News & Updates

WILSON ARREST REPORT A traffic stop shortly before midnight last night led to multiple charges against the 14-year old driver. An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy spotted a car with no tag lights around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday on Navy Street. The driver turned out...

OSTMAN ARREST REPORT A Holt man says an argument with his live-in girlfriend ended with her picking up a hammer from the floorboard of their car and striking him in the head several times. 28-year old Megan Ostman is charged with aggravated battery in connection with...

ARREST REPORT An Oklahoma man renting a Destin home is charged with hosting an open house party after allowing underage attendees to consume alcoholic beverages. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies were responding to a noise complaint at 3463 Scenic Highway 98...

REEVES ARREST REPORT A Laurel Hill man being held in the Walton County jail is facing charges in Okaloosa County ranging from aggravated battery to felony animal cruelty in the gruesome mutilation death of his father’s dog. 22-year old Michael Reeves was wanted in...

An apparent drowning victim pulled from the Gulf of Mexico Saturday has been identified as 43-year old Roscoe Brooks of Shannon Mississippi. A witness spotted Brooks in trouble on a Boogie Board around 1:15 p.m. offshore of 2700 Scenic Highway 98 in Destin. Destin...

ARREST REPORT A Meigs Middle School student has been charged with issuing a written threat to kill or do bodily injury. A handwritten note outlining the threat was found in a boys’ bathroom at the school around 7 a.m. this morning and turned over to the School...

ARREST REPORTS Deputies with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office found a man and woman passed out in a truck at a gas pump in Crestview last night, while a three year old child had syringes, methamphetamine, and Oxycodone within easy reach. 23-year old Amanda Hatton...

ROBBINS ARREST REPORT A Destin man faces a felony charge after a bar fight led to a stabbing March 8th. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 29-year old Shane Robbins for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Deputies were called to AJ’s on Harbor...

ARREST REPORT A Crestview man who had just been profiled as a fugitive this week by Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers didn’t bother to try to stay off the radar. Instead he and an accomplice committed an armed robbery just before midnight at a Tom Thumb in Crestview. But...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is advising all credit and debit card holders with Eglin Federal Credit Union and First National Bank to closely monitor all your accounts after EFCU Financial Security recently noticed suspicious activity involving a small number...

STRICKLAND ARREST REPORT A Niceville resident was critically injured after a Tennessee man pushed him down a flight of stairs for calling his girlfriend foul names. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to 3695 Scene Highway 98 in Destin around 9:44...

ARMSTRONG ARREST REPORT An alert citizen called the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office this morning after spotting a reckless driver who then appeared to pass out inside a car near a Beal Parkway convenience store. Arriving Deputies discovered not only had the black...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a pedestrian hit by a car while crossing Highway 98 in Destin around 8:30 Friday night. 47-year old George Rebert, no known address, was struck near the intersection of Indian Bayou Trail by a female...

HERRING ARREST REPORT A traffic stop early this morning by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit led to guns, heroin, and methamphetamine in the possession of a convicted felon. 34-year old Matthew Herring of Sandalwood Drive in Destin was spotted on...

BRUNSON ARREST REPORT A Baker man is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon for hitting his roommate in the arm with a hatchet last night. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a home on State Road 4 around 10 p.m. 54-year old Samuel...

FONTENOT ARREST REPORT A Crestview burglary suspect’s luck ran out today when an observant off-duty Sergeant with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office spotted him driving a car linked to some local break-ins, including one where he entered a Laurel Hill home while a...

ARREST REPORTS A search warrant executed by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office at a Destin home Wednesday led to the arrest of two suspected heroin and crack cocaine dealers. 65-year old Leroy Figures and 31-year old Jessica Rae Hinds of Destin are charged with...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a one-vehicle fatal traffic crash on Highway 98 in Destin Wednesday night. Deputies say the SUV was eastbound on Harbor Boulevard at a high rate of speed around 11 p.m. when it hit a light pole, partially ejecting...

ARREST REPORT A 13-year old Pryor Middle School student has been charged with making a threat to kill or do bodily harm in connection with a social media post that states "I wanna shoot a school". Roman Jackson said he was just trying to play a "joke", did not have...

Dale Blackwood has been a valued member of the Sheriff’s Office since 1995, where he served as a deputy sheriff in the Patrol division before transferring to the Communications section in 1999. He’s been a Communications Officer, Supervisor, Communications Training...