Laurel Hill resident Seth Dewayne Talbot, 45, has been sentenced by District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell, II to six years in prison after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Longtime and now-former Okaloosa County corrections officer Curtis Johnson was fired on Monday following his arrest on a charge of second-degree murder in Santa Rosa County.
Timothy Paul Price-Williams entered a plea of guilty to first degree murder on Thursday in the December 2022 death of Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Cpl. Ray Hamilton.
Two women and three men were arrested on various charges today after members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force executed a narcotics search warrant at 15 Elm Ave. SE in Fort Walton Beach.
A 24-year-old registered sex offender from Wright, near Fort Walton Beach, was arrested today on charges of possession of child pornography, failure to register internet identifiers as a sex offender, and violation of felony probation.
Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force today arrested three men after executing a narcotics search warrant at 715 Tuxedo Drive in the Fort Walton Beach area.
Vigilance by a determined Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy helped nab the driver of a stolen pickup truck on Sunday within about an hour of the crime, 45 miles away.
A Fort Walton Beach-area man wanted for questioning in connection with a battery on a 78-year-old woman barricaded himself inside his Ed Street home on Sunday and threatened to shoot responding deputies, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office officials said today in a news release.
