News & Updates

AREVALO ARREST REPORT A Crestview man is charged with leaving a three year old home alone while he drove from Crestview to a friend’s house in Valparaiso Tuesday night. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 29-year old Eduardo Arevalo with child neglect...

Two Milton residents suspected in the August 23rd armed robbery of an Okaloosa County pharmacy are currently in custody on unrelated warrants in the Santa Rosa County Jail. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigators say there is evidence that 31-year old Shana...

A two hour search for a Virginia teenager who disappeared in the East Pass off Norriego Point in Destin today ended when divers with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office found the teen’s body around 6:15 p.m. First responders rushed to the scene to begin a search...

SEXUAL PREDATOR NEW ADDRESS NOTIFICATION Steven S. Butler to 6546 Wellanee Boulevard, Laurel Hill Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

IOLO ARREST REPORT Investigators with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office have arrested another child predator in an undercover sting, targeting offenders who prey on minors via electronic communications. 54-year old Nicholas Iolo of 749 Randall Roberts Road, Fort...

KERSHAW ARREST REPORT A heated argument between two men turned violent Monday night after one of the men fired a weapon at the other and then put the gun in his mouth before telling him he would “blow him away”. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 34-year...

MORGAIN ARREST REPORT A Pensacola woman says her boyfriend attacked her at a Destin restaurant August 14th, strangling her even though she is six months pregnant with his child. The pair began arguing at the business and the victim says she went to the restroom. As...

FOSTER ARREST REPORT A woman planning to leave a man she termed an abusive boyfriend said he drove her into woods on the Eglin Range early this morning, taunted her, and then fired his gun so close to her head that her ears were ringing. The 24-year old victim says...

ARREST REPORTS Five inmates at the Okaloosa Youth Development Center near Crestview are charged with attacking an employee who wouldn’t give them his cell phone. Deputies say the 21-year old victim was beaten, choked, bitten, and kneed when he refused to allow the...

SEXUAL PREDATOR NEW ADDRESS NOTIFICATION Antonio Wise to 608 Vermont Avenue, Fort Walton Beach Search: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/home.jsf

ARREST REPORTS An active warrant has been issued for a Walton County man on a charge of first degree premeditated murder. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigators have tied 36-year old Oscar Castaneda-Lopez to the death of a Destin resident whose body was found...

The First Judicial Medical Examiner’s Office has positively identified the body discovered yesterday in South Walton County as missing Destin resident Osvaldo Torres-Michua. Two suspects in his disappearance, first reported to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office on...

Two suspects in the suspicious disappearance of a Destin man are currently in custody on unrelated charges at the Walton County Jail. Investigators working that missing person case meantime have recovered a body from a shallow grave in South Walton County. The...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is awaiting the final autopsy report in the death of a Mary Esther woman, but OCSO investigators have been notified by the Medical Examiner’s Office that the manner of death involves blunt force trauma and strangulation. The...

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the suspicious disappearance of a Hispanic man from a Destin apartment complex. The OCSO responded to Legion Village Apartments at 734 Legion Drive on August 2nd after 36-year old Osvaldo Torres-Michua failed to...

A beach umbrella attendant working on Okaloosa Island died after being hit by lightning in front of the Island Princess Condominiums at 520 S. Santa Rosa Boulevard today. The victim has been identified as 22-year old Zachary Fordem of Freeport. Witnesses say he was...

A 22-year old beach umbrella attendant on Okaloosa Island died this afternoon after being struck by lightning. Emergency responders were called to a condo on Santa Rosa Boulevard around 3:11 p.m. after receiving calls of bystanders performing CPR on the young man. He...

The Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission and an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit have located the bulk of the wreckage of a 414LLC Twin Cessna that crashed last night off the Destin coast, killing the pilot. An FWC helicopter was able to spot a sheen in...

SIMS ARREST REPORT A car found submerged in a golf course lake at Indian Bayou Golf & Country Club Monday turned out to have been stolen from a man staying at a Destin hotel. 21-year old Elizabeth Sims of 5928 Castle Drive in Milton is now charged with grand theft...

ARREST REPORTS The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged four teens with grand theft of a motor vehicle after they were found in Destin August 1st driving a truck stolen out of Cartersville Georgia. OCSO Deputies were told missing teens Jennifer Montero-Morales...