News & Updates

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 32-year old Jeremy Logan Ehlers of Panama City with Sexual Battery/ Suspect over 18 with the victim under the age of 12 or younger. On July 26th it was discovered a female juvenile living in Bay County had been the...

17-year-old Sa Qualen Grant of Fort Walton Beach has been charged with Homicide-Aggravated Manslaughter of a Child, in violation of F.S.S. 782.07(3), after providing narcotics that led to the death of a 16-year old victim. Grant was arrested by the Okaloosa County...

On August 14, 2024, Larry Stidam was arrested by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Warrants Unit for 20 counts of possession of child pornography and use of two communication device. During the month of May 2023, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, with the assistance of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Walton County Sheriff’s Office, Crestview Police Department and the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency...

Okaloosa County Sherif’f’s Office Deputies today stopped a 2021 Chevrolet Colorado for a traffic violation on Cedar Ave. near the intersection of Evergreen Ave. in Niceville. During the stop, probable cause to search the vehicle was established. The search revealed an...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force, with the assistance of the Special Response Team, executed a narcotics search warrant at 26 Laurie Dr. in Fort Walton Beach July 31st. During the execution of the search warrant,...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, with the assistance of the Multi-Agency Drug Task Force, today executed a residential search warrant at a home on Fir Avenue in Niceville. It was obtained after investigators...

On July 18th, 2024, members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force, with the assistance of the Special Response Team, executed a narcotics search warrant at a residence on Starmount Drive in Crestview. During the execution of the search...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and Panhandle Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) rescued dozens of animals after performing an animal welfare check at a home on Florida Avenue near Crestview last month. 44-year old Jarah Lee, 46-year old Bonnie Sue Hahn, and 20-year...

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies conducting a security check spotted a man dressed in all black clothing standing in a neighborhood off Gap Creek Drive around 2:15 Sunday morning. When the man spotted law enforcement, he tried to hide but they made contact...

Shortly after midnight, 25-year old Dylan Gentry an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy, was arrested by the Fort Walton Police Department on charges of reckless driving, racing and tampering with evidence while operating a motorcycle. Needless to say, such...

A Destin bank robbery suspect sporting flip flops is accused of using a note to demand money from a bank clerk at Truist Bank on Emerald Coast Parkway in Destin July 3rd. He got away with a small amount of cash. 66-year old Charles Gallagher of Maritime Court in...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force, with the assistance of the Criminal Investigations Section, executed a narcotics search warrant at 8540 Highway 189 in Baker on July 8th. During a search of the residence, investigators...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Taskforce executed a narcotics search warrant July 3rd on Sabre Drive in Crestview. During the execution of the search warrant, investigators located a trafficking amount of fentanyl, counterfeit...

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...