Five-Time Convicted Felon Sentanced On Drug Aand Firearms Charges

Yesterday Dennis Calvin Bush, 32, of Panama City, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison for possession of cocaine with the intent to  distribute, conspiracy to commit that offense, possession of a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking offense, and possession of...

U.S. Attorney’s Office Employee & Eight Others Indicted in Large Drug Conspiracy

Nine members of an alleged cocaine and oxycodone trafficking conspiracy have been arrested this morning on a federal indictment in South Florida. The indictment was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.  The federal indictment alleges that Andre Barbary, 36,...

Three Arrested in Jackson County Medicaid Fraud Conspiracy

September 16, 2009   TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that three individuals have been arrested on charges that they conspired to defraud the Florida Medicaid program out of at least $112,000. Frederica Hill, Cathy Summerlin and Larry Hill were arrested by the...

9 Arrested On Child Porn Charges

Sheriff Frank McKeithen announced at a press conference today the details of a multi-agency operation in which 16 residential search warrants were executed in Bay County. The search warrants were executed yesterday June 30, 2009, and today July 1, 2009. Nine individuals have been arrested...

Coughlin Sentenced to 25 Years in Daughters Death

Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet sentenced Courtney Coughlin to 25 years in prison Tuesday for killing her daughter in a vehicular homicide. “This was not an act of negligence,” Overstreet said in response to the defense’s repeated claim that the 12-year-old girl’s death was not caused by...