Sep 22, 2025
Sheriff’s Office arrests juvenile door kickers
Over the weekend, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a Fort Walton Beach residence after its front door was kicked in and the door frame was damaged.
Sep 19, 2025
Crestview man is charged with robbery, kidnapping
Nineteen-year-old Crestview resident Javarius J. Lee, of the 1200 block of Northview Drive, was arrested on Thursday on charges of kidnapping and robbery with a firearm stemming from an alleged incident in Niceville.
Sep 19, 2025
Crestview man allegedly shot a cat, which then had to be euthanized
Crestview resident Steven R. Gardenier, 41, was arrested today on a felony charge of aggravated animal cruelty after he allegedly used a pellet gun to shoot a stray cat, which suffered paralysis and later had to be euthanized.
Sep 18, 2025
Authorities bust Houston-based drug trafficking group
Beginning in 2019, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration launched an investigation into a drug trafficking organization operating in Okaloosa County.
Sep 17, 2025
Deputies arrest Crestview man on dozens of child porn possession charges
Malachi L. Watkins, 22, of the 200 block of East Oakdale Ave. in Crestview, was arrested on Monday by Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies on 25 counts of possession of child pornography.
Sep 17, 2025
Hurlburt Field man faces dozens of child porn possession charges
Nathan L. Sanchez, who is a civilian Air Force spouse at Hurlburt Field, recently was arrested on 30 counts of possession of child porn.
Sep 11, 2025
Deputies arrest hot-headed trench coat-clad man in Destin
A 56-year-old Destin man was arrested on Wednesday after a road rage incident ended in the parking lot of Destin United Methodist Church.
Sep 3, 2025
Gulf Breeze man is jailed after road rage incident in Destin
Littering may be unlawful but it’s never acceptable to respond with threatened violence, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office officials said today in a news release.
Sep 3, 2025
Police: Bomb threat made to school appears to be a hoax
Authorities continue to investigate a bomb threat that was sent via email on Tuesday to Lakewood Christian School in Crestview.
Aug 28, 2025
Mother to son’s killer: ‘You, sir, took a gift from God’
The only book that is not banned in prison is the Bible, and every story in it is a revelation to who God is, Renee Hamilton said in court this morning to the man who killed her husband.



