Oct 29, 2025
S.O. nabs 14 suspected online child predators
Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes
Against Children Unit have spent the past two weeks conducting
undercover operations designed to identify and arrest online child
predators, S.O. officials said today in a news release.
Oct 29, 2025
Crestview man faces many charges after allegedly trying to evade police
Leonard W. Hahaj, 18, of the 300 block of Flounder Street in Crestview, was arrested Sunday night by city police on numerous charges, including burglary and fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer.
Oct 23, 2025
Elderly woman breaks hip after allegedly being shoved
Ona Hill, 46, of the 4700 block of Meadow Lake Drive near south Crestview, was arrested on a charge of domestic violence aggravated battery upon a person 65 years of age or older after being served with a warrant on Tuesday by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Oct 22, 2025
Laurel Hill man faces battery, false imprisonment charges
Jordan Cook, 31, of the 20,000 block of Northview Highway in Laurel Hill, was arrested on Oct. 13 by Crestview Police on charges of battery and false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13.
Oct 13, 2025
Crestview teen allegedly had sexual relationship with underage girl
Crestview resident Jacob W. Brown, 19, of the 100 block of Pandora Drive, was arrested Oct. 5 by city police for allegedly committing lewd or lascivious battery on a victim age 12 to 16, possessing child pornography and using a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.
Oct 10, 2025
Spa worker is charged with prostitution
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigators responding to a series of complaints and Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers tips arrested a woman on a charge of prostitution Thursday at a business near Fort Walton Beach.
Oct 8, 2025
Authorities charge homeless man with sexual assault
Forty-year-old Andrew J. Foster, who is homeless and whose last known address is in the 300 block of Woodrow Street in Ocean City, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of sexual assault after being served with a warrant from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Oct 3, 2025
FWB man allegedly attacked his girlfriend and spit on a deputy
Brian M. Jennings, of the 300 block of Racetrack Road in Wright, was arrested Thursday morning on numerous charges, including domestic violence battery by strangulation.
Oct 1, 2025
FWB man charged with bigamy
James C. Klettheimer, 57, of the 500 block of Liberty Lane in Fort Walton Beach, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of bigamy after being served with a warrant by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Oct 1, 2025
Shalimar man faces DUI, other charges
Ronald A. Walker Jr., 43, of the first block of 3rd Street in Shalimar, was arrested on Monday on charges of fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, resisting a law enforcement officer without violence, and driving under the influence with property damage.




