News & Updates

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a third grader at Wright Elementary reported that a man in a green van offered her a bag of candy as she rode her bicycle to school. The 9 year old says she was heading east on Pelham Road around 8:30 a.m....

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that injured three people early this morning at the Red Rose Gentleman’s Club, located at 106 Santa Rosa Boulevard on Okaloosa Island. Deputies were called to the scene around 4:00 a.m. Sunday morning...

ELLIS ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has tied a man caught smashing a glass door in Destin on May 10th to a series of prior burglaries in the area, including at Destin United Methodist Church. 43-year old Kenneth Cade Ellis, Jr. was charged with...

A Niceville man who say he pulled over on Racetrack Road while experiencing car trouble was approached by an armed robber, not a Good Samaritan. The victim says he pulled into a convenience store at 213 Racetrack Road around one a.m. this morning after his car started...

On May 5th, a 10-year old Niceville girl said a man had attempted to coerce her and a friend into a van on two separate occasions within the past couple months in the Blue Pine Village Subdivision in Niceville. Over the past 24 hours, OCSO Investigators have conducted...

BRADLEY ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a school cafeteria manager for the theft of around $30,000 from student cafeteria funds in small increments over an estimated two year period. 40-year old Lydia Faye Bradley of Mayo Trail Court in...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was notified that the 1st Judicial Circuit Medical Examiner’s Office has made positive identification via dental records of the human remains recovered on 04/28/2016 at a Fort Walton Beach home as being that of missing person Marie...

A 10-year old Niceville girl says a man tried to coerce her and a friend into a van on two separate occasions within the past couple months in the Blue Pine Village Subdivision in Niceville. One of the girl’s parents learned about a suspicious vehicle while speaking...

BOONE ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Mary Esther man in connection with a robbery that occurred this morning at the Walmart Pharmacy located at 15017 Emerald Coast Parkway in Destin. 31-year old Joshua Brian Boone of Casa Loma Drive...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a robbery that occurred at the Walmart Pharmacy in Destin around 10:30 a.m. this morning. The suspect waited for customers to leave and then approached the clerk at the pharmacy counter and demanded Oxycodone. He...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a robbery at the Circle K Store located at 180 Mary Esther Boulevard early this morning. The attendant says a white male wearing a yellow hat, tan shorts and white shirt came in around 1:45 a.m. and made a small...

On 04/29/2016 the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and 1st Judicial Medical Examiner’s Office have exhumed and recovered human remains at a residence at 714 Revere Avenue in Fort Walton Beach. Law enforcement...

ARREST REPORTS Deputies with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office nabbed three teens early this morning who indicated they had planned to stab, punch, and if needed kill someone, in order to steal jewelry and money during a burglary. An elderly resident on Miller...

Sexual Predator New Address Notification David Miller to 1753 Dads Rd. Lot A Baker Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

A disturbing email threatening school violence in Okaloosa County was sent from a Northwest Florida man’s email account after someone hacked into his computer network using a server located in a foreign country. Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley says OCSO...

THREATENING EMAIL UPDATE Investigators have made contact with a person of interest in connection with an email sent to several school personnel and media outlets threatening harm to Okaloosa school students. That individual is currently being interviewed....

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has launched an investigation into an email sent to various Northwest Florida media outlets and several Okaloosa School District employees by an individual threatening to harm a student or students in the near future. The first...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit arrested four people and siezed drugs, cash and a firearm following a search warrant at a home on Landview Drive in Fort Walton Beach on April 16, 2016. Saul Didier Ceron-Salazar, 31, and Marisol Camacho,...

The latest Okaloosa County victim of the so-called “Grandparent Scam” is an 83-year old Destin woman who was conned out of nearly $1000. The senior citizen got a phone call on the morning of April 13th from an individual claiming to be her grandson, and saying he had...

VIDEO EXCERPT OF INCIDENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNk_9a9wOc A Crestview man wanted for violating probation on burglary charges was caught breaking into a car at a home on Aplin Road yesterday, but was willing to swim through a swamp to escape from an...