News & Updates

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after the body of a Mary Esther woman was found on a beach off Tecumseh Lane Monday. Deputies were called to a medical emergency around 7 p.m. after receiving a call that a man walking his dog had noticed a woman...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting after deputies responded to a home on Hardie Lane in Fort Walton Beach early this morning and discovered one adult male with a non-life threatening gunshot wound. Deputies received a 911 call around 4:30...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office’s Special Investigations Section launched a narcotics investigation after receiving multiple drug-related complaints in reference to activity at a Destin home. Today the Unit, which consists of members of the OCSO, Fort Walton...

SCALLAN ARREST REPORT A Louisiana man chaperoning a group of Spring Breakers in Destin says he was aware high school students were drinking and smoking pot at the rental home on Shirah Street. 57-year old John Scallan of Covington is now charged with holding an open...

ARREST REPORTS A thirteen year old who escaped from the Okaloosa Youth Academy Tuesday evening was later captured at a Crestview McDonalds after a Department of Juvenile Justice employee stopped in and spotted him. 13-year old Nickolas Shoffner and 15-year old Richard...

For the third time in three weeks the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has responded to a call of a person passed out behind the wheel of their vehicle while parked at gas pumps. In all three instances, the individuals were under the influence of narcotics. Around...

School Resource Officers from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and Niceville High School administrators moved students to the football stadium this afternoon after someone emailed a threat of toxic chemicals inside the school. The threat, believed now to have...

GARDNER ARREST REPORT A Kentucky man who says he was chaperoning a group of high school kids on Spring Break in Destin is charged with holding an open house party where marijuana was scattered around the home and the teens he was overseeing could drink alcohol....

KINABREW ARREST REPORT An underage LSU Spring Breaker had a lot more than beer in his possession when an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy spotted him on Regions Way in Destin around 7:30 Friday night. After 20-year old Joel Kinabrew of Gonzales Louisiana was...

WALKER ARREST REPORT An OCSO deputy pumping gas early this morning at a convenience store on Beal Parkway spotted a man asleep behind the wheel at the pumps across from him, with the engine running. The deputy got the man to wake up and roll down the window. When he...

FOSTER ARREST REPORT Crestview man facing OCSO warrants for reckless driving and fleeing from law enforcement before crashing into a wall, was found and arrested on those charges and others after attempting to steal an Air Soft Pistol, a knife, and other items from...

TOBIAS ARREST REPORT A Crestview man held a burglary suspect at gunpoint last night after arriving home from work to find his back door broken in with a cinder block and a strange man showering in his bathroom. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 28-year...

WILSON ARREST REPORT A traffic stop shortly before midnight last night led to multiple charges against the 14-year old driver. An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy spotted a car with no tag lights around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday on Navy Street. The driver turned out...

OSTMAN ARREST REPORT A Holt man says an argument with his live-in girlfriend ended with her picking up a hammer from the floorboard of their car and striking him in the head several times. 28-year old Megan Ostman is charged with aggravated battery in connection with...

ARREST REPORT An Oklahoma man renting a Destin home is charged with hosting an open house party after allowing underage attendees to consume alcoholic beverages. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies were responding to a noise complaint at 3463 Scenic Highway 98...

REEVES ARREST REPORT A Laurel Hill man being held in the Walton County jail is facing charges in Okaloosa County ranging from aggravated battery to felony animal cruelty in the gruesome mutilation death of his father’s dog. 22-year old Michael Reeves was wanted in...

An apparent drowning victim pulled from the Gulf of Mexico Saturday has been identified as 43-year old Roscoe Brooks of Shannon Mississippi. A witness spotted Brooks in trouble on a Boogie Board around 1:15 p.m. offshore of 2700 Scenic Highway 98 in Destin. Destin...

ARREST REPORT A Meigs Middle School student has been charged with issuing a written threat to kill or do bodily injury. A handwritten note outlining the threat was found in a boys’ bathroom at the school around 7 a.m. this morning and turned over to the School...

ARREST REPORTS Deputies with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office found a man and woman passed out in a truck at a gas pump in Crestview last night, while a three year old child had syringes, methamphetamine, and Oxycodone within easy reach. 23-year old Amanda Hatton...

ROBBINS ARREST REPORT A Destin man faces a felony charge after a bar fight led to a stabbing March 8th. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 29-year old Shane Robbins for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Deputies were called to AJ’s on Harbor...