Category: crime

CRESTVIEW — The City Council is taking its fight against local blight to the next level with proposed ordinance 1619. The measure would modify Chapter 14 of the city code to include a definition of w…

CRESTVIEW — A local resident is offering his time and money to clean up graffiti.
“It’s so inconsiderate for a person to go out and make a town look like that,” Andy — who requested his last name r…

CRESTVIEW — The city's Officer of the Year is credited with the major breakthrough leading to the November 2016 arrest of a prime suspect in the long-unsolved case of Melissa Howard's 2006 …

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department and Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office provided these arrest reports.
Defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
•Cody J. Faraci, 19,…

CRESTVIEW — There's a killer on the loose in the community and the Crestview Police Department needs the public's help in stopping it.
As if heroin wasn't bad enough, unscrupulous illegal drug deal…

CRESTVIEW—A trip to the store turns deadly when another shopper pulls a gun and begins firing. hat do you do? That’s the question Crime Prevention Manager Ashley Bailey of the Okaloosa County Sheriff…

CRESTVIEW — The driver of a truck that crashed at the intersection near the Crestview Publix supermarket remains in critical condition following the accident.
Approximately 2:15 p.m. Thursday, Cres…

CRESTVIEW — Crestview Police Community Services Officers Wanda Hulion and Sam Kimmons recently completed a three-week State Attorney's office course in Orlando. After 120 hours of classroom and field…

CRESTVIEW — When a child outgrows stuffed animals, what's next for the toys?
If he's Conner Basilio, 8, he shares them with kids who might be caught in a stressful situation in which a huggable "st…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department and Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office provided these arrest reports.
Defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
• Seth Thomas Crooks…