News & Updates

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies are working to determine who is responsible for the murder of a Baker resident Sunday. The victim, found at a mobile home at 1775 Dad's Road, has been identified as 54-year old Christopher Broxson of that address....

ARREST REPORT A Niceville man’s decision to try to outrun an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy ended with him facing eight charges ranging from hit and run to DUI to aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer. The chase started around 2 a.m. when a deputy...

A 49 year old tourist from Tennessee has drowned in the Gulf of Mexico at Henderson Beach Park in Destin. First responders were called to the scene around 12:18. p.m. The man was not breathing when they arrived and although CPR was undertaken, he did not survive....

Sexual Predator Change of Address Notification for Timothy Simmons New Permanent Address: 391 Dove Run Road, Lot 9, Holt  

ARREST REPORT An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been terminated from employment as a result of multiple felony charges by both the Okaloosa and Polk County Sheriff’s Office. The OCSO today charged 41-year old Cansas Sadler Jr with using a computer to...

ARREST REPORTS Two suspects in a rash of vacation property burglaries are now in custody after crashing a stolen car while being pursued by Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies Wednesday. Charges are pending in multiple burglary and fraud related cases. The...

DEMONS ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a suspect who pulled a gun on a Good Samaritan giving him a ride to a restaurant last month. The victim told OCSO deputies he was approached by a man at the Shalimar Tom Thumb May 24th. He says the...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is working to track down two men who tried to use a blow torch to get into an ATM machine on the second floor of the Boardwalk on Okaloosa Island. A worker who came to service the machine the next morning found burn marks on the...

CHAMBERLAIN ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Fort Walton Beach man in connection with the false imprisonment and battery of his girlfriend. 28-year old Blaise Khamisi Albertie Chamberlain was arrested yesterday at Fort Walton Beach...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has identified a suspect in connection to the robbery of a motorist in Shalimar last Friday. 23-year old Marqus Ladon Demons is being sought after he robbed a man at gunpoint after the man gave him a ride. The victim told Okaloosa...

Update: The man who drowned Friday in the Gulf of Mexico has been identified as 63-year old Rogelio Moreno Gaitan of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Family member say he had been swimming by himself. Less than a week after a 65 year old Jackson Mississippi man drowned in the...

A motorist from Walton County giving a man a ride in Shalimar says the passenger then tried to rob him at gunpoint. The victim told Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies he was approached at the Tom Thumb by a man who asked for a ride, saying he was hungry and homeless....

ARREST REPORT Seven people were arrested today by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in connection with a drug deal gone bad which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander May 20th. The seven individuals charged with third degree murder range in age from 17 to...

ARREST REPORTS The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged two 16 year olds with armed robbery and kidnapping in connection with a scheme to obtain marijuana cartridges May 20th. Celeste Templin of Shalimar and Niriah Rudolph of Fort Walton Beach were arrested...

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies responding to a call of shots fired in the Fort Walton Beach last night found a 19-year old male on the ground beside a fence with a gunshot wound to the chest. Cordell Smart of Dona Avenue was later pronounced dead at Fort...

A man who died after being found unconscious in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday has been identified as 65 year old Richard Montague of Jackson, Mississippi. Deputies say Montague was swimming with a friend out towards the second sand bar behind 770 Gulf Shores Drive...

Suspected drowning: An unconscious man pulled from the Gulf of Mexico this afternoon later passed away at the Destin Emergency Room. The 911 call from near Sandpiper Cove off Gulf Shore Drive in Destin came in around 3:24. The man had been found floating face down and...

LAWRENCE ARREST REPORT An alert Okaloosa County Sheriff’s supervisor who spotted a Crestview man wanted on a charge of felony violation of probation at a gas station in Milligan later captured him when he tried to make his escape. When a traffic stop was made on Dead...

THORNBURG ARREST REPORT A Destin man who led Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a chase from Destin to Fort Walton Beach along Highway 98 this morning after a series of hit and run accidents faces six counts of hit and run involving property damage, six...

IMANI ARREST REPORT A 15-year old Crestview teen arrested in March for possession of a firearm on school property was arrested again today, this time on charges of carrying a concealed firearm, possession of a weapon or ammo by a delinquent, and resisting arrest...