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.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 39-year-old Shannon L. Allmon, of Florala, Alabama on Sunday on felony charges of larceny and exploitation of the elderly.
Dion’te Wingate, 24, of Crestview, Florida, has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to two counts of possessing with intent to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl.
A fugitive accused of murdering a Fort Walton Beach-area man in early 2021 is now in custody, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office officials said today in a news release.
Don Alvin Guess, 58, of Baker, faces charges of DUI-causing property damage and DUI-causing serious bodily injury after recently being served with an arrest warrant stemming from a Feb. 15 crash that Crestview Police say severly injured another driver and killed the other driver’s dog.
An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy narrowly avoided a head-on collision Saturday night with a driver who was traveling in the wrong lane and without his headlights on.
