News & Updates

A Crestview area man is recovering after being shot following an argument Sunday outside a home on Smokey Branch Road. 45-year old Tim Holt suffered a wound to the left arm. The bullet then reportedly traveled into his left side. He was taken to an area hospital for...

A Crestview area man was awake and breathing after being shot during a fight at a home on Smokey Branch Road this afternoon. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. 45-year old Tim Holt suffered a wound to the left arm. The bullet then reportedly...

TOOMER ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on seven felony charges and one misdemeanor this morning after he hit his pregnant girlfriend, shoved her teenage brother, and displayed a firearm during an argument. 37-year old Dennis Toomer...

ARREST REPORTS Two people were arrested on drug and weapons charges this morning after a search of their vehicle turned up loaded weapons, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana. Deputies made contact with Fort Walton Beach residents 31-year old Nicole McAndrew and...

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a call of multiple gunshots being fired found shell casings outside a home on Fairview Drive in the Fort Walton Beach area May 1st. No one was injured in the incident, which took place around 6:30 p.m., but a bullet...

ARREST REPORT A 14-year old Ruckel Middle School student is charged with carrying a concealed firearm and possession of a firearm on school property after the School Resource Officer and a supervisor from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Youth Services Division...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit and Dive Team recovered a body shortly before ten this morning during a search for a snorkeler who went missing in Destin’s East Pass Sunday evening. Effort by the OCSO Dive Team to find the 28-year old man Sunday had...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit is searching for a missing snorkeler who disappeared Sunday evening off the Destin east jetty. Friends say the 28-year old tourist was with a group of snorkelers when they noticed he was missing during a head count...

A 13-year old Crestview resident is charged with a felony after taking part in a hoax phone call reporting he had shot his mother twice and was going to kill himself. The call came in to the Crestview Police Department’s non-emergency line around 10:30 this morning....

ARREST REPORTS Seven men who solicited what they thought was an underage girl for sex instead ended up in handcuffs when they showed up for the rendezvous and encountered Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies instead. An eighth individual thought he was going to...

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Sergeants Rodney Owens and Health Hehl are among the newest graduates of the Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute’s Florida Leadership Academy, Class 44. These graduates serve in first line supervisor leadership roles and met...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is processing a site on the Air Force reservation in west Okaloosa County after a hiker found scattered skeletal remains Tuesday evening. The man was walking in an area north of Highway 98 close to the Okaloosa/Santa Rosa County...

WANGERIN ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Shalimar man after he attempted to rob the Regions Bank located at 1248 Eglin Parkway in Shalimar this morning. 30-year old Nathan Edward Wangerin, of Rocket Lane in Shalimar, entered the bank...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal traffic accident that took place this morning in Destin near the intersection of Emerald Coast Parkway and Regatta Bay Boulevard. 20-year old Sean Edward Roberts of Woodstock, Georgia, was reportedly riding...

A Crestview High School student faces numerous felony charges after the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office found him in possession of a concealed firearm on school property. A School Resource Officer learned 15 year old Jabari Imani had been living in a shed behind a...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office this afternoon arrested a Crestview High School student for possession of a firearm on school grounds. The 15-year old was detained by the School Resource Officer after information was developed that he may be in possession of a...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal traffic accident that took place this morning in Destin near the intersection of Airport Road and Cedar Street. 51-year old Joel Iral of Bent Arrow Drive died after the electric scooter he was riding was...

ARREST REPORTS A group of students from Missouri who spotted two people in dark hoodies committing a car burglary in Destin passed along the information to Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies, who were able to make two arrests. 16-year old Brennan Johnson and 18-year...

GUILLEN ARREST REPORT Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies conducting a welfare check Monday ended up charging a Crestview woman with DUI and three counts of child neglect. The OCSO was contacted by a man who said he was concerned about his ex-wife, 32-year old Analise...

A man charged with murdering his three year old son, then stabbing himself multiple times, has been released from the hospital and booked into the Okaloosa County Jail. 61-year old Frederick Franken had been receiving medical care at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center...