News & Updates

A suspect's attempts to hide fentanyl, cocaine, oxycodone, and marijuana in a toilet didn't pan out when Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies were executing a narcotics search warrant at a home on Crescent Circle near Fort Walton Beach. It started when members of...

A disturbance at a Destin nightspot Saturday night/Sunday morning resulted in a stabbing outside the business and at least one arrest so far. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies responding to Coyote Ugly for a large scale disturbance around 12:30 a.m. say when...

A Mary Esther man was arrested on possession of child pornography charges following the execution of a search warrant at his home on Bryn Mawr Boulevard. 22-year old Phillip Dahn faces 20 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of use of a two way...

A Mississippi man who fled from an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy following a traffic stop then threw crushed methamphetamine into his chest and face, causing an exposure that sent the deputy to a local hospital. The deputy was pulling over 35-year old Todd...

A suspect in a Walton County armed robbery who repeatedly shot at deputies and troopers chasing him across Interstate 10 was captured in Okaloosa County when his getaway car was disabled by spike strips west of Crestview. Multiple law enforcement agency vehicles were...

A store employee in Destin is charged with video voyeurism, a third degree felony, after a woman found his cell phone recording her using the business's bathroom yesterday afternoon. He told the victim she could use the restroom if she needed to, although it is not...

A homeless man armed with a machete slashed another individual in an unprovoked attack near a pavilion at the Boardwalk on Okaloosa Island shortly after 8 this morning. Deputies responding to multiple 911 calls arrived on scene quickly. The suspect then ignored their...

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies responding to a car burglary call in progress on North Avenue in the Ocean City area last night ended ended up chasing one of the suspects after trying to make contact with him near the scene. 38 year old Terry Stone of Fort...

Three Mobile Alabama suspects in the theft of more than $3000 in merchandise from a Destin retail store Tuesday tried to make a getaway, but Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies blocked in their car at a restaurant parking lot and took them into custody. An...

Community Resource Deputy Brian Muhlbach says multiple citizen complaints and Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers tips helped lead Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies to a Fort Walton Beach man trafficking narcotics out of his Vermont Avenue residence. 34-year old...

A Fort Walton Beach man is in custody in connection with shots fired in the parking lot of a Mary Esther night spot Monday. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged 21-year old Christian Seymore of Burnette Avenue with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office recovered more than two dozen shell casings from the parking lot of a Mary Esther night spot after responding to a shots fired call shortly after midnight. Witnesses say someone pulled into the parking lot of Cash's Sports Page...

A Crestview area resident who sold fentanyl to a man who later died from an overdose is now charged with homicide resulting from the unlawful distribution of fentanyl. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office arrested 58-year old William "Dean" Lively of Cavalier Drive...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is offering the option of online reporting for minor crimes that don't involve a known suspect or a weapon.Citizens can go to our website at sheriff-okaloosa.org to report missing/lost property, criminal mischief/vandalism, petit...

North District deputies with the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office recovered two separate stolen vehicles within less than two hours of each other on Sunday. 32-year old Odon Garza of Quincy was heading east on Highway 90 around 6:45 p.m. May 1st when a Flock license...

Five people were arrested after the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office executed a narcotics search warrant early this morning at a home near Niceville that's been the subject of complaints and is associated with narcotics overdoses, including an overdose-related death....

The discovery of a three year old child asleep on a concrete sidewalk at one in the morning led to three counts of child neglect without great bodily harm for a Fort Walton Beach area woman. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office was called to Gibson Street around one...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has arrested two suspects in connection to a shooting on Newcastle Drive near Fort Walton Beach April 13th. 21-year old Shea Jones of Fort Walton Beach and 16-year old Natorian Hinson-Brown of Navarre are now charged with attempted...

Two masked men robbed a Crestview area convenience store at gunpoint overnight and the suspects later were spotted by Santa Rosa County deputies near Milton but bailed from the car and managed to escape. The clerk says the pair walked in about thirty minutes after...

The body of a man found in trees along the Shoal River off Highway 393 near Dorcas April 11th has been identified as 27-year old Colby Wilcher. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating Wilcher's death as suspicious after an autopsy revealed he had...