The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles recently received $13.6 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to support its partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the 287(g) Task Force Model.
With little discussion, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Cabinet members on Tuesday approved spending $83.3 million for four acres of land that will be overseen as a public park by Okaloosa County.
An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit, alongside Okaloosa and Walton Correctional Institution teams, tirelessly tracked a fugitive through a swamp for several hours on Saturday before taking him into custody off Bill Lundy Road.
Travaess McLemore, 41, of Fort Walton Beach, was indicted by a federal grand jury, charging him with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine, John P. Heekin, United States attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced today.
Nadeem Mounla, 33, of the 600 block of Kanuha Drive by the west side of Fort Walton Beach, was arrested Thursday on a charge of aggravated battery on a pregnant woman.
The use of fencing to prevent cattle from entering creeks and ponds and the practice of no-till planting for summer and winter grazing are a couple of reasons why the Luke Cattle Co., of Laurel Hill, recently received a “This Farm CARES” award from the Florida Farm Bureau Federation.
A man who authorities say tried to enter Duke Field this morning while believing he was in Galveston, Texas was arrested on charges of resisting an officer with violence and assault on a law enforcement officer.
