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OL. 13, NO. 36

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EPTEMBER 4, 2014

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Craigslist encounter goes awry

Resident robbed at home after arranging meeting online

A man looking for a female com-

panion on Craigslist got more than he bargained for last Wednesday when he was robbed and assaulted at his home on Keystone Drive.

According to the Santa Rosa

County Sheriff"s Office report,

Gulf Breeze resident Steven Carl

Struck had arranged to meet what

he thought was a woman off of Craigslist. The meeting was set up on August 26 for them to meet up the next day.

When the female arrived at the

home, Struck told deputies that the female had an unknown white male with her, but that the three began talking to each other outside on the front porch. At one point, Struck said the female asked to use his bathroom, and he allowed her to go inside to do so. When she returned, the white male then asked to use the restroom.

Struck said that he allowed the

man to go inside his house, but lat-er observed the man in his kitchen standing near the sink. When the Gulf Breeze man went into the home to confront the man, he was grabbed from behind and put in a choke hold by a black male who asked the victim “where it at".

One of the three suspects then

grabbed $300 from the kitchen counter and the victim fell to the floor in the foyer.

Struck stated that when he was

on the floor and began to move, an- other black male entered the resi-

dence and both black men began pummeling Struck in his head and face. Struck stated he saw the white male enter his bedroom and later observed him exiting the bedroom with a suitcase containing several of the victim"s guns.

Struck stated the man made him

go to his bedroom and they began striking the victim repeatedly again.

Struck stated one of the black males

told him to stay still as the victim was slumped over his bed. Struck stated that all four accomplices left

Utility

fees on the rise

BY MAT PELLEGRINO

Gulf Breeze News

news@gulfbreezenews.com

BY MELANIE KORMONDY

Gulf Breeze News

melanie@gulfbreezenews.comComing homeAirman surprises four daughters

Cyclist

seriously injured

BY MAT PELLEGRINO

Gulf Breeze News

news@gulfbreezenews.com

A Navarre woman is recovering at

Baptist Hospital in Pensacola after she

was hit by a vehicle while riding her bike on Pensacola Beach last week.

The victim, Jackie Kaina, 40, was

riding her Alpha-Trek bicycle eastbound on Via De Luna Drive in the roadway when she was struck behind by a Honda

Civic last Friday at 6:55 a.m. The driver

of the Civic, William Bond, 20, of glare temporary got in his eye. The glare, he claimed, made it impossible for him to see the cyclist on the roadway ahead of him.

The victim, when struck from behind,

was thrown onto the hood of the vehicle and then thrown off the right side of the vehicle after impact.

The accident caused a total of $2,750

worth of damage to both the bicycle and the vehicle.

Charges are still pending from the

accident.

See Suspects Page 3A

» B

Y NICK GUNTER

Gulf Breeze News

nick@gulfbreezenews.com

Customers within the City of Gulf

Breeze will see an increase in their

storm water fee on their utility bills be- ginning Tuesday, September 30 to help storm water maintenance.

The City Council passed a resolution

to raise the fees from $4.50 to $5.07 to help cover the estimated $234,499 in storm water maintenance expenses in

2015. This will generate an additional

$26,300.

At a recent City Council Executive

Meeting, City Man-

ager Edwin “Buz"

Eddy said that the

city undercharges as compared to similar municipali- ties in Florida, and it has been several years since the last increase.

Originally the increase was set to be

$.25 with another increase to take place years down the road, but under coun- cil direction staff worked the numbers to fully cover the storm water mainte- nance projects.

“I don"t think there"s a person in

more cents a month to help out their going to be a problem," said Council- man Joe Henderson.

The new increase will help the city

to “break even" in storm water repair. Eddy

Photo by Mat Pellegrino | Gulf Breeze News

Senior Master Sgt. Jerry “J" Wright hugs his daughters, Melia (left) and Hailie, for the first time in almost

a year inside the Gulf Breeze High School cafeteria Tuesday afternoon. The airman returned from serving

three years in Okinawa, Japan. See more photos, 4A, 8A.

Eagerly waiting behind closed

curtains in Gulf Breeze Middle

School"s cafeteria, Senior Master

Sgt. Jerry “J" Wright and is wife,

Melissa, smiled at each other.

The bustling sounds of children"s

voices began filling the lunch- room, and the excitement grew.

Principal Michael Brandon

called twins Kamryn and Katarina

Wright, 11, to the stage and told

them they"re not in any trouble.

The curtain pulled away. A loud

“Daddy!" was exclaimed. The

two girls ran to their father, and

Wright threw his arms around his

daughters, embracing them tightly as the entire cafeteria stood in ap- plause.

Two down. Two to go.

Wright, the father of four girls,

is an airman in the United States

Air Force. Prior to Monday night,

he had been stationed at the Kade- na Air Base in Okinawa, Japan for the past three years. Wright last saw his wife and daughters in De- cember 2013, when he came home briefly for a medical emergency concerning one of his children.

“I"m really excited; I haven"t

seen them in nine months," said

Wright in Principal Brandon"s

office, moments before the big surprise. “Nowadays, you have

Facetime and Skype, but neither

of them worked during that period of time."

After succeeding in surpris-

ing Kamryn and Katarina at the middle school, Wright and his wife stayed to have lunch with the twins. Later, at the high school, he hoped to do it all over again.

In the high school cafeteria, the

second surprise operation proved to be a little trickier than the first.

Without the cover of a stage cur-

tain, Wright waited until the third

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FELONIES

8/26/2014

Tatum, William Charles,

W/M, 38, 3000 block Red

Snapper Ct., Gulf Breeze,

vehicle theft, condit release violation

8/27/2014

Sheldon, George

Dennis, W/M, 47, 5000 block

State Ct., Gulf Breeze, moving

traffic violation

Smith, Ryan Alexander,

W/M, 18, 1000 block Mary

Kate Dr., Gulf Breeze, drug

possession

Warford, Cassidy Shane,

W/M, 19, 900 block Vestavia

Way, Gulf Breeze, probation

violation

8/28/2014

Klamer, Eugene William,

W/M, 53, 1000 block Catline

Cir., Navarre, drug possession

8/29/2014

Adkins, Rachelle Lee, W/

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