News & Updates

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...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has launched a new, electronic crime-fighting and public information tool that focuses on the type of citizen involvement linked to the successful Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers program. The first “Community Pro-Tektor” kiosk is now...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office wanted to let motorists know that on Sunday April 17th both eastbound lanes of U.S. Highway 98 from Santa Rosa Boulevard on Okaloosa Island to Stahlman Avenue in Destin will be closed for a Marathon. In, addition, eastbound lanes...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal traffic accident that took place on Highway 98 in Destin shortly before 2 p.m. today. A female passenger in a black Chevrolet Impala, which collided with a delivery truck at the intersection of Crystal...

ROBINSON ARREST REPORT A Fort Walton Beach man arrested last August on charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy faces a new charge today – trying to hire another inmate at the Okaloosa County Jail to kill the teen prior to the trial. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a serious accident that took place in Destin shortly before 2 p.m. Friday when a car and delivery truck collided on Highway 98 near Legendary Drive. A female passenger in the car was critically injured and taken...

DOWDY ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a former Holt resident with multiple counts of sexual battery on a victim under the age of twelve. Investigators say 31-year old Jon Eric Dowdy raped a child multiple times between July 2010 and June...

Sexual Predator New Address Notification for Chad Christopher Richard to 607 Ferretti Avenue, Fort Walton Beach Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf