NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
November 12, 2007
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

OCSO INVESTIGATES HOME INVASION ROBBERY

     The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report of a home invasion robbery. It happened at 2907 Bentwood Lane in Fort Walton Beach early Sunday morning. The victims say a black man armed with a handgun and wearing a white hoodie came in their home about twenty minutes after midnight and left after stealing cash. No one was injured.

     No other details are available at this time.

     Anyone with information on the crime is asked to call the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office at 850-651-7400 or Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers at 863-TIPS.

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