Category: crime

FORT WALTON BEACH — Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley is standing firm on a plan to spend $3.4 million to keep an armed deputy in every school for another year.

CRESTVIEW — Four people walked on a train trestle that crosses Yellow River on Tuesday before they heard an oncoming train that sent two residents to the hospital, according to the Okaloosa County Sh…

CRESTVIEW — Two people were walking on a train trestle that crosses Yellow River on Tuesday before they heard an oncoming train and a woman was hit, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has received its first reaccreditation award from the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation.

CRESTVIEW — A 37-year-old man is in custody at the Okaloosa County Jail after being arrested on charges of sexual battery on a child over 12.

CRESTVIEW — A local doctor, accused in 2010 of misusing $800,000 from his company’s pension plan, has been ordered to pay back $225,000 of that money.

CRESTVIEW — A man faces armed burglary and criminal mischief charges following a gas station burglary.

CRESTVIEW — Police are investigating a traffic incident that resulted in the fatality of one Department of Corrections inmate earlier this morning on P.J. Adams Parkway.

CRESTVIEW — Three people face methamphetamine-related charges following Crestview Police’s investigation of a potential meth lab site.

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — A Crestview man will spend 21 months in prison for traveling to Walton County to meet whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl, according to the Walton County Sheriff's Office.