May 26, 2016
For Immediate Release
According to Glenn Hess, 14th Circuit State Attorney:

Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson sentenced a Cottondale man to 25 years in prison Thursday for molesting four little girls.

Assistant State Attorney Shalla Jefcoat was prepared to take William Jackson McCullers, 65, to trial for molesting four girls over the course of 11 years. Two of the girls were 9, one 7 and one as young as 4 when the molestation began.

On Thursday, McCullers pleaded no contest to seven counts of lewd or lascivious molestation upon a child younger than 12. Pursuant to the plea, McCullers will serve a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years in the Department of Corrections followed by a lifetime of sexual offender probation. He was designated a sexual predator. The case was investigated by Capt. Mark Collins of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and prosecuted by the Office of Glenn Hess, State Attorney for the 14th Judicial Circuit.

May 16, 2016
For Immediate Release
According to the State Attorney’s Office:
A Bay County jury convicted Travis Nathaniel Jones on Monday of possessing and trying to destroy three baggies of marijuana.

Assistant State Attorney Michele Lucas proved to jurors during the one-day trial that Jones, 34, of Apalachicola, tried to eat three baggies of marijuana after being stopped for a traffic infraction Aug. 26. Panama City Police Cpl. Dustin Patterson pulled over Jones at Ninth Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, but before he stopped the car he proceeded for several feet at a very slow rate and could be seen stuffing something into his mouth. When Patterson, Inv. David Harris and Inv. Darby Gay approached the car they could smell the odor of marijuana and saw particles of marijuana leaves on Jones’ lap. Jones was chewing something and officers struggled with him to remove the items from his mouth. They were able to extract a full bag of marijuana and an empty bag before Jones swallowed a third bag.

Jones was found guilty as charged of possessing marijuana, possessing drug  paraphernalia, tampering with physical evidence and resisting an officer without violence. He faces up to five years in prison when Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet sentences him June 6.

May 6, 2016
For Immediate Release
According to the State Attorney’s Office:
A Bay County jury convicted Daryl Wayne Miller on Friday of DUI.
Assistant State Attorney Brittany Forester proved to jurors that Miller, 56, of San Antonio, TX., was driving with a .161 blood alcohol level the night of Nov. 28, when he ran his Ford Focus into the back of a car stopped at the light at Wildwood Road and U.S. 98. No one was seriously injured in the crash, but officers said they could smell alcohol on Miller’s breath while talking to him about the accident.
A breath test determined that Miller was driving with more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system.
Miller was found guilty as charged of driving under the influence causing or contributing to injury to a person. County Judge Joe Grammer III sentenced him to four months in jail followed by eight months county probation.