News & Updates

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,...

The OCSO is now the first and only law enforcement agency in Northwest Florida to be awarded National Accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. In fact, fewer than five percent of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the nation...

The body of a man found on a parcel of private property off Old River Road near Baker November 24th has been identified as 58-year old Daniel Joseph Flynn, 602 McDonald Street in Crestview. The OCSO is conducting an active murder investigation in connection with the...

WINSTEAD ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has developed a person of interest in connection with a murder investigation launched by the discovery of the body of a white male on a parcel of private property off Old River Road near Baker Monday. During...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an apparent homicide after discovering the body of a white male on a parcel of private property off Old River Road near Baker today. The OCSO was working a joint investigation with the Crestview Police Department...

A Shalimar man checked himself in to the Fort Walton Beach Medical Center with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the right leg yesterday, prompting an investigation by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. 23-year old Jonathan Bowman of 74 5th Street in Shalimar...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a drive-by shooting that took place around 9:30 Monday night near the intersection of 3rd Street and 9th Avenue in Shalimar. 25-year old Shacori Smith was struck once in the left leg and taken to Fort Walton Beach...

CRUZ-DIAZ ARREST REPORT Two Destin roommates who are also co-workers at a Destin restaurant got into a fight that left one of the men with multiple stab wounds today. 28-year old German Cruz-Diaz of 4 Court Drive is charged with aggravated battery and carrying a...

OFFENSE AND ARREST REPORTS On November 18th and 19th , members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division, along with members of Okaloosa County Code Enforcement, Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Florida...

JOHNSON ARREST REPORT A woman driving a car matching the description of a vehicle used in a morning robbery in Fort Walton Beach led deputies on a chase that ended when they boxed in her car on Destin’s Marler Bridge. 47-year old Tarkwa Kenyabra Johnson of 218 Poplar...

ROBERTS ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Fort Walton Beach man on a charge of indecent exposure in public for the second time in the past sixteen months. 45-year old Scott Charles Roberts of Fairview Drive is accused of pulling down...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has initiated a fraud investigation into an individual who is purporting to represent a children’s’ charity. The individual primarily solicits auto repair shops and small businesses. Seven auto repair businesses in Okaloosa County...

An Okaloosa County deputy attempting to stop a car traveling an estimated 90 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone on Highway 98 on Okaloosa Island November 14th says the teenage driver ultimately ran off the road and hit a fire hydrant and small tree in Destin...

Ronny James Fret to transient: Yellow River Bridge Highway 90 in Crestview Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant David Allen has been re-elected to the five-member Board of Directors of the Florida SWAT Association, a non-profit organization that provides training opportunities and consultation to SWAT Team members across the state. The...