News & Updates

ARREST REPORTS The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has taken two people into custody in connection with the theft of a murder victim’s car last Sunday. Deputies located 46-year old Jarod Skiles and 25-year old Mary Mulcahey Monday night walking in the area of Eglin...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a person of interest in the apparent beating death of a Fort Walton Beach area woman. The body of 47-year old Michele Lemmo was discovered by her roommate inside their residence at 510 Union Street, Lot 7, around 7...

A woman whose body was found with suspicious circumstances inside her Fort Walton Beach area mobile home is identified as 47 year old Michele Lemmo. Lemmo’s roommate at 510 Union Street Lot 7 said she came home around 7 p.m. Sunday and was unable to get into the...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a woman’s body was found last night at her home on Union Street under suspicious circumstances. Deputies were called to Lot 7 at 510 Union Street around 7 p.m. Sunday after the woman’s roommate had to force...

ORDONEZ-GARCIA ARREST REPORT A 22-year old man is charged in connection with the stabbing death of his son’s mother last night in Destin. Kevin Ordonez-Garcia was located shortly after the stabbing by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office as he walked along Harbor...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the fatal stabbing of a teenage girl in Destin tonight. One person is in custody in connection with the stabbing after deputies located a possible suspect outside a business on Highway 98. Deputies were first...

One person has died and another is undergoing treatment at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center following the crash of a small private aircraft on Forest Road near Niceville this afternoon. The call of a two seat airplane down between Jason Drive and Golf Course Drive...

A Crestview High School student was arrested this morning following an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigation into alleged threats against another student. 15-year old Drew Williams is charged with making a false report concerning the use of a firearm in a...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office wants to get out the word on a new scheme that has surfaced designed to fraudulently use email and gift cards to gain cash. It began today when the employee of a Fort Walton Beach business received an email that appeared to be from...

FREEMAN ARREST REPORT An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy was forced off the road to avoid a head-on collision and the driver of the other vehicle has been charged with DUI and child neglect. The OCSO supervisor was driving west on Airport Road near the...

ARREST REPORTS Five juveniles who fled from law enforcement after the stolen car they were in broke down on Interstate 10 now face charges of grand theft and resisting arrest without violence. They range in age from thirteen to sixteen. An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s...

WOOD ARREST REPORT A former real estate property manager has been charged with grand theft and scheming to defraud ERA American Real Estate. 45-year old Tracy Wood, currently of Las Vegas, is accused of not depositing or paying rent to the company while she was a...

A 12-year old Davidson Middle School student has been arrested after a threatening message was written on the mirror and wall of a school restroom. Lillie Marie Gainey is charged with written threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of...

Reports of gunfire in a Destin parking lot sparked a pursuit with OCSO deputies that ended with the arrest of three teens. 15-year old Craig Dion Pierce, 16-year old Kierra Marie Pierce and 16-year old Jayden Keith Bartley all face felony charges after being arrested...

A Fort Walton Beach man has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault following a stand-off at an apartment on Okaloosa Island early this morning. Deputies responded to 354 Billfish Avenue, Unit # 210, at approximately 1:20 a.m. after a call that 26-year old...

A pilot died this morning when a single engine plane crashed into trees north of Highway 90 near Cooper Lane. The victim is tentatively identified as John Boudreaux of Memphis Tennessee. He had reportedly taken off from George T. McCutchan airfield in Santa Rosa...

One person has died in the crash of a single engine plane near Holt this morning. First responders are on the scene in an area east of Highway 90 near Cooper Lane. A witness called 9-1-1 shortly after 10 a.m. today and reported a small plane flying over his property...

Eleven volunteers from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, including Special Operations Division Commander Capt. Dave Allen, have spent the day loading up supplies for a ten to fourteen day deployment to assist the Gulf County Sheriff’s Office in the aftermath of...

STAPLETON ARREST REPORT The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s office arrested a homeless man Thursday on charges he sexually molested a six year old child at a school being used as an emergency hurricane shelter. 60-year old John Stapleton, at large Destin, is charged with...

PEARCE ARREST REPORT An 18-year old on probation for two counts of possession of child pornography has now been charged with solicitation of a minor for sex, extortion, use of a two way communication device to commit a felony, and violation of probation. The Okaloosa...