Media Advisory                                              

For Immediate Release
June 6, 2005
Contact: Catherine Dokey
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420 
or 
Nicole Wagner
(850) 609-3028

Escaped Inmate Apprehended

An Okaloosa County inmate is now in custody after he fled from a work detail at the Okaloosa County Courthouse Annex in Shalimar this morning. David Ashley Mixon, Jr., age 23 (02-19-1982), of 13 Lenox Parkway , Pensacola , fled on foot from supervision at approximately 10:15 while mowing the Courthouse lawn.

Mixon was taken into custody without incident by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office around 4:00 this afternoon (Monday) after authorities spotted him in a vehicle on Oaklawn Street in Fort Walton Beach .  A second individual, David Mitchell Neal, age 52 (10-30-1952), of 111 Baker Avenue , Fort Walton Beach , was also arrested at the scene for an active warrant for felony battery.

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