News & Updates

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...

A Baker resident driving with an elderly passenger is charged with deliberately ramming cars during multiple hit and run collisions on State Road 85 south of Crestview Monday. The suspect later told an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy he was attempting to “rid his...

Ronny James Foret to 141 Swaying Pine Court in Crestview Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

Sheriff Ashley Opinion on Open Carry Legislative Proposal HB 163 and SB 300 Sheriff Larry Ashley Re: “Open Carry” Legislative Proposal  Florida HB 163 and SB 300 October 27th, 2015 I have and continue to be an avid supporter and defender of our Second Amendment right...

OPERATION WOLF HUNTER ARREST REPORTS The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 16 individuals following a joint undercover cyber sex sting operation in partnership with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Walton County Sheriff’s Office, Pensacola Police...

RICHBURG ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Holt woman Thursday who placed a 16-month old child in a roadway while she confronted a homeowner on Haybarn Road, then walked away and left the toddler after he had made his way into a nearby dog...

DOAN ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Destin man with placing a cell phone in a unisex business bathroom to record a patron. 38-year old Huy Doan, who goes by the name “Steve”, is charged with video voyeurism and battery causing bodily...

ARREST REPORTS A Fort Walton Beach man shot following a fight at a home in Mary Esther July 28th now faces charges of his own. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 26-year old James David Mills for burglary with battery or assault. Deputies responding to...