Category: crime

CRESTVIEW — A bicyclist is injured after a vehicle struck him just east of the Shoal River near Killingsworth Crossroads on U.S. Highway 90.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s office received an 8:18 a.…

NICEVILLE — Twenty-eight Northwest Florida State College students have successfully completed the Criminal Justice Training Center’s fall-semester vocational certificate program.
North Okaloosa gra…

LAUREL HILL — The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was successful Tuesday night in locating an 86-year-old with dementia who had wandered from her house near Laurel Hill, just south of the Alabama st…

CRESTVIEW — Crestview Police Department Citizens Academy alumni are selling "thin blue line" plaques.
Plaques are $4 and include the text, "Walking the thin blue line."
All proceeds will go to th…

CRESTVIEW — A 3:45 p.m. crash Dec. 7 resulted in the death of one Crestview resident, and minor injury to another on State Road 85 and Thomas Road in Laurel Hill.
James D. Lack, 49, was driving sou…

CRESTVIEW —  A Crestview resident has died and another man has serious injuries after a 1:30 a.m. traffic accident Dec. 7 on County Road 393.
Robert Drew Sperry Jr., 28, of Crestview, died at the s…

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office provided these arrest reports:
Okaloosa
Nov. 20
●Everette Lee Booth, 46, Crestview: probation violation.
●Meagan Joanne Gary, 32, Crestview: battery.
No…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department warns residents to beware of a phone call scam.
Someone calling from phone number 202-352-7788 has been contacting Crestview residents, saying he or she …

CRESTVIEW — Brian McCallum and Josh Varguson have been named the Crestview Public Safety Department's  police officer and firefighter of the year, respectively.
McCallum — a seven-year veteran of t…

CRESTVIEW — A man accused of driving by a narcotics investigation scene, and chucking a bag of pot from his car, is due in court Dec. 8.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office was conducting a narcot…