News & Updates

A man who died after being found unconscious in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday has been identified as 65 year old Richard Montague of Jackson, Mississippi. Deputies say Montague was swimming with a friend out towards the second sand bar behind 770 Gulf Shores Drive...

Suspected drowning: An unconscious man pulled from the Gulf of Mexico this afternoon later passed away at the Destin Emergency Room. The 911 call from near Sandpiper Cove off Gulf Shore Drive in Destin came in around 3:24. The man had been found floating face down and...

LAWRENCE ARREST REPORT An alert Okaloosa County Sheriff’s supervisor who spotted a Crestview man wanted on a charge of felony violation of probation at a gas station in Milligan later captured him when he tried to make his escape. When a traffic stop was made on Dead...

THORNBURG ARREST REPORT A Destin man who led Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a chase from Destin to Fort Walton Beach along Highway 98 this morning after a series of hit and run accidents faces six counts of hit and run involving property damage, six...

IMANI ARREST REPORT A 15-year old Crestview teen arrested in March for possession of a firearm on school property was arrested again today, this time on charges of carrying a concealed firearm, possession of a weapon or ammo by a delinquent, and resisting arrest...

A Crestview area man is recovering after being shot following an argument Sunday outside a home on Smokey Branch Road. 45-year old Tim Holt suffered a wound to the left arm. The bullet then reportedly traveled into his left side. He was taken to an area hospital for...

A Crestview area man was awake and breathing after being shot during a fight at a home on Smokey Branch Road this afternoon. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. 45-year old Tim Holt suffered a wound to the left arm. The bullet then reportedly...

TOOMER ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on seven felony charges and one misdemeanor this morning after he hit his pregnant girlfriend, shoved her teenage brother, and displayed a firearm during an argument. 37-year old Dennis Toomer...

ARREST REPORTS Two people were arrested on drug and weapons charges this morning after a search of their vehicle turned up loaded weapons, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana. Deputies made contact with Fort Walton Beach residents 31-year old Nicole McAndrew and...

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a call of multiple gunshots being fired found shell casings outside a home on Fairview Drive in the Fort Walton Beach area May 1st. No one was injured in the incident, which took place around 6:30 p.m., but a bullet...

ARREST REPORT A 14-year old Ruckel Middle School student is charged with carrying a concealed firearm and possession of a firearm on school property after the School Resource Officer and a supervisor from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Youth Services Division...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit and Dive Team recovered a body shortly before ten this morning during a search for a snorkeler who went missing in Destin’s East Pass Sunday evening. Effort by the OCSO Dive Team to find the 28-year old man Sunday had...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit is searching for a missing snorkeler who disappeared Sunday evening off the Destin east jetty. Friends say the 28-year old tourist was with a group of snorkelers when they noticed he was missing during a head count...

A 13-year old Crestview resident is charged with a felony after taking part in a hoax phone call reporting he had shot his mother twice and was going to kill himself. The call came in to the Crestview Police Department’s non-emergency line around 10:30 this morning....

ARREST REPORTS Seven men who solicited what they thought was an underage girl for sex instead ended up in handcuffs when they showed up for the rendezvous and encountered Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies instead. An eighth individual thought he was going to...

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Sergeants Rodney Owens and Health Hehl are among the newest graduates of the Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute’s Florida Leadership Academy, Class 44. These graduates serve in first line supervisor leadership roles and met...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is processing a site on the Air Force reservation in west Okaloosa County after a hiker found scattered skeletal remains Tuesday evening. The man was walking in an area north of Highway 98 close to the Okaloosa/Santa Rosa County...

WANGERIN ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Shalimar man after he attempted to rob the Regions Bank located at 1248 Eglin Parkway in Shalimar this morning. 30-year old Nathan Edward Wangerin, of Rocket Lane in Shalimar, entered the bank...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal traffic accident that took place this morning in Destin near the intersection of Emerald Coast Parkway and Regatta Bay Boulevard. 20-year old Sean Edward Roberts of Woodstock, Georgia, was reportedly riding...

A Crestview High School student faces numerous felony charges after the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office found him in possession of a concealed firearm on school property. A School Resource Officer learned 15 year old Jabari Imani had been living in a shed behind a...