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A Milton man has been charged with murder after he allegedly killed a woman with a hatchet and buried her body in his backyard.
Johnny Edwards Malisham, 60, was arrested Sunday after Santa Rosa County Sheriff s Office investigators worked with University of West Florida anthropologists to unearth the woman s body from below a backyard burn pit.
SRSO spokesman Sgt. Rich Aloy told the News Journal that authorities believe the body is Cynthia Hoover, a 60-year-old Milton woman who went missing in March. All indications are leading us to believe it is most likely Cynthia Hoover, Aloy said. But positive identification has not been done by the medical examiner.
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A Milton man has been charged with murder after he allegedly killed a woman with a hatchet and buried her body in his backyard.
Johnny Edwards Malisham, 60, was arrested Sunday after Santa Rosa County Sheriff s Office investigators worked with University of West Florida anthropologists to unearth the woman s body from below a backyard burn pit.
SRSO spokesman Sgt. Rich Aloy told the News Journal that authorities believe the body is Cynthia Hoover, a 60-year-old Milton woman who went missing in March. All indications are leading us to believe it is most likely Cynthia Hoover, Aloy said. But positive identification has not been done by the medical examiner.
Broxson was also charged with aggravated battery, robbery and obstructing justice.
Because Broxson was a juvenile at the time of the homicide, she was not booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail following her Wednesday arrest. Instead, she was taken to Department of Juvenile Justice for processing, according to the release.
SRSO deputies responded at about 1:15 a.m. Oct. 22, 2020, to a shooting at the Simmons River Fishing Pier near the 3200 block of U.S. 90.
Deputies located Dejaynes and a second shooting victim and transported them both to a local hospital. Dejaynes was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Because the incident involved juveniles, few details about the shooting had been made pubic as of Friday, including any identifying information pertaining to the second victim.
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The Santa Rosa County Sheriff s Office has launched an investigation into a robbery at a Navarre bank Friday morning.
SRSO spokesman Sgt. Rich Aloy said the robbery occurred at about 9:15 a.m. at the Synovus Bank at 8390 Navarre Parkway. No was hurt, and no one was injured, Aloy said.
Starting this summer, anyone who interacts with a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy on the job will be recorded on camera.
SRSO deputies will begin training this month on how to equip themselves with the agency’s first-ever body cameras. All SRSO patrol deputies are expected to start wearing the devices sometime within the next several months.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson and his staff reviewed body camera policies of other Florida sheriff s and Florida police departments to build their own Body Worn Cameras policy on how their agency will use its new tools.
“There were certain policies that we looked at and said, “Oh no, we’re not doing that,” Johnson told the News Journal. “There were certain policies where officers had the ability to get the video and do stuff to the videos.