Media
Advisory
For Immediate Release
June 23, 2005
Contact: Catherine Dokey
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
Homicide
Suspect Ben Lee Metcalf in Custody
A
murder suspect
wanted out of
Okaloosa
County
is now in the custody of
Tennessee
authorities. The
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was contacted last night after law
enforcement officers with the Knoxville Police Department in
Tennessee
took Ben Lee Metcalf into custody.
Metcalf was arrested around 8 pm on June 22 (Wednesday) for Burglary to a
Business, Public Intoxication, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Metcalf was arraigned this morning and will appear before a judge on
local charges in
Tennessee
tomorrow. Metcalf
is currently in the custody of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office Corrections
Division.
Deputies
responded the morning of May 11 (Wednesday) after an employee of Destin Water
Users noticed a foul odor emitting from
500 Harbor Boulevard
, a former retail business known as the Spunky Monkey.
Metcalf has a warrant for his arrest for an open count of murder for the
murder of Lannie Wells Jones, SR.
Metcalf is a white male with brown hair and brown eyes.
Metcalf is 41 years old (2/28/64) five feet eleven inches tall.
Two
Investigators with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Criminal
Investigations Division assigned to the case are en-route to
Knoxville
,
Tennessee
, for extradition of Metcalf.
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