Category: crime

CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office provided these arrest reports from Aug. 18-24:
Cecilia Corbin McCombs, 35, Milligan, probation violation.
Melinda Jean Roderus, 35, Laurel Hill, p…

CRESTVIEW — The artist who anonymously donated a set of relief carvings of fallen Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies has stepped forward.

When Bill Walton heard the sheriff’s office was loo…

CRESTVIEW — To sit behind the wheel of the Crestview Police Department’s “newest” patrol cars is almost a blast from the past.

That’s because the bright, shiny Ford Crown Victorias now on city str…

LAUREL HILL — A sexual predator has filed a temporary change of address notification with the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

Steven Scott Butler, 40, a former Lincoln, Nebraska resident, filed …

CRESTVIEW — Chad Theodore Dillon, 44, of Crestview, has been indicted on 11 counts related to the sexual abuse of children, according to a media release from United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley III…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department has arrested a suspect in a sexual battery of a child that occurred in the parking lot of a local business on July 27.

Police received a tip from Emeral…

PANAMA CITY, Florida — The Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute announces the Aug. 12 graduation of 35 first-line supervisors from the Florida Leadership Academy.

These graduates serve in …

CRESTVIEW — A heated argument between two men turned violent Monday night after one of the men allegedly fired a weapon at the other and then put the gun in his mouth before telling him he would “blo…

CRESTVIEW — Five inmates at the Okaloosa Youth Development Center near Crestview are charged with attacking an employee who wouldn’t give them his cell phone.

According to an Okaloosa County Sheri…

MILTON — A Jay man faces 41 years in state prison for a 2014 crash that killed one person and seriously injured another.

Melvin D. Hawthorne, 36, caused the crash Aug. 17, 2014, just 12 hours afte…