News & Updates

The OCSO Communications Unit once again has implemented another program designed to boost efficiency and save lives.No more trying to plug in long GPS coordinates!With the What3Words app, the earth is divided into 10 by 10 foot grids and each grid is assigned three...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged a Fort Walton Beach man with murder in connection with a 2007 stabbing death at an Okaloosa Island nightspot.39-year old Cornelius Lee was taken into custody Wednesday evening.He's accused of stabbing Eric Roberts after...

A verbal dispute outside a Beal Parkway convenience store Tuesday night led to a 50-year old Fort Walton Beach man being stabbed in the torso and suffering a collapsed lung.The victim says 29-year old David Pardo, also of Fort Walton Beach, lunged at him a couple...

Surveillance video shows individuals in a black Camaro sought by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office for questioning in connection with the fatal shooting of a Crestview man outside a Destin nightspot May 21st.The car, along with an SUV believed to be part of the...

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested two men suspected in a drive-by shooting near Fort Walton Beach Friday, who then tried to make a getaway before ditching the car and taking off on foot. One of the men had been seen pointing a firearm towards a house...

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies and investigators are on the scene of a fatal shooting that took place around 3:30 this morning outside the Coyote Ugly nightclub on Harbor Boulevard in Destin.Calls were received in reference to multiple shots fired.Deputies...

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies caught a burglar in the act around 4:30 yesterday morning after responding to a call of a break-in in progress on Amhurst Circle in Destin. The homeowners were alerted by their growling dog and movement on the first floor of...

An armed carjacking and stolen car incident that sparked a law enforcement pursuit from Walton County to Fort Walton Beach ended with two suspects in custody for a total of ten felony counts and three misdemeanor charges by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office between...

A Crestview man who was the subject of four and a half hour search today after violating a domestic violence injunction and resisting arrest was ultimately taken into custody on numerous charges.25-year old Zachary Packard violated a Domestic Violence Injunction by...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged a Shalimar man with an open count of murder in connection with the stabbing death of his wife at their home this afternoon.51-year old Randal Ebbighausen was in his garage, covered with blood, when OCSO deputies and the...

One person was killed and another is in custody following a domestic violence related stabbing at a home in Shalimar.OSCO deputies, the Shalimar PoliceDepartment, and other first responders went to a home on Mande Court around 2 pm this afternoon.OCSO Investigators...

An Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigation into the drug overdose death of a Fort Walton Beach woman has led to the arrest of the suspect who supplied the illegal narcotics.36-year old Jacqueline Ennis of Fort Walton Beach was taken into custody today, charged...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Special Investigations Section apprehended Lawrence Wayne Dumas today during a warrant service in the 300 Block of N. Booker St. in the city of Crestview. Dumas had outstanding felony warrants from the Florida Highway...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office today arrested a Niceville man in connection with the death of his girlfriend at their Pine Street mobile home earlier this year.57-year old Bret Steven Bay is now charged with second degree murder.OCSO Investigators say Bay...

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigation Section served a search warrant today at 938 Ibis way in Fort Walton Beach. The search warrant was in reference to possession and transmission of child pornography.An investigation was initiated by...

A Crestview man is charged with trafficking heroin and more following the execution of a search warrant by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force.The search took place April 22nd at the McDonald Street home of 41- year old Chadreck...

A cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and subsequent investigation by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, has led to the arrest of a Niceville man on fifteen counts of possession of child pornography.31-year old Brian Cowan of...

Two Crestview teens have been arrested in connection with an April 12th car burglary near Crestview that resulted in a stolen gun and the use of the victim's credit card at four separate locations.17-year old Elijah Westbrooks is charged with armed burglary, theft of...

A report of a possible kidnapping sparked a pursuit with OCSO deputies that ended with the arrest oftwo individuals in Mary Esther Saturday afternoon.The driver, 29-year old Marcquies Jashun Key, and a passenger,17-year old Brashawn LamarAlexander, both face felony...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has arrested a Mississippi man for multiple felony chargesincluding kidnapping.40-year old Quinton Oneal Barnes is charged with kidnapping, child abuse, child neglect, resisting anofficer and obstructing justice. Shortly before...