News & Updates

PACHECO ARREST REPORT A former Destin resident is charged with sexual battery in connection with multiple molestations of a child when she was eight and nine years old. The sexual battery warrant was served on 35-year old Roy Anthony Pacheco of Ashville Alabama on...

Three vehicles parked at the Holt Academy on Highway 90 in Holt were burglarized Tuesday evening. The thief or thieves got away with several purses. Windows were smashed on two of the vehicles and the third had been left unlocked long enough for the victim to go into...

A Fort Walton Beach woman was killed Tuesday night after she was hit by a tractor trailer truck in the eastbound lanes of Highway 98 in Mary Esther, about 150 feet east of Doolittle Boulevard. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of 29-year...

Shalimar:  A team of assessors from the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation (CFA) will arrive April 26 to examine all aspects of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office’s policies and procedures, management, operations, and support services, Sheriff...

TOUCHTON & CRIST ARRREST REPORTS Two Fort Walton Beach men have been arrested as the result of a narcotics search warrant executed today by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit. 26-year old Dillan J. Touchton of 147 SE Brooks Street is charged with...

Spring Break is officially underway and the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Beach Unit made nearly two dozen arrests over the weekend. Twenty-one of the 23 arrests were for underage possession of alcohol. All involved individuals between the ages of 18 and 20....

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call from a man who says he was smoking a cigar on his front porch when he was attacked and robbed at gunpoint last night. The 49-year old victim says he was outside 148 B Rickey Avenue when a red car pulled up in...

GRANT ARREST REPORT A Fort Walton Beach man is charged with hitting his wife and then grabbing and pushing a child under the age of twelve who stepped in to protect her. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 35-year old Jonathan Richard Grant of 1860...

OLDS ARREST REPORTS A Fort Walton Beach couple has been charged with cyberstalking in connection with a month long dispute with a neighbor. Deputies arrested 28-year year old Mindy Barton Olds and 37-year old Nicholas Olds of 1818 Madelons Path on February 19th. The...

HOOD ARREST REPORT A Niceville man has been arrested in connection with a joint undercover cybersex sting operation initiated last October. 27-year old John Bryan Hood of 8 Corbin Court is charged with using a computer to solicit a minor and obscene communication to a...

A Crestview man wanted by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office on charges he threatened three juveniles with a shotgun February 20th ran into woods in an area off Rattlesnake Bluff Road this afternoon as deputies attempted to take him into custody on an active...

GREENE ARREST REPORT An Alabama driver pulled over last night by an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy turned out to be a felony habitual traffic offender with a gun and drugs in his truck. The traffic stop was made on Old River Road near Baker around 8:20 p.m....

Sexual Predator New Temporary Address Notification for Henry All a Erickson, III to 31 Park Circle Unit 15, Fort Walton Beach  Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

LOPEZ ARREST REPORT A Crestview man is charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after he attacked two friends with a 2X4 board during a fight. The friends say they had been drinking at Don’s Icehouse February 19th when an argument broke out...

A deputy making a traffic stop in Crestview found a weapon in the truck and drugs on the driver, who later tried to kick out the rear window of a patrol car. Another deputy was kicked in the face while trying to restrain the driver, who now faces multiple felonies....

BERRY ARREST REPORT A Crestview man arrested for trafficking in heroin denied selling the drug and told deputies he was a “beast” who could easily ingest an ounce of heroin by himself. An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy was called to condos at 1300 Miracle...

REOSTI ARREST REPORT HICE ARREST REPORT BARR ARREST REPORT A Pensacola defense attorney has been arrested on charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and smuggling contraband into a correctional facility. 47-year old Joseph Oreste Reosti was...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a case involving the latest local victim of a scam that’s been around nearly a decade. A 77-year old Mary Esther resident reports that she got a phone call February 8th from a person identifying himself as her...

Thirty-two years after a Christmas tree salesman was bludgeoned to death near Fort Walton Beach, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is officially closing the case due to the death of the murder suspect in a Texas prison. The body of 78-year old Glynn Jernigan of...

****UPDATE*** The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will be involved in investigating last night’s fatal plane crash of a Piper aircraft into the Gulf of Mexico as it approached the Destin Airport. The plane was registered to a company called Electrical...