Category: crime

CRESTVIEW — With the holiday season approaching, area organizations like the Northwest Florida Better Business Bureau and police departments are alerting residents to various scams.

Jury duty and …

Casey Aaron Thompson, a sexual offender, has registered a new address of 248 Salvadore Drive, Crestview with the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

Thompson, 34, is a white male with brown hair and…

WALTON COUNTY — Officers arrested a Crestview woman on grand theft and dealing in stolen property charges, according to a Walton County Sheriff's Office media release.

AfterWalton County Sheriff's…

• Okaloosa County has declared a state of emergency and ordered everyone who lives south of State Road 98 to evacuate. Expect heavy traffic to reach Crestview later today and tomorrow morning. When w…

MILLIGAN — A man arrested for smashing the front door of a convenience store with a large rock caused $700 damage for $10 dollars’ worth of merchandise, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Offi…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department is seeking information about a woman who allegedly stole an artifact from a 9/11 memorial display erected locally in memory of first responders who died du…

SHALIMAR — The Okaloosa County Sheriff's office issued a sexual predator change of address notice Aug. 16 for Terry Wayne Frazier, 32, of Baker.

Frazier's new address is 5214 Keyser Mill Road, Bak…

CRESTVIEW — Former Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce president Valerie Lott was arrested Thursday after turning herself into the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Lott was arrested on a felony cou…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department extended a big "thank you" to Costa Enterprises, and supervisor Dan Schuster and his crew at the South Ferdon Boulevard McDonald's. The fast-food restauran…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department has three new police officers, promoted six, and made a seventh an investigator. Two of the new officers returned to the agency.
Former Sgt. Ray Harp is …