News & Updates

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies responding to a shots fired complaint on 6th Street in Shalimar Wednesday heard multiple additional gun shots being fired while on scene talking to the reporting person. A deputy walking towards the shots noticed a man go into...

A man wanted for questioning in a domestic-violence related double homicide near Fort Walton Beach January 31st was located dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound February 2nd inside a vehicle in Indiana. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigators had...

Autopsies have been scheduled for the victims of a double homicide discovered inside a home near Fort Walton Beach February 1st. The bodies of 52-year old Annastacia Merrell and her co-worker, 51-year old Patrick Tymoch, were discovered at Merrell's Bentwood Lane home...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is working to locate a person of interest in the homicide of two individuals found inside a home at 2908 Bentwood Lane near Fort Walton Beach. Deputies were called to the house in the Willow Bend neighborhood Tuesday to do a...

A traffic stop by an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy who spotted a traffic violation Sunday led to a Crestview area man facing four felony and two misdemeanor charges. 36-year old Craig Golden was pulled over on South Avenue near Fort Walton Beach and told the...

A traffic stop for faulty equipment on a pickup truck Tuesday evening led to two arrests and the confiscation of baggies of cocaine and methamphetamine. After the stop John Sims Parkway by an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy, an OCSO K9 alerted to the presence...

Three people have been arrested on various charges after deputies responding to a shots fired call near Fort Walton Beach were led on a high speed chase north to Crestview. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office received a call of shots being actively fired involving...

A woman says a former boyfriend entered her car Monday on Tanager Road near Fort Walton Beach and held a large knife to her throat. He then ordered her to drive out of the area while choking her and threatening her life. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has...

Two Crestview men were arrested and charged with possession of child pornography following the execution of a search warrant at their residence. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigators received a tip regarding an individual who had uploaded files believed to...

A Shalimar man was arrested today after a 15-year old girl reported he followed her around in his car as she was walking, and at one point, pulled up to her, took off his seat belt, reached towards her and told her to "come here". Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office...

An Okaloosa judge has signed an arrest warrant for a Fort Walton Beach man in connection with a fatal shooting that took place on Vincent Lane the evening of March 17th 2021. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigators are now hoping the public can help in the...

A traffic violation led to a Niceville area man's arrest for grand theft of a motor vehicle and trafficking in heroin. An Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy pulled over 41-year old Robert Hoffman around 5 p.m. January 10th near Valparaiso Boulevard. An OCSO K9...

A habitual traffic offender with a revoked drivers license is charged with his fourth DUI since 2005 after fleeing the scene of a hit and run off Racetrack Road. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged 49-year old Jason Lowery with hit and run involving...

A 14-year old Fort Walton Beach area teen was taken into custody Sunday after admitting he put soap and rat poison in a man's orange juice. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged the teen with poisoning food or water with the intent to injure or kill. The...

On January 6th, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Drug Task Force, with the assistance of the Special Response Team, executed a narcotics and firearms-related search warrant at the residence of 201 Spruce Street in Mary Esther. This search warrant resulted in the...

A Crestview area murder suspect is in custody after Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies found him in the victim's car last night in a Fort Walton Beach neighborhood. The OCSO has charged 41-year old Joshua Nunn with first degree premeditated murder. Deputies...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a man was found dead in a trash pile at a Jackson County landfill Saturday. The body had been in trash collected around 9:30 a.m. at the Baker landfill on Charlie Day Road by a garbage transportation company....

A Niceville man is charged with possession of child pornography following the execution of a search warrant today at his residence. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigators received information in September regarding a Kik user who had uploaded files believed to...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged a Destin businessman with two counts of fraud in obtaining property over $50,000. 57-year old Timothy Henderson was arrested January 5th. The victim reported to investigators he and Henderson entered into an arrangement...

A Georgia resident who demanded a local woman pay him $1500 to stop him from sending nude pictures of her to people on Instagram has been charged by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office with extortion, a second degree felony, and using a two way communication device...