Oct 29, 2025 | News Releases
Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit have spent the past two weeks conducting undercover operations designed to identify and arrest online child predators. They dubbed this latest effort “Operation Dark Harvest”...
Oct 10, 2025 | News Releases
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigators responding to a series of complaints and Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers tips arrested a New York woman on a charge of prostitution Thursday at a business near Fort Walton Beach. 30-year old Suping Wu of Flushing New York...
Sep 29, 2025 | News Releases
An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit, alongside Okaloosa and Walton Correctional Institution teams, tirelessly tracked a fugitive through a swamp Saturday for several hours before taking him into custody off Bill Lundy Road. K9 Beau and Deputy Tim Patterson, as...
Sep 17, 2025 | News Releases
Beginning in 2019, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) launched an investigation into a Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) operating in Okaloosa County, Florida. The DTO was responsible for the...
Aug 22, 2025 | News Releases
A Fort Walton Beach man is charged with murder following a shooting which resulted from an argument Wednesday outside Choctaw Village on Gibson Street near Fort Walton Beach. The 35-year old victim, no known address, died at the scene from a gunshot wound to the...