News & Updates

An arrest has been made in a 38 year old sexual battery cold case - thanks to a DNA hit and the perseverance of Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Investigator Kelly Henderson.Suspect Richard Lane, who was 21 at the time of the attack in June 1983, is now 58. He was...

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Deputies responded to the area of Bluewater Boulevard and Antiqua Cove Tuesday afternoon around 2:10 p.m. after receiving multiple calls of shots fired. Deputies on scene found spent casings in the middle of the intersection. A few...

A road rage encounter on Highway 98 across Okaloosa Island turned violent Sunday when one of the individuals involved was shot in the roadway.A Mary Esther man is now charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm.41-year old Mario Aguirre Lopez was taken...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting on Highway 98 on Okaloosa Island this afternoon that sent a Mississippi man to the hospital.A deputy making an unrelated traffic stop heard the gunshot and saw a white truck in the westbound lanes speed...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal shooting that took place on Vincent Lane yesterday evening and asking the public for any information in reference to photos of a suspect in the homicide.The victim has been identified as 48-year old Earnest...

The Okaloosa County Sherifff's Office arrested a Fort Walton Beach man on an active homicide warrant inconnection with a fentanyl overdose death last June.31-year old Ricky Wilson Jr. is charged with homicide resulting from the distribution of a...

On February 26th, 2021 members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Special Investigation Section and the Crestview Police Department served a search warrant in the 500 block of Gadwell Street in Crestview. The search warrant was in reference to possession of...

On February 26th, 2021 members of the Okaloosa County Sheriffs Office Special Investigation Section served a search warrant at 42 Fawn Ln. in Shalimar. The search warrant was in reference to possession of child pornography. An investigation was initiated by...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged a Fort Walton Beach man with armed robbery and kidnapping during the commission of a felony.20-year old Elijah Faulkner of Denton Boulevard was arrested February 12th.OCSO Investigators say the 15-year old victim...

A Shalimar man arrested December 17th during a sting operation targeting adults who use the internet to arrange sex with minors is now charged with possession of child pornography.During his initial arrest, Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigators seized 22-year...

A Niceville woman was arrested today on charges she sexually abused a young child over a seven month period in 2018.The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office served two warrants on 50-year old Katrina Puri this morning - lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less...

A woman shot during a rash of gunfire last night off Lovejoy Road has been identified as 44-year old Nancey Deatheragee Schreiner of Fort Walton Beach.Schreiner, who died from a gunshot wound to the chest, was found in the roadway near the intersection of Marler...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is involving a fatal shooting that took place in the Lovejoy Road area near Fort Walton Beach around 9:45 last night.Multiple people reported hearing numerous gunshots from inside their homes in the area of Marler Street and...

Two people were cut with a kitchen knife when a verbal argument turned physical during a domestic violence altercation at a home on Auburn Road near Fort Walton Beach yesterday morning.Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies say the altercation started after the two...

A Crestview woman is accused of leaving three toddlers at a home overnight and traveling to Shalimar, 21 miles away.The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged 30-year old Tracy Holstead with three counts of child neglect.Information was received that the...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office arrested a teacher today on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a student by an authority figure.35-year old Hayley Hallmark, a teacher and coach at Ruckel Middle School in Niceville, is accused of having a sexual...

Three Fort Walton Beach area teens wearing dark clothes and hoodies covering their heads were caught in the act of burglarizing a car off RacetrackRoad early this morning and led deputies on a brief foot chase before being taken into custody.15-year olds Cornelius Lee...

Nine-year law enforcement veteran Brandon Mundt is a dedicated family man who prioritizes his family and places a strong focus on high volume, proactive police work. He is a professional team player, morale booster, and someone who consistently presents a can-do...

A traffic stop Saturday led to the discovery of 26 grams of heroin and oxycodone. The driver told Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies the heroin was a chocolate laxative and he believed the pills to be fake. Neither was the case. Deputies charged 29-year old...

Alert deputies put the brakes on a successful getaway for five Fort Walton Beach residents who had just pulled off a burglary at a home in Destin.Units responded to to a house on Harbor Lane Friday morning around 12:20 in reference to a burglary that had just taken...