News & Updates

Two students at Niceville High School are charged with setting a fire inside a girls’ restroom Tuesday, prompting a school evacuation and causing approximately $2500 in damages.15-year olds Cadence Yates and Emily Kempton have been arrested by the Okaloosa County...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that took place in the parking lot of an Okaloosa Island nightspot around 4:30 a.m. yesterday.The 21-year old victim was treated at a local hospital for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the apparent shooting death of a Crestview man at a home in southwest Okaloosa County.The OCSO received a 9-1-1 call yesterday around 1:44 p.m. from a screaming woman at a home at 107 Marimba Street in Florosa.When...

A man out of jail on bond after being arrested last July for trafficking in heroin has been arrested again, on the same charge and more.The Okaloosa County Multi-Agency Drug Task Force took 45-year old Thomas Obregon of Fort Walton Beach into custody at a store on...

A Mary Esther man driving a suspected stolen car led Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a high speed chase before being captured trying to hide in bushes at a home on Hollywood Boulevard.33-year old Tramon Coward is charged with fleeing and eluding with...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deployed spike strips to stop a Crestview man who fled anattem. pted traffic stop last night on John King Road.29-year old Anthony Gabriel is now charged with fleeing and eluding law enforcement with lights andsiren active, driving...

An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy making a traffic stop in Destin arrested the driver on trafficking in methamphetamine and other charges after a search turned up 420 grams of meth, cash, and vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana.20-year old Diego Cardona of...

A traffic stop due to an expired license tag led to the arrest of a Crestview man for possession of heroin and methamphetamine, possession of a full-automatic firearm, two counts of possession of a concealed firearm without a license, driving with a revoked driver’s...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating a fatal shooting that took place when the US Marshals Service Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force attempted to take a wanted individual into custody this morning.A deputy with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s...

The ongoing group effort between regional law enforcement agencies to combat the use and distribution of controlled substances resulted in the seizure today of more than 450 grams of methamphetamine, hundreds of pills of Alprazolam, and over 300 grams of...

Seven people have been arrested in connection with two separate search warrants executed yesterday by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force, which includes our partners from the Fort Walton Beach Police Department and Crestview Police...

A Destin business was robbed at gunpoint early this morning and the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is working to identify the two men responsible.Deputies were called to the Texaco store at 201 Harbor Boulevard shortly before one a.m. after receiving a call of an...

A Shalimar man faces five felonies after randomly punching a McDonald’s customer at the drive-thru, threatening the manager with a cleaver, and then hitting two Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies who responded to help.The OCSO was called to 1189 Eglin Parkway...

A Destin area massage therapist is charged with touching two female clients inappropriately.The first client, a tourist from Texas, came forward in November of 2019 to report 60-year old Alan McCullough of Niceville had fondled her breasts during a massage at a...

***UPDATE*** We’re happy to report Mr. Maslanka has been located in Santa Rosa County and is safe. Thank you everyone for helping get out the word! The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public's help in locating Missing Endangered Adult Edward...

A Fort Walton Beach man involved in an early morning fatal shooting following a residential break-in fled the scene with the gun and is now charged with tampering with evidence.The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was called to 115 Shirley Drive near Fort Walton Beach...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal shooting that took place around 5 a.m. this morning on Shirley Drive.Deputies were called to a townhome in connection to a woman’s phone call reporting that a man broke into her home and had been shot.They...

A Crestview man has been arrested on charges he sexually molested two young girls under the age of twelve.The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 46-year old James Daniel Hughes of Auburn Road with sexual battery on a victim under the age of twelve, two...

A Crestview area man facing felony warrants ran and hid from Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies throughout the day yesterday before ultimately turning himself in at the Okaloosa County Jail last night.45-year old Michael Pechacek was then served warrants for domestic...

A 19-year old Illinois tourist drowned Saturday after being caught in a rip current in the Gulf of Mexico off Scenic Highway 98 in Destin.Lifeguards pulled multiple people from the water despite the Gulf being closed to swimming due to dangerous conditions created by...