CONSTRUCTION SITE THIEF ARRESTED

A 33-year-old construction company employee from Crestview has been arrested for stealing two industrial welding machines that were suspended high in the air above an Oak Grove worksite. Workers discovered the welding machines missing when they arrived Monday morning at the bridge construction site on North Highway 99 over Pine Barren Creek. Timothy Denmon, a crane operator, became a suspect because only he and a foreman had keys to the crane. Denmon was charged with felony grand theft and possession of drug paraphernalia and was booked into the Escambia County Jail on an $11,000 bond.