs around election time is a time-dishonored tradition, affecting local, state and national candidates. But one Seattle, Washington man decided earlier this month to pump things up a bit. On Oct. 16, Michael Todd Castle, 53, of Seattle, Washington, in Carrabelle aboard a…
For six years, readers in Franklin and Gulf counties could follow, if so inclined, the tragic tale of a young woman bludgeoned to death in 2018 in an Eastpoint motel, and the lengthy court proceedings that were ultimately resolved earlier this year. On Saturday night, about two million television viewers, in the United States and…
A Monday evening escape by an inmate at the Franklin County jail led to a high-speed chase into Gulf County, where he was apprehended by deputies. Charles Morgan Carpenter, 41, Telogia, was captured less than an hour after the Gulf County Sheriff’s Office received word at about 7:20 p.m. ET that an inmate had stolen…
Judge accept prosecutor’s recommendation Following an emotional hearing Friday afternoon in the Apalachicola courthouse, in which convicted murderer Christina Araujo broke down in tears as she expressed remorse for the killing, Circuit Judge Jonathan Sjostrom handed down a 25-year sentence. With about five-and-a-half years of credit for time served, both in the Franklin and Liberty…
More than six years after a North Miami woman was beaten to death in a Eastpoint motel, and discarded on the side of the road, the second of her two killers is about to learn her fate. Christina Araujo, 44, of Palm Beach, is asking that due to her cooperation with prosecutors, and to the…
Nearly a year after their boats collided in the Apalachicola River on April 29, 2023, two Apalachicola boat captains have been charged with vessel homicide stemming from the collision. On April 20, Austin Jarrett Finch, 24, and James Ellis Maxwell, 60, both of Apalachicola, were charged with vessel homicide, a second degree felony, following an…
Almost exactly six years since the evening he pummeled to death a woman he claimed he asked to marry him just weeks earlier, Zachary Abell will spend the rest of his life in a state prison for the crime. Dressed in the county jail’s orange jumpsuit, a sharp contrast to the three-piece suit he wore…
Jury decides that beating death of Aileen Seiden was not premeditated After deliberating for about five hours, a Franklin County jury found Zachary Abell guilty of second degree murder this afternoon in the brutal beating death of Aileen Seiden nearly six years ago at an Eastpoint motel. This means that Abell has now been convicted…
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