News & Updates

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has initiated a fraud investigation into an individual who is purporting to represent a children’s’ charity. The individual primarily solicits auto repair shops and small businesses. Seven auto repair businesses in Okaloosa County...

An Okaloosa County deputy attempting to stop a car traveling an estimated 90 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone on Highway 98 on Okaloosa Island November 14th says the teenage driver ultimately ran off the road and hit a fire hydrant and small tree in Destin...

Ronny James Fret to transient: Yellow River Bridge Highway 90 in Crestview Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant David Allen has been re-elected to the five-member Board of Directors of the Florida SWAT Association, a non-profit organization that provides training opportunities and consultation to SWAT Team members across the state. The...

A Baker resident driving with an elderly passenger is charged with deliberately ramming cars during multiple hit and run collisions on State Road 85 south of Crestview Monday. The suspect later told an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy he was attempting to “rid his...

Ronny James Foret to 141 Swaying Pine Court in Crestview Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

Sheriff Ashley Opinion on Open Carry Legislative Proposal HB 163 and SB 300 Sheriff Larry Ashley Re: “Open Carry” Legislative Proposal  Florida HB 163 and SB 300 October 27th, 2015 I have and continue to be an avid supporter and defender of our Second Amendment right...

OPERATION WOLF HUNTER ARREST REPORTS The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 16 individuals following a joint undercover cyber sex sting operation in partnership with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Walton County Sheriff’s Office, Pensacola Police...

RICHBURG ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Holt woman Thursday who placed a 16-month old child in a roadway while she confronted a homeowner on Haybarn Road, then walked away and left the toddler after he had made his way into a nearby dog...

DOAN ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Destin man with placing a cell phone in a unisex business bathroom to record a patron. 38-year old Huy Doan, who goes by the name “Steve”, is charged with video voyeurism and battery causing bodily...

ARREST REPORTS A Fort Walton Beach man shot following a fight at a home in Mary Esther July 28th now faces charges of his own. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 26-year old James David Mills for burglary with battery or assault. Deputies responding to...

ARREST REPORTS Two brothers face multiple charges after the car they were in crashed into a tree while they were fleeing a deputy Sunday, October 18th, around 3 p.m. The car was later reported stolen. A deputy attempted a traffic stop Sunday afternoon on a vehicle...

ANDERSON ARREST REPORT Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies chased a teen burglary suspect through woods and subdivisions after getting multiple reports of a prowler in the Garden City area north of Crestview this morning. 17-year old Bradley Keith Anderson is...

The OCSO is investigating an armed robbery that took place this morning at Plato's Closet on Emerald Coast Parkway in Destin. Employees say a white male wearing what looked like golf attire came in around 10:10 a.m. with a handgun and demanded money. He took some cash...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is asking residents to take steps to protect their belongings. There have been more than 1000 residential and car burglaries in the OCSO’s jurisdiction since January 1st. The vast majority of car burglaries target unlocked cars....

The District One’s Medical Examiner’s Office is scheduled to conduct an autopsy tomorrow to try to determine the cause of death for a Crestview man whose body was discovered Monday night by an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Investigator. Investigator Nolan Weeks was...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and Florida Highway Patrol are investigating after a Crestview man’s body was discovered in a creek south of Highway 90, west of Palmetto Drive around 6 p.m. yesterday. An autopsy will take place to determine the exact cause of...

NELSON ARREST REPORT An Eglin Air Force Base resident faces multiple charges following a 4 a.m. disturbance Sunday at a Destin nightclub. 21-year old Kadontre Akeem Nelson is charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, and...

An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s encounter with a reckless driver started when he had to slam on his brakes to avoid a crash after the man turned left directly in front of his car on P-J Adams Parkway in Crestview. 36-year old Edmundo Gamboa III of 419...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a 20-year old Fort Walton Beach man suffered a gunshot wound to the groin at an apartment complex on Pocahontas Drive this morning. Jose Raymond Sanchez of Apartment A-19 was taken to a Pensacola hospital for...