News & Updates

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to do checks of the shoreline along Okaloosa Island in hopes of finding a Fort Walton Beach man who disappeared while paddleboarding yesterday morning behind the Boardwalk on Okaloosa Island. The paddleboard washed...

A search is underway in the Gulf of Mexico and along the shoreline of Okaloosa Island after witnesses reported a man paddleboarding behind The Boardwalk this morning disappeared in heavy waves. The paddleboard washed ashore and a woman who had seen a man on it moments...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is ramping up efforts to crackdown on drunk and impaired drivers this holiday season. The time period from around Christmas to New Year's is one of the highest rates of impaired driving fatalities according to the National Highway...

An award-winning OCSO K9 was seriously injured this morning during a search for a burglary suspect in Destin. Deputies were called to a house on Bambi Drive after the home’s alarm was activated around 3:45 a.m. Deputies interrupted a burglary in progress as one...

HELLEN ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Fort Walton Beach man with molesting a teenage girl. 59-year old Michael Joseph Hellen of 1000 Lukes Way is charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim older than twelve but younger...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a report that two women were sexually battered early Friday morning at a residence near Crestview. Deputies were called to the scene around 7:04 a.m. The victims say three white males came into the residence on Jim...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit have arrested a former Fort Walton Beach resident on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Investigators developed information that led to the controlled delivery of a parcel to...

Henry Allan Erickson to 952 John Wayne Circle, Fort Walton Beach Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

Timothy Bodie to 294 Anderson Street, Crestview Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf  

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Captain Michael Card is one of the country’s newest graduates of the FBI’s prestigious National Academy Program at Quantico, Virginia. Internationally known for its academic excellence, the National Academy Program offers ten weeks of...

Sexual Predator New Address Robert Cuthbertson  - Transient – to Anderson Pond Camp Site #8, Niceville Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

  ***UPDATE*** - The victim has been identified as 51-year old Robert Joseph Meyer of Santa Rosa Beach in Walton County. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal motorcycle accident in Destin early this morning. The 51-year old man was...

ARREST REPORTS A man wanted for burglary and grand theft auto led Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies on a foot chase in the Holt area Friday, attempting to disarm one before ultimately being taken into custody. 42-year old George Kelley is charged with aggravated...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is working to identify a suspect who snatched a woman’s purse from a grocery store in Destin. Deputies were called to the Winn-Dixie at 981 Highway 98 around noon today. The victim says she went through a self-checkout register and...

Henry Erickson to 415 W. Pine Street, Apartment 4, in Mary Esther Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

Two individuals in a stolen car led deputies on a chase through areas near Fort Walton Beach Wednesday afternoon, hitting a Sergeant’s vehicle, crashing into another car, and blowing two front tires before eventually crashing into a telephone pole on Anderson Drive...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was successful Tuesday night in locating an 86 year old resident who suffers from dementia who had wandered off from her house near Laurel Hill, just south of the Alabama state Line. The woman was missing a little over three hours,...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a break-in at a Crestview area gun shop early Friday morning. The OCSO responded to an audible alarm at the business at 5155 South Ferdon Boulevard around 6:12 a.m. A back door was open and a glass display case had...

PAGEN ARREST REPORT A Fort Walton Beach man says he was beaten unconscious by a man wielding a metal baton yesterday morning following a confrontation at an Okaloosa Island nightspot. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 31-year old Christian Aponte Pagan...

BAKER ARREST REPORT A Mary Esther man faces numerous charges after posting a Craig’s List ad to sell a metal storage building on Lakeview Drive that he didn’t own. 33-year old Devon Robert Baker of 415 West Pine Avenue is charged with dealing in stolen property,...