News & Updates

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the fatal stabbing of a teenage girl in Destin tonight. One person is in custody in connection with the stabbing after deputies located a possible suspect outside a business on Highway 98. Deputies were first...

One person has died and another is undergoing treatment at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center following the crash of a small private aircraft on Forest Road near Niceville this afternoon. The call of a two seat airplane down between Jason Drive and Golf Course Drive...

A Crestview High School student was arrested this morning following an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigation into alleged threats against another student. 15-year old Drew Williams is charged with making a false report concerning the use of a firearm in a...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office wants to get out the word on a new scheme that has surfaced designed to fraudulently use email and gift cards to gain cash. It began today when the employee of a Fort Walton Beach business received an email that appeared to be from...

FREEMAN ARREST REPORT An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy was forced off the road to avoid a head-on collision and the driver of the other vehicle has been charged with DUI and child neglect. The OCSO supervisor was driving west on Airport Road near the...

ARREST REPORTS Five juveniles who fled from law enforcement after the stolen car they were in broke down on Interstate 10 now face charges of grand theft and resisting arrest without violence. They range in age from thirteen to sixteen. An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s...

WOOD ARREST REPORT A former real estate property manager has been charged with grand theft and scheming to defraud ERA American Real Estate. 45-year old Tracy Wood, currently of Las Vegas, is accused of not depositing or paying rent to the company while she was a...

A 12-year old Davidson Middle School student has been arrested after a threatening message was written on the mirror and wall of a school restroom. Lillie Marie Gainey is charged with written threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of...

Reports of gunfire in a Destin parking lot sparked a pursuit with OCSO deputies that ended with the arrest of three teens. 15-year old Craig Dion Pierce, 16-year old Kierra Marie Pierce and 16-year old Jayden Keith Bartley all face felony charges after being arrested...

A Fort Walton Beach man has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault following a stand-off at an apartment on Okaloosa Island early this morning. Deputies responded to 354 Billfish Avenue, Unit # 210, at approximately 1:20 a.m. after a call that 26-year old...

A pilot died this morning when a single engine plane crashed into trees north of Highway 90 near Cooper Lane. The victim is tentatively identified as John Boudreaux of Memphis Tennessee. He had reportedly taken off from George T. McCutchan airfield in Santa Rosa...

One person has died in the crash of a single engine plane near Holt this morning. First responders are on the scene in an area east of Highway 90 near Cooper Lane. A witness called 9-1-1 shortly after 10 a.m. today and reported a small plane flying over his property...

Eleven volunteers from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, including Special Operations Division Commander Capt. Dave Allen, have spent the day loading up supplies for a ten to fourteen day deployment to assist the Gulf County Sheriff’s Office in the aftermath of...

STAPLETON ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s office arrested a homeless man Thursday on charges he sexually molested a six year old child at a school being used as an emergency hurricane shelter. 60-year old John Stapleton, at large Destin, is charged with...

PEARCE ARREST REPORT An 18-year old on probation for two counts of possession of child pornography has now been charged with solicitation of a minor for sex, extortion, use of a two way communication device to commit a felony, and violation of probation. The Okaloosa...

ARREST REPORTS A call about a disturbance at an Okaloosa Island apartment Saturday led to the discovery of an indoor marijuana grow. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to 212 Angelfish Avenue Unit 4 and made contact with 25-year old Favian Pabon at...

MCNABB ARREST REPORT A man with ten prior felony convictions just added three more thanks to the work of Investigators with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Section. On October 2nd, they located 27-year-old Mitchell Malaka McNabb at 310A...

BARNES ARREST REPORT Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Investigators not only solved the mystery of who stole $400,000 worth of silver coins from a safe at a Crestview area home, but recovered most of the money as well. 37-year old Stephen Aaron Barnes of Destin is now...

FRYDAY ARREST REPORT A 15-year old Crestview High School student has been charged with writing or sending a threat to kill or injure. A School Resource Officer was notified September 24th that a student had received threatening messages from Hayden Fryday that...

WALDO ARREST REPORT A Freeport man is being held in Geneva Alabama on charges he put a gun to his estranged wife’s head and then stole her boyfriend’s truck. 45-year old Heath Waldo was picked up by the Geneva Police Department last night and is being held on four...