Category: crime

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is ramping up efforts to crack down on drunk and impaired drivers this holiday season.
Christmas to New Year's Day posts one of the highest rates of impaired dr…

CRESTVIEW — More than 100 children in lower-income households will have a bright Christmas morning following the Crestview Police Department's Toys for Kids program.
Six volunteers from the Communi…

CRESTVIEW — An award-winning Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office K9, renowned for his work in a 2014 Crestview case, is receiving surgery after breaking a leg on duty.
Deputies responded to a Destin h…

CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a report that two women sexually battered early Friday morning at a residence near Crestview.
Deputies were called to the scene aro…

CRESTVIEW — A former Crestview area resident is accused of threatening Crestview police officers and various residents.
A Facebook member, who identified himself as Stephen Tran, recently threatene…

CRESTVIEW — Christmas is Dec. 25, so the deadline to donate toys or money to area toy drives is approaching.
The Crestview Police Department is collecting new, unused toys and clothes for its 15th …

CRESTVIEW — Timothy Bodie, a sexual predator, has registered a change of address of 294 Anderson St., Crestview, with the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.
Bodie, 47, a white male with brown hair a…

The Crestview Police Department and Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office provided these arrest reports:
Crestview
Nov. 17
●Ernest Lenard Williams, 51, Crestview: aggravated battery causing bodily h…

HOLT — A man wanted for burglary and grand theft auto is charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, criminal m…

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office provided these arrest reports:
  Dec. 1
●Pamela Dawn Dennis, 38, Crestview: out-of-county warrant.
●Matthew Glenn Gafford, 21, Fort Walton Beach; out-of-co…