News & Updates

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigators today arrested a Fort Walton Beach man on charges of Video Voyeurism and Burglary. The victim says she was cleaning the ceiling and wall vents in her home April 11th and noticed a glare in the air vent. When she stood on...

The OCSO is investigating a shooting that left one man dead today near the intersection of Shirley Drive and Marler Street near Fort Walton Beach. A second person was injured. Deputies were called to the report of shots fired around 2:30 this afternoon. Fort Walton...

A call in reference to a car crash turned into a shooting investigation after Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the scene on Racetrack Road around 3:30 Saturday morning. Deputies found a crashed van near 218 Racetrack Road but no driver or...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation into a bomb threat made via the internet that occurred on March 28, 2025. This threat stemmed from Okaloosa County’s purchase and future plans for the ship the S.S. United States. During this...

A Shalimar man is charged with child neglect after deputies located a young boy April 19th who said the defendant was not caring for or feeding him. The child had reportedly contacted his mother in South Florida, who then called the OCSO. When deputies arrived at the...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force executed a narcotics search warrant early this morning at 4 Allen Drive near Fort Walton Beach. locating a trafficking amount of fentanyl, a rifle, and drug paraphernalia. • 64 year-old...

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 111 London Ave. in Fort Walton Beach yesterday. During the execution of the search warrant,...

A man who witnesses say used his pickup truck to ram another individual's vehicle multiple times during a road rage incident Sunday in Destin is charged with aggravated battery using a deadly weapon and resisting arrest without violence. 42-year old Anthony Daniels of...

A Holt resident being held at the Okaloosa County Jail is now charged with three counts of possession of child pornography. An investigation began in April 2024 following a tip from the National Center of Missing and Endangered Children. A search warrant was executed...

An investigation by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has led to the arrest of a Crestview area resident for Lewd and Lascivious Molestation of a Child Under the Age of 12. 45-year old Joseph Feliccia was arrested Sunday and booked into the Okaloosa County Jail....

In the early hours of March 11th, members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) Criminal Investigation Division executed a residential search warrant at the home of Claudio Solano-Olascoaga, a suspect connected to an extensive organized retail theft operation...

An aggravated battery suspect who initially refused to come out of his Destin home despite orders from Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies was eventually tased and taken into custody. 53-year old Alexander Ratikan of Sibert Avenue is charged with aggravated...

A recent search of micro-SD cards seized during a search warrant at a Crestview man’s house led to the discovery of more than 30 child pornography files. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies executed the search warrant February 19th after locating incriminating...

A Pensacola man faces multiple felony charges after witnesses say he pointed a firearm at a group of people outside a Beal Parkway motorcycle shop near Fort Walton Beach Saturday, then tossed an explosive device as he drove away. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office...

A Pensacola man has been detained following an incident that involved a small explosive device outside a Fort Walton Beach area restaurant this afternoon. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to 788 Beal Parkway around 2:30pm in response to a call of...

Great teamwork by Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies led to the weekend arrests of two men involved in shooting into an occupied vehicle in the Fort Walton Beach area. It started over a verbal altercation involving money between the two teenage suspects and the...

In December 2024, our OCSO Internet Crimes Against Children Unit was notified via the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding a user uploading sexual images believed to contain children as young as five years old. An OCSO investigation of...

On 01/24/2025, 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 51 6th Street in Shalimar. During the execution of the search warrant, investigators...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a Navarre man early Friday morning after he ran off the road, crashed down an embankment, and collided with several parked vehicles outside a Destin hotel. Deputies say the driver of the black Dodge...

A Shalimar resident who serves as Friar of a Shalimar church has been charged with multiple counts of possession of child pornography by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.64-year old Frank Gough II was taken into custody January 9th on 30 counts of possession of...