News & Updates

A tense situation with a man barricaded inside his Crestview area home with children present was resolved peacefully after an approximately eight hour stand-off today. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies had gone to a home on Barbarree Drive around 6:40 a.m. to...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Guatemalan man in the country illegally with sexual battery on a fourteen year old girl. The girl disclosed the abuse to family members who took her to HCA Destin-Fort Walton Beach Hospital. Follwing an OCSO...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Destin man with Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of Sea Glass Apartments on Commons Drive June 14th.56-year old Timothy Rettinger was arrested June 20th. The...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the motive behind a shooting last night that left a Destin man with multiple gunshot wounds. Deputies were called to Sea Glass Apartments on Commons Drive around 7:30 Friday night. They found a 60-year old man, who...

Please join Sheriff Aden for his next upcoming Citizens Advisory Board meeting on Wednesday, June 26th at 9 am at the OCSO Administration Building located at 50 2nd Street in Shalimar, Florida. Sheriff Aden values your time and will do his best to keep the meeting to...

SHALIMAR, Fla. (May 31, 2024) – The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) has terminated Deputy Eddie Duran following the completion of an administrative internal affairs investigation into the death of Roger Fortson on May 3. The administrative investigation...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office today released access to public records related to the fatal deputy-involved shooting of Roger Fortson to those individuals and entities that have requested them. These records include: The initial call to the Okaloosa County...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is urging drivers to buckle up ahead of a national Click It or Ticket high-visibility seat belt enforcement effort. The national seat belt campaign, which coincides with the...

We have received the NAACP Okaloosa Branch's list of demands and understand their concerns. Sheriff Eric Aden has been in regular, close communication with the NAACP Okaloosa Branch in addition to U.S. Air Force leadership at Hurlburt Field, elected officials, and...

All of us at the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office are saddened about the fatal officer involved shooting over the weekend.Late Friday afternoon, our deputy responded to a call of a disturbance in progress where he encountered an armed man. The deputy shot the man, who...

A Niceville man has been charged by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office with operating a public nuisance structure for drug activity. The Okaloosa County Multi-Agency Drug Task Force executed a narcotics search warrant at 195 College Cove in Niceville March 27th....

A man held a knife to a store clerk’s stomach during an armed robbery this morning at a convenience store at 656 Beal Parkway near Fort Walton Beach. Luckily the clerk was not injured. He says two young Hispanic males entered the 24/7 Quickmart around 5:30 a.m. and...

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies tracked down a man wanted for a March 25th convenience store armed robbery in which he pointed a gun at the store clerk. 37-year-old Jermaine Lee was located by the OCSO at a home on Audrey Drive Thursday and taken into...

A Crestview man charged at Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies with a knife during a felony warrant service around midnight in Baker, resulting in an officer-involved shooting. The suspect, 38-year old Daniel Wesson, had active warrants for violation of...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed robbery that took place Monday night at a convenience store on Newcastle Drive near Fort Walton Beach. The clerk reported a man came in around 11:15 p.m. and selected some items before approaching the...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office made two separate, unrelated arrests for trafficking in fentanyl over the weekend. 31-year-old Antonio Tyus of Freeport ran through a stop sign at the intersection of Commercial Drive and Vucovich Drive near Niceville Saturday....

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Baker School teacher with child neglect. 57-year old Peggy Rambosk of Pensacola was arrested Thursday and booked at the Escambia County Jail. OCSO investigators say Rambosk had a series of text conversations between...

A Crestview area man with numerous felony warrants who has fled from law enforcement multiple times in recent weeks was apprehended Sunday outside a home on Griffith Cemetery Road in Baker after being unable to outrun an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office K9. Deputies...

Click Here to View OCSO Internal Investigation Documents An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy has resigned in connection with an officer involved shooting that took place November 12th, 2023 near Fort Walton Beach involving the deputy and a supervisor.Deputy...

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies responding to a call of a possible shooting on Hardie Lane near Fort Walton Beach last night found numerous shell casings in front of a home. A female walking up the driveway around 7:30 p.m. was grazed by a bullet fragment....