News & Updates

On Christmas Day 2023, a 13-year old girl disclosed 36-year old Esau Matul Hernandez of Fort Walton Beach had been sexually abusing her since she was 11 years old. An investigation was immediately launched. A forensic interview with the victim took place December 27th...

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies responding to an armed domestic related incident at a Wright area townhome around 6:30 a.m. Monday morning encountered the suspect inside the residence. After refusing to cooperate, the man ran to a bedroom to retrieve a...

Two people took themselves to a local hospital early this morning after they say another car pulled up to them and shot at them while they were driving down Racetrack Road. Both men were struck by gunfire but were conscious and alert when Okaloosa County Sheriff's...

A search warrant executed by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office early Thursday morning at an apartment on Alder Avenue led to the seizure of multiple weapons, bags of counterfeit pills with suspected fentanyl, and cash. 17-year old Montrez Ray Glover of 27 Alder...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force attempted a traffic stop on a red 2021 Jeep Wrangler in Fort Walton Beach October 4th. In an attempt to get away 23 -year old Tyrese DAVIS used the Jeep to ram an OCSO vehicle. Investigators...

On September 20th, members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Section executed a residential search warrant at 966 Scenic Oak Lane near Fort Walton Beach. The search warrant was obtained and executed, following the Internet Crimes Against...

In February 1996, Keith Jesperson, the serial killer known nationally as the Happy Face killer, admitted to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigator he was responsible for killing a “Jane Doe” in August 1994, and dumping her body near the Holt exit on...

A call for suspected counterfeit bills being passed at an Okaloosa Island nightclub Thursday ultimately led to the arrests of four Texas men believed connected to a string of counterfeit cash cases across Okaloosa County and beyond. Last night, management at Sammys...

A Mary Esther man faces numerous charges after he fled from Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies trying to make a traffic stop due to his erratic driving, ultimately driving through a yard and taking out a mailbox at a home in Mary Esther. 54-year old Vernon...

One teen is in custody and warrants are pending against another following a pursuit of a stolen car that crashed into a Crestview business during the early morning hours of August 26th. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies learned a 2012 Nissan Altima reported...

An Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy who had a conversation with a man walking on Gap Creek Drive wearing a bulletproof vest overnight arrested the individual after finding sixty grams of narcotics in his possession. The deputy had a consensual encounter with...

A woman who left a baby in an unattended vehicle for nearly two and a half hours Wednesday is charged with child neglect without great bodily harm by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. The OCSO received a 9-1-1 call around 12:30 Wednesday afternoon from a witness...

A Fort Walton Beach area man wanted for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and domestic violence battery was located in a Miracle Strip Parkway motel yesterday by members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Section. Deputies had been...

Three teenage suspects in the armed robbery of a Mary Esther business are in custody. Watercloud Vapes at 300 Mary Esther Boulevard was robbed at gunpoint around 4:20 yesterday afternoon. The Victim reported two young black males, later identified as 15-year olds...

Great teamwork by Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Patrol and K9 deputies led to the arrest this morning of a Fort Walton Beach man who had been caught in the act of burglarizing a car on the victim's home surveillance video. 20-year old Craig Pierce is charged with...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is conducting a death investigation following a fatal fall from a balcony at an Okaloosa Island condominium complex Monday night. The Communications Unit received a 9-1-1 call from someone at 520 Santa Rosa Boulevard shortly after...

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Cybercrimes investigators have charged a Crestview man with 30 counts of possession of child pornography as well as possession of bestiality. 26-year old Zeplinn Burrow was arrested July 21st following an investigation that began in...

A narcotics search warrant executed July 13th at a home in Crestview resulted in one arrest and the seizure of methamphetamine, fentanyl, crack cocaine and cash. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force and Special Response Team went to 821...

A Holt man who ran from deputies investigating a domestic violence case Friday morning didn't stay on the loose for long. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Street Crimes Unit and a K9 team located 29-year old John Fleming Saturday hiding under a couch at his home...

A Niceville area man is charged with sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13 multiple times over a four year period. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged 43-year old Dennis Luke Rethmeyer with sexual battery. Rethmeyer was arrested last night and...