As anyone familiar with Franklin and Gulf counties well knows, stealing political signs around election time is a time-dishonored tradition, affecting local, state and national candidates.
But one Seattle, Washington man decided earlier this month to pump things up a bit.
On Oct. 16, Michael Todd Castle, 53, of Seattle, Washington, in Carrabelle aboard a research vessel involved with mapping the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, was arrested by Carrabelle police and charged with five election-related crimes…