Feb 3, 2019
Fake AT&T caller scam uses PIN number to purchase phones
SHALIMAR — The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is alerting residents about a phone scam reported in our area.
A person recently received a phone call from a person indicating he was an AT&T employ…
Feb 3, 2019
Okaloosa sheriff's office names School Resource Officer of the Year
SHALIMAR — The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has selected its School Resource Officer of the Year for 2018.
"Deputy Cullen Coraine came to our agency in 2013 and quickly became a part of the Spe…
Feb 2, 2019
'If we can't protect our children, what else really matters?'
SHALIMAR — Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley spent nine months on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission.
The commission issued a 450-page report outlining the system …
Jan 24, 2019
Resident donates thousands for Crestview Police K-9s
CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Police Department’s K-9 Division took more than a major step toward its goal of acquiring a fourth K9 unit. It took a giant leap coupled with a huge tail wag of glee when a …
Jan 7, 2019
Crestview Police Department sets hiring event
CRESTVIEW — Florida certified law enforcement officers, cadets in public safety academies and communications officers contemplating a change to the family-like work environment of a medium-sized accr…
Jan 3, 2019
Failing to move over resulted in 231 crashes last year
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — January is Move Over month and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) urges all motorists to move over for emergency and service vehicles stopped alon…
Dec 31, 2018
Homeless intruder almost destroys Crestview church
CRESTVIEW — A Crestview church was spared possible destruction when the Crestview Police and Fire Departments responded around 11:30 a.m. Dec. 27 to a report of gas in the building and discovered a h…
Dec 24, 2018
1949's 'Groveland Four' case was horrific injustice
GROVELAND — Among the pockets of the Deep South gripped by racist Jim Crow laws in the 1940s and 1950s, Lake County ranked among the worst.
Smack in the middle of the state's peninsula, the region …
Dec 5, 2018
Sex predator lists Crestview change of address
CRESTVIEW — William Rino Dejoode, a sexual offender/predator, has listed a change of address of 3101 Ferdon Blvd. S, Crestview, with the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.
Dejoode, 38, is a black m…
Nov 19, 2018
Prepaid card, chain letter scams circulating
CRESTVIEW — With the holiday season approaching, area organizations like the Northwest Florida Better Business Bureau and police departments are alerting residents to various scams.
Jury duty and …