Crime Archive

LAUREL HILL — A sexual predator has filed a temporary change of address notification with the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

Steven Scott Butler, 40, a former Lincoln, Nebraska resident, filed …

CRESTVIEW — Chad Theodore Dillon, 44, of Crestview, has been indicted on 11 counts related to the sexual abuse of children, according to a media release from United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley III…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department has arrested a suspect in a sexual battery of a child that occurred in the parking lot of a local business on July 27.

Police received a tip from Emeral…

PANAMA CITY, Florida — The Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute announces the Aug. 12 graduation of 35 first-line supervisors from the Florida Leadership Academy.

These graduates serve in …

CRESTVIEW — A heated argument between two men turned violent Monday night after one of the men allegedly fired a weapon at the other and then put the gun in his mouth before telling him he would “blo…

CRESTVIEW — Five inmates at the Okaloosa Youth Development Center near Crestview are charged with attacking an employee who wouldn’t give them his cell phone.

According to an Okaloosa County Sheri…

MILTON — A Jay man faces 41 years in state prison for a 2014 crash that killed one person and seriously injured another.

Melvin D. Hawthorne, 36, caused the crash Aug. 17, 2014, just 12 hours afte…

CRESTVIEW — While distrust of law enforcement has risen in some cities, those events have drawn Crestview residents closer to their police.

Chief Tony Taylor said outpouring of local support reinf…

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department and Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office provided these arrest reports from June 25 to Aug. 9:

●Frederick Hunt, 43, Crestview, sexual battery of a child and…

CRESTVIEW — North Okaloosa County’s youngest leader in the Blue Lives Movement wanted to spend his birthday celebrating law enforcement. His wish came true, but the Crestview boy also received a surp…