News & Updates

ARREST REPORTS A traffic stop for a faulty headlight led to the discovery of methamphetamine, THC extract, and a counterfeit driver’s license. An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy noticed a car on Navy Street with a faulty headlight. During a traffic stop, an OCSO K9...

A Pensacola woman on probation in Escambia County for aggravated assault with a weapon is in trouble again, this time after being charged with grand theft by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. 27-year old Lashamonique Moore of Muldoo Drive was spotted grabbing...

ARREST REPORTS An investigation by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has led to the arrest of two Crestview men in connection with a sex trafficking operation that prostituted young females in Okaloosa County, including a juvenile. Some of the victims say the pair...

An OCSO K9 Handler and a pizza delivery worker were attacked and seriously injured by a pit bull outside a home in Mary Esther last night. Both victims required surgery for their injuries. Deputies responded to 560 Brian circle around 8 p.m. Sunday night in response...

Proactive police work by Bravo Platoon East during their last two shifts led to the seizure of nearly 300 grams of marijuana during two separate traffic stops in Destin. In the early morning hours of December 6th, a vehicle driven by 26-year old Aaron McAfee of Destin...

FALLON ARREST REPORT A call of a suspicious vehicle outside a Self-Storage business near Fort Walton Beach early Thursday morning led to Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies interrupting and stopping a burglary in progress. Deputies confronted the masked burglar inside...

SOLIS ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has recovered much of the $20,000 in stolen property taken from a Crestview business around Thanksgiving. 28-year old Roberto Luis Solis, address unknown, was initially charged November 29th with armed burglary,...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation after the body of a missing mentally challenged Laurel Hill man was found in a retention pond behind a Destin apartment complex this morning. A resident at 4231 West Commons Drive contacted law...

Emmett Eugene Giddiens to 6215 Sunburst Drive South, Crestview https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

BLANKENSHIP ARREST REPORT A Crestview woman charged Wednesday with child neglect was arrested the next day at the jail on a count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 33-year old Danielle Blankenship for failing to...

Terry Want Frazier to 397 W. Oakdale Avenue, Crestview https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the armed robbery of the Sonny’s BBQ restaurant at 925 Beal Parkway last night. Employees say two men entered the business around 9:30 p.m. and got away with cash. No one was injured. Investigators say there is no...

MILLER ARREST REPORT A Crestview man is charged with punching and chocking his estranged wife, breaking her jaw in the process. When Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at 5269 Four Lake Road around 7 p.m. last night they saw 33-year old Jonathan Miller...

WELLS ARREST REPORT A Fort Walton Beach man is charged with using rocks to damage a business on Lovejoy Road and a woman’s car parked on Elaine Avenue last night. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 43-year old Andre Wells is connection with hitting a Dodge...

WINGATE ARREST REPORT A man wanted in connection with an armed robbery last July is now in custody after being spotted by an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy during a traffic stop. 22-year old Dion Latwon Wingate of Green Acres Boulevard was a passenger in a...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a home invasion robbery by three armed intruders this evening at a home on Tokalon Court near Fort Walton Beach. Three adults and two children were watching television around 6:40 p.m. at 901 Tokalon Court when...

WOZNIAK ARREST REPORT A charge of second degree murder has been added to the tampering with evidence charge filed against a Shalimar woman who shot her husband, then hid his duct-taped body behind a brick wall she built in a downstairs closet. 65-year old Barbara...

An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy who tried to pull over a man driving 80 miles an hour in a residential area says the driver not only refused to stop, but committed a hit and run, wrecked his car, and was then found to have cocaine in his possession. Around 7 a.m....

WOZNIAK ARREST REPORT A Shalimar woman at the center of a suspicious death investigation has been charged with tampering with evidence by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were called to the home of 65-year old Barbara Wozniak at 86 10th Avenue around...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an in-custody death of an inmate at the jail in Crestview early this morning. 31-year old Nathaniel Harrison Edwards of 11 Hardie Lane had been arrested shortly after midnight by the Fort Walton Beach Police...