Crime Archive

Eight men were arrested by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office after a multi-agency internet chat operation where they agreed to meet an underage individual for sex, according to Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson. All eight individuals thought they were meeting a 14-year-old female and instead ended up being arrested by a sheriff’s deputy, […]

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and Panhandle Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)rescued dozens of animals after performing a welfare check at a home on Florida Avenuenear Crestview last month. 44-year old Jarah Lee, 46-year old Bonnie Sue Hahn, and 20-year old Eveland Colbert werecharged with 14 counts of aggravated animal cruelty and 14 counts of animal […]

Florida Highway Patrol Troopers responded to a report of an active shooter in Holmes County Monday, April 8.  The suspect was reportedly a female who had recently checked out of a local hotel and told the staff she was going on a shooting spree, directed by “God” in relation to the solar eclipse.

An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office K9 was instrumental in the capture of a suspect in Crestview on Saturday.

A Crestview man charged at Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies with a knife during a felony warrant service around midnight in Baker, resulting in an officer-involved shooting, S.O. officials said today in a news release.

Edmar Agustin Gonzalez, 33, of Crestview, Omar Josue Morales-Rodriguez, 44, of Freeport, and Marcos Aguilar Gonzalez, 39, of Santa Rosa Beach, each recently entered guilty pleas to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

A Crestview-area man who fled from an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy trying to make a traffic stop on Monday morning was soon captured, arrested, and jailed without bond on six charges.

A Baker School teacher is under arrest after failing to deliver aid or contact law enforcement in reference to a student who had attempted to kill herself.

On Thursday, March 7, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office changed Peggy Rambosk, 57, of Pensacola, with child neglect. She was apprehended Thursday and booked at Escambia County Jail.

A Holt man with numerous felony warrants who has fled from law enforcement multiple times in recent weeks was apprehended on Feb. 11 outside a home on Griffith Cemetery Road in Baker after being unable to outrun an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office K9.

On Feb. 9, an Okaloosa County Jury found Ledesma Wooden guilty of Attempted First Degree Premeditated Murder, First Degree Premeditated Murder, and Aggravated Battery Causing Great Bodily Harm. Mr. Wooden was sentenced to mandatory life in prison.